List of sexology topics
Encyclopedia
This is an alphabetical index 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
.
– 46,XX – 46,XY – 47,XXX – 47,XXY – 47,XYY – 5-alpha-reductase deficiency
– 69
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– A2OGM
– abasiophilia
– ABC strategy
– aberration
– abortifacient
– abortion
– abruptio placentae
– abstinence
– abstinence movement – abstinence, be faithful, use a condom
– abstinence-only sex education – abstinence-plus sex education – acault – acceleration of physical development – accessory breast
– acmegenesis – acomoclitism – acquaintance rape – acrosomal reaction – acrosome
– acrotomophilia – act of union
– ACTH
– acupressure – Adam's apple
– addiction
– adelphic polyandry – adelphogamy
– adipophilia – adolescence
– adolescent gynecomastia – adrenal cortex
– adrenal gland
– adrenocortical hormone
– adrenogenital syndrome – adult service provider
– adultery
– adulthood – affinity (canon law)
– afterbirth – agalmatophilia – agape
– age-oriented pornography – age disparity in sexual relationships
– age of consent
– aging and sexuality – agonophilia
– agony aunt – AIDS
– AIDS in Africa – AIDS in Asia – AIDS in India – AIDS in Latin America – AIDS in the United States – AIDS test – Alberta Eugenics Board
– albutophilia – algolagnia
– algophilia – alienation of affections
– alimony
– alley catting – alliance theory
– allure
– altocalciphilia – amateur pornography
– ambiguous genitalia – ambisexual – ambisexuality – amelotasis – amelotatist – amenorrhea – amenorrhoea
– American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists – amoebiasis
– amor lesbicus – ampallang piercing – ampulla of ductus deferens
– ampulla of uterine tube
– amputation fetish
– amputee fetishism
– amputeeism – amputees – amygdala
– anabolic steroid
– anaclitism – anal beads
– anal bleaching
– anal cancer
– anal contraction – anal insert – anal intercourse – anal jewelry – anal masturbation
– anal orgasm – anal penetration – anal sex
– anal sphincter – anal stage
– anal stretching – anal wart – anal wink
– analinctus – analingus – analism – Ananga Ranga
– anasteemaphilia – anasyrma
– anatomy
– Ancient Roman marriage
– Androcur – androgen
– androgen ablation – androgen antagonist – androgen insensitivity syndrome
– androgen replacement therapy
– androgen suppression
– androgen-induced hermaphroditism
– androgyne – androgynophilia – androgynous – androgyny
– androidism – andrology
– andromania – Andromeda
– andromimesis – andromimetic – andromimetophilia – andropause
– androphilia – androphobia
– androstenedione
– androstenone
– anejaculation
– anerotic – anesthesia fetishism – anhedonia
– anililagnia – anilinctus – anilingus – anima – animal marriage
– animal transformation fantasy – animus – anisonogamist – Annual Review of Sex Research
– annulment
– anocutaneous reflex – anonymous sex
– anorexia nervosa
– anorgasmia
– anorgasmic – anovulation
– anovulatory – antaphrodisiac – anterior commissure of labia – anthropology
– anthropomorphic cartoons – anthropomorphism
– anthropophagy
– Anthropophyteia – anti-marriage law – anti-miscegenation law – anti-pornography movement
– anti-prostitution movement – antiandrogen
– anticipatory sororate – anus
– apadravya piercing – apartment wrestling – aphallia
– aphrodisiac
– apodysophilia – apophasis
– aposthia
– apotemnophilia
– appendix of the epididymis
– appendix testis
– aquaphilia – Arab marriage customs – arab strap (sexual device)
– Archives of Sexual Behavior
– Areoi
– areola
– areola mammae – arranged marriage
– Ars Amatoria
– artificial birth control – artificial insemination
– artificial insemination by donor – artificial vagina
– asceticism
– asexual – asexuality
– asian fetish
– aspermatism – aspermia
– asphyxiaphilia – asphyxiophilia – ass to mouth
– assortative mating
– Astroglide
– atonement – attachment disorder
– attachment insecurity – attraction to disability
– atypical gender role
– auctions – auspicious wedding date
– autagonistophilia
– autassassinophilia
– autoabasiophilia – autoagonistophilia – autoassassinophilia – autoerotic – autoerotic asphyxia – autoerotic death – autoerotic fatalities – autoerotica – autoeroticism
– autofellatio
– autoflagellation – autogynephilia – autogynephilic – automasochism – automonosexualism – autonepiophilia – autonomic nervous system
– autopederasty – autophilia – autosadism
– autosexuality – aversion therapy
– avisodomy – avunculocal residence – axillary intercourse – axillism – axon
– azoospermia
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– bachelor
– bachelor party
– bachelorette
– backroom – bacterial vaginosis
– badger game
– Bahá'í marriage
– balanitis
– ball gag – ball stretcher – ballbusting – ballet boots – bann
– barebacking
– barfine – Barr body
– barrier contraception
– barrier method – Bartholin's abscess – Bartholin's cyst
– Bartholin's ducts – Bartholin's gland
– basal body temperature
– basal temperature – bastard – bastardy – bath house
– BDSM
– bear community
– beard (female companion)
– beau – behavioral imprinting – belly dancing – belonephilia – Ben Wa balls
– benign prostatic hyperplasia
– benign prostatic hypertrophy – Benjamin scale
– Harry Benjamin
– berdache – Berkley Horse
– Theresa Berkley
– best man – bestiality – beta-lipotropin – betrothal – betrothal gift – bi-curious
– bi-sexualism – bi-sexuality – biastophilia
– bidet
– bigamist – bigamy
– Billings ovulation method
– bilocal residence – bindings (sexology) – biogenic amine
– biorhythm
– bipara – biparous – birth control
– bisexuality
– bit gag – biting (sexology) – blackroom (gay club) – Ray Blanchard
– blanket sleeper fetish – blastocyst
– blastula
– blended orgasm – blindfold
– blindfolding (sexology) – blitz rape – Iwan Bloch
– blood fetish
– blood sport (BDSM) – blood test
– blood-testis barrier
– blow job – blow-job – blue balls
– bodice-ripper – body dysmorphic disorder
– body fluid – body hair – body image fixation – Body integrity identity disorder
– body integrity identity disorder
– body modification
– body of penis
– body painting
– body piercing
– body worship
– bondage
– bondage and discipline – bondage harness
– bondage hood – bonobo
– boot fetishism – booty call – bordello – borderline self-mutilator – Ernest Borneman
– Boston marriage
– bottom
– bottom (BDSM)
– bottom (sex) – bottoming – boyfriend
– bra
– brachio-rectal sex – brachioproctic eroticism – brachiovaginal eroticism – bradycubia – branding persons – brassiere
– breaking the hymen – breaking the wine glass – breakthrough bleeding
– breast
– breast augmentation
– breast cancer
– breast expansion fetishism – breast implant – breast ironing
– breast reduction
– breast shaping – breath control play – breech birth
– breeder (slang)
– bremelanotide
– Brenner tumor – bridal night – bridal sedan – bridal shower
– bride
– bride burning
– bride kidnapping
– bride price
– bride wealth – bridegroom – brideprice – brideservice
– bridesmaid
– bridewealth – broad ligament of the uterus
– brothel
– brothel keeper – brothel prostitution – Buck's fascia
– Buddhist marriage customs – Buddhist view of marriage
– Buddhist views of homosexuality – bugarrón – bugchasing and giftgiving – buggery
– bukkake – bulb of penis
– bulbocavernosus muscle – bulbocavernosus reflex
– bulbospongiosus muscle
– bulbourethral gland
– bulemia – bulimia – bundling
– bunny boiler
– Richard Francis Burton
– buru sera – burusera
– butch
– butt fucking – butt plug
– buttered bun (sexual practice) – butterfly sex position –
– Caesarian section – CAH
– call girl
– Calymmatobacterium granulomatis – cameltoe
– camp (style)
– camp follower
– Canal of Nuck
– canal of the cervix
– candaulism
– Candida albicans
– candidiasis
– caning
– canon law
– capacitation
– capnolagnia – cardinal ligament
– caress – carezza – carunculae myrtiformes – Giacomo Casanova
– Cass Identity Model
– castration
– castration anxiety
– castration cult – castration fear – castrato
– casual relationship
– casual sex
– cat fighting – catamite
– catecholamine
– catfight
– Catherinette – catheter (sexology) – catheterophilia – Catholic marriage
– cavernous nerves of penis
– cavum Douglasi – celebrity sex tape
– celibacy
– celibate marriage – cerclage – cerebral cortex
– cervical cancer
– cervical cap
– cervical dysplasia – cervical incompetence
– cervical stitch – cervicitis
– cervix
– CFNM – Chadwick's sign
– chancre
– Chancroid
– chaperon(e)
– chaperone
– charivari
– charms
– chastity
– chastity belt
– chastity cage
– chastity device – chastity ring – chemical abortion – chemise cagoule
– Cheryl Chase
– Chevalier d'Eon
– chikan (body contact) – child abduction
– child marriage
– child pornography
– child sexual abuse – child sexuality
– childbirth
– chimera
– Chinese marriage
– Chinese marriage customs – Chlamydia – Chlamydia trachomatis
– chloasma – chordee
– choreophilia – choriocarcinoma
– chorion
– chorionation – chorionic gonadotropin – chrematistophilia – Christian marriage customs – Christian view of marriage – Christina piercing
– chromosomal mosaicism – chromosome
– chronophilia
– chubby chaser – Chukri System
– Cialis – cicatrization
– circadian – circle jerk – circuit party
– circumcision
– circumcision scar
– civil marriage
– civil union
– clamp (BDSM) – classical friendship – clear cell tumor
– clear plastic fetishism – cleft of Venus
– Cleveland steamer – climacteric – climax
– clinical sexologist – clinical sexology – clip joint
– clitoral crura
– clitoral glans
– clitoral hood
– clitoral hood piercing
– clitoral orgasm – clitoral reduction – clitoral-vaginal index – clitoridectomy
– clitoridotomy – clitorilingus – clitoris
– clitoris piercing
– clitorism
– clitoromegaly
– clitoropenis – cloacal exstrophy
– the closet
– clothed female, naked male
– clothed male, naked female
– clubwear
– CMNF – cock and ball torment – cockblock
– cock cage – cock harness – cock ring
– cock stuffing – cock vore – cock-stuffing – cockstuffing – coemptio – coercive sexual behavior – cohabitation
– coital alignment technique
– coital aninsertia – coital fantasy – coition – coitus – coitus interfemoris – coitus interruptus
– coitus more ferarum – coitus reservatus
– coitus à cheval – coitus à mammilla – coitus à unda
– cold knife cone biopsy – collaborative divorce – collar (BDSM)
– Collar
ing – colovaginoplasty – colposcope – colposcopy
– colposuspension – combined oral contraceptive – Alex Comfort
– coming out
– commitment ceremony – common penile artery – common prostitute
– common-law husband – common-law marriage
– common-law wife – commune
– companiable love – companionate love – compensated dating – comprehensive sex education – compulsive cruising – computer sex – Anthony Comstock
– conception – conceptive phase – concubinage
– concubine – concupiscence
– condom
– condom fatigue
– condoms, needles, and negotiation
– confarreatio
– confetti
– congenital adrenal hyperplasia
– congenital virilizing adrenal hyperplasia – conjugal visit
– connection between paraphilia and sex crimes – consanguinity
– consecrated virgin
– consensual BDSM – consensual crime
– consensual sex – consenting adult – constriction (sexology) – consummation
– contact magazine
– contact rapist – contact tracing
– continence
– continuous abstinence – contraception
– contraceptive – contraceptive film – contraceptive foam – contraceptive patch
– contraceptive pill – contraceptive sponge
– conversion party – conversion therapy – Coolidge effect
– Cooper's ligaments
– coprography – coprolagnia – coprolalia
– coprophagia
– coprophagy – coprophilia
– copulate – copulation – copulation fantasy – core gender identity – corona glandis – corona of glans penis
– corona radiata (embryology)
– coronal sulcus – corpora cavernosa
– corpus albicans
– corpus cavernosum
– corpus cavernosum clitoridis
– corpus cavernosum penis
– corpus hemorrhagicum
– corpus luteum
– corpus spongiosum
– corpus spongiosum penis – corset
– corsetting – cortisol
– cortisone
– costumes – cottaging
– counseling – courtesan
– courting - courting bench
– courtly love
– courtship
– courtship disorder
– Couvade
– Couvade syndrome – cowgirl sex position – Cowper's fluid – Cowper's glands – crab louse
– crack whore – creampie (sexual act)
– Creighton Model
– cremaster muscle
– cremasteric fascia
– cremasteric reflex
– Cretan pederasty
– crime against nature
– crime of passion
– critical period
– cross dressing – cross-complementation – cross-cousin marriage – cross-dresser – cross-dressing
– cross-identification – crotchless panties – cruising
– cruising (for sex) – cruising for sex
– crus glandis clitoridis – crus of penis
– crush fetish
– cryptomenorrhea
– cryptorchidism
– cryptorchism – crystal and sex – crystal dick – cuckold
– cuckold fetishism – cuckoldry – cum
– cum swallowing – cum swapping – cumulus oophorus
– cunnilinctus – cunnilingus
– cunnus – cunt
– cupping – curettage
– curtesy
– Cushing's syndrome
– cutting
– cybersex
– cyproterone
– cyproterone acetate – cystitis
– cystoscope – cystoscopy
– cystostomy – cytogenetic syndrome – Cytomegalovirus
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– Daddy's girl fetish – daggering
– daisy-chaining – Dalkon Shield
– dame de voyage – dan daudu – danse du ventre – Darby and Joan
– darlexx – dartos
– dartos muscle – date rape
– date rape drug
– dating – dating agency
– dating coach
– dating service – day belt – de Clérambault's syndrome – death erection
– decapacitation – decapacitation factor – dechorionation – decidua
– decoy prostitute – decree nisi
– deep shaft piercing
– deep throat (sexual act) – defeminization
– defilement – defloration – degree of consanguinity – delayed ejaculation
– delayed puberty
– deliberate self-harm syndrome – delicatue – delivery health
– delusional denial of pregnancy – delusional jealousy
– delusional pregnancy – demasculinization – demi-monde – demisexuality
– dendrophilia
– dental braces fetishism – dental dam
– dental fetishism – depersonalization
– depilation – depilation fetishism – Depo Provera
– Depo-Provera – destination wedding – Deuki
– Devadasi
– Devaki
– deviance
– deviant – Deviant Behavior – Deviant Desires – deviation
– dhat syndrome
– diabetes and sex drive – diagnosis
– Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
– Milton Diamond
– diaper fetishism
– diaperism – diaphragm (contraceptive)
– diethylstilbestrol
– diffarreatio – digital rectal examination – dihydrotestosterone
– dilatation
– dilation and curettage
– dildo
– dildo harness – dildos and plugs – dippoldism
– dirty joke – dirty old man
– dirty talk
– dirty weekend
– disability fetishism – disability pornography – disability, attraction to
– discipline
– displacement paraphilia – divorce
– docking (sexology) – docking sleeve (sex toy) – dogging
– doggy position – doggy style
– dolphin piercing
– domestic partnership
– domestic partnership in California – domestic partnership in the United States – domestic violence
– dominance and submission – dominant (BDSM) – dominatrix
– Don Juan
– Don Juan syndrome – Don Juanism
– Donovanosis
– dopamine
– doraphilia – double anal penetration – double bagging – double penetration – double vaginal penetration – double vaginal, double anal – double-ended dildo – douche
– dower
– down-low – dowry
– drag queen
– droit du seigneur – drugs and prostitution – drugs and sex – dry enema
– dry humping – dry orgasm – dry sex
– DSM-IV
– Dual Personality – ductus deferens – dungeon (BDSM)
-dunk tank
– duration of sexual intercourse – DVDA – dydoe piercing – dysfunctional uterine bleeding
