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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what motivates us to act sexually | Sexual Interests |
| the biological and physiological characteristics of males and females. These are characteristics people are born with that do not usually change over the course of their lives | Biological Sex |
| emotional and sexual attraction between men and women | Heterosexual |
| acronym that groups lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals into one group based on their common experience as targets of heterosexism and their common struggle for sexual and gender freedom. This term is generally considered a more inclusive a | LGBT |
| the socially defined rules and roles for men and women in a society. The attitudes, customs and values associated with gender are socially constructed; individuals develop their gender identities in 2 ways: through an innate sense of their own identity a | Gender |
| one’s innermost concept of being male or female, including how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. Gender identity is developed through an innate sense of one’s own identity and the internalization of common values that are soc | Gender Identity |
| - Ways in which people externally communicate their gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hair, voice, emphasizing, etc. - Not an indicator of sexual orientation | Gender Expression |
| - Set of roles and behaviors assigned to males and females by society - Two basic: masculine & feminine | Gender Role |
| - Determined by one’s sexual and emotional attractions - Homosexual – gay & lesbian (attracted to some members of the same sex) - Bisexual - attracted to some members of more than one sex - Heterosexual – attracted to some members of another sex | Sexual Orientation |
| - How people perceive and define themselves with regard to their sexual orientation - Labels include lesbian, gay, bisexual, bi, queer, questioning, heterosexual, straight, etc. - Developmental process - Sexual behavior and identity can be chosen | Sexual Identity |
| - Gender identities do not match the sex assigned to them at birth - Alter their bodies - Process called “transition” | Transsexual |
| - People whose gender identity and/or expression do not match society’s expectations with regard to gender roles, or who do not identify as either of the sexes as currently defined - Broad term - Includes transsexuals, cross-dressers, drag queens/kings, | Transgender |
| - Biological & physiological characteristics not exclusively male or female as defined by doctor - | Intersex |
| - Sexual variety and diversity in terms of sexual orientation, attitudes, behaviors, desires, fantasies, etc. - Sexual activity not statistically typical of usual sexual behavior | Sexual Variation |
| - Real time event involving two persons who are engaging in sexual talk for the purpose of sexual pleasure | Cybersex |
| A man who assumes female dress, gender role, and status Emphasizes the spiritual aspect of one’s life and downplays the homosexual persona | Two-spirit |
| Wearing the clothes of or passing as a member of the opposite sex | Transvestism |
| - Behavior that conforms to a groups average or median patterns of behavior | Normal Sexual Behavior |
| Gender identity that agrees with their societally recognized sex | Cisgender |
| provides general pattern that sexual behaviors are expected to take; emphasizes heterosexuality, gives primacy to sexual intercourse, and discourages masturbation | Cultural Sexual Script |
| deals with internal and physiological states that lead to, accompany, or identify sexual arousal, such as a pounding heart and an erection or vaginal lubrication | Intrapersonal Sexual Script |
| shared conventions and signals that enable two people to engage in sexual behaviors, such as body language, words, and erotic touching | Interpersonal Sexual Script |
| - Transmits information and norms, rather than images, about sexuality to a mass audience to both inform and entertain in a simplified manner | Sex information/advice genre |
| - Set of simplistic, rigidly held, over generalized beliefs about an individual, a group of people, an idea, etc. | Stereotype |
| An error in reasoning that affects our understanding of a subject | Fallacy |
| - Mistaken belief that our own personal experience and values generally are held by others | Egocentric Fallacy |
| - Belief that our own ethnic group, nation, or culture is innately superior to others | Ethnocentrism |
| - The full disclosure to an individual of the purpose, potential risks, and benefits of participating in a research project | Informed Consent |
| - Publically identified themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual | Come out |
| - In depth examination of an individual or group that comes to a psychiatrist, psychologist, or social worker for assistance with psychological or medical problems or disorders | Clinical Research |
| unhealthy diseased behavior | Pathological Behavior |
| - Devices attached to the genitals to measure physiological response - Strain gauge for men (looks like rubber band) | Plethysmographs |
| - Physical or psychological disorders characterized by anxiety or tension | Neuroses |
| - 1st stage in psychosexual development - Birth to age 1 | Oral Stage |
| - 2nd stage - Age 1 to 3 | Anal Stage |
| - 3rd stage - Age 3 to 5 - Interest in genitals | Phallic stage |
| - 4th stage - Age 6 - Sexual impulses no longer active | Latency Stage |
| - Final stage - Puberty - Interest in sex and genitals | Genital Stage |
| - Boy develops sexual desires for his mother | Oedipal complex |
