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List Of Sex-related Topics

List of sex-related topics

This is a list of topics related to sexology, human sexuality and marriage customs, and related topics such as human sexual anatomy, reproductive biology, andrology, gynaecology, obstetrics and, where relevant, anthropology. Note that this list includes many synonyms, for example English, Latin and slang terms for the same thing -- this is intentional, please do not remove these. __NOTOC__

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A

A2M -- A2OGM -- abasiophilia -- abduction -- aberration -- abortifacient -- abortion -- abrasion (BDSM) -- abruptio placentae -- abstinence -- abstinence movement -- acault -- acceptive phase -- acmegenesis -- acomoclitism -- acousticophilia -- acquaintance rape -- acrophilia -- acrosomal reaction -- acrosome -- acrotomophilia -- act of union -- ACTH -- acupressure -- Adam principle -- Adam's apple -- Adam/Eve principle -- addiction -- adelphogamy -- adolescence -- adolescent gynecomastia -- adolescentilism -- adrenal cortex -- adrenal gland -- adrenocortical hormone -- adrenogenital syndrome -- adultery -- adulthood -- affinity (canon law) -- afterbirth -- aftershocks (sexual) -- agalmatophilia -- agape -- age-avoidancy -- age disparity in sexual relationships -- age of consent -- agonistic -- agonophilia -- agony aunt -- agoraphilia -- agrexophilia -- AIDS -- AIDS test -- albutophilia -- algolagnia -- algophilia -- alimony -- allorgasmia -- allosex-aviodancy -- allure -- altocalciphilia -- amaurophilia -- ambiguous genitalia -- ambilocal residence -- ambisexual -- ambisexuality -- ambitypic -- ambivalent -- amelotasis -- amelotatist -- amenorrhea -- amenorrhoea -- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists -- amoebiasis -- amomaxia -- amor lesbicus -- ampallang piercing -- ampulla -- amputation fetish -- amputees -- amygdala -- anabolic steroid -- anaclitism -- anal beads -- anal bleaching -- anal cancer -- anal contraction -- anal insert -- anal intercourse -- anal masturbation -- anal sex -- anal sphincter -- anal stretching -- anal wart -- anal wink -- analinctus -- analingus -- analism -- Ananga Ranga -- anasteemaphilia -- anasyrma -- anatomy -- Androcur -- androgen -- androgen antagonist -- androgen-induced hermaphroditism -- androgen insensitivity syndrome -- androgen replacement therapy -- androgyne -- androgynophilia -- androgynous -- androgyny -- androidism -- andrology -- andromania -- Andromeda -- andromimesis -- andromimetic -- andromimetophilia -- androphilia -- androstenedione -- androstenone -- anejaculation -- anerotic -- anhedonia -- anililagnia -- anilinctus -- anilingus -- animal transformation fantasy -- anisonogamist -- anocutaneous reflex -- anorexia nervosa -- anorgasmia -- anorgasmic -- anovulation -- anovulatory -- antaphrodisiac -- anthropomorphic cartoons -- anthropomorphism -- anthropophagy -- antiandrogen -- anticipatory sororate -- anus -- apadravya piercing -- apartment wrestling -- aphrodisiac -- apodysophilia -- aposthia -- apotemnophilia -- arachnephilia -- Areoi -- areola -- areola mammae -- arranged marriage -- Ars Amatoria -- artificial birth control -- artificial insemination -- artificial insemination by donor -- asceticism -- asexual -- asexuality -- asphyxiaphilia -- asphyxiophilia -- aspermia -- ass to mouth -- assortative mating -- Astroglide -- atonement -- atypical gender role -- auctions -- autagonistophilia -- autassassinophilia -- autistic -- auto-erotic performance -- autoabasiophilia -- autoagonistophilia -- autoassassinophilia -- autocunnilingus -- autoerotic -- autoerotic asphyxia -- autoerotic death -- autoerotic fatalities -- autoerotica -- autoeroticism -- autofellatio -- autoflagellation -- autogynephilia -- automasochism -- automutilation -- autonepiophilia -- autonomic nervous system -- autopederasty -- autophagy -- autophilia -- autosadism -- autosexuality -- aversion therapy -- avisodomy -- avunculocal residence -- axillary intercourse -- axillism -- axon -- azoospermia --

