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SEXUAL SELF ANALYSIS PAPERThe purpose of the first paper is to provide you with an opportunity to explore and assess yourself as a sexual person. This type of paper can be difficult unless you allow yourself to be open and thoughtful. There are many ways to approach this paper. You might use “Your Sexual History” as a guide. Be sure to include bothdescriptive and analytical paragraphs in your analysis. Descriptive implies concrete experiences regarding your sexual development. Analytic means that you try to figure out why these experiences happened and what their meaning was for you at the time and today. If you can give some thought to your feelings openly (in writing) you may experience a reduction of fear and embarrassment; you may develop some newer understandings and appreciations of your own behavior and/or that of someone close to you; and, you may find solutions or alternatives to meet the requirements of your own situations. Only share, in writing, what you are comfortable sharing when you submit your paper.Please do not submit over 3 pages (double spaced, 12 pt. font).However, you still may want to write down more of your thoughts for your own personal growth/use.YOUR SEXUAL HISTORYUse the following as a guide (only). You do not need to answer every question listed below or share every response. Again, only share what you are comfortable sharing. The following questions are intended to provide further means of exploring where you have been as a sexual person and where you are now. Think about your answers carefully, it may help to write the answers down or to talk about the answers with someone you trust. The essential thing is to create for yourself the kind of atmosphere where you can be as honest with yourself as possible. 1. Nuditya) What was the general attitude toward nudity among your family members?b) If you ever have children (or if you have children now), do you hope to be (or are you now) more accepting of nudity in your family than your parents were, less accepting, or about the same?2. Masturbationa) How did you first learn about, hear about or discover masturbation, and how did you feel about it at first?b) If you masturbated when you were younger, did you ever let anyone else know about it? If so, who?c) If you masturbate now, how do you feel about the practice? Do you feel guilty? Ashamed? Happy? Proud? Disgusted? Satisfied?d) What sexual slang terms did your father use? Your mother?e) What sexual slang terms would be offensive to you if you heard them being spoken by a friend of the other sex? Of the same sex?
3. First Sexual Experiencea) What is the first explicit sexual experience with another person that you can remember and what affect did this have on you? Spend some time thinking about what happened.b) What were your reactions to that first experience? Is it a good memory which generates positive feelings or a bad memory with negative feelings?c) Has that initial experience affected your feelings about yourself as a sexual person or about sex in general even until today? If so, in what ways?4. Heterosexual Intercoursea) How did you first learn about heterosexual intercourse, and what were your reactions and feelings when you did learn about it?b) If you have experienced sexual intercourse with someone of the other sex,* What were your feelings following the first experience? How did you feel? About yourself and toward your partner?* Are your attitudes toward sex different now from what they were when you first had intercourse? In what ways?5. Same Sex Activitiesa) How did you first learn about homosexuality, and what were your reactions and feelings when you did learn about it?b) If you have ever participated in a sexual experience (even as a youngster) with someone of your same sex, what were your feelings immediately after that experience? How do you feel now as you look back on any same sex encounters you may have had?6. Sexual Behavior a) In thinking about sexual contact, or during sexual involvement with another person, which of the following are most exciting for you and which are a turn-off? (1) oral sex performed on you; (2) performing oral sex on a partner; (3) anal sex; (4) kissing and being together nude; (5) intercourse; (6) touching and caressing; (7) using some painful stimulation; (8) acting out a sexual fantasy; (9) mutual masturbation. b) If you have had intense shared sexual experience(s), what things about the experience(s) have pleased and satisfied you most? Which have displeased or frustrated you most? c) What qualities do you desire in your ideal sexual partner?Some other aspects you might want to consider:Relationship with parents and siblings Sex education received at home, school or elsewhere What shaped your attitudes Teenage sexual practicesPresent sexual practices Your attitude toward sexuality in general and yourself specifically as a sexual being