| - Boy’s belief that his father will cut off his penis because of jealousy | Castration anxiety |
| - Girl desiring her father while fearing her mother | Electra complex |
| - When a girl discovers she does not have a penis and feels deprived | Penis envy |
| - Movement that involves women and men working together for equality | Feminism |
| - Development of social categories, such as masculinity, femininity, heterosexuality, and homosexuality by society | Social Construction |
| - View that the attitudes, values, and behaviors of one ethnic group are similar to those of another ethnic group | Cultural equivalency perspective |
| - Celebrates courage, strength, generosity, politeness, and respect for others | Machismo |
| - Process of adaptation to an ethnic group to the values, attitudes, and behaviors of the dominant culture | Acculturation |
| - Commitment to family and family members | Familismo |
| passionate attraction to beauty (fleeting) | Eros style of love |
| obsessive and possessive (fleeting & lasting) | Mania style of love |
| playful love | Ludus style of love |
| love between companions (usually lasting; can move between friendship and beyond) | storage style of love |
| brotherly love (fleeting & lasting) | agape |
| practical love (usually lasting) | pragma |
| - The state of having no sexual attraction for either sex or no sexual contact with another person by choice | asexuality |
| not engaging in any type of sexual activity | celibacy |
| warm, close, bonding feelings we get when we love someone | Intimacy component of love |
| romance, attraction, sexuality | passion component of love |
| decision to love and maintaining that love | commitment component of love |
| intimacy | Liking kind of love |
| passion | Infatuation |
| commitment only | empty |
| intimacy and passion | romantic |
| intimacy and commitment | compassionate |
| passion and commitment | fatuous |
| all 3 | consummate |
| - Close, enduring emotional bond that finds its roots in intimacy | attachment |
| easy to get close to other people | secure attachment |
| believed that other people did not get as close as they themselves wanted | anxious/ambivalent attachment |
| discomfort in being close to other people | avoidant |
| love that is not returned | unrequited love |
| - Aversive response that occurs because of a partner’s real, imagined, or likely involvement with a 3rd person | jealousy |
| - Sexual or romantic relationships outside of a primary or dating couple that alters that assumption - Dating & cohabiting = more likely to have other relationships - Exclusive Marriages = destructive; marital crisis - Non exclusive marriages | Extradyadic Involvement (EDI) |
| - Partners may mutually agree to allow sexual contact with others | Open Marriage/swingers/polyamorists |
| - Equal sharing of partners as in polygamy; may consist of one man and two women, one woman and two men, or two couples; - Open marriages more common than group marriages | Group Marriage |
| - Lasts - Count ability - Based on commitment, caring, and self disclosure | Intimate Love |
| - Determination to continue a relationship or marriage in the face of bad times as well as good - Conscious choices rather than feelings | Commitment |
| - Making of another person’s needs as important as your own | Caring |
| - Revelation of personal information that others would not ordinarily know because of its riskiness | Self Disclosure |
| - Transactional process by which we use symbols, such as words, gestures, and movements, to establish human contact, exchange information, and reinforce or change our own attitudes and behaviors and those of others | Communication |
| - The assumption that attractive or charismatic people also possesses more desirable characteristics | Halo Effect |
| ongoing process of restating, checking the accuracy of, questioning, and clarifying messages | Feedback |
| self disclosure, trust, & feedback | Good communication |
| - Process in which people perceive incompatible goals and interference from others in achieving their goals | conflict |
| - Agreement as a gift - Bargaining = making compromises - Coexistence = live with differences | Conflict Resolution |
| positive emotional response to sexuality | Erotophilia |
| negative emotional response to sexuality | Erotophobia |
| - Sexual activities that involve only the self; includes sexual fantasies, erotic dreams, and self-masturbation | autoeroticism |
| - Stimulating one’s genitals for pleasure | masturbation |
| - Non-genital touching and caressing | pleasuring |
| - The pressing together of bodies with genital thrusting | tribidism |
| rubbing the penis between the thighs of the partner | interfemoral intercourse |
| cunnilingus and fellatio | oral-genital sex |
| - Woman’s genitals are stimulated by her partner’s tongue and mouth | cunnilingus |
| - Man’s penis is taken into his partner’s mouth | fellatio |
| - More common, less technical name for vaginal intercourse, penile-vaginal intercourse, or Coitus | sexual intercourse |
| - Sexual activities involving the anus, whose delicate membranes make it erotically arousing for many people | anal eroticism |
| - Licking of the anal region (colloquially known as “rimming” or “tossing salad” | analingus |
| - Male’s inserting his erect penis into his partner’s anus | anal intercourse |
| - Type of sexual intimacy based on eastern religious beliefs beginning in India around 5000 B.C; involves the couple sharing their “energies” by initially thrusting minimally, generating energy via subtle, inner movements | Tantric Sex |
| process by which we reveal our sexual selves | sexual expression |