B

bacchá -- backdoor entrance -- backroom -- bacterial vaginosis -- badger game -- balanitis -- balanopreputial sulcus -- ball dancing -- ball gag -- balloon fetishism -- barebacking -- barfine -- Barr body -- Bartholin's abscess -- Bartholin's cyst -- Bartholin's gland -- basal temperature -- basoexia -- bastard -- bath house -- BDSM -- bear community -- beard (female companion) -- bee stings (sexology) -- behavioral imprinting -- bell dancing -- belly dancing -- belonephilia -- benign prostatic hyperplasia -- berdache -- Berkley Horse -- Theresa Berkley -- bestiality -- beta-lipotropin -- betrothal -- bi-curious -- bi-sexualism -- bi-sexuality -- biastophilia -- bidet -- bigamist -- bigamy -- Billings ovulation method -- bindings (sexology) -- biogenic amine -- biorhythm -- birth control -- bisexual -- bisexuality -- bit gag -- biting (sexology) -- blended orgasm -- blindfold -- blindfolding (sexology) -- Iwan Bloch -- blood sport (BDSM) -- blood test -- blow job -- blow-job -- blue balls -- blumpkin -- body dysmorphic disorder -- body fluid -- body hair -- body integrity identity disorder -- body image fixation -- body modification -- body painting -- body piercing -- body worship -- bondage -- bondage and discipline -- bondage harness -- bondage hood -- bonobo -- bordello -- borderline self-mutilator -- Ernest Borneman -- bottom -- bottom (BDSM) -- bottom (sex) -- boyfriend -- brachioproctic eroticism -- brachio-rectal sex -- brachiovaginal eroticism -- bradycubia -- branding persons -- breakthrough bleeding -- breast -- breast cancer -- breast implant -- breast shaping -- breath control play -- breech birth -- Brenner tumour -- bride -- bridegroom -- bride kidnapping -- bride price -- brothel -- Buddhist view of marriage -- Buddhist views of homosexuality -- bug chaser -- bugarrón -- buggery -- bukkake -- bulbocavernosus muscle -- bulbospongiosus muscle -- bulbourethral gland -- bulemia -- bulimia -- bundling -- Richard Francis Burton -- buru sera -- butch -- butt plug -- butterfly sex position --

C

Caesarian section -- CAH -- call girl -- Calymmatobacterium granulomatis -- candaulism -- Candida albicans -- candidiasis -- caning -- canon law -- capacitation -- capnolagnia -- caress -- carezza -- carnal -- Casanova -- castration -- castration anxiety -- castration cult -- castration fear -- castrato -- casual relationship -- casual sex -- catfight -- cat fighting -- catfight -- catamite -- catecholamine -- catheter (sexology) -- catheterophilia -- Catholic marriage -- cavum Douglasi -- celibacy -- cerclage -- cerebral cortex -- cervical cancer -- cervical cap -- cervical dysplasia -- cervical incompetence -- cervical stitch -- cervicitis -- cervix -- Chadwick's sign -- chancre -- Chancroid -- chaperon(e) -- charms -- chastity -- chastity belt -- chastity device -- chemise cagoule -- Chevalier d'Eon -- child abduction -- child marriage -- child pornography -- child sexual abuse -- child sexuality -- childbirth -- chimera -- chipil -- Chlamydia -- Chlamydia trachomatis -- chloasma -- chordee -- choreophilia -- choriocarcinoma -- chorionic gonadotropin -- chrematistophilia -- Christian view of marriage -- Christina piercing -- chromosomal mosaicism -- chromosome -- chronophilia -- chubby chaser -- Cialis -- cicatrization -- circadian -- circle jerk -- circuit party -- circumcision -- circumcision scar -- civil marriage -- clamp (BDSM) -- claustrophilia -- clear cell tumour -- climacteric -- climax -- clip joint -- clitoral crura -- clitoral hood -- clitoral hood piercing -- clitoral orgasm -- clitoral-vaginal index -- clitoridectomy -- clitoridotomy -- clitorilingus -- clitoris -- clitoris piercing -- clitorism -- clitoromegaly -- clitoropenis -- cloacal exstrophy -- the closet -- cock and ball torment -- cock harness -- cock ring -- cocktails -- cohabitation -- coital aninsertia -- coital fantasy -- coition -- coitophobia -- coitus -- coitus à cheval -- coitus à mammilla -- coitus à unda -- coitus interfermoris -- coitus interruptus -- coitus more ferarum -- coitus reservatus -- cold knife cone biopsy -- collaborative divorce -- collar (BDSM) -- collaring -- colovaginoplasty -- colposcopy -- Alex Comfort -- coming out -- common-law husband -- common-law marriage -- common-law wife -- common penile artery -- commune -- compulsive cruising -- computer sex -- Anthony Comstock -- conception -- conceptive phase -- concubinage -- concubine -- concupiscence -- condom -- condom fatigue -- confessions -- conjugal visit -- consanguinity -- consecrated virgin -- consensual BDSM -- consensual crime -- consensual sex -- consenting adult -- constriction (sexology) -- consummation -- contact magazine -- contact rapist -- contact tracing -- continence -- contraception -- contraceptive -- contraceptive film -- contraceptive foam -- contraceptive pill -- contraceptive sponge -- conversion party -- conversion therapy -- Coolidge effect -- coprography -- coprolagnia -- coprolalia -- coprophagia -- coprophagy -- coprophilia -- copulate -- copulation -- copulation fantasy -- core gender identity -- corona glandis -- coronal sulcus -- corpora cavernosa -- corpus cavernosum -- corpus spongiosum -- corset -- corsetting -- cortisol -- cortisone -- corvus -- costumes -- cottaging -- counseling -- courtesan -- courting -- courtly love -- courtship -- couvade -- couvade syndrome -- cowgirl sex position -- Cowper's fluid -- Cowper's glands -- creampie -- cremaster muscle -- cremasteric reflex -- crime of passion -- critical period -- cross-complementation -- cross-dresser -- cross dressing -- cross-dressing -- cross-identification -- cruising -- cruising (for sex) -- crus glandis clitoridis -- Crush fetish -- cryptomenorrhea -- cryptorchidism -- cryptorchism - - Crystal and sex - Crystal dick - cuckold -- cuckoldry -- cum -- cum swallowing -- cum swapping -- cunnilinctus -- cunnilingus -- cunnus -- cupping -- curettage -- Cushing's syndrome -- Cushingoid facies -- cutting -- cybersex -- cymbalism -- cynophilia -- cyproterone -- cyproterone acetate -- cystitis -- cystostomy -- cytogenetic syndrome -- Cytomegalovirus --

