This document provides an introduction to a lesson on gender and human sexuality. It discusses the biological, psychological, and sociocultural dimensions of human sexuality. The biological dimension involves physical sexual characteristics and responses. The psychological dimension includes body image and how attitudes develop from a young age. Sociocultural factors that influence sexuality include religious beliefs, culture, and ethics. The document also outlines factors that affect attitudes toward sexuality, including self, family, peers, school, church, and mass media. It stresses the importance of parents educating children about human sexuality within the family.

1. MAPEH 8

2. Health
Gender & Human
Sexuality
Lesson 1

3. Introduction
• Human sexuality includes all the mental, emotional,
and spiritual characteristics associated with being a
male o female.
• Symbols:
FEMALE MALE
This symbol of Roman Goddess Venus
is often use to represent the female
sex and also chemical symbol for
copper.
This symbol is usually interpreted as
the shield and spear of the Roman war
god Ares. It was first use to denote
gender by Carolus Linnaeus in 1751.

4. A. Biological Dimension
• The biological dimension of human sexuality
involves the physical appearance especially
the development of the physical sexual
characteristics, responses to sexual
stimulation, ability to reproduce or to control
fertility and growth and development.

5. B. Psychological Dimensions
• A major factor that affects one’s sexual wellness is
the “Body image”.
• One’s attitude and feelings toward oneself and other
people begin to develop very early in life.

6. C. Sociocultural Dimension
• Religious Influence – religious and spiritual beliefs
influence feelings about morality, sexual behaviours
and premarital sexual behavior, adultery, divorce,
contraception, abortion, and masturbation.
• Multicultural Dimension – Culture influences ones
sexuality across a diversity of cultural and social
setting includes beliefs.
• Ethical influences – Ethics and religious often
provide the framework within people to judge
rightness and wrongness.

7. Factors affecting the Attitudes
and Practices on Sexuality
• Self
– Accept and gain respect for his / her body.
– Take responsibility for own behaviors
– Be aware of sexual issues
– Attain high standards of sexual health.
• Family
– Communicate with family effectively.
– Express love and concern to parents, siblings and family
– Perform duties and responsibilities
– At home

8. Factors affecting the Attitudes
and Practices on Sexuality
• Peers and Friends
– Express love and intimacy in appropriate ways.
– Interact with both gender effectively.
– Respect both gender in all respect.
– Pursue a satisfying safe and pleasurable sexual life.
• School and church
– Has a vital role in helping parents to influence adolescents
• Mass Media
– Develop their own capacity fro moral sexual decision-making.
– Provide them with accurate information about sexuality.
– Model positive healthy and joyful attitudes in our own relationship

9. Importance of Sexuality for
Family Health
• Parents have the moral duty to make their children
know about the mysteries of human life.
• In fact Family is the best environment to provide
children with gradual educational in sexual life.
• To respect a person’s sexual rights is a manifestation
of respect for human rights.

10. Lets Recall
1. When we talk of human sexuality we consider the
set of norms and expectations that society consider
appropriate for men or women.
CORRECT!
2. Gender includes the physical aspect of being a male
or female.
CORRECT!

11. Lets Recall
3. Religious traditions can be sometimes incompatible
and restrictive.
CORRECT!
4. One arrives at a good decision after a thoughtful
consideration of consequences.
CORRECT!