– dysgerminoma
– dysmenorrhea
– dysmorphophilia – dysorgasmia – dyspareunia
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– ecorchement
– ecouteurism – ecstasy
– ectopia testis – ectopic pregnancy
– edgeplay
- edging
– effeminacy
– effeminate – efferent ducts
– egg donor
– ego dystonic – ejaculatio praecox – ejaculation
– ejaculatory duct
– ejaculatory dysfunction – ejaculatory incompetence – ejaculatory overcontrol – Electra complex
– electric shock
– electroejaculation
– electrolysis
– Elf Sternberg
– eligibility
– eligible bachelor
– ELISA
– ELISA test – Havelock Ellis
– elongated labia
– elopement – embryo
– embryology
– emergency contraception
– emetophilia
– emotional affair
– emotional intimacy
– Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices
– endocrine gland – endogamy
– endometrial cancer
– endometrioid tumor
– endometriosis
– endometrium
– endytophilia – enema
– enema cocktail – engagement
– English vice – enjo kōsai
– enkephalin
– enlarged prostate – Entamoeba histolytica
– entomophilia – enuresis
– Eonism – ephebiatrics – ephebophilia
– epicene
– epididymectomy – epididymis
– epididymitis
– episioclisia – episiotomy
– epispadias
– epoophoron
– er nai – erectile dysfunction
– erection
– erogenous zones – Eros
– erotic actor – erotic apathy – erotic art
– erotic ball – erotic dance – erotic electrostimulation
– erotic furniture
– erotic humiliation
– erotic inertia – erotic lactation
– erotic literature
– erotic massage
– erotic objectification – erotic photography – erotic revulsion – erotic sexual denial
– erotic spanking
– erotic strangulation – erotic submission – erotic torture – erotic wrestling – erotica
– eroticism
– eroto-comatose lucidity
– erotographomania – erotography – erotolalia
– erotomania
– erotophobia
– erotophonophilia – erotosexual – escort
– escort agency
– escort prostitution – essayeur – estradiol
– estrogen
– estrus – The Ethical Slut
– ethnic pornography – ethology
– etiology
– eugenics
– eunuch
– eunuch's fiddle – Eve principle – evening people – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
– excitement phase – excretory duct of seminal gland
– executions – exemplar
– exhibitionism
– exhibitionist – exigency theory – exocrine – exogamy
– exogenous
– exoletus
– exophilia
– exorcist syndrome – exoticism
– expiation – extended family
– extended hookup – extended orgasm
– external orifice of the uterus
– external spermatic fascia
– external urethral orifice (male)
– exteroceptive – extramarital intercourse – extravasate – eyeglasses fetishism –
– facial (sex act) – facial feminization surgery
– FACOG – faecal-oral route – fag hag
– fainting – faithfulness – fakaleiti
– fake orgasm
– fake prostitution – falling in love
– Fallopian pregnancy – Fallopian tube
– Gabriele Falloppio
– family
– family planning
– famosae – fantasy
– fantasy play – fantasy role play – fart fetishism – fashion health
– fat admirer – fat fetishism
– Anne Fausto-Sterling
– fear play
– feces
– fecophilia – fecundity
– feedee – feeder (fetish) – feederism – felching
– fellatio
– female
– female circumcision – female condom
– female dominant sex position – female ejaculate – female ejaculation
– female fertility after 30 – female genital mutilation – female impersonator – female masking – female prostate – female pseudohermaphroditism – female reproductive system (human)
– female sex tourism
– femaleness – fem-dom – femdom – femidom – femidon – femininity
– feminine essence theory of transsexuality
– feminism
– feminist – feminist sexology
– femme – femme fatale
– fertility
– fertility and diet – fertility awareness method – fertility clinic
– fertility rite
– fertilization – fetal genitalia – fetish
– fetish clothing – fetish club
– fetish community – fetish subculture
– fetishism
– fetus
– fiancé – fiancée – fibroblast
– fibroma
– fibula – fidelity
– figging
– fimbria (female reproductive system)
– finger cot
– finger fucking – fingering (sexual act)
– fire play – fist fucking – fisting
– fisting sling – Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome
– flagellant
– flagellation
– flamer
– flatulence
– Fleet Marriage
– fleshlight
– Wilhelm Fliess
– flirt – flirting
– Flirty Fishing
– Florentine girdle – flowergirl – fluid bonding (sexual practice) – fluid monogamy – folie à deux
– follicle-stimulating hormone
– follicular antrum
– follicular fluid
– folliculogenesis
– foot binding
– foot fetish
– foot fetishism
– forced abortion – forced bi – forced bisexuality – forced chastity – forced feminization – forced marriage
– forced sterilization – Auguste Forel – forensic sexology – foreplay
– foreskin
– foreskin piercing
– foreskin restoration
– formicophilia
– Forms of nonmonogamy
– fornication
– fornicatory doll – fossa of vestibule of vagina
– four-letter word
– fourchette
– fourchette piercing
– foxy boxing
– fraternal polyandry – fraternal twin – Free Hosted Gallery
– free love
– freemartin
– frenar band – French kiss
– French kissing
– French letter – French postcard – French tickler
– frenulum – frenulum breve
– frenulum clitoridis
– frenulum labiorum pudendi
– frenulum of prepuce of penis
– frenulum preputii penis – frenum – frenum ladder
– frenum piercing
– frequency of sexual intercourse – Sigmund Freud
– Freudian psychosexual stages
– Kurt Freund
– friends with benefits
– frigidity – frogtie
– frot
– frottage – frotteur – frotteurism
– fuck
– fuck of death – fuck-buddy – fuck-me shoes – fuckbuddy – Fumoto no iro
– fundiform ligament
– fundus (uterus)
– fur fetishism – furor uterinus –
– Gag (BDSM)
– John Gagnon
– galactophilia – galactorrhea
– gamahuche – gamahucheur – gamete
– gamete intra-fallopian transfer – gang bang
– Gardnerella
– Gardnerella vaginalis – Gartner's duct
– gas mask fetishism – Katharine Gates – gay
– gay bathhouse
– gay beat
– gay cruising – gay liberation
– gay-bashing – gay-for-pay
– gaydar
– geek code
– geisha
– gender
– gender and sexuality studies – gender coding – gender crosscoding – gender dysphoria – gender fluidity – gender identity
– gender identity disorder
– gender reassignment surgery – gender role
– gender threat – gender transposition
– gender-bending – gendermap – gene
– genetic counseling
– genetic sexual attraction
– genital – genital anatomy – genital bisection
– genital corpuscles
– genital herpes – genital insert
– genital intercourse – genital kiss – genital modification – genital mutilation – genital piercing
– genital play
– genital retraction syndrome
– genital stage
– genital stretching – genital tattooing
– genital tubercle
– genital wart
– genitalia – genitoerotic – genitofemoral nerve
– genitourinary medicine
– genophobia
– genotype
– genuphallation – gerbilling
– geriatric sexology
– germ cell ovarian cancer – germ cell tumor
– German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research
– germinal epithelium (female)
– gerontalism – gerontology
– gerontophilia
– gestagen – gestation
– get hitched - GFE
– ghost marriage – Giardia lamblia
– giardiasis
– GIFT
– gigolo
– gimp mask – gimp suit
– Rolf Gindorf
– girlfriend
– girlfriend experience
– giving head – glabrousness
– glamor photography – glans
– glans clitoridis – glans penis
– glanuloplasty
– gliding action – glory hole
– glove fetishism
– glucocorticoids – GnRH – goddess worship – godemiche – going down on – gokkun
– gold-digger – golden enema – golden shower
– gonad
– gonadal dysgenesis
– gonadal steroid – gonadectomy – gonadostat – gonadotropin
– gonadotropin-releasing hormone
– gonococcus – gonorrhea
– gonorrhoea – Good, giving and game – Goodell's sign
– gossypol
– Regnier de Graaf
– Graafian follicle – Granuloma inguinale – granulosa cell tumor – granulosa cells – gratification disorder
– gravida – gravida 0 – gravida 1 – gravidity
– Great Rite
– Greek marriage customs – grooming (child abuse) – grooming (sexology) – grope box – groping
– group marriage
– group sex
– groupie
– growth hormone
– Gräfenberg spot – Ernst Gräfenberg
– guevedoce – guiche
– guiche piercing
– gukuna imishino – GUM clinic – gynae – gynaecology
– gynandromorph
– gynandry – gynecaeum – gynecologic hemorrhage
– gynecology – gynecomania – gynecomastia
– gynecomimetic – gynemimesis – gynemimetophile – gynemimetophilia – gynophilia – gynophobia
– hafada piercing
– hair fetishism – hallucinosis – hand job – hand relief – hand-holding – handballing
– handfasting
– handicap fetishism – handjob
– handkerchief code
– Happy Endings?
– happy finish
– hard-on – hardcore pornography
– harem
– harem effect
– harm reduction
– harmatophilia – Harmful to Minors
– harnesses
– harpaxophilia – Hart's Line
– health benefits of sex – heavy petting – hebephilia
– hedonism
– Hegar's sign
– hematocolpos
– hematometra
– hemophilia – hen party
– henogamy
– Hentai
– Hepatitis
– Hepatitis A
– Hepatitis B – Hepatitis C
– Hepatitis D
– Hepatitis E
– Hepatitis G – Gilbert Herdt
– hermaphrodite
– hermaphroditism – herpes – Herpes simplex type II – Herpes simplex virus
– Preben Hertoft
– hetaera
– hetaerae – heterocentrism – heteroflexible
– heteronormativity
– heterophilia – heterosexual – heterosexualism
– heterosexuality
– heterosexual-homosexual continuum
– hierodule
– hierogamy – hierophilia
– Hieros Gamos
– hieros gamos
– high-class prostitute – high-class prostitution – hijra – Hindu marriage customs – Hindu view of marriage – Hindu views of homosexuality – hippocampus
– Hippocrates
– Magnus Hirschfeld
– hirsuties papillaris genitalis
– hirsuties papillaris penis – hirsuties papillaris vulvae – hirsutism
– Hispanic marriage customs – histocompatibility
– history of sex – The History of Sexuality
– hitch a ride by flaunting - HIV
– HIV test
– HIV+ – HIV-positive – HIV/AIDS – HIV/AIDS in Africa
– HIV/AIDS in Asia
– HIV/AIDS in Central Asia – HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China – HIV/AIDS in the Republic of China – HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe – HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia – HIV/AIDS in India
– HIV/AIDS in Latin America
– HIV/AIDS in Oceania – HIV/AIDS in Russia
– HIV/AIDS in Taiwan
– HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
– HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation – HIV/AIDS in the United States
– HIV/AIDS in Western Europe
– hodophilia – hogging – hogtie bondage
– holding hands
– Xaviera Hollander – homicidophilia – homilophilia – homoeroticism
– homoerotophobia – homogamy
– homologue
– homology (biology)
– homomasculinity – homophile
– homophobia
– homosexology – homosexual – homosexual transsexual – homosexualism – homosexuality
– homosexuality and Christianity
– homosexuality in Africa – homosexuality in China
– homosexuality in India
– homosexuality in Japan
– homosexuality in Latin America – homosocial
– homosociality
– honeymoon
– honor killing
– hood piercing
– hooker – hookup
– hormonal cyclicity – hormone
– hormone blockers – hormone replacement therapy – hormone therapy
– hormonodynamics – hot flashes – hot wax
– hotwife – HRT – human branding
– human chorionic gonadotropin
– human female sexuality
– Human Immunodeficiency Virus – human male sexuality
– human papillomavirus
– human pony – human seminal plasma hypersensitivity – human sexual behavior
– Human Sexual Inadequacy – Human Sexual Response – human sexual response cycle
– human sexuality
– humbler (BDSM) – humiliation
– Huntington's chorea – hustler
– hybridization – hybristophilia
– hydatiform mole – hydrocele
– hydrosalpinx
– hygiene
– hygrophilia – hymen
– hymenal remnants – hymenorrhaphy
– hymenotomy
– hyperactivation
– hypergyny – hypermasculinity
– hypermasculinity theory of male homosexuality – hyperorgasmia – hyperparathyroidism
– hyperphilia – hypersexuality
– hyphephilia – hypnosis
– hypoandrogenic state – hypoandrogenism – hypogonadism
– hypophilia – hypopituitarism
– hypospadias
– hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis
– hypothalamus
– hypothyroidism
– hypoxyphilia – hysterectomy
– hysteria
– hysterical pregnancy – hysterotomy
–
– Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique
– idealization of romantic love – identical twins – idiographic – idiopathic
– idiopathic adolescent gynecomastia – illegal sex – illegitimacy – illegitimate child – image club
– Imaginative Sex
– immissio penis – immunocontraception
– imperforate hymen – impersonator
– Implanon
– impotence – impotentia coeundi – impotentia procreandi – impregnation – imprinting – imsak (sexual technique) – in flagrante – in flagrante delicto
– in vitro fertilisation
– in vitro fertilization – incest
– incontinence
– incubus
– indecent exposure
– Indian marriage customs – indolamine – infancy – infantilism – infantophilia – infatuation
– infertility
– infibulation
– infidelity
– inflatable doll – inflatable fetishism – inflation fetishism – informed consent
– infundibulum of uterine tube
– inhibited orgasm – inhibited sexual desire
– Inis Beag
– innate bisexuality
– insect fetish – insemination
– insertion fantasy – Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
– Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
– insufflation
– interaxillary intercourse – intercourse
– intercrural intercourse – interfemoral intercourse – intergenerational – interlabial sulci
– intermammary intercourse – intermarriage – intermediate part of male urethra – internal orifice of the uterus
– internal pudendal artery
– internal spermatic fascia
– internal urethral orifice
– internalized homophobia – International Academy of Sex Research
– International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
– Internet pornography
– interoceptive – interracial pornography – interreligious marriage
– interrogation scene
– intersex
– Intersex Society of North America
– intersexuality – interstitial cell stimulating hormone – intimacy – intimacy-avoidancy – intimate examination
– intimate relationship
– intracavernosal injection
– intracytoplasmic sperm injection
– intrauterine device
– introitus
– intromission – Inuit marriage customs – Inuit wedding – inunction – invert
– inviolacy – involuntary celibacy
– involuntary sterilization – irrumatio
– irrumation – Isabella piercing
– ischiocavernosus muscle
– Islamic marriage customs – Islamic view of marriage – Islamic views of homosexuality – isthmus of uterine tube
– IUD – IUS
– IVF –
– Japanese marriage customs – Japanese wedding
– jealousy
– jello wrestling – jelqing – jewelry – Jewish marriage customs – Jewish view of marriage
– Jewish views of homosexuality – Jewish wedding
– jinetera – jineterismo
– jism
– jock itch
– john (prostitution) – johnny-bag – V. E. Johnson – Virginia Eshelman Johnson – Georgeanna S. Jones – Christine Jorgensen
– Journal of Sex Research
– The Joy of Sex
– jumping the broom
– jus primae noctis – Justine – juvenilism –
– kabazzah – kagema
– Kali's teeth bracelet – Kallmann's syndrome – Kama Sutra
– Kamashastra
– Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome – karezza – karwa chauth
– karyotype
– kathoey
– Kegel exercise
– Kegel exerciser – Arnold Kegel
– kept woman – kerb crawler
– kerb crawling – kerb-crawler – kerb-crawling – ketubah
– khanith
– kink (sexual)
– kink
y – kinky sex – Kinsey Institute – Kinsey Reports
– Kinsey scale
– Alfred Kinsey
– kiss
– kissing booth
- Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
– kleptolagnia
– kleptomania
– Klinefelter's syndrome
– Klinefelter syndrome – klismaphilia
– klismophilia – klysmaphilia – knife play
– knismolagnia – Oswalt Kolle
– Robert C. Kolodny
