Sexual Orientation

1. Sexual Orientation Mrs. Benedetto Sexuality Lesson

2. What is Sexuality • Positive, enriching and about how we communicate and accept and give love. It means having the ability to enjoy and control our sexual and reproductive behavior without guilt, fear or shame.

3. Sexual Identity • A sense of who one is sexually, including a sense of maleness and femaleness. • Some other definitions of sexual identity would be: • Gender Identity: an individual’s self-conception as being male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex. • Gender Roles: a set of perceived behavioral norms associated particularly with males or females, in a given social group or system. • Gender Bias: is separation of gender in a way which prefers one sex over the other. Gender bias in technology refers to preference for or favoring of one sex over the other

4. sexual orientation • The term sexual orientation refers to the gender (that is, male or female) to which a person is attracted. There are several types of sexual orientation that are commonly described: • Heterosexual. People who are heterosexual are romantically and physically attracted to members of the opposite sex: Heterosexual males are attracted to females, and heterosexual females are attracted to males. Heterosexuals are sometimes called "straight." • Homosexual. People who are homosexual are romantically and physically attracted to people of the same sex: Females who are attracted to other females are lesbian; males who are attracted to other males are often known as gay. (The term gay is sometimes also used to describe homosexual individuals of either gender.) • Bisexual. People who are bisexual are romantically and physically attracted to members of both sexes.

5. Gender Confusion • Transgendered: is the state of one's "gender identity" (self-identification as woman, man) not matching one's "assigned sex" (identification by others as male or female based on physical/genetic sex). • Transvestite: a person and especially a male who adopts the dress and often the behavior typical of the opposite sex especially for purposes of emotional or sexual gratification • Transexual: a person who strongly identifies with the opposite sex and may seek to live as a member of this sex especially by undergoing surgery and hormone therapy to obtain the necessary physical appearance (as by changing the external sex organs)

6. Society Confusion • Intersex: an person having both male and female reproductive organs at birth. • Metrosexual: a usually urban heterosexual male given to enhancing his personal appearance by fastidious grooming, beauty treatments, and fashionable clothes. Not homosexual in any way.

7. Transgender Diagram Intersexual Heterosexuals, Homosexuals, Metrosexuals

8. Gender Roles Activity Make a list of 5-10 answers of what society expects: • Males to do for fun • Males to act • Males to work • Males to drive • Males to wear • Males to hang around in their community • Males to watch • Males to cut their hair • Males hygiene When you are finished do the same thing for women…

9. Gender Activity • What is different from society and gender today compared to 1950/60’s? • What is acceptable for men and women today compared to the same years? • What color are babies given in the hospital when they are born on their hats/blankets? • How do we make our kids not fall into the gender role society puts on us? • Is Gender role important to have?