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    Sexuality is a complex part of human identity determined by biological, psychological, cultural, and interpersonal factors. It encompasses thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to sexual attraction, pleasure, and reproduction. While sexuality plays a central role in relationships and family formation, it can also be a source of problems requiring study to address issues like sexually transmitted diseases.

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    Sexuality is a complex part of human identity determined by biological, psychological, cultural, and interpersonal factors. It encompasses thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to sexual attraction, pleasure, and reproduction. While sexuality plays a central role in relationships and family formation, it can also be a source of problems requiring study to address issues like sexually transmitted diseases.

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    SEXUA

    LITY
    Sexuality

    • Sexuality has been a consistent focus of


    curiosity, interest, and analysis to humankind
    • Depictions of sexual behavior have existed
    from the time of prehistoric cave drawings
    (Ajanta) through da Vinci's anatomical
    illustrations of intercourse, literature
    (Kamsutra to MM Jayasi) to current
    pornographic sites available on the Internet
    Sexuality
    • Sexual behavior is diverse and determined
    by a complex interaction of factors.
    – relationship with others
    – life circumstances
    – culture
    – personality traits
    – biological makeup
    – general sense of self
    – the perception of being a man or a woman
    – reflects developmental experiences with sex
    throughout the life cycle
    • Sexuality encompasses all those thoughts,
    feelings, and behaviors connected with sexual
    gratification and reproduction, including the
    attraction of one person to another.
    • Something more than physical sex, coital or
    noncoital, and something less than all
    behaviors directed toward gaining pleasure
    • Plays a central role in most of our lives. It is a
    key factor in our principal relationships and
    the formation of our families. It is also a
    common source of problems.
    • People may also use sexual activities to
    gratify nonsexual needs, such as
    dependency, aggression, power, and status
    Why to study
    • Reason for studying human sexuality is
    that we may face various personal and
    social problems involving sexuality, such
    as, sexually transmitted diseases,
    unwanted pregnancies, and sexual
    harassment
    Psychosexuality
    • Sexuality and total personality are so entwined
    that to speak of sexuality as a separate entity is
    virtually impossible.
    • Psychosexual is used to describe personality
    development and functioning as these are
    affected by sexuality
    • Primary source of motivation. Just consider the
    amount of time spent thinking and planning for
    sex, let alone the time spent in sexual behavior
    itself
    Abnormal Sexuality
    • Sexual behavior that is destructive to
    oneself or others, that is markedly
    constricted, that cannot be directed toward
    a partner, that excludes stimulation of the
    primary sex organs, and that is
    inappropriately associated with guilt or
    anxiety.
    Normal sexuality
    • Normal sexual behavior brings pleasure to
    oneself and one's partner, involves stimulation of
    the primary sex organs including coitus
    • It is devoid of inappropriate feelings of guilt or
    anxiety and is not compulsive.
    • Recreational, as opposed to relational sex, that
    is sex outside a committed relationship,
    masturbation, and various forms of stimulation
    involving other than the primary sex organs
    Male Sexual response
    Psychosexual factors (cont.)
    • Sexual orientation describes the object of a
    person's sexual impulses: heterosexual
    (opposite sex), homosexual (same sex), or
    bisexual (both sexes).
    • Sexual behavior includes desire, fantasies,
    pursuit of partners, autoeroticism, and all the
    activities engaged in to express and gratify
    sexual needs. It is an amalgam of psychological
    and physiological responses to internal and
    external stimuli
    Masturbation
    • Masturbation usually is a normal precursor of object-
    related sexual behavior
    • Masturbation is a psychopathological symptom only
    when it becomes a compulsion beyond an
    individual's willful control. Then, it is a symptom of
    disturbance not because it is sexual, but because it
    is compulsive.
    • It is also symptomatic of sexual problems when it is
    the only sexual activity of a person who has an
    available intimate partner
    • Masturbation is a universal and healthy component
    of psychosexual development.

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