D

dacryphilia -- daisy-chaining -- dame de voyage -- danse du ventre -- Darby and Joan -- dartos muscle -- dating -- dating service -- day belt -- decidua -- de Clerambault's syndrome -- death erection -- deep shaft piercing -- deep throat (sexual act) -- defeminization -- defilement (sexology) -- defloration -- degree of consanguinity -- delayed ejaculation -- delayed puberty -- deliberate self-harm syndrome -- demasculinization -- demi-monde -- dental dam -- depilation -- Depo-Provera -- dermagraphism -- Deuki -- Devadasi -- Devaki -- deviance -- deviant -- Deviant Desires -- deviation -- dhat syndrome -- diagnosis -- Milton Diamond -- diaperism -- diaphragm (contraceptive) -- diaphragm (contraceptive) -- diethylstilbestrol -- digital rectal examination -- dihydrotestosterone -- dilatation -- dilatation and curettage -- dilation and curettage -- dildo -- dildo harness -- dildos and plugs -- dippoldism -- dirty joke -- disability fetishism -- discipline -- displacement paraphilia -- divorce -- docking (sexology) -- docking sleeve -- dogging -- doggy position -- doleros -- dolphin piercing -- dominance/submission -- dominant (BDSM) -- domination and submission -- dominatrix -- Donovanosis -- dopamine -- doraphilia -- double-ended dildo -- double anal penetration -- double penetration -- double vaginal penetration -- double vaginal, double anal -- douche -- down-low -- dowry -- drag queen -- droit du seigneur -- dromomania -- dry humping -- dry orgasm -- dry sex -- DSM-IV -- dual personality -- ductus deferens -- dungeon (BDSM) -- DVDA -- dydoe piercing -- dysfunctional uterine bleeding -- dysgerminoma -- dysmenorrhea -- dysmorphophilia -- dyspareunia --