– koro (sexual disorder) – kothi (transgender) – Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
– Friedrich Salomon Krauss
– Krukenberg tumor
– kundalini
– kynodesme
– köçek
–
– labia (genitalia) – labia majora
– labia minora
– labia minora reduction – labia piercing
– labia reduction – labia stretching
– labiocrural fold
– labium (genitalia) – lactation
– lactational amenorrhea method
– lactiferous duct
– lactogenic hormone – lactophilia – Lady Chatterley's Lover
– ladyboy – lagnolalia – lap dancing – laparoscopic surgery
– laparotomy
– latex
– latex clothing
– Latin American marriage customs – lavender marriage
– Lea's Shield – leapfrog sex position – leather culture – leather fetishism – left-handed marriage – leg spreader – legalized prostitution – legbrace fascination – lena (sexology) – leno (sexology) – lent challenge – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
– leptosadism
– lesbian
– lesbian bed death
– lesbianism – lesbian utopia
– Simon LeVay
– levirate marriage
– Leydig cell
– LGBT
– LGV
– LHRH – libidinal bond – libido
– lichen sclerosus et atrophicus – lie back and think of England
– life partner
– limbic system
– limerence
– line marriage – linea nigra – lingam
– lipstick fetish – lipstick lesbian
– List of Japanese sex terms – list of phobias – list of sex positions – List of transgender-related topics – live-in relationship – lobules of testis
– lochia
– lock and key party – loli-con – Lolita complex – long-distance relationship
– loop electrical excision procedure
– lordosis
– lordosis behavior
– lorum
– losing your virginity – loss of virginity – lot lizard – lothario
– love
– love at first sight
– love addiction
– love and marriage
– love egg
– love hotel
– love map – love pillow
– love potion – love slave
– love-bite – love-shyness
– loveblot – lovemaking – lovemap
– lovemap displacement – lovemap inclusion – lover
– Lovers' lane - lovesickness
– Loving Female Authority – Loving v. Virginia
– lubricant
– Lucky Pierre – lues – lust
– lust murder
– luteinizing hormone
– Lymphogranuloma venereum
– Lysistrata
–
– machismo
– macroorchidism
– macrophilia
– madonna-whore complex
– maid of honor – maiden
– maidenhead
– maiesiophilia – maieusiophilia – mail-order bride
– major vestibular glands – make-out slut – makeup – makeup sex - make a pass – mala badal
– male
– male chauvinism – male circumcision – male dominant sex position – male ejaculation – male gaze – male hermaphroditism – male lactation
– male menopause – male Pill – male prostitute – male prostitution
– male rape – male reproductive system (human)
– maledom – maleness – mammae – mammal
– mammary gland
– mammary intercourse
– manic-depressive hypersexuality – Thaddeus Mann
– manual genital stimulation – manual-genital stimulation – marianismo
– marital aid – marital arts – marital bed – marital rape – marital status
– maritate – marriage
– marriage banquet – marriage by abduction – marriage by capture – marriage ceremony – marriage contract – marriage guidance – marriage in South Korea
– marriage license
– marriage of convenience
– marriage strike – marriage vows
– marriageable age
– Married Love
– Mars Bar party – masculinity
– masculinization – mask
– mask fetishism
– mask of pregnancy – masochism – masochist – massage
– massage parlor
– mastectomy
– master – Masters and Johnson
– William Masters and Virginia Johnson – W. H. Masters – William Howell Masters – mastopexy – masturband – masturbation
– masturbation aid – masturbation fantasy – masturbilia – matchmaker
– matriarchy
– matrilinearity – matrilocal residence – matron of honor – Mattachine Society
– Max Marcuse
– May–December marriage – Mayer-Rokitansky syndrome – Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome – meat market (sexuality) – meatal advancement – meatal stenosis
– meatal ulceration – meatitis – meatotomy
– meatus
– mechanism
– mediastinum testis
– medical fetishism
– medical scene – medroxyprogesterone acetate – medulla of ovary
– Meese Commission – megalopenis – melanotan II
– melasma
– melasma praegnans – membrana granulosa
– membrum virile – men on the down-low (DL) – men who have sex with men
– menarche
– menopause
– menstrual
– menstrual cramp – menstrual cup
– menstrual cycle
– menstrual flow – menstrual taboo
– menstruation
– mental disorder – merkin
– mesometrium
– mesosalpinx
– mesovarium
– methyltestosterone
– microorchidism
– micropenis
– microphallus
– microphilia – mid-life crisis
– mifepristone
– mile high club
- military fetishism – milk fetishism – mindfuck
– minor vestibular glands – minotaur
– misattribution of arousal
– miscarriage
– miscegenation
– misogynist – misogyny
– missionary position
– mistress
– misyar marriage – mittelschmerz
– mixed wrestling – mixophilia – mixoscopia – mock execution – Modern Primitives
– modern primitive
s – mole fetishism – Albert Moll – Molluscum contagiosum
– John Money
– Monilia
– monilial vaginitis – monogamous relationship – monogamy
– monopedomania – monorchism
– mons pubis
– mons veneris – morbid jealousy – morganatic marriage
– Mormon marriage – Mormon view of marriage – morning gift – morning-after pill – morning-after-pill – morphophilia – mortality
– morula
– Mother Clap
– motivation theories – mount – mourning clothing – MSM
– mucinous tumor
– mucopurulent cervicitis – mud wrestling
– mujra (courtesan) – mukhannathun
– muliebrity – Müllerian agenesis
– Müllerian duct
– Müllerian duct structures – Müllerian-inhibiting hormone – multipara – multiparous – multiphilia – multiple birth
– multiple orgasm – multiple personality – multiple wedding – multiplexed paraphilia – mummification
– Muslim marriage – Musée de l'Érotisme – music fetish – mut'a marriage – mutilation
– mutta marriage – mutual masturbation – muxe
– Mycoplasma hominis
– myometrium
– mysophilia – ménage à trois
–
– narcissism
– narratophilia
– nasophilia – natal sex – native lovemap – natural birth control – natural childbirth
– natural family planning
– natural law
– navel fetish – navicular fossa of male urethra
– necking
– necrobestiality – necromania
– necrophagia
– necrophilia
– necrosadism – necrozoophilia – needle play – Sheikh Nefzaoui – neg (seduction) – negotiation
– Neisseria gonorrhoeae
– neocortex
– neolocal residence
– neopagan marriage – neopagan views of marriage – neopagan wedding – neopenis – neophalloplasty – neophilia – nepiophilia – nepiphtherosis – NGU – niddah
– nikah
– nipple
– nipple clamps – nipple covers – nipple discharge
– nipple piercing
– nipple reconstruction – nipple tassels – nitrite inhalants – no prostitutes here – no-fault divorce
– no-pan kissa
– nocturnal emission
– non-gonococcal urethritis
– non-specific urethritis – non-western concepts of male sexuality – nonce
– nonmonogamy – norm
– normal (behavior) – normal sexuality – normophilia – normophiliac – Norplant
– nosophilia – NSU
– Nubian wedding – nuclear family
– nude – nude chat – nudism – nudity
– nulligravida – nullipara – nulliparous – nunsploitation
– nutrition and pregnancy
– nymph
– nymphae – nymphectomy – nympholepsy – nymphomania – nymphophilia – nymphotomy
–
– objectum-sexuality – obscene phone call
– Obscene Publications Act
– obscenity
– obstetrics
– obstetrics and gynaecology
– ochlophilia – oculolinctus – oculophilia
– odalisque
– odontophilia – odynorgasmia
– Oedipal conflict – Oedipal fantasy – Oedipus complex
– oestrogen – office affair – old maid's insanity – olfactophilia
– oligospermia
– olisbos – omiai
– omnisexuality – omorashi
– onanie – onanism – ondinisme – one child policy – one-night stand
– onsen geisha
– oogenesis
– open marriage
– ophidicism
– opioid
– opponent-process theory
– opposite sex – oral contraceptive
– oral contraceptive formulations
– oral contraceptive pill – oral intercourse – oral sex
– oral sex during menstruation – oral stage
– orchalgia – orchidectomy – orchidometer
– orchiectomy – orchiopexy
– orgasm
– orgasm control
– orgasm denial – orgasmalgia
– orgasmic dysfuction – orgasmic phase – orgasmic platform
– orgasmic spasm – orgy
– orientalism
– osmolagnia – osphresiolagnia – Othello syndrome – the Other
– outercourse – ovarian cancer
– ovarian cyst
– ovarian follicle
– ovarian ligament
– ovarian reserve
– ovariectomy – ovary
– ovulation
– ovum
– oxygen regulation
– oxytocin
– ozolagnia –
– pain during intercourse – painful ejaculation – painful intercourse – painful ovulation – painful sex – pair-bonding – pairbond – pait likkhi – panderer – pandering
– pansexual – pansexuality
– panty fetishism – panty liner – panty pad – pantyhose fetishism – para 0 – para 1 – paramesonephric ducts – paranymph
– paraphilia
– paraphiliac – paraphilic adolescentilism – paraphilic gerontalism – paraphilic infantilism – paraphilic juvenilism – paraphimosis
– parasympathetic nervous system
– paraurethral glands – parovarium – paroöphoron
– Parsee wedding – Parsi marriage customs – Parsi wedding – parthenogenesis
– parthenos
– partial androgen insensitivity syndrome
– partialism
– partialism (paraphilia) – partible paternity
– party and play
– passivism – pasties
- paternity – paternity suit – pathicus – patriarchy
– patrilocal residence
– pearling
– pearly penile papules – pecattiphilia
– pedal pumping – pederasty
– pediophilia – pedophilia
– pedophilia and sexual orientation – peep show
– Peeping Tom
– peg boy – pegging
– pelvic exam – pelvic examination
– pelvic floor
– pelvic floor muscles – pelvic inflammatory disease
– pelvic malignancy – pelvic pain
– penectomy
– penetration
– penetration phobia – penetration toy – penetrative sexual intercourse – penile anesthesia – penile cancer – penile fracture
– penile inversion – penile ligation – penile plethysmography – penile suspensory ligament – penis
– penis captivus
– penis diameter – penis enlargement
– penis extension – penis girth – penis gourd – penis length – penis modification – penis panic
– penis pump – penis reattachment – penis removal
– penis size – penis sleeve – penis substitute – penis transplantation
– penis width – penoclitoris – peodeiktophilia – peptide hormone
– perceptual image – The Perfumed Garden
– perimenopause – perimetrium
– perineal massage
– perineal raphe
– perineal reflex – perineal urethra
– perineum
– period
– peripheral nervous system
– peritomy
– persistent Müllerian duct syndrome
– persistent sexual arousal syndrome
– persistent soliciting – personal ad – perversion
– pervertible
– pessary
– petite mort – petticoat discipline – petticoat punishment – petticoating – petting – Peyronie disease – phallic stage
– phallic symbol – phallometry – phallophilia – phalloplasty
– phallus
– phantom pregnancy – phenotypic matching – pheromone
– philanderer – philosophy of sex
– phimosis
– phlebotomy
– phobias – phobophilia – phone sex
– Phthirius pubis – phygephilia – phylogeny – physical intimacy
– pick-up artist – pictophilia – picture bride
– pie throwing – piercings – the Pill – pimp
– pinafore eroticism
– pinaforing – pinching – pink salon
– pitching woo – pituitary gland
– pity fuck – placenta
– placental abruption
– Planned Parenthood
– plastic clothing
– plateau phase – Plato's androgyne – Platonic love
– Platonic marriage – Platonic relationship – play (sexology) – play piercing
– playsuit (lingerie)
– plaçage
– plethysmography – plural marriage
– plushophile
– plushophilia – PnP
– podophilia – point of no return
– polyamory
– polyandry
– polyandry in Tibet
– polycystic ovary syndrome
– polyfidelity
– polygamy
– polygynandry
– polygyny
– polyiterophilia – polymastia
– polymorphous perverse – polymorphous perversity
– polythelia – pomosexual – pompoir
– pony boots (fetish footwear) – ponyboy
– ponygirl – poppers
– popping her cherry – population control
– porn star – pornai – pornographic magazine
– pornographic movie
– pornographic novel – pornography
– pornography in Europe – pornography in Japan
– pornography in the United States
– post-coital tristesse
– post-natal depression – post-orgasmic pain – post-partum sex taboo – posterior commissure of labia
– posthumous marriage
– postmasturbatory urine – postpartum examination – potency
– pozcum – pre-eclampsia
– pre-ejaculate
– pre-ejaculatory fluid – pre-marital sex – pre-menstrual tension – pre-op transsexual – precocious puberty
– predicament bondage
– prednisone
– pregnancy
– pregnancy fetishism
– pregnancy over age 50 – Prehn's sign
– preimplantation genetic diagnosis
– premarital intercourse – premature ejaculation
– premature puberty – premenstrual dysphoric disorder
– premenstrual stress syndrome
– prenatal masculinization – prenatal screening – prenatal testing – prenuptial agreement
– prepenetrative orgasm – prepuce – prepuce plasty – preputial plasty – preputial ring – preputial stenosis – preputioplasty
– President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography – priapism
– Priapus
– primatologist – primigravida – Prince Albert piercing
– prince's wand
– Princess Albertina
– prison rape
– prison sexuality
– private dancer
- proceptive phase
– procurer – professional dominant – professional dominatrix – professional submissive
– progesterone
– progesterone only pill
– progestin
– progestin-induced hermaphroditism – progestin-induced virilisation
– progestogen – prohibited degree of kinship
– prolactin
– prolactin-inhibitory factor – promiscuity
– prophylactic – prostaglandins – prostate
– prostate cancer
– prostate massage
– prostate milking – prostate orgasm – prostate specific antigen
– prostate-specific antigen – prostatectomy
– prostatic congestion
– prostatic ducts
– prostatic sinus
– prostatic urethra
– prostatic utricle
– prostatitis
– prosthesis
– prosthetic testis – prosthetics – prostitute – prostitute's maid – prostitutes' maid – prostitution
– prostitution in Africa
– prostitution in ancient Egypt – prostitution in ancient Greece
– prostitution in ancient Rome
– prostitution in Asia – prostitution in Australia
– prostitution in Austria
– prostitution in Canada
– prostitution in China – prostitution in Denmark
– prostitution in Europe
– prostitution in Finland – prostitution in France
– prostitution in Germany
– prostitution in Hong Kong
– prostitution in Iceland
– prostitution in India
– prostitution in Italy
– prostitution in Japan
– prostitution in Latin America – prostitution in Medieval Europe – prostitution in Myanmar – prostitution in Nepal
– prostitution in Nevada
– prostitution in New Zealand
– prostitution in Rhode Island
– prostitution in Russia
– prostitution in Saudi Arabia
– prostitution in South Korea
– prostitution in Sweden
– prostitution in Taiwan
– prostitution in Thailand
– prostitution in the Czech Republic
– prostitution in the Netherlands
– prostitution in the People's Republic of China
– prostitution in the Philippines
– prostitution in the Republic of Ireland
– prostitution in the United Kingdom
– prostitution in the United States
– proxy marriage
– proxy wedding
– prudery – pseudocyesis
– pseudohermaphrodite – pseudohermaphroditism
– pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias
– psychoendocrinology – psychohormonal – psycholagny
– psychomotor epilepsy – Psychopathia Sexualis
– psychopathia transsexualis – psychopathic – psychosexual development
– psychosexual disorder
– psychosexual inversion – psychosexual stages
– psychrophilia – PT-141 – pubertal delay – puberty
– puberty blockers – pubic depilation – pubic dressing – pubic hair
– pubic lice – pubic piercing
– pubic shaving – pubic symphysis
– public nudity
– public sex
– pubococcygeus muscle
– pudenda – pudendal cleft – pudendal nerve
