Health - Sex Ed
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- Sex
- Refers to whether a person is male or female, whether a person has a penis or vagina. also commonly used as an abbreviation to refer to sexual intercourse
- Sexuality
- refers to the total expression of who you are as a human being, your femaleness or your maleness. Everyone is a sexual being. an interplay between body image, gender, identity, gender roles, sexual orientation, relationships, etc. It includes attitudes, values, knowledge and behaviors. Families, culture, society, values and beliefs influence how people express it.
- Biological Sexuality
- Male and female aspects of sexuality
- Masculinity
- Behavioral expressions traditionally observed in males
- Femininity
- Behavioral expressions traditionally observed in females
- Gonads
- Male or female sex glands; testes produce sperm and ovaries produce eggs
- Puberty
- Achievement of reproductive ability
- Menarche
- Time of a female’s first menstrual cycle
- Menopause
- Decline and eventual cessation of hormone production by the female reproductive system
- Spermatogenesis
- Process of sperm production
- Psychosocial sexuality
- Masculine and feminine aspects of sexuality
- Gender
- General term reflecting a biological basis of sexuality; the male or the female gender
- Gender Identity
- Recognition of one’s gender; By age 18 months, typical children have both the language and the insight to correctly _________.
- Gender Preference
- Emotional and intellectual acceptance of one’s own gender; Is sometimes a less subtle form of the practices observed during the gender identity period; For example, parents curbing their son’s play activities that may seem feminine
- Gender Adoption
- Lengthy process of learning the behavior that is traditional for one’s gender; provides an opportunity to begin to assemble this equally valuable “picture†of what the other gender is like
- Gender Identification
- Achievement of a personally satisfying interpretation of one’s masculinity or femininity
- Adrogyny
- The blending of both masculine and feminine qualities
- Ovaries
- Release two hormones: estrogen and progesterone; Also release mature egg (ovum) during menstruation
- Fallopian Tubes
- act as the ducts that carry an egg towards the uterus; fertilization usually occurs here
- Uterus
- A muscular organ designed to nourish and carry a fertilized egg
- Vagina
- The birth canal through which sperm enter and the menstrual fluid or baby will exit; opening is located between the urethra and the anus and is sometimes covered by a patch of skin called the hymen
- Testes
- Internal glands (2) found inside scrotum; Require a lower temperature than body core temp for sperm development; inside is network of chambers called seminiferous tubules where spermatogenesis (sperm production) takes place
- Hormones and sperm production
- Begins with the release of ICSH (interstitial cell-stimulating hormone) from the pituitary gland; ICSH tells testes to begin producing hormone testosterone; Around age 15, FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) allows seminiferous tubules to produce sperm capable of fertilization
- Zona
- a shell around the ova
- Trimesters
- pregancy is divided into ___________.
- The first stage of labor
- Lasts the longest in duration; The uterine contractions will thin the walls and dilate the opening of cervix; The amniotic sac breaks, releasing fluid; “water breakingâ€; Contractions become intensely painful; Cervix will dilate to 10 cm wide
- The second stage of labor
- The baby is “pushed†through the birth canal; Woman is encouraged to push using the abdominal muscles during each contraction“Crowning†occurs when baby’s head is visible through vagina;complete when baby is delivered
- The Third stage of labor
- After a baby is delivered, within 3o minutes the placenta will be expelled by uterine contractions as well; The placenta needs to be examined to make sure no tears, causing hemorrhaging, are present; After delivering the placenta, the uterus continues to contract to return to nonpregnant size