E

ecorchement -- ecouteurism -- ecstasy -- ectopia testis -- ectopic pregnancy -- effeminacy -- effeminate -- egg donor -- ego dystonic -- ejaculatio praecox -- ejaculation -- ejaculatory duct -- ejaculatory dysfunction -- ejaculatory incompetence -- Electra complex -- electric shock -- electroejaculation -- electrolysis -- electrophilia -- eligibilic/stigmatic paraphilia -- eligibility -- ELISA test -- Havelock Ellis -- elopement -- embryo -- emetophilia -- The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices -- endocrine gland -- endogamy -- endometrial cancer -- endometrioid tumour -- endometriosis -- endometrium -- endytophilia -- enema -- enema cocktail -- engagement -- English vice -- enjo kōsai -- enkephalin -- Entamoeba histolytica -- entomophilia -- enuresis -- Eonism -- ephebiatrics -- ephebophilia -- epicene -- epididymectomy -- epididymis -- epididymitis -- episioclisia -- episiotomy -- epispadias -- epistemology -- epoophoron -- erectile dysfunction -- erection -- erogenous zones -- Eros -- erotic -- erotic actor -- erotic apathy -- erotic art -- erotic ball -- erotic dance -- erotic electrostimulation -- erotic furniture -- erotic humiliation -- erotic inertia -- erotic literature -- erotic massage -- erotic objectification -- erotic photography -- erotic revulsion -- erotic sexual denial -- erotic spanking -- erotic strangulation -- erotica -- eroticism -- erotic wrestling -- erotographomania -- erotography -- erotolalia -- erotomania -- erotophobia -- erotophonophilia -- erotosexual -- escort -- escort agency -- essayeur -- estradiol -- estrogen -- estrus -- The Ethical Slut -- ethnic pornography -- ethology -- etiology -- eugenics -- eunuch -- Eve principle -- evening people -- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) -- excitement phase -- executions -- exemplar -- exhibitionism -- exhibitionist -- exigency theory -- exocrine -- exogamy -- exogenous -- exophilia -- exorcist syndrome -- exoticism -- expiation -- extended family -- exteroceptive -- extramarital intercourse -- extravasate -- eyeglasses fetishism --

F

facial (sexuality) -- facial feminization surgery -- FACOG -- faecal-oral route -- fag hag -- fainting -- faithfulness -- fake orgasm -- fake prostitution -- Fakir Musafar -- falling in love -- Fallopian pregnancy -- Fallopian tube -- family -- family planning -- famulus -- fantasy -- fantasy play -- fat admirer -- Anne Fausto-Sterling -- feces -- fecundity -- feedee -- feeder (fetish) -- felching -- fellatio -- female -- female circumcision -- female condom -- female dominant sex position -- female ejaculate -- female ejaculation -- female genital mutilation -- female impersonator -- female masking -- female sexuality -- femaleness -- femdom -- femidom -- femidon -- femininity -- feminism -- feminist -- femme -- fertility -- Fertility Awareness Method -- fertility rite -- fertilization -- fetal genitalia -- fetish -- fetish club -- fetishism -- fetishistic/talismanic paraphilia -- fetus -- fiancé -- fiancée -- fibroblast -- fibroma -- fibula -- ficaro -- fidelity -- figging -- finger cot -- finger fucking -- fire play -- fisting -- fisting sling -- Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome -- flagellant -- flagellation -- flamer -- flatulence -- Wilhelm Fliess -- flirt -- flirting -- flirty fishing -- Florentine girdle -- flower boats -- fluid bonding -- fluid monogamy -- folie à deux -- follicle -- follicle-stimulating hormone -- foot binding -- foot fetish -- foot fetishism -- forced feminization -- forced marriage -- foredoomance -- foreplay -- foreskin -- foreskin piercing -- foreskin restoration -- formicophilia -- fornication -- fornicatory doll -- four-letter word -- fourchette -- fourchette piercing -- foxy boxing -- fraternal polyandry -- fraternal twin -- free love -- freemartin -- French kiss -- French kissing -- French postcard -- French tickler -- frenulum -- frenulum breve -- frenulum clitoridis -- frenulum labiorum pudendi -- frenulum preputii penis -- frenum -- frenum ladder -- frenum piercing -- Sigmund Freud -- Kurt Freund -- frigidity -- frogtie -- frottage -- frotteur -- frotteurism -- fuck -- fuck-buddy -- fuck of death -- fundiform ligament -- fur fetishism -- furor uterinus -- furtling --

G

G spot -- G-spot -- John Gagnon -- galactorrhea -- gamahuche -- gamahucheur -- gamete -- human sexuality. It encompasses all aspects of sexuality, including attempting to characterise "normal sexuality" and its variants, including paraphilias. Modern sexology is a multidisciplinary field which uses the techniques of fields including biology, medicine, psychology, statistics, epidemiology, sociology and sometimes criminology to bear on its subject. It studies human sexual development and the development of sexual relationships as well as the mechanics of sexual intercourse and sexual malfunction. It also documents the sexuality of special groups, such as handicapped, children, and elderly, and studies sexual pathologies such as sex addiction and sexual abuse. Note that sexology is descriptive, not prescriptive: it attempts to document reality, not to prescribe what behavior is suitable, ethical, or moral. For this reason, sexology has often been the subject of controversy between supporters of sexology and those who believe that sexology pries into matters which they consider too private, too sacred, or too disgusting for scientific investigation.

