MODULE 2
UNPACKING
THE SELF
AMABELLA ABION – DE
LUNA, MM
LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Understand the various aspects of self and its
theoretical underpinnings on how to manage
and care for the different aspects of the self.
• Acquire and hone new skills and learnings for
better managing of one’s se lf and behaviors.
• Apply the new skills to one’s self and
functioning for a better quality of life.
It’s not what you are that is
holding you back.
It’s what you think you are
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SELF ESTEEM
How we act in front of other people
clearly defines how we manage our
self-esteem as person. The self-esteem
plays a vital role on how we form
positive and healthy relationships with
people around us.
KINDS OF SELF ESTEEM
INFLATED SELF-ESTEEM
• these people hold high regards of them. They feel that
they are better than other people which would
sometimes result to under estimating them.
HIGH SELF-ESTEEM
• is a positive self-esteem which makes a person satisfied
of who they are.
LOW SELF-ESTEEM
• Are people that does not value themselves and do not
trust their possibilities.
UNDERSTANDING BASIC SEXUAL
BEHAVIORS
Human sexual behaviour is complicated and
complex, thus it is not all different from other
species (Feldman, 2010).
Men’s sexual behaviour can occur at any time, by being arouse to certain
stimuli. At puberty, the testes begin to secrete androgens (male sex
hormones) which produce secondary sex characteristics like growth of
bodily hair and change in voice.
Female sexual behaviour starts at puberty where the two ovaries begin to
produce estrogens and progesterone (female sex hormones).
Human reproductive system is an organ that
produces and bear live offspring. It requires
the union between male and female that
carries out and produces another life form.
When all organs are present, human
reproductive system works from the release of
the egg cell from the female reproductive
organ to the fertilization of sperm cells, to the
conception, up to the giving birth of the baby.
The female physical body return to its original
state few months after giving birth. (Harrison,
2018)
MALE
REPRODUCTIVE
SYSTEM
TESTES – the most important part of male reproductive organ. It is the
source of spermatozoa (male germ cell)
SCROTUM – it is a sac of skin where the two testes are enveloped; directly
below and outside of the abdomen.
PROSTATE GLANDS – it is a glad that carries out both urine and seminal
fluids. It is connected by sperm ducts from sperm ducts joining into single
tube called urethra. URETHRA then leads to the outside of the body through
penis.
PENIS – it is where the ejaculation occurs by sending sperm cell from testes
and secrete out.
Sperm – it is a male gametes, one that is necessary for the egg to develop
and become a baby.
FEMALE
REPRODUCTIVE
SYSTEM
Ovary – it is a pair of small. Oval organs which produces ova (ovum; female germ cells).
Thousands of ova will mature and will be taken up to the fallopian tube through the
uterus by the time of puberty.
Fallopian Tube – are pair of thin tubes that leads from ovaries to the uterus.
Uterus – (womb) is a hollow pear-shaped elastic muscular structure where fertilized
ovum (zygote) develops into a baby.
Vagina – it is a tube leading to outside of the body through an opening called the vulva.
• Erogenous zones refer to parts of the body
that are primarily receptive and increase
sexual arousal when touched in a sexual
manner.
Commonly known erogenous
zones:
• mouth
• breasts
• genitals
• anus
• neck
• thighs
• abdomen
• feet
PHYSIOLOGY AND
HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE
Excitement
phase
Resolution Plateau
phase phase
Sexual
climax
RESOLUTION
PHASE
the decrease of
arousal of the male
happens. Genitals
resume their
unaroused state
and shape; blood
pressure,
AROUSAL PHASE breathing and
is a subjective sense heart rate return
of sexual pleasure. to normal.
The physiological
sign in males is penile
tumescence (erection)
and vasocongestion to
female leads to
vaginal lubrication
and nipple erection. ORGASM PHASE
is an intense, highly
pleasurable experience,
rhythmic muscular
contractions occur in the
PLATEAU PHASE genitals. In male, the
is a brief period of time contractions expel semen, a
before the orgasm. It is fluid containing sperm, a
the body’s preparation process called ejaculation.
for orgasm.