– puerperal psychosis – puerperium – pup-play – purdah
– puritan
– puritanism – purity ring
– putative marriage
– PVC fetishism – pygmalionism – pygophilia – pyromania
– pyrophilia
–
– queer-bashing – quickening
– quickie
– quim –
– ranch (brothel)
– rape
– rape during wartime – rape fantasy
– rape pornography
– rape rack – raphe
– rapism – raptophilia – reach around – reach-around – reacharound – reading the banns – receptive partner – recovery from sexual assault – rectal examination
– rectal foreign body
– rectal foreign object – rectal prolapse
– rectal sex – recto-vaginal fistula – rectocele
– rectovaginal examination – rectovaginal fistula
– rectum
– red shower – red-light district
– reductionism
– reflex anal dilatation
– refractory period
– refusal skills
– registered partnership – regulated prostitution – Wilhelm Reich
– relationship – relationship counseling
– relationship violence – relics – religion and homosexuality – religion and sexuality
– religious aspects of marriage – religious prostitution
– religious views on masturbation
– religious views on sex – rent boy – reparative therapy
– reproduction – reproductive biology
– reproductive health
– reproductive organs – reproductive rights
– reproductive strategy – reproductive system
– reproductive technology
– reproductive tract – reproductive tract obstruction – resolution phase – retained menstruation – retarded ejaculation – rete testis
– retifism – retrocopulation – retroejaculation – retrograde ejaculation
– retroverted uterus
– reverse cowgirl – reverse Prince Albert piercing
– reverse prostitution sting operation – reversible hyposomatotropic dwarfism – RH
– Rh factor
– rhabdophilia – Rhythm Method
– ridged band
– rim-job – rimming – ring gag – ringbearer – ringing – ritual cleanliness – ritual purification
– ritual sex – ritualistic sex act – ritualistic sexual act – ritualistic sexual behavior – roasting (sexual act) – robot fetishism
– robotism – Roland Loomis – role-playing
– Roman marriage – Roman showers – romance
– romance novel
– romance scam
– romantic friendship
– romantic love
– romantic marriage – root of penis
– rough sex
– rough trade
– round ligament of uterus
– Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
– RU-486 – rubber
– rubber clothing – rubber fetishism – rubberism – ruby shower - ruined orgasm –
– S/M – sacred prostitution – Marquis de Sade
– sadism
– sadist – sadomasochism – sadomasochistic sacrifice – safe sex
– safe, sane and consensual – safer sex – safeword
– saliromania – salirophilia
– salpingectomy
– salpingitis
– same-sex marriage
– same-sex partnership – sanitary napkin
– sanitary pad – sanitary towel – sanky-panky
– sapphic – sapphism – saptha padhi – Sarcoptes scabiei
– satan worship – satyr
– satyriasis – saucy seaside postcard - sausage party – scabies
– scarfing – scarification
– scat
– scatology
– scatophilia – scene (BDSM)
– scopophilia
– scoptolagnia – scoptophilia – scratching (sexology) – Screw magazine
– scrotal inflation
– scrotal infusion – scrotal piercing – scrotal stretching – scrotum
– scuba fetishism – second skin – secondary sex characteristic
– secondary virginity – secret vice
– secular law – seduction
– see-through clothing – self-abuse – self-bondage
– self-isolation – semen
– semen allergy – semen swapping – semen-loss anxiety – semen-loss syndrome – semeniferous tubules – seminal colliculus
– seminal plasma – seminal plasma hypersensitivity – seminal vesicle
– seminiferous tubules
– sensate focus – sensate focus exercises – sensate focusing
– sensation play (BDSM)
– sensory compensation – sensory deprivation
– sensory enhancement – sensory overload
– sensuality – separatist feminism
– septa of testis
– septum of the penis
– seraglio
– serendipitous – serial killing – serial monogamy – seronegative – seropositive – serosorting
– serotonin
– serous tumor – Sertoli cell
– Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor – service-oriented – session wrestler
– seven-year itch – sex
– sex act – sex addict – sex addiction – sex adjunctive – sex adventitious – sex aid – sex allergy – sex assignment
– sex boutique – sex change
– sex chromatin – sex client – sex club
– sex coaching – sex compulsion – sex cord-stromal tumor – sex crime – sex derivative – sex diet
– sex doll
– sex drive
– sex education
– sex flush – sex game – sex hormone – sex hormone binding globulin
– sex hotel – sex hotline – sex industry
- sex in space
– sex irreducible – sex machine
– sex magic
– sex magick – sex manual
– sex museum
– sex nexus – sex object – sex of rearing – sex offender
– sex parties – sex position – sex reassignment – sex reassignment surgery
– sex reassignment surgery female-to-male
– sex reassignment surgery male-to-female
– sex restaurant – sex ring – sex role – sex scandal
– sex shop
– sex show
– sex steroid
– sex strike
– sex surrogate – sex symbol
– sex tape – sex therapist – sex therapy
– sex tourism
– sex toy
– sex traffic
– sex trafficking – sex urge – sex with your ex – sex worker
– sex-contact magazine – sex-determining system – sex-hormone therapy – sex-positive
– sex-positive feminism
– Sexaholics Anonymous
– sexercise – sexism
– sexless marriage
– Sexmuseum – sexological education – sexologist – sexology
– sexosophy – sexploitation
– sexsomnia -sexting
– sexual aberration – sexual abstinence
– sexual abuse
– sexual acronyms – sexual act – sexual activities – sexual addiction
– sexual anatomy – sexual anomalies – sexual arousal
– sexual assault
– sexual attraction
– sexual availability – Sexual Behavior in the Human Female – Sexual Behavior in the Human Male – sexual bondage
– sexual characteristics – sexual child abuse – sexual compulsion – Sexual Compulsives Anonymous
– sexual confidence – sexual congress – sexual continence – sexual desire – sexual development – sexual deviancy-- sexual deviant – sexual deviation – sexual differentiation
– sexual dimorphism
– sexual dissatisfaction – sexual drive – sexual dysfunction
– sexual equality – sexual ethics
– sexual ethnology – sexual exploitation
– sexual fantasy
– sexual fetish – sexual fetishism
– sexual fetishist – sexual fidelity – sexual flush – Sexual Freedom Coalition
– sexual frequency – sexual frustration
– sexual game – sexual harassment
– sexual health – sexual health clinic
– sexual history – sexual inadequacy – sexual identity
– sexual intercourse
– sexual intimacy
– sexual inversion
– sexual jealousy
– sexual liberation – sexual lubricant – sexual malfunction – sexual maturation – sexual maturity
– sexual medicine
– sexual misconduct
– sexual morality – sexual mores – sexual network
– sexual norm
– sexual orientation
– Sexual orientation and Wicca – Sexual orientation change efforts
– Sexual Identity Therapy
– sexual outlet – sexual partner
– sexual perversion – sexual perversity – sexual politics
– sexual predator
– sexual problem – sexual prop – sexual prowess – sexual reassignment surgery – sexual rehearsal play – sexual revolution
– sexual ritual
– sexual roleplaying
– sexual sadism – sexual script
– sexual slang
– sexual slavery
– sexual stimulation
– sexual surrogate
– sexual tension
– sexual trophy – sexual violence
– sexuality
– sexuality education – sexuality in older age
– Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
– obsessive-compulsive disorder and sexuality – sexually active – sexually dimorphic nucleus
– sexually transmissible disease – sexually transmitted disease
– sexually violent predator
– sexuoerotic – sexuoerotic body image fixation – sexuoeroticism – shaving (sexology) – shemale
– shidduch
– shim-pua marriage
– shocker (hand gesture)
– shoe dangling – shoe fetishism
– shotacon
– shotgun wedding – showers (sexology) – shunga
– shyness
– side entry missionary position – siderodromophilia – SIECUS – sigheh – significant other
– Volkmar Sigusch
– sildenafil citrate – Silver Ring Thing
– Sin City (description)
– sindoor
– single
– single mother – single parent
– single status affidavit – singles bar
– sinus
– sissy
– sissy boy – sitophilia – situational child molester – situational sexual behaviour – sixty-nine – size queen – Skene's ducts
– Skene's gland
– Skene's glands – Skoptzy
– slap and tickle - slapper – slapping (BDSM)
– slave (BDSM) – sleep sex
– sleeping princess syndrome – sleeping together – sleepsex – sling – sloppy seconds
– slut
– smegma
– smoking fetishism
– smotherbox – snapping pussy – snowballing
– soapland
– social distancing – social host liability
- social vice – Society for Human Sexuality – Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
– sociobiological theories of rape
– sodomy
– sodomy law
– soft butch
– soft chancre – softcore pornography – soggy biscuit
– soiree - soixante-neuf – solicitation
– soliciting – solitary vice – sologamy
– solosexuality – somatic
– somatotropin – somesthetic – somnophilia
– sororal polygyny – sororate marriage
– sounding
– spandex fetishism
– spanking
– Spartan pederasty – spay
– spectrophilia
– speculum
– speed dating
– sperm
– sperm bank
– sperm competition
– sperm count – sperm donation
– sperm donor – sperm motility
– sperm sample – spermatic cord
– spermatic duct – spermatid
– spermatidogenesis
– spermatocele
– spermatocyte
– spermatocytogenesis
– spermatogenesis
– spermatogonium
– spermatophobia – spermatophore
– spermatorrhea
– spermatozoa – spermatozoon
– spermicide
– spermiogenesis
– sphincter
– spinnbarkeit
– spinster
– spin the bottle
- spiritual marriage
– spiritual wifery
– spit roast (sex) – spitting fetishism – splanchnic nerves
– splash conception
– split beaver – splitting
– sploshing – spoiled orgasm – spongy urethra
– spoons position – spousal abuse – spreadeagle
– squashing of the deckchair position – squeeze technique – stag party – stalking
– standing sex position – stapling (sexology) – statutory rape
– STD
– STD clinic – STD testing – steatopygia
– stem pessary – stereocilia (epididymis)
– sterility
– human sterilization (surgical procedure) – steroid hormones – STI – stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilia
– stigmatophilia – stimulus-response theory – Stockholm syndrome
– stocking fetishism – Stonewall riots
– stop and go exercises – stop-start technique – Marie Stopes
– Story of O
– strangling (sexology) – strangulation – strap-on dildo
– Street Offences Act 1959 – street prostitution
– streetwalker – stretching (sexology) – string bondage – strip poker
– strip pub – strip search
– stripping
– stripping fetishism – striptease
– stroma of ovary
– stuffing (fetish) – stuffing (sexology) – subbing – subcutaneous tissue of penis
– subfertility – subincision
– sublimation
– subliminal tape – submission – submission (BDSM) – submissive (BDSM) – subpersonality
– succubus
– sugar daddy – supernumerary nipple
– support group
– surface epithelial-stromal tumor
– surgical fetishism – surrendered wife
– surrogate mother – suspension
– suspensory ligament of the ovary
– suspensory ligament of the penis
– suttee – suturing (sexology) – swara
– swayamvara
– sweetheart
– sweetheart scam – swimsuit fetishism – swing (sexology) – swing club – swinger
– swinging
– swinging both ways – swish
– switch (BDSM)
– switch (sexuality) – sworn virgin
– Swyer syndrome
– Sybian
– sympathetic nervous system
– symphorophilia
– symphysis pubis dysfunction
– symptothermal method – synechial membrane
– syphilis
–
– taboo breaking – talisman
– talking dirty – Tamakeri
– Tamil marriage customs – tampon
– Tanner stage
– Tantra
– Tantric massage – tantric sex – Taoist sexual practices
– taphephilia – tart card
– tattooing – tea room – teabagging
– tearoom – teasing (sexology) – technical virginity – teenage fatherhood – teenage pregnancy
– teledildonics
– telegony
– teleiophilia – telekura
– telephone scatologia – telephone scatophilia – telephone sex – telephonicophilia – tellak – temple prostitute – temporal lobe trauma – temporary marriage – teratophilia – termination of pregnancy – territorial marking – terror play – testes – testicle
– testicular cancer
– testicular feminization – testicular torsion
– testicular-feminizing syndrome – testis – testosterone
– text picture - thalpotentiginy
– theca externa
– theca folliculi – theca interna
– thecoma
– thelarche
– third sex – third-sexer – thong underwear – three letters and six etiquettes – three-legged bloomers – threesome
– threshold
– thrush (infection) – tickling
– tie and tease
– tightlacing
– tit wank – titty fuck
– tomboy
– tongzhi (sexuality) – top (BDSM)
– top (sex) – topping – torture (sexology) – tossed salad – total enclosure fetishism – toucherism – tourniquet
– toxic shock syndrome
– tracheal shave – traditional marriage
– trampling
– tranny
– tranny chaser – transactional sex
– transactional sexual relationship – transexualism – transgender
– transition nuclear protein
– transitioning (transgender)
– transman – transscrotal piercing
– transsexual – transsexualism
– transurethral needle ablation of the prostate
– transurethral resection of the prostate
– transvestic fetishism
– transvestism
– transvestite
– transvestitism – transvestophilia – transwoman – traumatic masturbatory syndrome – Treponema pallidum
– trial marriage – trial separation
– triangle piercing
– triangular theory of love
– tribadism
– Trichomonas vaginalis
– Trichomoniasis
– trichophilia
– triple cock cage – triple cock ring – triple penetration – triple-X syndrome – tripsolagnia – troilism
– Trokosi
– trophy wife
– troubadour
– true hermaphroditism
– True Love Waits
– tubal ligation
– tubal reversal
– tubal sterilization – tubuli seminiferi recti
– TUNA
– tunica albuginea – tunica albuginea (ovaries)
– tunica albuginea (penis)
– tunica albuginea (testicles)
– tunica vaginalis
– tunica vasculosa testis
– tunnel of love
– Tuppy Owens
– turn-off – turn-on
– Turner's syndrome – TURPS
– twins
– two type theory of transsexuality – two-spirit
–
– undescended testicle – undinism – uniform fetish – unintended pregnancy
– unitypic – Universal Declaration of Sexual Rights – unnatural act
– unnatural sex – unprotected sex – unrequited love
– unusual sex acts – uranism – Ureaplasma urealyticum
– ureter
– urethra
– Urethral intercourse
- urethral catheterization – urethral crest
– urethral foreign body insertion – urethral self-instrumentation – urethral sounding
– urethral sponge
– urethral stricture
– urethralism
– urethroplasty
– urethrorectal fistula – urethrotome – urethrotomy
– 'urfi marriage
– urfi marriage – urinary fistula – urinary incontinence
– urinary tract infection
– urine
– urningism – urogenital – urogenital diaphragm
– urogenital folds – urogenital sinus
– urolagnia
– urology
– urophilia – urtication – usus marriage – uterine cancer
– uterine horns
– uterine orgasm – uterus
–
– vagina
– vagina dentata
– vagina envy – vagina masculina – The Vagina Monologues
– vaginal atresia
– vaginal barbell – vaginal bleeding
– vaginal candidiasis – vaginal contraction
– vaginal deodorant
– vaginal dilation – vaginal dilator – vaginal dryness – vaginal examination – vaginal flatulence
– vaginal grip – vaginal fornix
– vaginal lubrication
– vaginal mucus
– vaginal orgasm – vaginal orifice
– vaginal photoplethysmography – vaginal prolapse
– vaginal ring
– vaginal secretion – vaginal sex – vaginal tightening
– vaginismus
– vaginitis
– vaginoplasty
– vampirism – Theodor Hendrik van de Velde – vandalized lovemap – vani
– varicocele
– varicocelectomy – vas deferens
– vasectomy
– vasopressin
– Vatasyana – VCH
– VD
– VD clinic – veil
– vena amoris