History of the study of sex

A number of ancient sex manuals exist, including Ovid's Ars Amatoria, the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, the Ananga Ranga and The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Recreation. However, none of these treated sex as the subject of a formal field of scientific or medical research. The Marquis de Sade's writings on sex and similar subjects are still considered to be perverse and shocking, even after over a century and a half. He surpassed the Kama Sutra, which he makes look like a child's Dick-in-Jane book. His name is also the root of the word 'sadism', which features throughout his works. He was imprisoned for most of his adult life because he was one of the few philosophers who practiced everything he preached...Remember, when he was alive, sodomy was an offence punishable by death. One of the earliest sex researchers prior to the 20th century sexology movement was Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, whose book Psychopathia Sexualis, published in 1886, recorded a dizzying array of sexual anomalies. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sigmund Freud developed a theory of sexuality based on his studies of his clients. Wilhelm Reich and Otto Gross, two scholars of Freud, conducted revolutionary studies around human sexuality. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexology) in Berlin in 1919. When the Nazis took power, one of their first actions, on May 6, 1933, was to destroy the Institute and burn the library. In 1947, Alfred Kinsey founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University at Bloomington, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.

Scope of sexology

Sexology, as we currently define it, is largely a 20th century phenomenon. Sexology relates to a number of other fields of study:
- several fields of medicine, including andrology, gynaecology, and the anatomy of the sex organs
- the psychology, sociology, and anthropology of sexual behavior
- neuroscience can be used to study many basic sexual reflexes, and is increasingly relevant to more complex aspects of sexual behavior
- psychiatry studies some of the more extreme disorders of sexual behavior
- many aspects of sexual behavior are or have been regulated by law in various jurisdictions, and various classes of sexual offences are studied by criminology
- biology studies the sexual behavior of other animals, which can be compared with human sexual behavior
- the techniques of evolutionary biology can be brought to bear on the causes of sexual behavior
- the epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases Sexology also touches on public issues such as the debates over abortion, public health, birth control, sexual abuse and reproductive technology.

Notable sexologists

This is a list of notable sexologists, sorted by the year of their birth:
- Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902)
- Wilhelm Fliess (1858-1928)
- Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)
- Albert Moll (1862-1939)
- Edward Westermarck (1862-1939)
- Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935)
- Iwan Bloch (1872-1922)
- Theodor Hendrik van de Velde (1873-1937)
- Otto Gross (1877-1920)
- Ernst Gräfenberg (1881-1957)
- Harry Benjamin (1885-1986)
- Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956)
- Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957)
- Wardell Pomeroy (1913-2001)
- Albert Ellis (born 1913)
- Kurt Freund (1914-1996)
- Ernest Borneman (1915-1995)
- William Masters (1915-2001) and Virginia Johnson (born 1925)
- John Money (born 1921)
- Preben Hertoft (born 1928)
- Oswalt Kolle (born 1928)
- Milton Diamond (born 1934)
- Erwin J. Haeberle (born 1936)
- Rolf Gindorf (born 1939)
- Simon LeVay (born 1943)
- Anne Fausto-Sterling (born 1944)
- John Gagnon [http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/sociology/faculty/Gagnon/gagnon.html]
- Gilbert Herdt (born 1949)
- Edward O. Laumann

External links

- [http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/originalsite/sexology.html Kinsey Institute]
- [http://swami-center.org/en/text/Sbook.html Sexology (Spiritual aspects)]
- [http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/index.htm Magnus Hirschfeld Archive of Sexology] at the Humboldt University of Berlin with free access to:
- [http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/SEN/BEGIN.HTM Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia]
- [http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/Entrance_Page/Critical_Dictionary/critical_dictionary.htm Critical Dictionary of Sexology]
- [http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/SECOND.HTM Sexology World-wide], listing of world-wide sexology institutions
- [http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/Entrance_Page/E_Learning_Courses/e_learning_courses.htm Five online courses in Sexual Health]
- [http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/Entrance_Page/History_of_Sexology/history_of_sexology.htm History of Sexology]
- [http://www.sexuality.org/ Society for Human Sexuality]
- [http://www.sexuality.org/l/sex/sexohist.html History of Sexology]
- [http://www.sexologie.org German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research (DGSS)]
- [http://www.world-sex-records.com/sex-374.htm World Sex Records] (Section on Sexology)
- ja:性科学

