Sexuality

• Biologie
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome!

Today's lesson:

Explanation about sexuality (paragraph 4.5, page 47)

Talk

Opdrachten maken

What are we going to learn today?

Today we will learn: 

What the differences are within sexuality, gender expression and sex are.

Why?

Sexual preference

Your sexual preference says something about which gender you are attracted to. The most common sexualities are:

- Heterosexual

- Homosexual

- Bisexual

- Pansexual

- Asexual

Sex and gender

As a baby you are born with a certain gender, this is as a boy, girl or intersex.

For most people this corresponds with their gender, with which identity (clothing, hobbies, social norms) they feel comfortable (cisgender). This does not always have to be the case. In this case someone is a transgender.

Genderdysforia

For some people this goes so far that their gender clashes with their physical sex; it feels like their body is not theirs. In this case, a person can undergo surgery  or hormone therapy to bring this into better balance.

Genderexpression

Primary sexual characteristics

At (and before) birth, it is possible to see whether a child is male or female. You can see this from the genitals, these are called the primary sexual characteristics.

Very occasionally this is not clearly visible or are they mixed, this is called a intersex condition. During puberty, your body changes more and secondary sexual characteristics are added.

Social norms

Do these social norms apply to men, women or both?

- Becomes a director of a company.

- Wears jeans.

- Takes care of the baby and does the chores.

- Are mainly interested in lust.

- Wears dresses.

- Becomes a hairdresser.

Purple friday

Many schools pay attention to the differences in gender expression one day a year during purple Friday. Also here at school.

Time to work

The homework for next lesson are the exercises of paragraph 4.5, you can skip the summary but please make the plusexercise.