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SEXUALITY: What’s it all about?

SEXUALITY: What’s it all about?. A Presentation to 9th Graders by Kathleen Baker Saint Agnes Academy. Who I am and Why I’m here…. Catholic school, Catholic mission Dean of Students B.A. in Theology; Master of Divinity; M.Ed. in Administration.

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SEXUALITY: What’s it all about?

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  1. SEXUALITY: What’s it all about? A Presentation to 9th Graders by Kathleen Baker Saint Agnes Academy

  2. Who I am and Why I’m here… • Catholic school, Catholic mission • Dean of Students • B.A. in Theology; Master of Divinity; • M.Ed. in Administration

  3. MOVIES & TELEVISION • How are sexual relationships and attitudes portrayed? • How much is consistent with Catholic values?

  4. Catholic teaching is often C O U N T E R C U L T U R A L: Goes against society or culture’s values

  5. CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF

  6. HUMAN DIGNITY

  7. HUMAN DIGNITY • All people are made in God’s image. • All people are by nature GOOD, by God’s design, no matter who they are or what they do. • This goodness cannot be earned or lost.

  8. Human dignity…the freedom to choose…. Our choice: Be who we are…GOOD. Or Act against our good nature, choose against who we are, do evil.

  9. To learn what it means to be good, • Catholics turn to… • Sacred Scripture • Church Tradition

  10. Sexuality What’s it all about???

  11. SEX… …something you do; an activity you choose SEXUALITY… …part of your identity; who you are

  12. The Goal: …for your actions to match or be appropriate to who you are

  13. SEXUALITY • GENDER • GENDER ROLE • ORIENTATION

  14. GENDER • Male or female • NOT chosen

  15. GENDER ROLE IDENTITY • Learned • Refers to how you are supposed to live out your gender: what actions and attitudes are appropriate • Taught by family, the society, ethnic group, religion • Can vary from time period to time period

  16. SEXUAL ORIENTATION • Not chosen…discovered. • Refers to one’s predominant emotional and sexual attraction • 3 kinds: • Heterosexual…to opposite gender • Homosexual…to same gender • Bisexual…to both

  17. Heterosexual Homosexual

  18. SEXUAL ORIENTATION . . . • Not fundamentally or primarily a tendency toward acts • Psychosexual attraction toward particular persons • A dimension of one’s personality

  19. HETEROSEXUAL • A person who sustains a PREDOMINANT, PERSISTENT, psychosexual, physical, and emotional attraction to the opposite sex.

  20. HOMOSEXUAL • A person who sustains a PREDOMINANT, PERSISTENT, psychosexual, physical, and emotional attraction to the same sex.

  21. ALWAYS OUR CHILDRENby the U.S. bishops • Every person has an inherent dignity because he or she is created in God’s image. One’s total personhood is not reducible to sexual orientation or behavior. • To gay and lesbian children: You are a child of God, gifted and called for a purpose in God’s design.

  22. STEREOTYPES • Homosexual persons are attracted to ALL same-sex persons…not true! • Homosexual persons are sexually promiscuous or pedophiles…not true!

  23. Sexuality… is about who you are. Sexual Activity… is about what you CHOOSE to do.

  24. SEXUAL INTEGRATION = Integrating sexuality into the total of who we are

  25. Sexuality + Choices + GOD Possibility of chastity

  26. CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF

  27. CHASTITY • = the virtue of living out one’s sexuality according to God’s will • is lived out differently according to vocational lifestyle and sexual orientation • all are called to be chaste

  28. Chastity in Marriage

  29. Sex symbolizes: * God’s covenant love * God’s creative nature

  30. CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF

  31. Sex in Marriagehas 2 inseparable purposes: • UNITIVE • PROCREATIVE

  32. UNITIVE PURPOSE • expresses their mutual love • expresses their permanent commitment • expresses their faithfulness • mirrors God’s faithful love

  33. PROCREATIVE PURPOSE • The sex act is open to co-creating new life with God, the Creator of all life • The couple is open to the gift of children. • The couple will try to be responsible parents if blessed with children.

  34. What kinds of behaviors would violate the unitive purpose of marriage? What kinds of behaviors would violate the procreative purpose of marriage?

  35. Fertility Cycle: designed by God with periods of fertility and periods of infertility

  36. Church teaching: You can take advantage of the fertility cycle to try to delay having a child for responsible reasons Natural family planning

  37. NFP is about choices… when to abstain from sex, when to engage in sex: periodic abstinence.

  38. Contraceptives • Not accepted by the Church • used to block or alter the fertility cycle’s natural rhythms • can also have dangerous side effects

  39. CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF

  40. All human life is sacred. Human life begins at conception.

  41. 4 week fetus

  42. 8 week fetus

  43. 6 month fetus

  44. Abortion • Direct abortion is an action taken to intentionally destroy an embryo/fetus. • It is always immoral.

  45. Rape, Sexual Assault,Manipulation • Forced sexual activity is always wrong. • It is rape if someone takes advantage of someone who is drunk: the intoxicated person is not free to consent.

  46. Drinking lessens one’s ability to think and to choose: don’t do it. • Women tend to be more susceptible to alcohol. • Be alert for “date rape drugs.”

  47. Rape After-Care • Do not take a shower. • Go to the hospital and have a rape kit done. • We can try to prevent pregnancy in this circumstance.

  48. Certain drugs can be given to prevent pregnancy. • A Catholic Hospital will try to determine ovulation, will give drugs to prevent pregnancy and infection; but will not give “morning after pill.” • It’s not okay to cause abortion.

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