Human sexuality

:This article is about the issues and phenomena pertaining to sexual function and behavior. For information about sexual activities and practices (i.e., "doing it"), see the article human sexual behavior. Human sexuality refers to the expression of sexual sensation and related intimacy between human beings, as well as the expression of identity through sex and as influenced by or based on sex. There are a great many forms of human sexuality. The sexuality of human beings comprises a broad range of behavior and processes, including the physiological, psychological, social, cultural, political, and spiritual or religious aspects of sex and human sexual behavior. Philosophy, particularly ethics and the study of morality, as well as theology, also address the subject. In almost any historical era or culture, the arts, including literary and visual arts, as well as popular culture, present a substantial portion of a given society's views on sexuality. In most societies and legal jurisdictions, there are legal bounds on what sexual behavior is permitted. Sexuality varies across the cultures and regions of the world, and has continually changed throughout history. A large variety of books, educational websites, and local education/support/social organizations exist for various forms of sexuality. Anyone who is unfamiliar with the techniques and safety practices commonly employed during sexual activities would be wise to seek out such sources of information before engaging in unfamiliar practices. Having sex can be as dangerous as it is fun.
Physiological aspects
Human sexuality can be influenced by hormonal changes in the development of the fetus during pregnancy. Many claim its manner of expression is largely due to genetic predisposition. Others say it is due to one's own personal experimentation in early life, and thus the establishment of preferences. A less divisive approach recognises that both factors may have a mutual role to play. Human physiology and gender makes certain forms of sexual expression possible.
Social aspects
Human sexuality can also be understood as part of the social life of humans, governed by implied rules of behavior and the status quo. Thus, it is claimed, sexuality influences social norms and society in turn influences the manner in which sexuality can be expressed. Since the invention of the mass media, such as advertising, sexuality has further molded some environments in which we live. Some see sexuality as distilled (often into stereotypes) and then repeatedly expressed in commercialized forms. Human sexuality is distinguished from gender identity. Gender identity includes the social environment that one is exposed to in childhood and adulthood, e.g. media may portray a little boy playing with a toy truck, and a girl a doll.
Society and politics

Sex education
Sex education is the component of education, typically pre-university/college level, which involves instruction in the health aspects of sexual functions, behavior, and hygiene. All, or nearly all, governments and societies today advocate some degree of sex education. In most educational systems, it reflects the dominant views on sexual behavior, typically attempting to achieve some kind of compliance with the policies of the educational authority, such as the use or non-use of contraception or views on non-marital/pre-marital intercourse. Other non-governmental sex education organizations, such as [http://www.NewSex.org New Sex Institute] focus on maximizing sexual pleasure as a means toward enhancing personal power and intimacy for the couple.
Cultural and psychiatric aspects
Human sexual behavior in most individuals is typically influenced, if not largely determined, by norms from the culture in which the individual lives. Examples of such norms are prohibitions on sexual intercourse before marriage, or against anal intercourse, or other activities, because the religion to which the individual's culture adheres forbids such activities. Those who wish to express a dissident sexuality often form sub-cultures within the main culture. In many cases, forms of sexuality may develop into a fetish or develop into a psychiatric disorder (paraphilia). Paraphilias can also result from childhood abuse or mistreatment.
Documentary Films

- Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women's Film, A film by Marie Mandy, 2000
- (Comedy)The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999) Starring: David Hyde Pierce, Mackenzie Astin Director: Jeff Abugov
- "New Sex Now: Life's Ultimate Pleasure" (2002, New Sex Institute)

Study of sexuality

In contemporary academia, sexuality is studied in the field of gender and sexuality studies, among many other fields.