– venereal disease – venereology
– Venus (goddess) – Venus in Furs
– vertical clitoral hood piercing – vertigo
– vesiculae seminales – vestibular bulbs
– vestibular glands – viability
– Viagra – vibrator – vicarphilia – victimless crime – Victorianism
– vincilagnia – violent pornography
– Violet wand
– virgin – virginity
– virginity pledge
– virginity test
– virginity testing – virility
– virilization
– visual markers of marital status
– visualization
– void marriage
– voidable marriage
– voiding cystourethrogram
– voluntary sterilization – vomeronasal organ
– vomit
– vorarephilia
– voyeur – voyeurism
– vulva
– vulval anesthesia – vulval vestibule
– vulvectomy
– vulvodynia
– vulvovaginal disorders – vulvovaginal health
– vulvovaginitis – Vātsyāyana
–
– walimah – wanking – waria – Wassermann test
– watersports (sexual practice)
– watta satta
– wax play
– waxing
– wedding
– wedding anniversary
– wedding band – wedding cake
– wedding breakfast
- wedding customs – wedding dance – wedding dress
– wedding feast – wedding gift – wedding invitation
– wedding Mass – wedding music
– wedding reception
– wedding ring
– wedding sari
– wedding song
– wedding superstitions – wedding trends – wedding trip – wedding vows – weekend wedding – weight gain fetishism – weight training (BDSM) – Westermarck effect
– Edward Westermarck – Western blot
– Western marriage customs – Ruth Westheimer
– wet and messy fetishism
– wet dream – wet sari scene
– wetlook
– whipping
– white slavery – white tantrism
– white wedding
– whore – whore house – widow
– widow's weeds – widower – widowhood – wife swapping – wife-capture – Williams Committee – witch's milk – withdrawal method
– wobbly H – Wolffian duct
– woman battering – woman trafficking – womanizer – womanizing – womb – womb envy
– women's liberation – women who have sex with women
– wooer – wooing – World Association for Sexual Health – workplace sexual harassment – world's oldest profession – worship (BDSM) – wrestling (sexology) – WSW
–
– X-linked recessive
– xanith – xenophilia – xenophily
– XO syndrome – XXX syndrome – XXY syndrome – XYY syndrome
–
– yeast infection – yiff – yogic marriage
– yohimbine
– yolk sac tumor – yoni
– yoni worship – yonic – yoshiwara
–
– ZIFT – zina – zipless fuck – zona pellucida
– zooerasty – zoolagnia – zoophilia
– zoophilia and health
– zoosadism
– Zoroastrian marriage customs – Zoroastrian wedding
– zygote
– zygote intra-fallopian transfer –
Sexology
Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behavior, and function. The term does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sex, such as political analysis or social criticism....
, human sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
and marriage
Marriage
Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...
customs, and related topics such as human sexual anatomy, reproductive biology
Reproductive biology
Reproductive biology is a study mainly involving the reproductive system and sex organs. It is closely related to reproductive endocrinology and infertility. also is miotosis and miosis...
, andrology
Andrology
Andrology is the medical specialty that deals with male health, particularly relating to the problems of the male reproductive system and urological problems that are unique to men. It is the counterpart to gynaecology, which deals with medical issues which are specific to the female reproductive...
, gynaecology
Gynaecology
Gynaecology or gynecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system . Literally, outside medicine, it means "the science of women"...
, obstetrics
Obstetrics
Obstetrics is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy , childbirth and the postnatal period...
and, where relevant, anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
.
0–9
17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency
17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase III deficiency is a rare disorder of sexual development affecting testosterone biosynthesis, which can produce impaired virilization of genetically male infants and children and excessive virilization of female adults.It is an autosomal recessive condition and...
– 46,XX – 46,XY – 47,XXX – 47,XXY – 47,XYY – 5-alpha-reductase deficiency
5-alpha-reductase deficiency
5-Alpha-reductase deficiency is an autosomal recessive intersex condition caused by a mutation of the 5-alpha reductase type 2 gene.-Normal function:...
– 69
69 sex position
Sixty-nine or 69, also known by its French name soixante-neuf , is a group of sex positions in which two people align themselves so that each person's mouth is near the other's genitals, simultaneously performing oral sex. The participants are thus mutually inverted like the numerals 6 and 9 in...
–
A
A2MAss to mouth
Ass to mouth is a colloquial term used in pornographic movies. It refers to the withdrawal of a man's penis from the receptive partner's anus followed by the immediate insertion of the penis into the receptive partner's or another partner's mouth....
– A2OGM
Ass to mouth
Ass to mouth is a colloquial term used in pornographic movies. It refers to the withdrawal of a man's penis from the receptive partner's anus followed by the immediate insertion of the penis into the receptive partner's or another partner's mouth....
– abasiophilia
Abasiophilia
Abasiophilia is a psychosexual attraction to people with impaired mobility, especially those who use orthopaedic appliances such as leg braces, orthopedic casts, or wheelchairs...
– ABC strategy
Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom
Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom, also known as the ABC strategy or abstinence-plus sex education, also known as abstinence-based sex education, is a sex education policy based on harm reduction which modifies the approach of abstinence-only sex education by including education about safe sex...
– aberration
Deviance (sociology)
Deviance in a sociological context describes actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules as well as informal violations of social norms...
– abortifacient
Abortifacient
An abortifacient is a substance that induces abortion. Abortifacients for animals that have mated undesirably are known as mismating shots....
– abortion
Abortion
Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced...
– abruptio placentae
Placental abruption
Placental abruption is a complication of pregnancy, wherein the placental lining has separated from the uterus of the mother. It is the most common pathological cause of late pregnancy bleeding. In humans, it refers to the abnormal separation after 20 weeks of gestation and prior to birth...
– abstinence
Abstinence
Abstinence is a voluntary restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure. Most frequently, the term refers to sexual abstinence, or abstention from alcohol or food. The practice can arise from religious prohibitions or practical...
– abstinence movement – abstinence, be faithful, use a condom
Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom
Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom, also known as the ABC strategy or abstinence-plus sex education, also known as abstinence-based sex education, is a sex education policy based on harm reduction which modifies the approach of abstinence-only sex education by including education about safe sex...
– abstinence-only sex education – abstinence-plus sex education – acault – acceleration of physical development – accessory breast
Accessory breast
Accessory breasts, also known as polymastia, supernumerary breasts, or mammae erraticae, is the condition of having an additional breast...
– acmegenesis – acomoclitism – acquaintance rape – acrosomal reaction – acrosome
Acrosome
The acrosome is an organelle that develops over the anterior half of the head in the spermatozoa of many animals. It is a cap-like structure derived from the Golgi apparatus. Acrosome formation is completed during testicular maturation. In Eutherian mammals the acrosome contains digestive enzymes...
– acrotomophilia – act of union
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...
– ACTH
Adrenocorticotropic hormone
Adrenocorticotropic hormone , also known as 'corticotropin', 'Adrenocorticotrophic hormone', is a polypeptide tropic hormone produced and secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. It is an important component of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and is often produced in response to biological...
– acupressure – Adam's apple
Adam's apple
The laryngeal prominence—commonly known as the Adam's Apple—is a feature of the human neck. This lump, or protrusion, is formed by the angle of the thyroid cartilage surrounding the larynx...
– addiction
Substance use disorder
Substance use disorders include substance abuse and substance dependence. In DSM-IV, the conditions are formally diagnosed as one or the other, but it has been proposed that DSM-5 combine the two into a single condition called "Substance-use disorder"....
– adelphic polyandry – adelphogamy
Adelphogamy
Adelphogamy is a form of sexual partnership between sibling eukaryotes, for example in some species of fungi, flowering plants or ants, or in humans. In sociology, the term adelphogamy may also refer to fraternal polyandry....
– adipophilia – adolescence
Adolescence
Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development generally occurring between puberty and legal adulthood , but largely characterized as beginning and ending with the teenage stage...
– adolescent gynecomastia – adrenal cortex
Adrenal cortex
Situated along the perimeter of the adrenal gland, the adrenal cortex mediates the stress response through the production of mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoids, including aldosterone and cortisol respectively. It is also a secondary site of androgen synthesis.-Layers:Notably, the reticularis in...
– adrenal gland
Adrenal gland
In mammals, the adrenal glands are endocrine glands that sit atop the kidneys; in humans, the right suprarenal gland is triangular shaped, while the left suprarenal gland is semilunar shaped...
– adrenocortical hormone
Adrenocortical hormone
Adrenocortical hormones are hormones secreted by the adrenal cortex. They can be grouped into three classes: glucocorticoids, the mineralocorticoids, and the androgens....
– adrenogenital syndrome – adult service provider
Sex industry
The sex industry consists of businesses which either directly or indirectly provide sex-related products and services or adult entertainment...
– adultery
Adultery
Adultery is sexual infidelity to one's spouse, and is a form of extramarital sex. It originally referred only to sex between a woman who was married and a person other than her spouse. Even in cases of separation from one's spouse, an extramarital affair is still considered adultery.Adultery is...
– adulthood – affinity (canon law)
Affinity (canon law)
In Canon law of the Catholic Church, affinity is a relationship which "arises from a valid marriage, even if not consummated, and exists between a man and the blood relatives of the woman and between the woman and the blood relatives of the man."...
– afterbirth – agalmatophilia – agape
Agape
Agape is one of the Greek words translated into English as love, one which became particularly appropriated in Christian theology as the love of God or Christ for mankind. In the New Testament, it refers to the fatherly love of God for humans, as well as the human reciprocal love for God; the term...
– age-oriented pornography – age disparity in sexual relationships
Age disparity in sexual relationships
Age disparity in sexual relationships refers to sexual relations between people with a significant difference in age. Whether these relationships are accepted and the question of what counts as a significant difference in age has varied over time; and varies over cultures, different legal systems,...
– age of consent
Age of consent
While the phrase age of consent typically does not appear in legal statutes, when used in relation to sexual activity, the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts. The European Union calls it the legal age for sexual...
– aging and sexuality – agonophilia
Agonophilia
Agonophilia is the paraphilia involving sexual arousal derived from the act of fighting, or participating in or observing a combat sport, such as wrestling, boxing or kickboxing, martial arts, etc., or from viewing depictions thereof; from the Greek agonos and philia .Agonophilia often also...
– agony aunt – AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
– AIDS in Africa – AIDS in Asia – AIDS in India – AIDS in Latin America – AIDS in the United States – AIDS test – Alberta Eugenics Board
Alberta Eugenics Board
In 1928, the Province of Alberta, Canada, passed legislation that enabled the government to perform involuntary sterilizations on individuals classified as mentally deficient. In order to implement the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta in 1928, a four-person Alberta Eugenics Board was created. ...
– albutophilia – algolagnia
Algolagnia
Algolagnia is a sexual tendency which is defined by deriving sexual pleasure and stimulation from physical pain, often involving an erogenous zone.Studies conducted indicate differences in how the brains of those with algolagnia interpret nerve input....
– algophilia – alienation of affections
Alienation of affections
At common law, alienation of affections is a tort action brought by a deserted spouse against a third party alleged to be responsible for the failure of the marriage...
– alimony
Alimony
Alimony is a U.S. term denoting a legal obligation to provide financial support to one's spouse from the other spouse after marital separation or from the ex-spouse upon divorce...
– alley catting – alliance theory
Alliance theory
The Alliance Theory is the name given to the structural method of studying kinship relations. It finds its origins in Claude Lévi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship , and is opposed to the functionalist theory of Radcliffe-Brown...
– allure
Attractiveness
Attractiveness or attraction refers to a quality that causes an interest or desire in something or someone. The term attraction may also refer to the object of the attraction itself, as in tourist attraction.-Visual attractiveness:...
– altocalciphilia – amateur pornography
Amateur pornography
Amateur pornography is a category of pornography that features models or actors performing without pay, or for whom this material is their first or only paid modeling work. Reality pornography is professionally made porn which seeks to emulate the style of amateur pornography...
– ambiguous genitalia – ambisexual – ambisexuality – amelotasis – amelotatist – amenorrhea – amenorrhoea
Amenorrhoea
Amenorrhoea , amenorrhea , or amenorrhœa, is the absence of a menstrual period in a woman of reproductive age. Physiological states of amenorrhoea are seen during pregnancy and lactation , the latter also forming the basis of a form of contraception known as the lactational amenorrhoea method...
– American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists – amoebiasis
Amoebiasis
Entamebiasis is a term for the infection more commonly known as amoebiasis.It became the preferred term in MeSH in 1991, but the term amoebiasis is used by the World Health Organization and by those working in the field of amoebiasis research....
