Presentation by

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Presentation by Priti Prabhughate Counsellor THE
HUMSAFAR TRUST
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Sex
Sexuality and Gender
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Sex

• Refers to the sum of biological
  characteristics like genitalia which defines
  human beings as male or female
• (the biological body anatomy you are born with)
• E.g. If a child is born with a vagina, it is
  defined as a female. If it is born with a penis
  and testes, it is defined as male.

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If child is born with a penis and testes, it is
defined as male.
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If child is born with a vagina, it is
defined as female.
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Sexuality

• Is how one perceive yourself, like Heterosexual,
  Homosexual or Bi-Sexual

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Sexual Orientation

• It is the orientation of an individuals
  eroticism and / or emotional
  attachment with reference to the sex and
  gender of the partner with whom he /
  she is involved in sexual activity.

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Sexual Activity

• It is a behavioral expression of
  ones sexuality where the erotic
  component of sexuality is most evident.
• This behavior seeks erotic release and
  is synonymous to sexual behavior.

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Gender

• A social construction of cultural
  values, attitudes and roles, practices and
  characteristics based on sex.

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Gender identity

• Defines in various degrees to which person
  identifies as man or woman or some combination
  of both.

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Homosexuality

• A general term used for the sexual acts
  between individuals belonging to the same sex.
• When referring to two women it is called
  Lesbianism.

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MSM Circle
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Transgender ???
What exactly does transgender mean and who are
the transgenders?
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Transgender
persons who might include themselves in such a
definition includes transsexuals (pre-, post-,
non-op), transvestites, cross-dressers, persons
with ambiguous genitalia, persons who have chosen
to perform ambiguous social genders, and persons
who have chosen to perform no gender at all.
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Transgender
This definition, therefore, includes all persons
who are outside the hetero-normative
constructions of sexuality
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Transgender
Based on Gender construction and sexual
orientation, all transgenders can be classified
into four broad categories. Transvestites Transs
exuals Hermaphrodites / Intersexed Drag queens or
satla kothis
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Transgender
Transvestites are usually male cross-dressers
for whom dressing as women is a fetish or kink
their sexual orientation being heterosexual in
that they will choose/prefer to have sex
mostly/only with females/women.
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Transgender
Transsexuals Have an issue/problem with their
biological sex, in that they feel they are born
in the wrong bodies. Thus, male-to-female (M2F)
transgenders self-identify as female feel that
they were wrongly born in male
bodies/anatomies.
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Transgender
Transsexuals Such males will go in for gender
self-allocation by castration / re-constructive
surgery. Most nirvan (castrated or post-op)
hijras are, therefore, transsexuals in the
clinical sense of the term.
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Transgender
Hermaphrodites / Intersexed is a human born
with ambiguous genitalia. Thus, there may be a
testes but no ovaries or uterus penis and no
testes. Such cases are usually far and few in
between. Some estimates are that only one in
500,000 humans is born like such
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Transgender
The last category, which is clinically the only
behavioural homosexual category, is the male
cross-dresser. He cross-dresses because it
becomes a method of sexually attracting other
men/males for sexual interaction/intercourse.
Such men are called satla kothis, or
drag-queens
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Anal Sex

• Inserting the erect penis into the anus .
• Receiving the erect penis into the anus.

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Fellatio

• The introduction of the male genitalia into the
  mouth of a partner.

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Cunnilingus

• The introduction of the female genitalia into the
  mouth of a partner.

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Masturbation

• The manipulation of the genitalia for sexual
  gratification.