Sexuality is a relevant theme in society as is a personal experience.
Premise is the behavioral expression and experience of our sexuality are influenced and
regulated by biological factors as well as psychological, cultural and social processes,
including inter- and intra- personal norms and values.
Definition of sexuality
What is human sexuality?
- What is sexuality for you?
- What is sexuality related to?
- What do you think about when you hear the word sexuality?
Psychology behaviour
The teacher thinks that culture is the most
important one because it has invloed on
biology. In biology the woman has a first
culture
very important situation, the
Biology
menstruation. A lot of women have a
positive reaction on starting there period.
All the women around are very happy.
Culture will also cause changes in behaviour.
In clinical care we need to take all 4 dimensions in count.
Sex: etymology
- Latin
▪ Sexus = group, part, sort, kind, form
▪ Secare = to cut, to divide
- English -sex
▪ 1382: person with a certain sex
▪ 1526: characteristic of being women or men
▪ 1929: sexual intercourse (dirty word)
▪ 1950: gender – men and women (gender role – gender identity)
Sex - sexual behavior and attraction to others.
Sex: definition
- Sex =
o [noun] (chiefly with reference to people) sexual activity, including
specifically sexual intercourse
▪ euphemistic [in singular] A person's genitals.
, o Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans
and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive
functions:
▪ [noun] The fact of belonging to either the male or female sex:
▪ The group of all members of either the male or female sex:
- Definition of sex:
▪ Sex, everything that is sexual
▪ Sex, i.e. biological differences between men and women
▪ Sexual life
▪ Behaviours and feelings that are related to physical arousal and
having sex
▪ Behaviours in which you genitals play a role and that lead to
physical arousal
- French: sexualité = what is related to a certain sex
- Sexuality = broader meaning (all that is related to sexual life)
▪ Refers to emotions and behavior
▪ Ideas and desires
▪ Sexuality = an euphemism for sex
- Sexuality =
o [noun] Capacity for sexual feelings:
▪ [noun] A person's sexual orientation or preference:
▪ Sexual activity
Sexuality: definition
- Definition of sexuality:
▪ ways you experience and express sexuality,
e.g. ‘not daring to talk about sex’
▪ someone’s sexual emotions, ideas and behavior
▪ broader domain of emotions, desires, behaviors, etc. that are
broader than the paradigmatic sexual behaviors and emotions
▪ (biological) sex, sexual behavior
▪ someone‘s sexual behavior and desires
▪ all occurrences that are related to one’s sex life
- all aspects of felling and being sexual
▪ sexual acts; kissing, petting, masturbation, sexual intercourse
▪ sexual behaviour; being flirtatious, romantic dinner, dressing in a
seductive way, reading playboy, surfing on the internet in search for
sexually explicit material.
,Behaviors that are defined as sexual vary over time, vary between different groups and
between different cultures. Sexual is dependent of ideas of normality about sex, male
and female role patterns, social context and culture.
In the beginning of the previous century sex was only allowed and good if it would be
sexuality between heterosexually couples in order to procreate. That was the only sex
that was allowed for the labor workers in that society were getting that message to tone
it down for the higher society there where a lot of brothels – that kind of sexuality was
much more accepted than for the labor workers for the same period of time, for different
groups. The sexuality is not the same for everyone. In order to become a real man you
need to give oral sex to another man and swallow their sperm to become a man – that’s
there culture. What we believe to what is normal in that culture here it isn’t in todays
society it is more accepted for the male to have more sex partners then for women
we so call it the double sexual standard – it is the slut – stud discussion. When a woman
has too many bed partners than she is a slut, but for the man he is a stud. The same kind
of behavior is differently been evaluated based on your gender.
Sexuality can vary overtime for different people for different groups so they did an
experiment where they asked people if they thought they had sex with someone if a
certain specific behavior was done by of on themselves.
So the question was asked; would you say you had sex is …? To determine which
interactions people would consider as having ‘has sex’
, De nummers = percentage indicating ‘had sex ’
Dimensions of sexuality
- good sex presuppose a balance between lust and pleasure (recreation), relation,
reproduction and institutionalization.
- Good sexuality is like a table with 4 legs and those 4 legs describe the 4
dimensions that are:
▪ Lust
▪ Relation
▪ Reproduction
▪ Institurionalisation (you were married)
- If you only have lust than you can say that the table isnt stabel anymore. This is
an idea of what good sexuality is 4 pillars of legs on the table. It is an interessting
way of looking at it
- The church had a very big impact on how people looked at seks but also how
psychiatrist looked at seks
Biological dimension, psychosocial dimension, behavioural dimension, cultural
dimension and clinical dimension.
The dimensions of sexuality are very similar that we can see at the beginning of the
course.
- Biological dimension
▪ controls sexual development – the fact that you are here now and
that your body reacts to sexual stimuli is based on the fact that you
went trought sexual development
▪ affects sexual desire, sexual functioning and sexual satisfaction
▪ influence sex differences
▪ sexual turn-ons influence biological events (erection, lubrication,
pulse quickens, sensation of warmth,…
- Psychosocial dimension
▪ Psychological
• emotions, thoughts and personality
• interaction between people
▪ Social
• Regulated by society through law (rapist), taboo, family and
peer group pressures to follow certain paths of sexual
behaviour – it is very often a taboo between partners and it
is very difficult to talk about sexuality with your partner.