| - Behaviors that are not statistically typical of American sexual behaviors | sexual variations |
| - Mental disorder characterized by recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies. Sexual urges, or sexual behaviors involving nonhuman objects, the suffering or humiliation of one’s partner or children or other non-consenting people | paraphilia |
| - Pejorative term referring to “abnormal or excessive” sexual desire in a woman and is usually applied to sexually active single women | nymphomania |
| - Abnormal or uncontrollable sexual desire in men | satyriasis |
| - Sexual arousal derived from the consensual acting out of sexual scenes in which one person dominates and the other submits - Can be coercive or non coercive | domination & submission/sadomasochism |
| - Sexual attraction to objects that become, for the person with the fetish, sexual symbols - Non coercive | fetishism |
| - Exclusive attraction to body parts | partialism |
| - A paraphilia in which a heterosexual male cross dresses for sexual arousal - Non coercive | transvestic fetishism |
| benign or harmless because they are victimless | non coercive paraphilias |
| sexual activity with animals (bestiality) | zoophilia |
| observing people having sex | voyeruism |
| exposing genitals to unsuspecting person | exhibitionism |
| making obscene phone calls | telephone scatologia |
| rubbing against someone not consenting | frotteurism |
| sex with corpses | necrophilia |
| - Recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children - Opposite sex = more common - Same sex = more complicated | pedophilia |
| - A paraphilia characterized by recurrent, intense urges to engage in real (not fantasy) sexual behaviors in which the person inflicts physical or psychological harm on a victim | sexual sadism |
| - Paraphilia characterized by recurrent, intense urges to engage in real sexual behaviors in which the person is humiliated, harmed, or otherwise made to suffer | sexual masochism |
| - Form of sexual masochism linking strangulation with masturbation | autoerotic asphyxia |
| - The abuse of power for sexual ends; the creation of a hostile work or educational environment because of unwelcomed conduct or conditions of a sexual nature | sexual harassment |
| - Penile-vaginal penetration performed against a woman’s will through the use of threat or force | rape |
| - Sexual activity including petting, oral-genital sex, anal intercourse, and penile-vaginal intercourse, performed against a person’s will through the use of force, argument, pressure, alcohol, or drugs | sexual aggression |
| - Broader term than rape and includes arguing, pleading, and cajoling, as well as force and the threat of force | sexual coercion |
| - Term used by the criminal justice system to describe forced sexual contact that does not meet the legal definition of rape | sexual assault |
| - Sexual intercourse with a dating partner that occurs against the victim’s will, with force or the threat of force | date rape |
| - Consensual sexual contact with a person younger than a state’s age of consent | statutory rape |
| - The emotional changes undergone as a result of rape | Rape trauma syndrome |
| - Any sexual interaction between an adult and a prepubescent child | child sexual abuse |
| - Sexual abuse by unrelated people | extra familial abuse |
| - Sexual abuse by biologically related people and step-relatives | intrafamilial abuse |
| - An adult’s sexual interaction with a child that is not sexually motivated; desire for power and affection | non pedophilic sexual abuse |
| - Pursuit of sexual contact with a person after he or she has refused an initial advance | post refusal sexual persistence |
| - Tendency to see the world in heterosexual terms and to ignore or devalue homosexuality | heterosexism |
| - Sexually explicit material that can be evaluated positively | erotica |
| - Sexually explicit material that is generally evaluated negatively and might include anything that depicts sexuality and causes sexual arousal in the viewer | pornography |
| - A personal or societal judgment that something is offensive; comes from Latin word filth | obscenity |
| - Material such as photographs, videos, films, magazines, books whose primary themes, topics, or depictions involve sexuality that may cause sexual arousal; genital or intimate sexual behaviors shown | sexually explicit material |
| - Sexually explicit material catering to women and heterosexual couples | femme porn |
| - When the government, private groups, or individuals impose their moral or political values on others by suppressing words, ideas, or images they deem offensive | censorship |
| - The exchange of sexual behaviors such as intercourse, fellatio, anal intercourse, discipline bondage, and obscene insults, for money and/or goods | prostitution |
| - Prostitutes who solicit customers on the streets = 10% | streetwalkers |
| - Antisocial street subculture, characterized by male and female prostitution, drug dealing, panhandling, theft, and violence | peer delinquent subculture |
| male who has undergone breast augmentation | she male |
| - Term used in law to define sexual behaviors other than penile-vaginal intercourse, such as anal sex and oral sex | sodomy |
| the sexual and reproductive organs of both men and women | genitals |
| female external genitals | vulva |
| internal structure | vagina |
| center of sexual arousal | clitoris |
| hollow, thick-walled, muscular organ held in the pelvic cavity by a number of flexible ligaments and supported by several muscles | uterus |
| females sex glands | ovary |
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