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Human Sexuality

NUR 150. Human Sexuality. Sexual Intelligence. Understanding oneself sexually in a biopsychosocial context Having interpersonal skills and integrity helps us to make responsible choices about sexual behavior based on our personal values

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Human Sexuality

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  1. NUR 150 Human Sexuality

  2. Sexual Intelligence • Understanding oneself sexually in a biopsychosocial context • Having interpersonal skills and integrity helps us to make responsible choices about sexual behavior based on our personal values • Having accurate scientific knowledge about sexuality; what happens to our bodies during sexual arousal and how to enhance pleasure, about biological components to sexual orientation, how to protect ourselves and others from STDs • Critical consideration of the broader cultural, political, and legal contexts of sexual issues • Conscious sexuality

  3. Seven Dimensions of Sexuality • Biologic : about the physical and chemical functioning of our bodies, specifically our sexual organs. Promoting health and treating dysfunction. Ex: GYN exams/ ED tx, UTI tx • Sensual: Where the energy of pleasure flows through our bodies because of our ability to feel. Stresses in body and mind can interfere with pleasure. Ex: yeast infection/ sexual trauma or most commonly b/c we tend to live in a disconnected way from our bodies, spending most time living in our heads- planning, evaluating, judging, analyzing, thinking

  4. Seven Dimensions of Sexuality • Desire: Eroticism. What we think of as sexy and sexual; it is the mating dance, the hey, check me out, the Madison Avenue dimension that sells products. The energy here is about personal power ; the power to attract a mate, the power we feel desiring and being desired sexually. The flip side is rejection when you’re not wanted or are humiliated sexually. Fear of rejection often stagnates energy in the desire dimension, as does a power struggle with a partner over sex.

  5. Seven Dimensions of Sexuality • Heart: committed love and devotion. Connection that we celebrate with many tokens and rituals; weddings, anniversaries, Valentines. A particular talent of the feminine, also present with masculine and expressed as generosity. The challenge with this dimension is that we often, at some level fear abandonment. So, for self-protection, we hold back, guard our hearts, act stingy with our lover, and stay mired in the neutral dead zone between abandonment and create our own suffering in the process.

  6. Seven Dimensions of Sexuality • Intimacy: comprised of truth and trust. When truth and trust are compromised by betrayal, or an affair, this can be a devastating wake up call in a relationship. More often though, couples find themselves somewhere between in disengagement, not betraying each other but not offering their authentic selves to one another. • Aesthetic: the soulful inner quality of radiance and inner beauty. When this is shared with a lover it can evoke awe and gratitude. We damage this dimension with judgment and criticism, of our partner or ourselves. We also fail to experience the potential of this dimension when we make our lives about routines, oblivious to the beauty of our partner and the world around us.

  7. Seven Dimensions of Sexuality • Ecstatic: where we lose boundaries and we feel at one with partner • Aesthetic • Intimacy • Heart • Desire • Sensual • Biologic

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