My Sexuality Workbook

About this book

Like eating and sleeping sex is a natural biologically-driven human behavior. Yet as with eating and sleeping we have much to learn. Having a healthy and satisfying sex life requires more than just factual knowledge about reproduction. Positive sexuality also requires self-knowledge: What are my sexual fears my wishes my challenges? What messagesfrom my school my mother my religion my societyhave I absorbed and how do those messages affect me? What sexual decisions have I made that havent been entirely satisfactory and what sexual choices do I want to make in the future? Randyl Smiths My Sexuality Workbook is a learning tool designed to supplement factual textbook knowledge with self-inspection. My Sexuality Workbook s activities and exercises help students bridge the gap between sexual science and their own sexual attitudes and behaviors. Newly updated in 2019 My Sexuality Workbook: Encourages readers to explore their thoughts feelings beliefs values concerns and wishes enabling them to come to a greater understanding of their own sexuality. Includes research excerpts self-assessments case studies activities resources and other materials. Features a list of resources related to each topic including widely available films books and Web sites that provide additional information or alternative perspectives. My Sexuality Workbook is organized around three components of ones sexual life: Sexuality: The Personal focuses on awareness of ones body its responsiveness to self-touch and its changes across the lifespan. Sexuality: The Relational explores relational sexuality from healthy appealing behaviors like flirting and falling in love to problematic and even dangerous experiences like sexual dysfunction and sexual coercion. Sexuality: The Cultural considers the power that religion law healthcare and the media have in shaping societal sexual behaviorand how those cultural phenomena have influenced the readers own sexuality.