DIVERSITY OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
HETEROSEXUALITY
is a sexual attraction and behaviour towards the opposite sex. More that male-female
intercourse it involves kissing, petting, caressing, massaging and other form of sexual
activities.
HOMOSEXUALITY AND BISEXUALITY –Homosexual is a romantic and/or sexual
attraction between members of same sex. Bisexuals are persons who can be
romantically or sexually attracted o same sex and other sex. Some male homosexuals
prefer the term gay and some female homosexual prefer the term lesbian. Gays and
lesbians as preference are not only used as sexual preference but as gender
preference.
TRANSSEXUALITY
these are people who believed they were born with the body of the other gender.
Men transsexuals believe that they are men in a women’s body and vice versa.
Transsexuals sometimes seek sex exchange operations, which undergo several steps –
sexual counselling, hormone injections, living as member of desired sex for several
years and surgery.
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE
DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH THE
REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
FEMALE MALE
VAGINAL INFECTIONS INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS
• sexually transmitted microorganisms • prostatitis, urethritis, and
such as syphilis, gonorrhoea, and epididymitis
herpes virus; • Orchiditis, inflammation of the
testes, is rather uncommon but is
serious because it can causes
sterility.
Tumors of the breast and cervix are
the most common reproductive
cancers prostate cancer
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
Gonorrhea
Genital herpes
Human papillonmavirus infection
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Chlamydia
Syphilis
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL METHODS OF
CONTRACEPTION
HUMAN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
Human sexual behavior is defined as any
activity--solitary, between two persons, or in a
group-that induces sexual arousal (Gebhard, P.H.
2017).
inherited sexual response patterns that evolved
2 major as a means of ensuring reproduction
factors of
human sexual become part of each individual's genetic
behavior inheritance, and the degree of restraint or other
types of influence exerted on the individual by
society in the expression of his sexuality.
TYPES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIORS
CELIBACY KISSING
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COMMON SEXUAL PROBLEMS
MEN TREATMENTS
Sexual dysfunction can be due to:
medications, alcoholism, ∙ If the cause is psychological, seeing a
depression, fatigue, obesity, psychiatrist or psychologist can be helpful.
hypoactive sexual disorder, Cognitive behavioural therapy is the treatment
recreational drugs, relationship used
problems, fear of humiliation, sexual
aversion disorder, systemic illness, ∙ Psychiatrists, psychologists and sexologists
testosterone deficiency, stress, lack can be involved in the management of sexual
of time, history of sexual abuse and dysfunction. Psychologists or psychiatrists can
hormonal problems such as especially help when the cause of the
hyperthyroidism dysfunction is psychogenic. Therapies
WOMEN targeting cognition and behaviour usually have
good success rates. Sexologists can also
Sexual dysfunction due to diabetes, contribute to these therapies.
heart disease, neurological
diseases, hormonal imbalances, ∙ If the cause of the diminished libido is from
menopause, chronic diseases such medications being taken, sometimes there are
as kidney or liver failure; alternative medications without sexual side
alcoholism, drug abuse and side effects. For others, hormonal replacement
effects of medications including may be suggested.
antidepressant drugs.
the
material
MATERIAL SELF
• According to William James, it pertains to the
objects, places, or even people which have the
label “mine”.
• Such possessions are viewed as extensions of
individuals' identities.
• James identified the body as the innermost
aspect of the material self.
MATERIAL is defined by the people they
are acquainted along with
the accumulation of objects
SELF and achievements that a
person acquired from the
different endeavours and
Consist not only of body experiences in life.
but also includes the
different things he
possesses from one’s A man’s possession of
family, friends, as well as material wealth is viewed as
things, such as, one’s an extension of an
clothes, gadget, car, individual’s identity. For
house and the amount of instance, your choice of style
money he has. reflects your personality
