GENDER & HUMAN

SEXUALITY
INTRODUCTION
As you continue to grow and develop, it is important that you know how to manage the
crucial aspect of your personality, your sexual health. This module will help you understand the
concept of gender and human sexuality. It will also enhance your decision-making skills to help
you manage sexuality-related concerns.
INTRODUCTION
Knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) like Human Immunodeficiency Virus
(HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) as link to gender and human
sexuality issues is particularly significant for one’s sexuality as significant factor to the optimum
development of family health. Prevailing norms and standards of society relative to gender and
human sexuality have greatly influenced the important growing implications for the HIV and
AIDS challenge.
INTRODUCTION
As a final point, education for human sexuality will help you make intelligent decisions
concerning sexual behaviors and will help you grow into a mature man or a mature woman.
LESSON 1:
GENDER AND Sexuality as an Important
HUMAN Component of One’s Personality
SEXUALITY
SEXUALITY
• Is a natural and healthy part of life
• Is everything about being a male or female
• Is the most important aspect in masculine or feminine identification
SEXUALITY
Provides a sense of self-worth when sexual understanding is positive involves:
a) The name given at birth
b) The toys played with
c) The clothes worn
d) The friends played with
e) The roles and responsibilities at home
SEX IS A MAJOR ASPECT OF
P E R S O N A L I T Y.
• The process of sexual development begins from birth to adulthood thus it is a continuous
developmental process throughout life.
 • To promote wholesome family and
interpersonal relationships.
PURPOSE
• To provide you with the knowledge
Gender and Human Sexuality Education and skills needed to establish and
practice healthful behaviors
• To produce students who are
responsible and have healthy
sexuality
PHYSICAL
SELF

T H E WAY Y O U L O O K A S A
M A N O R A W O M A N
M E N TA L
SELF

T H E WAY Y O U T H I N K A S A
M A N O R A W O M A N
 SOCIAL
SELF

T H E WA Y Y O U
I N T E R A C T W I T H
O T H E R S
 EMOTIONA
L SELF

T H E WA Y Y O U F E E L
A B O U T Y O U R S E L F A N D
O T H E R S
 ETHICAL
SELF

T H E WA Y Y O U VA L U E
R E L A T I O N S H I P S
H E A LT H Y S E X U A L I T Y
• Means taking high sense of responsibility for all your actions since this can affect self-
esteem, decision-making, and behavior
 The way you see yourself is influenced by many people. It is important to maintain good
relationships with others. They will support you and give you confidence, provide
companionship and will keep you from being lonely.
 Self-Love
Your acceptance Self-Knowledge Self-Confidence Self-Respect Self-Expression
of yourself Your Your awareness Your regard for Your way of
understanding of as a worthwhile yourself as a showing your
your feelings and person worthwhile individuality in
your character person expressing
yourself as a man
or as a woman
GENDER
• Is a social concept on how men and women should think, feel
and act.
• Refers to femininity or masculinity of a person’s role and
behavior as defined by society.
HUMAN
SEXUALITY
• Is the quality of being male or female
• Is the way in which we experience and express ourselves as
sexual beings
SEX
• Centered on the biological basis of being a male or female
GENDER
• Is a social concept on how men and women should think, feel and act. It refers to femininity
or masculinity of a person’s role and behavior.
GENDER EQUALITY
• Permits man and woman equal enjoyment of human rights.
GENDER ROLE
• Refers to set of roles, characteristics and expectations of how a man or woman should feel,
think and act as influenced by parents, peers and society.
SEXUALITY
• Is an integral part of what we do and who we are; it is the way in which we experience and
express ourselves as sexual beings. It is the total expression of an individual’s self-concept
GENDER ROLE
• Is often an outward expression of gender identity.
• Is manifested within society by observable factors such as behavior and appearance.
• Your gender role demonstrates the typical characteristics of a person in his or her behavior.
S E X U A L B E H AV I O R S T A N D A R D S
• Are behaviors that have come to be accepted by society.
S O C I A L A N D C U LT U R A L N O R M S
• Are some of the factors which influence gender roles
AIM FOR HUMAN SEXUALITY
E D U C AT I O N
• To develop in a boy the characteristics of the personality belonging to his sex, and in a girl
the characteristics of her own sex.
• Thus, turning a boy into a mature man and a girl into a mature woman.
LIFE SKILLS
• Assessing Your Health means evaluating your well-being periodically. This includes your
sexuality. Figure out what you can do to improve your health if it is not as good as it can be
LIFE SKILLS
• Making Good Decisions means making choices that are healthy and responsible. You must
have the courage to make difficult decisions and stick to them.
LIFE SKILLS
• Communicating Effectively, communication skills help you avoid misunderstanding by
expressing your feelings in healthy way. This means if you listen to what people say, they
will want to listen to you as well.
LIFE SKILLS
• Practicing Wellness can be accomplished through information about good sexuality.
LIFE SKILLS
• Setting Goals or aiming for something that will give you sense of accomplishment. Just be
sure to be realistic with your target goal.
LIFE SKILLS
• Refusal Skill is a way to say no to something that you don’t want to do. This skill requires
practice. But first, you must feel strongly about what things you want to avoid.
LIFE SKILLS
• Evaluating Media Messages is being able to judge the worth of media messages. It is a big
challenge knowing that most media messages are very convincing.
DECISION MAKING
DECISION
• Is a choice you make our act upon
• A good decision is a decision in which you have carefully considered the outcome of each
choice
DECISION-MAKING
• Decision-making skills will help you make decisions based on your needs and desires.
LEFT HAND
List your specific behaviors on each component.
Thumb: Self-Expression (how do you express your sexuality?)
Index Finger: Self-Respect (what do you do to improve your self-respect?)
Middle Finger: Self-Knowledge (what are the things that make you happy?)
Ring Finger: Self-Love (how do you express your love to yourself?)
Little Finger: Self-Confidence (what do you do best?)
RIGHT HAND
List specific behavior/qualities that you want to improve.
Little Finger: Self-Confidence (what do you do best?)
Ring Finger: Self-Love (how do you express your love to yourself?)
Middle Finger: Self-Knowledge (what are the things that make you happy?)
Index Finger: Self-Respect (what do you do to improve your self-respect?)
Thumb: Self-Expression (how do you express your sexuality?)
FA C T O R S A F F E C T I N G S E X U A L
A T T I T U D E S A N D B E H AV I O R S
1. Family
2. Culture
3. Peers
4. Media
D O U B L E S TA N D A R D O F
MORALITY
Double standard of morality gives the impression of men being superior to women. In as we
would like to practice gender equality, the rules for human conduct and human
appropriateness are not alike for both sexes as practiced in most areas in the Philippines.
D O U B L E S TA N D A R D O F
MORALITY
A. Boys and men are permitted to stay out more and up to a later time than the girls and
women.
D O U B L E S TA N D A R D O F
MORALITY
B. A philandering or immoral man is considered as demonstrating his manliness or
“pagkalalaki”. A philandering or immoral woman is considered as cheap, bad or “masamang
babae”.
D O U B L E S TA N D A R D O F
MORALITY
C. Women are expected to remain virginal until they marry, while it is generally acceptable
for men to have sexual experience before marriage.
D O U B L E S TA N D A R D O F
MORALITY
D. Women are socially judged and legally penalized for adultery and for having children out
of wedlock.
D O U B L E S TA N D A R D O F
MORALITY
E. Men who stay at home to do household chores instead of having jobs to earn money for
the family are considered by some as “under de saya”.
VIRGIN
• Refers to a person who has not had sexual interaction
VIRGINITY
• Is the quality or state of being chaste