Bioethics CU6

Human Sexuality

refers to people’s sexual interest in and attraction to others, as well as their capacity to have erotic experiences and responses.

Sexual Orientation

may influence their sexual interest and attraction for another person.

Sexuality

is a multidimensional phenomenon that includes feelings,attitudes, and actions. It has both biologic and cultural components. It encompasses and gives direction to a person’s physical, emotional, social,and intellectual responses throughout life

may be experienced and expressed in a variety of ways, includingthrough thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors,practices, roles and relationships, which may manifest by wayof biological,physical, emotional, or spiritual aspects.

Heterosexual

Attracted to individuals of the oppos ite sex (straight) A person who finds sexual fulfillment with a member of the opposite gender.

Homosexual

attracted to individuals of the same sex. A person who finds sexual fulfillment with a member of his or her own sex.

Bisexual

Attracted to both sexes. People are said to be bisexual if they achieve sexual satisfaction from both homosexual and heterosexual relationships.

Queer

attracted to the same or both sexes and/ or trans

gendered individuals

Transexuality

Molded to be the opposite sex. A transsexual or transgender person is an individual who, although of one biologic gender, feels as if he or she is of the opposite gender. Such people may have sex change operations so that they appear cosmetically as the gender they feel that they are.

Asexual

Not experiencing sexual attractions

Rape , child molestation and sadism

considered harmful to the public and controlled by law

Premarital Sex

-is sexual activity practicedbypersons who are unmarried. Historically, premarital sex was considered amoral issuewhich was taboo in many cultures andconsidered a sin by a number of religions, butsince about the 1960s, it has becomemorewidely accepted, especially in Westerncountries.

Same-sex Marriage

-(also known as gaymarriage)is marriage between two people of the same sex.

Masturbation

is the sexual stimulation of one's own genitals for sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm.

Pornography

is the portrayal of sexual subjectmatter for the purpose of sexual arousal.

Prostitution

is the business or practice of engaging in sexual relations in exchange for payment orsomeother benefit. Prostitution is sometimes described as commercial sex.

Marriage

is defined differently, and by differententities, based on cultural, religious,andpersonal factors.

Husband

A married man considered inrelationto his spouse.

wife

A married woman considered in relationtoher spouse.

Marriage License

A license that a couplemust obtain before getting married.

Monogamy

one man, one woman. All 1stworld countries are monogamous.

Polygamy

more than one wife or husband.
Example: Islam & Fundamental Mormons

Bigamy

Marrying another person while still married to someone else. It is against the law.

Serial Monogamy or Modified Polygamy

refers to the practice of havinga series of monogamous relationships, one after the other,over a lifetime.

Premarital Sex

Premarital sex is sexual activitywhichispracticed by people before they are married.

Extra Marital Sex

occurs when a married person engages in sexual activity with someone other than their spouse.

Postcoital Douche

this involves using a liquid solution (such as water or vinegar) to cleanse the vagina either before (precoital) or after (postcoital) sexual intercourse.

Prolonged Lactation

also known as lactational amenorrhea method (LAM), it involvesusingbreastfeeding as a form of contraception.

Withdrawal- coitus interruptos,coitus reservatus

this involves withdrawing the penis from the vagina prior to ejaculation to prevent sperm from entering the woman's reproductivetract.

Surgical methods

Tubal ligation,Vasectomy,Hysterectomy

Utilitarianism

Justify contraception and sterilization for the greatest happinessandbenefits

Pragmatism

Contraception and sterilization is practical, useful, andbeneficial.

Sexual ethics or sex ethics (also sexual morality)

is the study of ethics in relation to human sexuality, and sexual behavior.

Contraception

- is defined as the intentional prevention of conception through the use of various devices, sexual practices, chemicals, drugs, or surgical procedures.