– amor lesbicus – ampallang piercing – ampulla of ductus deferens
Ampulla of ductus deferens
At the fundus of the bladder the ductus deferens of some mammalian species becomes enlarged and sometimes tortuous. This portion is termed the ampulla....
– ampulla of uterine tube
Ampulla of uterine tube
The ampulla is the second portion of the uterine tube. It is an intermediate dilated portion, which curves over the ovary.It is the most common site of human fertilization.The word ampulla is from Latin for flask....
– amputation fetish
Body integrity identity disorder
Body Integrity Identity Disorder , formerly known as Amputee Identity Disorder, is a psychological disorder wherein sufferers feel they would be happier living as an amputee...
– amputee fetishism
Amputee fetishism
Acrotomophilia , refers to a paraphilia in which an individual expresses strong sexual interest in amputees...
– amputeeism – amputees – amygdala
Amygdala
The ' are almond-shaped groups of nuclei located deep within the medial temporal lobes of the brain in complex vertebrates, including humans. Shown in research to perform a primary role in the processing and memory of emotional reactions, the amygdalae are considered part of the limbic system.-...
– anabolic steroid
Anabolic steroid
Anabolic steroids, technically known as anabolic-androgen steroids or colloquially simply as "steroids", are drugs that mimic the effects of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone in the body. They increase protein synthesis within cells, which results in the buildup of cellular tissue ,...
– anaclitism – anal beads
Anal beads
Anal beads are a sex toy consisting of multiple spheres or balls attached together in series which are continuously inserted through the anus into the rectum and then removed with varying speeds depending on the effect desired...
– anal bleaching
Anal bleaching
Anal bleaching is the process of lightening the color of the skin around the anus. It is done for cosmetic purposes, to make the anus more uniform with the surrounding area....
– anal cancer
Anal cancer
Anal cancer is a type of cancer which arises from the anus, the distal orifice of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a distinct entity from the more common colorectal cancer. The etiology, risk factors, clinical progression, staging, and treatment are all different. Anal cancer is typically a...
– anal contraction – anal insert – anal intercourse – anal jewelry – anal masturbation
Anal masturbation
Anal masturbation is manual erotic stimulation focusing on the anus and rectum. For humans, common methods of anal masturbation include manual stimulation of the anal opening and the insertion of an object or objects such as fingers, feet, fists, phallic shaped items, water play, or sex toys such...
– anal orgasm – anal penetration – anal sex
Anal sex
Anal sex is the sex act in which the penis is inserted into the anus of a sexual partner. The term can also include other sexual acts involving the anus, including pegging, anilingus , fingering, and object insertion.Common misconception describes anal sex as practiced almost exclusively by gay men...
– anal sphincter – anal stage
Anal stage
The anal stage, in Freudian psychology, is the period of human development occurring at about one to two years of age. Around this age, the child begins to toilet train, which brings about the child's fascination in the erogenous zone of the anus...
– anal stretching – anal wart – anal wink
Anal wink
The anal wink, anal reflex, perineal reflex, or anocutaneous reflex is the reflexive contraction of the external anal sphincter upon stroking of the skin around the anus....
– analinctus – analingus – analism – Ananga Ranga
Ananga Ranga
The Ananga Ranga or Kamaledhiplava is an Indian sex manual written by Kalyana malla in the 15th or 16th century. The poet wrote the work in honor of Lad Khan, son of Ahmed Khan Lodi. He was related to the Lodi dynasty, which from 1451 to 1526 ruled from Delhi...
– anasteemaphilia – anasyrma
Anasyrma
Anásyrma , also called anasyrmós, is the gesture of lifting up the skirt or kilt. It is used in connection with certain religious rituals, eroticism, and lewd jokes, see e.g. Baubo. The term is used in describing corresponding works of art...
– anatomy
Anatomy
Anatomy is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy , and plant anatomy...
– Ancient Roman marriage
Ancient Roman marriage
Marriage in ancient Rome had mythical precedents, starting with the abduction of the Sabine Women, which may reflect the archaic custom of bride abduction. Romulus and his band of male immigrants were rejected conubium, the legal right to intermarriage, from the Sabines...
– Androcur – androgen
Androgen
Androgen, also called androgenic hormone or testoid, is the generic term for any natural or synthetic compound, usually a steroid hormone, that stimulates or controls the development and maintenance of male characteristics in vertebrates by binding to androgen receptors...
– androgen ablation – androgen antagonist – androgen insensitivity syndrome
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Androgen insensitivity syndrome is a condition that results in the partial or complete inability of the cell to respond to androgens. The unresponsiveness of the cell to the presence of androgenic hormones can impair or prevent the masculinization of male genitalia in the developing fetus, as...
– androgen replacement therapy
Androgen replacement therapy
Androgen replacement therapy is a hormone treatment often prescribed to counter the effects of male Hypogonadism. It is also prescribed to lessen the effects or delay the onset of normal male aging...
– androgen suppression
Androgen suppression
Androgen suppression, also called androgen ablation or androgen deprivation, is a medical treatment to suppress or block the production or action of male sex hormones, typically in order to attempt to treat certain types of cancer that rely upon male hormones for its growth.This is done by having...
– androgen-induced hermaphroditism
Androgen-induced hermaphroditism
Androgen-induced hermaphroditism is a syndrome resulting from a hermaphroditic birth defect of the genital organs. They are induced in the 46, XX gonadally female fetus. This occurs when there is too much masculinizing hormone transmitted through the placenta. The external genitalia are that of a...
– androgyne – androgynophilia – androgynous – androgyny
Androgyny
Androgyny is a term derived from the Greek words ανήρ, stem ανδρ- and γυνή , referring to the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics...
– androidism – andrology
Andrology
Andrology is the medical specialty that deals with male health, particularly relating to the problems of the male reproductive system and urological problems that are unique to men. It is the counterpart to gynaecology, which deals with medical issues which are specific to the female reproductive...
– andromania – Andromeda
Andromeda (mythology)
Andromeda is a princess from Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster. She was saved from death by Perseus, her future husband. Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδη...
– andromimesis – andromimetic – andromimetophilia – andropause
Andropause
Andropause or male menopause, sometimes colloquially called "man-opause" is a name that has been given to a menopause-like condition in aging men...
– androphilia – androphobia
Androphobia
Androphobia is an abnormal fear of men. The word is derived from the Greek άνδρας and φόβος .:)Androphobia may be related to traumatic events in the sufferer's past...
– androstenedione
Androstenedione
Androstenedione is a 19-carbon steroid hormone produced in the adrenal glands and the gonads as an intermediate step in the biochemical pathway that produces the androgen testosterone and the estrogens estrone and estradiol.-Synthesis:Androstenedione is the common precursor of male and female sex...
– androstenone
Androstenone
Androstenone is a steroid found in both male and female sweat and urine. It is also found in boar's saliva, and in celery cytoplasm. Androstenone was the first mammalian pheromone to be identified. It is found in high concentrations in the saliva of male pigs, and, when sniffed by a female pig...
– anejaculation
Anejaculation
Anejaculation is the pathological inability to ejaculate in males, with or without orgasm.It can depend on one or more of several causes, including ':*Sexual inhibition*Pharmacological inhibition...
– anerotic – anesthesia fetishism – anhedonia
Anhedonia
In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia is defined as the inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, e.g. hobbies, exercise, social interaction or sexual activity....
– anililagnia – anilinctus – anilingus – anima – animal marriage
Animal marriage
Human-animal marriage is not recognized in law by any country.-Cow:* An Indonesian teenager from Bali was forced by village elders to marry a cow after he was caught having sex with it...
– animal transformation fantasy – animus – anisonogamist – Annual Review of Sex Research
Annual Review of Sex Research
The Annual Review of Sex Research was a journal published by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, first produced in 1990. Starting in 2009, issues of the Annual Review were published as special annual issues of the Journal of Sex Research....
– annulment
Annulment
Annulment is a legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void. Unlike divorce, it is usually retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is considered to be invalid from the beginning almost as if it had never taken place...
– anocutaneous reflex – anonymous sex
Anonymous sex
Anonymous sex is a form of one-night stand or casual sex between people who have very little or no history with each other, often engaging in sexual activity on the same day of their meeting and usually never seeing each other again afterwards. The term "cruising for sex" is used to refer to...
– anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Although commonly called "anorexia", that term on its own denotes any symptomatic loss of appetite and is not strictly accurate...
– anorgasmia
Anorgasmia
Anorgasmia, or Coughlan's syndrome, is a type of sexual dysfunction in which a person cannot achieve orgasm, even with adequate stimulation. In males the condition is often related to delayed ejaculation . Anorgasmia can often cause sexual frustration...
– anorgasmic – anovulation
Anovulation
An anovulatory cycle is a menstrual cycle during which the ovaries do not release an oocyte. Therefore, ovulation does not take place. However, a woman who does not ovulate at each menstrual cycle is not necessarily going through menopause...
– anovulatory – antaphrodisiac – anterior commissure of labia – anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
– anthropomorphic cartoons – anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is any attribution of human characteristics to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities. The term was coined in the mid 1700s...
– anthropophagy
Cannibalism
Cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh of other human beings. It is also called anthropophagy...
– Anthropophyteia – anti-marriage law – anti-miscegenation law – anti-pornography movement
Anti-pornography movement
The term anti-pornography movement is used to describe those who argue that pornography has a variety of harmful effects, such as encouragement of human trafficking, desensitization, pedophilia, dehumanization, sexual exploitation, sexual dysfunction, and inability to maintain healthy sexual...
– anti-prostitution movement – antiandrogen
Antiandrogen
Antiandrogens, or androgen antagonists, first discovered in the 1960s, prevent androgens from expressing their biological effects on responsive tissues. Antiandrogens alter the androgen pathway by blocking the appropriate receptors, competing for binding sites on the cell's surface, or affecting...
– anticipatory sororate – anus
Anus
The anus is an opening at the opposite end of an animal's digestive tract from the mouth. Its function is to control the expulsion of feces, unwanted semi-solid matter produced during digestion, which, depending on the type of animal, may be one or more of: matter which the animal cannot digest,...
– apadravya piercing – apartment wrestling – aphallia
Aphallia
Aphallia is a congenital malformity in which the phallus is absent. The word is derived from the Greek "a" for negative or no, and "phallia" for penis.-Incidence/prevalence:...
– aphrodisiac
Aphrodisiac
An aphrodisiac is a substance that increases sexual desire. The name comes from Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of sexuality and love. Throughout history, many foods, drinks, and behaviors have had a reputation for making sex more attainable and/or pleasurable...
– apodysophilia – apophasis
Apophasis
Apophasis refers, in general, to "mention by not mentioning". Apophasis covers a wide variety of figures of speech.-Apophasis:...
– aposthia
Aposthia
Aposthia is a rare congenital condition in humans, in which the foreskin of the penis is missing.Toward the end of the nineteenth century, E. S. Talbot claimed in Medicine that aposthia among Jews was evidence for the now-discredited Lamarckian theory of evolution...
– apotemnophilia
Apotemnophilia
Apotemnophilia is a neurological disorder in which otherwise sane and rational individuals express a strong and specific desire for the amputation of a healthy limb or limbs. It is due to hypothesized damage to the right parietal lobe, as the disorder has features in common with somatoparaphrenia...
– appendix of the epididymis
Appendix of the epididymis
On the head of the epididymis is a small stalked appendage . It is named the appendix of the epididymis , and is usually regarded as a detached efferent duct....
– appendix testis
Appendix testis
The appendix testis is a vestigial remnant of the Müllerian duct, present on the upper pole of the testis and attached to the tunica vaginalis. It is present about 90% of the time.-Clinical significance:...
– aquaphilia – Arab marriage customs – arab strap (sexual device)
Arab strap (sexual device)
An Arab strap is a sexual device, usually made of leather and a metal ring, that is placed around the penis and testicles. This device is usually included in the group of cock rings and cock harnesses usually to play the role of a bondage-type sex toy...
– Archives of Sexual Behavior
Archives of Sexual Behavior
The Archives of Sexual Behavior is a peer-reviewed academic journal in sexology. It is the official publication of the International Academy of Sex Research.- History :...
– Areoi
Areoi
In the Society Islands, the Areoi or Areoiti were a secret society of warriors who styled themselves as descendants of Ora-Tetefa and Uru-Tetefa, two heavenly brothers. Members included both men and women, were chosen from the nobility and were required to abstain from sexual intercourse. They...
– areola
Areola
This article is about the breast tissue. For the entomology term, see the glossary of Lepidopteran terms. For an artistic cloud motif, see aureola. For the cactus feature, see Areole....
– areola mammae – arranged marriage
Arranged marriage
An arranged marriage is a practice in which someone other than the couple getting married makes the selection of the persons to be wed, meanwhile curtailing or avoiding the process of courtship. Such marriages had deep roots in royal and aristocratic families around the world...
– Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria
The Ars amatoria is an instructional love elegy in three books by the Roman poet Ovid, penned around 2 CE. It claims to provide teaching in three areas of general preoccupation: how and where to find women in Rome, how to seduce them, and how to prevent others from stealing them.-Background:After...
– artificial birth control – artificial insemination
Artificial insemination
Artificial insemination, or AI, is the process by which sperm is placed into the reproductive tract of a female for the purpose of impregnating the female by using means other than sexual intercourse or natural insemination...
– artificial insemination by donor – artificial vagina
Artificial vagina
An artificial vagina is a device designed to imitate the female sex organ. To achieve this, it will generally be made of a soft material, lubricated, and sometimes heated...
– asceticism
Asceticism
Asceticism describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals...
– asexual – asexuality
Asexuality
Asexuality , in its broadest sense, is the lack of sexual attraction and, in some cases, the lack of interest in sex. Sometimes, it is considered a lack of a sexual orientation...
– asian fetish
Asian fetish
Asian fetish is a slang term which usually refers to an interest, attraction or preference for people, culture, or things of Asian origin by those of non-Asian descent...
– aspermatism – aspermia
Aspermia
Aspermia is the complete lack of semen . Naturally, it is associated with infertility....
– asphyxiaphilia – asphyxiophilia – ass to mouth
Ass to mouth
Ass to mouth is a colloquial term used in pornographic movies. It refers to the withdrawal of a man's penis from the receptive partner's anus followed by the immediate insertion of the penis into the receptive partner's or another partner's mouth....
– assortative mating
Assortative mating
Assortative mating , and the related concept Disassortative mating, is the phenomenon where a sexually reproducing organism chooses to mate with individuals that are similar or dissimilar to itself in some specific manner...
– Astroglide
Astroglide
Astroglide is a brand of personal lubricant manufactured by BioFilm Inc of Vista, California.The inventors of Astroglide, Daniel Wray and Erich Drafahl, formulated it while working on the cooling system of a space shuttle at Edwards Air Force Base in 1977. This association with aerospace was...
– atonement – attachment disorder
Attachment disorder
Attachment disorder is a broad term intended to describe disorders of mood, behavior, and social relationships arising from a failure to form normal attachments to primary care giving figures in early childhood, resulting in problematic social expectations and behaviors...