Premise is the behavioral expression and experience of our sexuality are influenced and
regulated by biological factors as well as psychological, cultural and social processes,
including inter- and intra- personal norms and values.
Definition of sexuality
What is human sexuality?
- What is sexuality for you?
- What is sexuality related to?
- What do you think about when you hear the word sexuality?
Psychology behaviour
The teacher thinks that culture is the most
important one because it has invloed on
biology. In biology the woman has a first
culture
very important situation, the
Biology
menstruation. A lot of women have a
positive reaction on starting there period.
All the women around are very happy.
Culture will also cause changes in behaviour.
In clinical care we need to take all 4 dimensions in count.
Sex: etymology
- Latin
▪ Sexus = group, part, sort, kind, form
▪ Secare = to cut, to divide
- English -sex
▪ 1382: person with a certain sex
▪ 1526: characteristic of being women or men
▪ 1929: sexual intercourse (dirty word)
▪ 1950: gender – men and women (gender role – gender identity)
Sex - sexual behavior and attraction to others.
Sex: definition
- Sex =
o [noun] (chiefly with reference to people) sexual activity, including
specifically sexual intercourse
▪ euphemistic [in singular] A person's genitals.
, o Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans
and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive
functions:
▪ [noun] The fact of belonging to either the male or female sex:
▪ The group of all members of either the male or female sex:
- Definition of sex:
▪ Sex, everything that is sexual
▪ Sex, i.e. biological differences between men and women
▪ Sexual life
▪ Behaviours and feelings that are related to physical arousal and
having sex
▪ Behaviours in which you genitals play a role and that lead to
physical arousal
- French: sexualité = what is related to a certain sex
- Sexuality = broader meaning (all that is related to sexual life)
▪ Refers to emotions and behavior
▪ Ideas and desires
▪ Sexuality = an euphemism for sex
- Sexuality =
o [noun] Capacity for sexual feelings:
▪ [noun] A person's sexual orientation or preference:
▪ Sexual activity
Sexuality: definition
- Definition of sexuality:
▪ ways you experience and express sexuality,
e.g. ‘not daring to talk about sex’
▪ someone’s sexual emotions, ideas and behavior
▪ broader domain of emotions, desires, behaviors, etc. that are
broader than the paradigmatic sexual behaviors and emotions
▪ (biological) sex, sexual behavior
▪ someone‘s sexual behavior and desires
▪ all occurrences that are related to one’s sex life
- all aspects of felling and being sexual
▪ sexual acts; kissing, petting, masturbation, sexual intercourse
▪ sexual behaviour; being flirtatious, romantic dinner, dressing in a
seductive way, reading playboy, surfing on the internet in search for
sexually explicit material.
,Behaviors that are defined as sexual vary over time, vary between different groups and
between different cultures. Sexual is dependent of ideas of normality about sex, male
and female role patterns, social context and culture.
In the beginning of the previous century sex was only allowed and good if it would be
sexuality between heterosexually couples in order to procreate. That was the only sex
that was allowed for the labor workers in that society were getting that message to tone
it down for the higher society there where a lot of brothels – that kind of sexuality was
much more accepted than for the labor workers for the same period of time, for different
groups. The sexuality is not the same for everyone. In order to become a real man you
need to give oral sex to another man and swallow their sperm to become a man – that’s
there culture. What we believe to what is normal in that culture here it isn’t in todays
society it is more accepted for the male to have more sex partners then for women
we so call it the double sexual standard – it is the slut – stud discussion. When a woman
has too many bed partners than she is a slut, but for the man he is a stud. The same kind
of behavior is differently been evaluated based on your gender.
Sexuality can vary overtime for different people for different groups so they did an
experiment where they asked people if they thought they had sex with someone if a
certain specific behavior was done by of on themselves.
So the question was asked; would you say you had sex is …? To determine which
interactions people would consider as having ‘has sex’
, De nummers = percentage indicating ‘had sex ’
Dimensions of sexuality
- good sex presuppose a balance between lust and pleasure (recreation), relation,
reproduction and institutionalization.
- Good sexuality is like a table with 4 legs and those 4 legs describe the 4
dimensions that are:
▪ Lust
▪ Relation
▪ Reproduction
▪ Institurionalisation (you were married)
- If you only have lust than you can say that the table isnt stabel anymore. This is
an idea of what good sexuality is 4 pillars of legs on the table. It is an interessting
way of looking at it
- The church had a very big impact on how people looked at seks but also how
psychiatrist looked at seks
Biological dimension, psychosocial dimension, behavioural dimension, cultural
dimension and clinical dimension.
The dimensions of sexuality are very similar that we can see at the beginning of the
course.
- Biological dimension
▪ controls sexual development – the fact that you are here now and
that your body reacts to sexual stimuli is based on the fact that you
went trought sexual development
▪ affects sexual desire, sexual functioning and sexual satisfaction
▪ influence sex differences
▪ sexual turn-ons influence biological events (erection, lubrication,
pulse quickens, sensation of warmth,…
- Psychosocial dimension
▪ Psychological
• emotions, thoughts and personality
• interaction between people
▪ Social
• Regulated by society through law (rapist), taboo, family and
peer group pressures to follow certain paths of sexual
behaviour – it is very often a taboo between partners and it
is very difficult to talk about sexuality with your partner.