Topics in human sexuality

- Sexology (the study of sex)
- History of sex
- Homophobia
- Homosexuality and psychology
- Eroticism
- Paraphilias and fetishes (Some may be considered sex crimes in various jurisdictions).
- Virginity
- Sex organs
- Male -- Penis (notably the foreskin and glans), Testicles, Prostate
- Female -- Vulva (notably the Clitoris), Vagina (notably the Cervix), Uterus, Fallopian tubes, Ovaries
- Male reproductive physiology:
- Spermatogenesis
- Erection
- Ejaculation
- Female reproductive physiology:
- Menstruation and PMS
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth
- Lactation
- Genital modification and mutilation are practiced for a variety of reasons, including medical and socio-cultural. This area is often controversial.
- Castration: the removal of some or all of male external sexual organs, practice often for punitive purposes, or cultural reasons
- Sterilization, the surgical modification of sexual-reproductive organs to prevent fertility
- Male circumcision (often simply, circumcision)
- Foreskin restoration
- Female circumcision (also known as female genital mutiliation)
- Related medical fields
- Andrology
- Endocrinology
- Gynaecology
- Obstetrics
- Urology
- Sexual development
- Child sexuality
- Puberty
- Sexuality in older age
- Physical attractiveness
- Penis enlargement
- Jelqing
- Sexual orientation
- Heterosexuality
- Homosexuality
- Bisexuality
- Asexuality
- Paraphilia
- Pederasty
- Pedophilia
- sexual lifestyles
- Celibacy
- lifelong monogamy
- serial monogamy
- polyamory
- polyfidelity
- casual sexual activity
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome(AIDS) — Caused by HIV
- Herpes
- Syphilis
- Gonorrhea
- Genital warts
- Crab lice
- Hepatitis
- Sexual behavior (sexual acts & practices) and directly related topics
- The Basics
- Safer sex
- Sexual arousal
- Seduction
- Cruising for sex
- Flirting
- Foreplay
- Kissing
- Petting
- Erogenous zone
- Eroticism
- List of sexual slang
- Sexual intercourse
- Anal sex
- Gliding action
- Vaginal Sex
- List of sex positions
- Vanilla sex
- Autoeroticism
- Masturbation
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- Anal masturbation
- Mutual masturbation
- Anal masturbation
- Oral sex
- Cunnilingus
- Fellatio
- Rimming
- Felching
- Tea bagging
- Snowballing
- Outercourse
- Opposite-Gender sexual practices
- Same-Gender sexual practices
- Casual sex
- Dirty Talk
- Cyber sex
- Phone sex
- Lingerie (erotic clothing)
- Makeup sex
- Pornography
- Premarital sex
- Promiscuity
- Sexual fantasy
- Alternative/explorative sexual activies
- Penis enlargement
- Jelqing
- Pegging
- Fisting and handballing
- Public sex
- Sexual roleplaying
- Ageplay
- Cross dressing
- Sensual massage
- Wax play
- Sex toys
- Vibrators
- Dildos
- Strap-on dildos
- Sybians
- Butt-plugs
- Sexual lubricants
- Sex dolls
- Nipple clamps
- Thumb clamps and Toe clamps
- Anal beads
- Sex games
- Pocket pussies or Masturbation sleeves
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- Fifi
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- Fleshlights
- Cock-rings
- Penis sleeves
- Penis extensions
- Ben wah balls
- Kegel exercisers
- Group sex
- Swinging
- Gangbanging
- Orgies
- Ménages à trois (threesomes)
- BDSM
- List of BDSM organizations
- List of BDSM equipment
- Bondage
- List of bondage positions
- Erotic spanking
- S&M
- Sadism
- Masochism
- Discipline
- Domination and submission
- Impact play
- Spanking
- Flogging
- Paddling
- Caning
- Body modification
- Exhibitionism
- Fetishism or Sexual fetishism
- Crush fetish and Crush films
- Erotic electrostimulation
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- Stereostim
- Foot fetishism
- Leather fetishism
- Rubber fetishism
- Transvestic fetishism
- Frottage
- Kinky sex
- Modern primitive
- Nudism
- Paraphilia
- Perversion
- Pygmalionism
- Play piercing
- Polyamory
- Tribadism
- Voyeurism
- Socio-cultural aspects
- Casting couch
- Club wear
- Erotica
- Pornography
- Prostitution
- Male prostitution
- Sex in advertising
- Nightclubs, sex clubs, and swing clubs
- Sex scandals
- Sexual morality
- Sexual slang
- Stereotypes
- Sexism: generally, a form of discrimination based on gender, which may or may not be directly related to views on sexuality or sexual behavior per se.
- Situational sexual behavior
- Harem effect
- Prison sexuality
- Religious aspects
- Mythology of same-sex love
- Tantric sex or Tantra
- Kama sutra
- Consecrated virgins
- Sex crimes and crime related sexual topics
- Sex and crime
- Rape or sexual assault
- Sexual harassment
- Sexual abuse and child sexual abuse
- Various paraphilias/fetishes (legality varying by jurisdiction)
- Pornography (legality varying by jurisdiction and type and audience)
- Incest
- Bestiality
- Prison sexuality
- Conjugal visit
- Fifi
- Sex and the occult
- Sex magic
- Other related issues
- Abortion
- Age of consent
- Beauty
- Birth control
- Contraception
- Feminism
- Gender paradigm
- Love
- Marriage
- Psychoanalysis
- Safer sex
- Sapiosexuality
- Sex segregation
- Free Hosted Gallery
- Hyperphallia
- Mermaid Problem
- Misogyny
- Pansexual
- Pansexuality
- SMYAL
- Service-oriented
- Seven Minutes In Heaven
- Sex assignment