– attachment insecurity – attraction to disability
Attraction to disability
Attraction to disability is a sexualised interest of people in the appearance, sensation and experience of disability. It may extend from normal human sexuality into a type of sexual fetishism...
– atypical gender role
Atypical gender role
Gender role is a term used in the social sciences and humanities to denote a set of behavioral norms associated with a given gendered status in a given social group or system...
– auctions – auspicious wedding date
Auspicious wedding date
A number of cultures, including the Chinese and Hindu cultures, favor particular auspicious dates for weddings. Auspicious days may also be chosen for the dates of betrothals...
– autagonistophilia
Autagonistophilia
Autagonistophilia is a paraphilia. Campbell, in his Psychiatric Dictionary describes it as, "a paraphilia in which sexual arousal and orgasm are contingent upon displaying one's self in a live show, i.e., being observed performing on stage or on camera." In his 1999 book, The Clinical Lacan, Joel...
– autassassinophilia
Autassassinophilia
Autassassinophilia is a paraphilia in which a person is sexually aroused by the risk of being killed. The fetish may overlap with some other fetishes that risk one's life, such as those involving drowning or choking.- External links :...
– autoabasiophilia – autoagonistophilia – autoassassinophilia – autoerotic – autoerotic asphyxia – autoerotic death – autoerotic fatalities – autoerotica – autoeroticism
Autoeroticism
Autoeroticism is the practice of stimulating oneself sexually. The term was popularized toward the end of the 19th century by British sexologist Havelock Ellis, who defined autoeroticism as "the phenomena of spontaneous sexual emotion generated in the absence of an external stimulus proceeding,...
– autofellatio
Autofellatio
Autofellatio is the act of oral stimulation of one's own penis as a form of masturbation. It is physically possible for men who have sufficient flexibility, penis size or a combination of the two to perform autofellatio...
– autoflagellation – autogynephilia – autogynephilic – automasochism – automonosexualism – autonepiophilia – autonomic nervous system
Autonomic nervous system
The autonomic nervous system is the part of the peripheral nervous system that acts as a control system functioning largely below the level of consciousness, and controls visceral functions. The ANS affects heart rate, digestion, respiration rate, salivation, perspiration, diameter of the pupils,...
– autopederasty – autophilia – autosadism
Autosadism
Autosadism, or automasochism is behaviour inflicting pain or humiliation on oneself; it may be related to self-harm or a paraphilia involving sexual arousal. It can be viewed as a form of masochism, a sublimated form of sadism, or a means to experiencing algolagnia, a sexual tendency which is...
– autosexuality – aversion therapy
Aversion therapy
Aversion therapy is a form of psychological treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously being subjected to some form of discomfort...
– avisodomy – avunculocal residence – axillary intercourse – axillism – axon
Axon
An axon is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body or soma....
– azoospermia
Azoospermia
Azoospermia is the medical condition of a male not having any measurable level of sperm in his semen. It is associated with very low levels of fertility or even sterility, but many forms are amenable to medical treatment...
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B
baccháBacchá
Bacha Bazi , also known as bacchá or bacha bereesh is sexual slavery and child prostitution in which prepubescent and adolescent boys are sold to wealthy or powerful men for entertainment...
– bachelor
Bachelor
A bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been married . Unlike his female counterpart, the spinster, a bachelor may have had children...
– bachelor party
Bachelor party
A bachelor party , also known as a stag party, stag night or stag do , a bull's party , or a buck's party or buck's night , is a party held for a man shortly before he enters marriage, to celebrate his "last night of freedom" or merely to spend...
– bachelorette
Bachelorette
Bachelorette is an American English term for an unmarried woman. The term is derived from the word bachelor, and is often used by journalists, editors of popular magazines, and some individuals. "Bachelorette" was famously the term used to refer to female contestants on the old Dating Game TV...
– backroom – bacterial vaginosis
Bacterial vaginosis
Bacterial vaginosis or less commonly vaginal bacteriosis is a disease of the vagina caused by bacteria. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states it is not clear what role sexual activity plays in the development. However, it is known that BV is associated with having a new sex...
– badger game
Badger game
The badger game is an extortion scheme, often perpetrated on married men, in which the victim or "mark" is tricked into a compromising position to make him vulnerable to blackmail....
– Bahá'í marriage
Bahá'í marriage
Bahá'í marriage is union of a man and a woman. Its purpose is mainly spiritual and is to foster harmony, fellowship and unity between the two partners...
– balanitis
Balanitis
Balanitis is inflammation of the glans penis . When the foreskin is also affected, it is termed balanoposthitis....
– ball gag – ball stretcher – ballbusting – ballet boots – bann
Banns of marriage
The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as the "banns" or "bans" are the public announcement in a Christian parish church of an impending marriage between two specified persons...
– barebacking
Barebacking
Bareback is a slang term to describe acts of sexual penetration without the use of a condom.The term comes from the equestrian term bareback, which refers to the practice of riding a horse without a saddle...
– barfine – Barr body
Barr body
A Barr body is the inactive X chromosome in a female somatic cell, rendered inactive in a process called lyonization, in those species in which sex is determined by the presence of the Y or W chromosome rather than the diploidy of the X or Z...
– barrier contraception
Barrier contraception
Barrier contraception methods prevent pregnancy by physically preventing sperm from entering the uterus.-History:The earliest recorded barrier methods are those of stem pessaries, found in Egypt. The diaphragm and reusable condoms became common after the invention of rubber vulcanization in the...
– barrier method – Bartholin's abscess – Bartholin's cyst
Bartholin's cyst
A Bartholin's cyst is formed when a Bartholin's gland is blocked, causing a fluid-filled cyst to develop. A Bartholin's cyst is not an infection, although it can be caused by an infection, inflammation, or physical blockage to the Bartholin's ducts . If infection sets in, the result is a...
– Bartholin's ducts – Bartholin's gland
Bartholin's gland
The Bartholin's glands are two glands located slightly posterior and to the left and right of the opening of the vagina. They secrete mucus to lubricate the vagina and are homologous to bulbourethral glands in males...
– basal body temperature
Basal body temperature
Basal body temperature is the lowest temperature attained by the body during rest . It is generally measured immediately after awakening and before any physical activity has been undertaken, although the temperature measured at that time is somewhat higher than the true basal body temperature...
– basal temperature – bastard – bastardy – bath house
Gay bathhouse
Gay bathhouses, also known as gay saunas or steam baths, are commercial bathhouses for men to have sex with other men. In gay slang in some regions these venues are also known colloquially as "the baths" or "the tubs," and should not be confused with public bathing.Not all men who visit gay...
– BDSM
BDSM
BDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...
– bear community
Bear community
"Bear" is a LGBT slang term that refers to members of a subculture in the homosexual and bisexual male communities and to an emerging subset of LGBT communities with events, codes, and a culture-specific identity...
– beard (female companion)
Beard (female companion)
Beard is a slang term describing a person who is used, knowingly or unknowingly, as a date, romantic partner , or spouse either to conceal infidelity or to conceal one's sexual orientation...
– beau – behavioral imprinting – belly dancing – belonephilia – Ben Wa balls
Ben Wa balls
Ben Wa balls, also known as Burmese bells, Benoît balls, Orgasm balls, Venus balls or Geisha balls are small, marble-sized metal balls, usually hollow and containing a small weight that rolls around—used for sexual stimulation . Some may also be solid, or contain clappers or chimes within...
– benign prostatic hyperplasia
Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Benign prostatic hyperplasia also known as benign prostatic hypertrophy , benign enlargement of the prostate , and adenofibromyomatous hyperplasia, refers to the increase in size of the prostate....
– benign prostatic hypertrophy – Benjamin scale
Benjamin scale
Harry Benjamin's Sex Orientation Scale was an attempt to classify and understand various forms and subtypes of transvestism and transsexualism in biological males...
– Harry Benjamin
Harry Benjamin
Harry Benjamin was a German endocrinologist, widely known for his clinical work with transsexualism. He was raised in an observant Ashkenazy Jewish home.- Early life and career :...
– berdache – Berkley Horse
Berkley Horse
The Berkley Horse is a BDSM apparatus, supposedly designed for, or by, Theresa Berkley in 1828. She referred to it as a "chevalet".According to the account of Henry Spencer Ashbee:He continues:...
– Theresa Berkley
Theresa Berkley
Theresa Berkley or Berkeley was a 19th-century English dominatrix who ran a brothel in Hallam Street, just to the east of Portland Place, Marylebone, London, specialising in flagellation...
– best man – bestiality – beta-lipotropin – betrothal – betrothal gift – bi-curious
Bi-curious
Bi-curious is a term used to refer to people of a heterosexual or homosexual identity who, while showing some curiosity for a relationship or sexual activity with a person of the sex they do not favor, distinguish themselves from the bisexual label. The term is sometimes used to describe a broad...
– bi-sexualism – bi-sexuality – biastophilia
Biastophilia
Biastophilia and its Latin language-derived counterpart, raptophilia , also paraphilic rape, refer to a paraphilia in which sexual arousal is dependent on, or is responsive to, the act of assaulting an unconsenting person, especially a stranger.Some dictionaries consider the terms synonymous,...
– bidet
Bidet
A bidet is a low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the genitalia, inner buttocks, and anus. It was originally a French word.-History:...
– bigamist – bigamy
Bigamy
In cultures that practice marital monogamy, bigamy is the act of entering into a marriage with one person while still legally married to another. Bigamy is a crime in most western countries, and when it occurs in this context often neither the first nor second spouse is aware of the other...
– Billings ovulation method
Billings ovulation method
The Billings Ovulation Method is a method which women use to monitor their fertility, by identifying when they are fertile and when they are infertile during each menstrual cycle. Users pay attention to the sensation at their vulva, and the appearance of any vaginal discharge...
– bilocal residence – bindings (sexology) – biogenic amine
Biogenic amine
-Examples:Some prominent examples of biogenic amines include:* Histamine - a substance derived from the amino acid histidine that acts as a neurotransmitter mediating arousal and attention, as well as a pro-inflammatory signal released from mast cells in response to allergic reactions or tissue...
– biorhythm
Biorhythm
Biorhythm is an attempt to predict various aspects of a person's life through simple mathematical cycles. Most scientists believe that the idea has no more predictive power than raw chance, and consider the concept an example of pseudoscience.-Beliefs:...
– bipara – biparous – birth control
Birth control
Birth control is an umbrella term for several techniques and methods used to prevent fertilization or to interrupt pregnancy at various stages. Birth control techniques and methods include contraception , contragestion and abortion...
– bisexuality
Bisexuality
Bisexuality is sexual behavior or an orientation involving physical or romantic attraction to both males and females, especially with regard to men and women. It is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation, along with a heterosexual and a homosexual orientation, all a part of the...
– bit gag – biting (sexology) – blackroom (gay club) – Ray Blanchard
Ray Blanchard
Ray Milton Blanchard is an American-Canadian sexologist, best known for his research studies on pedophilia, gender dysphoria, and sexual orientation. He has also published research studies on phallometry and several paraphilias, including transvestism and autoerotic asphyxia.-Education and...
– blanket sleeper fetish – blastocyst
Blastocyst
The blastocyst is a structure formed in the early embryogenesis of mammals, after the formation of the morula. It is a specifically mammalian example of a blastula. It possesses an inner cell mass , or embryoblast, which subsequently forms the embryo, and an outer layer of cells, or trophoblast,...
– blastula
Blastula
The blastula is a hollow sphere of cells formed during an early stage of embryonic development in animals . The blastula is created when the zygote undergoes the cell division process known as cleavage. The blastula is preceded by the morula and is followed by the gastrula in the developmental...
– blended orgasm – blindfold
Blindfold
A blindfold is a garment, usually of cloth, tied to one's head to cover the eyes to disable the wearer's sight. It can be worn when the eyes are in a closed state and thus prevents the wearer from opening them...
– blindfolding (sexology) – blitz rape – Iwan Bloch
Iwan Bloch
Iwan Bloch was a Berlin dermatologist.Born in Delmenhorst, Germany, he is often called the first sexologist. He discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom, which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugène Dühren in 1904...
– blood fetish
Blood fetish
Blood fetishism or hematolagnia may refer to* sexual interest or paraphilia for blood in clinical vampirism, or within BDSM or vampire lifestyle...
– blood sport (BDSM) – blood test
Blood test
A blood test is a laboratory analysis performed on a blood sample that is usually extracted from a vein in the arm using a needle, or via fingerprick....
– blood-testis barrier
Blood-testis barrier
The blood–testis barrier is a physical barrier between the blood vessels and the seminiferous tubules of the animal testes...
– blow job – blow-job – blue balls
Blue balls
Blue balls is a slang term for the condition of temporary fluid congestion in the testicles and prostate region, accompanied by acute testicular pain, caused by prolonged and unsatisfied sexual arousal in the human male. The term is thought to have originated in the United States, first appearing...
– bodice-ripper – body dysmorphic disorder
Body dysmorphic disorder
Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a type of mental illness, a somatoform disorder, wherein the affected person is exclusively concerned with body image, manifested as excessive concern about and preoccupation with a perceived defect of his or her physical features...
– body fluid – body hair – body image fixation – Body integrity identity disorder
Body integrity identity disorder
Body Integrity Identity Disorder , formerly known as Amputee Identity Disorder, is a psychological disorder wherein sufferers feel they would be happier living as an amputee...
– body integrity identity disorder
Body integrity identity disorder
Body Integrity Identity Disorder , formerly known as Amputee Identity Disorder, is a psychological disorder wherein sufferers feel they would be happier living as an amputee...
– body modification
Body modification
Body modification is the deliberate altering of the human body for any non-medical reason, such as aesthetics, sexual enhancement, a rite of passage, religious reasons, to display group membership or affiliation, to create body art, shock value, or self expression...
– body of penis
Body of penis
The body of the penis extends from the root to the ends of the corpora cavernosa penis, and in it these corpora cavernosa are intimately bound to one another....
– body painting
Body painting
Body painting, or sometimes bodypainting, is a form of body art. Unlike tattoo and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, painted onto the human skin, and lasts for only several hours, or at most a couple of weeks. Body painting that is limited to the face is known as face painting...
– body piercing
Body piercing
Body piercing, a form of body modification, is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn. The word piercing can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to an opening in the body created by this act or practice...
– body worship
Body worship
Body worship is any practice of physically reverencing a part of another person's body, and is usually done as a submissive act in the context of BDSM. Typical kinds of body worship are muscle worship, foot worship, penis worship, vagina worship, and ass worship...
– bondage
Bondage (BDSM)
Bondage is the use of restraints for the sexual pleasure of the parties involved. It may be used in its own right, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage, or as part of sexual activity or BDSM activity.- Private bondage :...
– bondage and discipline – bondage harness
Bondage harness
A bondage harness is a piece of BDSM equipment worn for the purposes of sexual bondage. It typically consists of a series of leather straps, typically between 1 and 2 cm wide, attached together in such a way as to allow a person to "wear" the item. The item can be worn by both men and women...
– bondage hood – bonobo
Bonobo
The bonobo , Pan paniscus, previously called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan. The other species in genus Pan is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee...
