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CHAPTER 12 KEY TERMS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Casual sex | Sex with people we don’t love/ not committed to |
| hooking up | Meeting someone for some causal sex outside of a romantic committed relationship |
| friends with benefits | friends who have sex with each other for mutual benefit |
| serial monogamy | Being in a serious relationship, breaking up, then going to another relationship #TheresOtherFishInTheSea |
| polyamory | Intentional acceptance of having more than one romantic relationship |
| cohabitation | Living with your partner, but you aren’t married |
| common law marriage | when two people live together and say they’re married but aren’t actually legally married |
| civil union | A relationship between two people that gives them similar rights to marriage but not it’s not the same as marriage (shared health insurance, shared property, legal recognition of their relationship) |
| living apart together | being in a relationship but not living in the same house |
| same-sex marriage | Legal marriage between people of the same biological sex |
| heterogamy | marriage between two culturally different people (ethnicity, race, social class, religion) |
| homogamy | marriage between two culturally similar people |
| winnowing hypothesis | As we get older, we get more selective about who our partner is |
| dual income, no sex (DINS) | couples who are so busy that they don’t have time for sex/ can’t cope with sex #damn |
| polygamy | When a man marries more than one woman at the same time |
| adultery | Cheating |
| midlife sex & well-being advice | “Empty nesters” when the kids leave people have more time to explore themselves, remarriage, new life skills |