External links

- [http://www.arhp.org/ Association of Reproductive Health Professionals]
- [http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/IES/ The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality]
- [http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/EBS/History_of_Surveys_of_Sexual_Behavior1.pdf History of Surveys of Sexual Behavior] from [http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/EBS/ Encyclopedia of Behavioral Statistics]
- [http://www.neo-tech.com/pleasures/history.html A History of Western Love and Sex From 1300 B.C. to the Twentieth Century]
- [http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/PREFACE.HTM Growing Up Sexually], Study on sexual development in primitive cultures
- [http://www.historyofsexuality.com History Of Sexuality]
- [http://www.adolescentsexuality.com Adolescent Sexuality Guide]
- [http://www.sexuall.org Sexuality Guide]
- [http://www.femalesexual.com Women's Sexuality]
- [http://swami-center.org/en/chpt/ecology/page_16.shtml Sexual Aspect of Love]
- [http://www.the-clitoris.com/ Women's Sexuality]
- [http://www.pathways-womens-sexual-health.com Pathways to Women's Sexual Health]
- [http://www.sexuality.org/ Society for Human Sexuality]
- [http://www.theinternetcollege.org/ Romance, Sex and Relationships]
- [http://rawpsy.com/ Raw Psychology Sex and Sexuality Project] Designed to document the scope of the human sexual spectrum in modern society. Sexuality Sexuality ja:性別 ko:성문제

Sexual anatomy

A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism; namely:
- Male: penis (notably the glans penis and foreskin), testicles, scrotum, prostate, seminal vesicles, epididymis, Cowper's glands
- Female: vulva (notably the clitoris and labia), vagina, cervix, uterus, Fallopian tubes, ovaries, Skene's glands, Bartholin's glands. More generally and popularly, the term sex organ refers to any part of the body involved in erotic pleasure. The larger list would certainly include the anus for either sex, the prepuce, the breasts (especially the nipples) for females, and the nipples for males. The Latin term genitalia is used to describe the sex organs, and in the English language this term and genital area are most often used to describe the externally visible sex organs or external genitalia: in males the penis and scrotum, in females the vulva. The other parts of the sex organs are called the internal genitalia. A gonad is a sex organ that produces gametes, specifically the testes or ovaries in humans. Organs of sexual anatomy originate from a common anlage and differentiate into male or female sex organs. The SRY gene, located on the Y chromosome and encoding the testis determining factor, decides the direction of this differentiation. Each sexual organ in one sex has a homologous counterpart in the other one. See a list of homologues of the human reproductive system.

Anatomical terms related to sex

The following is a list of anatomical terms related to sex and sexuality:
- areola
- Bartholin's gland -- breast -- bulbocavernosus muscle -- bulbospongiosus muscle -- bulbourethral gland
- cervix -- clitoris -- common penile artery -- corona glandis -- corpora cavernosa -- corpus cavernosum -- corpus spongiosum -- Cowper's glands-- cremaster muscle
- dartos muscle -- ductus deferens
- ejaculatory duct -- endometrium -- epididymis
- Fallopian tube -- foreskin -- frenulum -- frenulum preputii penis -- frenulum labiorum pudendi -- frenulum clitoridis -- frenum -- fundiform ligament
- G-spot -- Gartner's duct -- genital tubercle -- genitofemoral nerve -- glans -- glans penis -- Gräfenberg spot
- hymen
- internal pudendal artery -- ischiocavernosus muscle
- labium -- labia majora -- labia minora
- mammae -- mammary gland -- meatus -- mons veneris -- Mullerian duct
- nipple
- ovary -- ovum -- oviducts
- penis -- penile suspensory ligament -- perineum -- prepuce -- prostate -- pubic hair -- pubic symphysis -- pubococcygeus muscle -- pudendal nerve
- raphe -- ridged band
- scrotum -- seminal vesicles -- semeniferous tubules -- Skene's glands -- sperm -- spermatic cord -- sphincter urethrae membranaceae -- splanchnic nerves
- testes -- testicle -- tunica albuginea
- urethra -- urethral sponge -- urogenital diaphragm -- uterus
- vas deferens -- vagina -- vesiculae seminales -- vomeronasal organ -- vulva
- Wolffian duct See also: sex, human sexuality, sexual behavior, Obstetrics and gynecology, circumcision, castration, intersex, List of transgender-related topics, intimate parts, secondary sex characteristics, body modification, genital modification and mutilation, Sexual fetishism Category:Reproductive system Category:Sexual anatomy ja:生殖器

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