Answer and Explanation:
Understanding our sexuality is important because:
- Sexual health is a big part of life and can affect and is affected by other aspects of health.
- Being in good sexual health means you are well informed, careful, and respectful to yourself and others.
- Understanding the way that our own sexuality works is critical to having a clear self-awareness and an understanding of how we participate in the world.
- We know our bodies, minds and selves through our gender and our sex as a society, legal definitions and social expectations about women and men sex and reproduction organize our medical, legal, educational and political systems3.