Human Sexuality Chapter 1 Terms
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birdinabottle on September 25, 2010
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Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity
Chapter 1 Key Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 One's personal, social, and legal status as male or female. | Gender |
| Sexual intercourse. | Coitus |
| Arousing sexual feelings or desires. | Erotic |
| Mutual sexual stimulation that may or may not lead to sexual intercourse. | Foreplay |
| The ways in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings. | Human Sexuality |
| The qualities in life that are deemed important or unimportant, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable. | Values |
| Worship of the penis as symbol of generative power. | Phallic Worship |
| Images of the penis. | Phallic Symbols |
| The prohibition against intercourse and reproduction among close blood relatives. | Incest Taboo |
| The practice of having two or more spouses at the same time. | Polygamy |
| The practice of having one spouse. | Monogamy |
| Sexually responsive to either gender. | Bisexual |
| Sexual love of boys. | Pederasty |
| A prostitute-especially the mistress of a noble or wealthy man. | Courtesan |
| A secondary wife, usually of inferior legal and social status. | Concubine |
| A sexual activity involving oral contact with the penis. | Fellatio |
| A sexual activity involving oral contact with the female genitals. | Cunnilingus |
| A person who engages in the scientific study of sexual behavior. | Sexologist |
| The development of a species to its present state, a process that is believed to involve adaptations to its environment. | Evolution |
| The evolutionary process by which adaptive traits enable members of a species to survive to reproductive age and transmit these traits to future generations. | Natural Selection |
| The theory that dispositions toward behavior patterns that enhance reproductive success may be genetically transmitted. | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Something that is similar or comparable to something else. | Analogue |
| Sexual intercourse. (not coitus) | Copulation |
| The theory of personality originated by Sigmund Freud, which proposes that human behavior represents the outcome of clashing inner forces. | Psychoanalysis |
| Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing's concept of one who experiences sexual desire at too old or young an age. | Paradoxia |
| Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing's concept of one who experiences insufficient sexual desire. | Anesthesia |
| Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing's concept of one who experiences excessive sexual desire. | Hyperesthesia |
| Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing's concept of one who experiences sexual desire for anyone/thing besides the opposite sex, and simply for procreation. | Paraesthesia |
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