– boot fetishism – booty call – bordello – borderline self-mutilator – Ernest Borneman
Ernest Borneman
Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, jazz musician, jazz critic, psychoanalyst, sexologist, and committed socialist. All these diverse interests, he claimed, had a common root in his lifelong insatiable curiosity...
– Boston marriage
Boston marriage
Boston marriage as a term is said to have been in use in New England in the decades spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries to describe two women living together, independent of financial support from a man. The term was little known until the debut in 2000 of the David Mamet play of the...
– bottom
Buttocks
The buttocks are two rounded portions of the anatomy, located on the posterior of the pelvic region of apes and humans, and many other bipeds or quadrupeds, and comprise a layer of fat superimposed on the gluteus maximus and gluteus medius muscles. Physiologically, the buttocks enable weight to...
– bottom (BDSM)
Bottom (BDSM)
In BDSM, a bottom or submissive is the partner in a BDSM relationship or a BDSM scene who takes the passive, receiving, or obedient role, to that of the top or dominant....
– bottom (sex) – bottoming – boyfriend
Boyfriend
A boyfriend is a person's regular male companion in a romantic or sexual relationship, although normally not in long-term committed relationships, where other titles A boyfriend is a person's regular male companion in a romantic or sexual relationship, although normally not in long-term committed...
– bra
Brassiere
A brassiere is an undergarment that covers, supports, and elevates the breasts. Since the late 19th century, it has replaced the corset as the most widely accepted method for supporting breasts....
– brachio-rectal sex – brachioproctic eroticism – brachiovaginal eroticism – bradycubia – branding persons – brassiere
Brassiere
A brassiere is an undergarment that covers, supports, and elevates the breasts. Since the late 19th century, it has replaced the corset as the most widely accepted method for supporting breasts....
– breaking the hymen – breaking the wine glass – breakthrough bleeding
Breakthrough bleeding
Breakthrough bleeding is an abnormal uterine bleeding that occurs between menstrual periods, especially due to irregular sloughing of the endometrium in women on combined oral contraceptives...
– breast
Breast
The breast is the upper ventral region of the torso of a primate, in left and right sides, which in a female contains the mammary gland that secretes milk used to feed infants.Both men and women develop breasts from the same embryological tissues...
– breast augmentation
Breast augmentation
Breast augmentation denotes the breast implant and fat-graft mammoplasty procedures for correcting the defects, and for enhancing the size, form, and feel of a woman’s breasts...
– breast cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
– breast expansion fetishism – breast implant – breast ironing
Breast ironing
Breast ironing is the pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl's breasts using heated objects in an attempt to make them stop developing or disappear...
– breast reduction
Breast reduction
Reduction mammoplasty is the plastic surgery procedure for correcting over-sized breasts...
– breast shaping – breath control play – breech birth
Breech birth
A breech birth is the birth of a baby from a breech presentation. In the breech presentation the baby enters the birth canal with the buttocks or feet first as opposed to the normal head first presentation....
– breeder (slang)
Breeder (slang)
"Breeder" is a denigrating term for heterosexuals used in LGBT slang. It is often used pejoratively.The use in homosexual groups is drawn from the fact that their sexual activity cannot lead to reproduction, where as heterosexual sexual intercourse can, with implicit mocking by connotation of...
– bremelanotide
Bremelanotide
Bremelanotide is a compound under drug development by Palatin Technologies as a treatment for hemorrhagic shock and reperfusion injury...
– Brenner tumor – bridal night – bridal sedan – bridal shower
Bridal shower
A bridal shower is a gift-giving party held for a bride-to-be in anticipation of her wedding. The custom originated in the 1890s and is today most common in the United States, Canada, and by North American influence, in Australia....
– bride
Bride
A bride is a woman about to be married or newlywed.The word may come from the Proto-Germanic verb root *brū-, meaning 'to cook, brew, or make a broth' which was the role of the daughter-in-law in primitive families...
– bride burning
Bride burning
Bride-burning is a form of domestic violence practiced in India and Pakistan. It is not the same as ancient and long abolished custom of Sati, where widowed women were forcefully placed on a burning pyre of the dead husband and burnt to death.This has been treated as culpable homicide and if...
– bride kidnapping
Bride kidnapping
Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice throughout history and around the world in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to marry...
– bride price
Bride price
Bride price, also known as bride wealth, is an amount of money or property or wealth paid by the groom or his family to the parents of a woman upon the marriage of their daughter to the groom...
– bride wealth – bridegroom – brideprice – brideservice
Brideservice
Bride service has traditionally been portrayed in the anthropological literature as the service rendered by the bridegroom to a bride's family as a bride price or part of one ....
– bridesmaid
Bridesmaid
The bridesmaids are members of the bride's wedding party in a wedding. A bridesmaid is typically a young woman, and often a close friend or sister. She attends to the bride on the day of a wedding or marriage ceremony...
– bridewealth – broad ligament of the uterus
Broad ligament of the uterus
The broad ligament of the uterus is the wide fold of peritoneum that connects the sides of the uterus to the walls and floor of the pelvis.-Subdivisions:The broad ligament may be divided into three subcomponents:...
– brothel
Brothel
Brothels are business establishments where patrons can engage in sexual activities with prostitutes. Brothels are known under a variety of names, including bordello, cathouse, knocking shop, whorehouse, strumpet house, sporting house, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, and bawdy house...
– brothel keeper – brothel prostitution – Buck's fascia
Buck's fascia
Buck's fascia is a layer of deep fascia covering the penis.It is also known as the "deep fascia of the penis".It is also sometimes simply called the "fascia of the penis", and the Terminologia Anatomica is simply "fascia penis"....
– Buddhist marriage customs – Buddhist view of marriage
Buddhist view of marriage
The Buddhist view of marriage considers marriage a secular affair and as such, it is not considered a sacrament. Buddhists are expected to follow the civil laws regarding marriage laid out by their respective governments....
– Buddhist views of homosexuality – bugarrón – bugchasing and giftgiving – buggery
Buggery
The British English term buggery is very close in meaning to the term sodomy, and is often used interchangeably in law and popular speech. It may be, also, a specific common law offence, encompassing both sodomy and bestiality.-In law:...
– bukkake – bulb of penis
Bulb of penis
Just before each crus of the penis meets its fellow it presents a slight enlargement, named by Kobelt the bulb of the corpus spongiosum penis.It is homologous to the vestibular bulbs in females....
– bulbocavernosus muscle – bulbocavernosus reflex
Bulbocavernosus reflex
The bulbocavernosus reflex is a polysynaptic reflex that is useful in testing for spinal shock and gaining information about the state of spinal cord injuries . The test involves monitoring anal sphincter contraction in response to squeezing the glans penis or tugging on an indwelling Foley...
– bulbospongiosus muscle
Bulbospongiosus muscle
Bulbospongiosus is one of the superficial muscles of the perineum. It has a slightly different origin, insertion and function in males and females. In males, it covers the bulb of the penis...
– bulbourethral gland
Bulbourethral gland
A bulbourethral gland, also called a Cowper's gland for anatomist William Cowper, is one of two small exocrine glands present in the reproductive system of human males...
– bulemia – bulimia – bundling
Bundling (tradition)
Bundling, or tarrying, was the traditional practice of wrapping one person in a bed accompanied by another, usually as a part of courting behavior. The tradition is thought to have originated either in the Netherlands or in the British Isles and later became common in Colonial America, especially...
– bunny boiler
Bunny Boiler
Bunny boiler is a pejorative term for an obsessive and dangerous person, referring to a former lover who stalks the person who spurned them. The term is normally used for a woman who stalks a former male lover or his new female partner.-Etymology:...
– Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his...
– buru sera – burusera
Burusera
Burusera is a Japanese word coined by combining , meaning bloomers as in bottoms of gym suits, and , meaning sailor suit, the traditional Japanese school uniforms for schoolgirls.-Burusera shops:...
– butch
Butch and femme
Butch and femme are LGBT terms describing respectively, masculine and feminine traits, behavior, style, expression, self-perception and so on. They are often used in the lesbian, bisexual and gay subcultures...
– butt fucking – butt plug
Butt plug
A butt plug is a sex toy designed to be inserted in the anus and rectum for sexual pleasure. In some ways, they are similar to a dildo, but they tend to be shorter, and must have a flanged end to prevent the device from being lost inside the rectum.- Basics :...
– buttered bun (sexual practice) – butterfly sex position –
C
cache-sexeCache-sexe
A cache-sexe is an item, often a small garment, that covers its user's genitals. The most common style, seen in Western G-strings and Japanese Fundoshis, has a triangle of material attached at the corners to straps or strings around the waist and between the legs, that fasten the triangle over the...
– Caesarian section – CAH
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia refers to any of several autosomal recessive diseases resulting from mutations of genes for enzymes mediating the biochemical steps of production of cortisol from cholesterol by the adrenal glands ....
– call girl
Call girl
A call girl or female escort is a sex worker who is not visible to the general public; nor does she usually work in an institution like a brothel, although she may be employed by an escort agency...
– Calymmatobacterium granulomatis – cameltoe
Cameltoe
Camel toe is a slang term that refers to the outline of a human female's labia majora, as seen through tightly fitting clothes.-Common circumstances:...
– camp (style)
Camp (style)
Camp is an aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its taste and ironic value. The concept is closely related to kitsch, and things with camp appeal may also be described as being "cheesy"...
– camp follower
Camp follower
Camp-follower is a term used to identify civilians and their children who follow armies. There are two common types of camp followers; first, the wives and children of soldiers, who follow their spouse or parent's army from place to place; the second type of camp followers have historically been...
– Canal of Nuck
Canal of Nuck
The canal of Nuck, described by Anton Nuck in 1691, is an abnormal patent pouch of peritoneum extending into the labia majora of women. It is analogous to the processus vaginalis in males ....
– canal of the cervix
Canal of the cervix
In the anatomy of the female reproductive system, the canal of the cervix is the spindle-shaped, flattened canal of the cervix, the neck of the uterus.It communicates with the uterine cavity via the internal orifice of the uterus, and with the vagina via the...
– candaulism
Candaulism
Candaulism is a sexual practice or fantasy in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their voyeuristic pleasure. According to Gugitz, the term is derived from ancient King Candaules who made a plot to show his unaware naked wife to his servant Gyges of Lydia...
– Candida albicans
Candida albicans
Candida albicans is a diploid fungus that grows both as yeast and filamentous cells and a causal agent of opportunistic oral and genital infections in humans. Systemic fungal infections including those by C...
– candidiasis
Candidiasis
Thrush redirects here. For the hoof infection see Thrush .Candidiasis or thrush is a fungal infection of any of the Candida species , of which Candida albicans is the most common...
– caning
Caning
Caning is a form of corporal punishment consisting of a number of hits with a single cane usually made of rattan, generally applied to the offender's bare or clothed buttocks or hand . Application of a cane to the knuckles or the shoulders has been much less common...
– canon law
Canon law
Canon law is the body of laws & regulations made or adopted by ecclesiastical authority, for the government of the Christian organization and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law governing the Catholic Church , the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the Anglican Communion of...
– capacitation
Capacitation
Capacitation is the penultimate step in the maturation of mammalian spermatozoa and is required to render them competent to fertilize an oocyte.This step is a biochemical event; the sperm move normally and look mature prior to capacitation....
– capnolagnia – cardinal ligament
Cardinal ligament
The cardinal ligament is a major ligament of the uterus. It is located at the base of the broad ligament of the uterus. Importantly, it contains the uterine artery and uterine vein...
– caress – carezza – carunculae myrtiformes – Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie , is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century...
– Cass Identity Model
Cass Identity Model
The Cass Identity Model is one of the fundamental theories of gay and lesbian identity development, developed in 1979 by Vivienne Cass. This model was one of the first to treat gay people as "normal" in a heterosexist society and in a climate of homophobia instead of treating homosexuality itself...
– castration
Castration
Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testicles or a female loses the functions of the ovaries.-Humans:...
– castration anxiety
Castration anxiety
Castration anxiety is the fear of emasculation in both the literal and metaphorical sense.-Literal:Castration anxiety is the conscious or unconscious fear of losing all or part of the sex organs, or the function of such....
– castration cult – castration fear – castrato
Castrato
A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.Castration before puberty prevents a boy's...
– casual relationship
Casual relationship
A casual relationship, colloquially known as a fling, is a physical and emotional relationship between two people who may have a sexual relationship or a near-sexual relationship without necessarily demanding or expecting the extra commitments of a more formal romantic relationship...
– casual sex
Casual sex
Casual sex or hooking up refers to certain types of human sexual activity outside the context of a romantic relationship. The term is not always used consistently: some use it to refer to any extramarital sex, some use it to refer to sex in a casual relationship, whereas others reserve its use for...
– cat fighting – catamite
Catamite
A catamite was a handsome youth kept as a sexual companion in ancient Rome, usually in a pederastic relationship. The word derives from the proper noun Catamitus, the Latinized form of Ganymede, the beautiful Trojan youth abducted by Zeus to be his companion and cupbearer...
– catecholamine
Catecholamine
Catecholamines are molecules that have a catechol nucleus consisting of benzene with two hydroxyl side groups and a side-chain amine. They include dopamine, as well as the "fight-or-flight" hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline released by the adrenal medulla of the adrenal glands in response to...
– catfight
Catfight
Catfight is a term for an altercation between two women, typically involving scratching, slapping, hair-pulling, and shirt-shredding as opposed to punching or wrestling . However, the term is not exclusively used to indicate a fight between women, and many formal definitions do not invoke gender...
– Catherinette – catheter (sexology) – catheterophilia – Catholic marriage
Catholic marriage
Catholic marriage, also called matrimony, is a "covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring...
– cavernous nerves of penis
Cavernous nerves of penis
The cavernous nerves are post-ganglionic parasympathetic nerves that facilitate penile erection. They arise from cell bodies in the inferior hypogastric plexus where they receive the pre-ganglionic pelvic splanchnic nerves ....
– cavum Douglasi – celebrity sex tape
Celebrity sex tape
A celebrity sex tape is typically an amateur pornographic video recording involving one or more celebrity famous person which has been, intentionally or unintentionally, made available publicly....
– celibacy
Celibacy
Celibacy is a personal commitment to avoiding sexual relations, in particular a vow from marriage. Typically celibacy involves avoiding all romantic relationships of any kind. An individual may choose celibacy for religious reasons, such as is the case for priests in some religions, for reasons of...
– celibate marriage – cerclage – cerebral cortex
Cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex is a sheet of neural tissue that is outermost to the cerebrum of the mammalian brain. It plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness. It is constituted of up to six horizontal layers, each of which has a different...
– cervical cancer
Cervical cancer
Cervical cancer is malignant neoplasm of the cervix uteri or cervical area. One of the most common symptoms is abnormal vaginal bleeding, but in some cases there may be no obvious symptoms until the cancer is in its advanced stages...
– cervical cap
Cervical cap
The cervical cap is a form of barrier contraception. A cervical cap fits over the cervix and blocks sperm from entering the uterus through the external orifice of the uterus, called the os.-Terminology:...
– cervical dysplasia – cervical incompetence
Cervical incompetence
Cervical incompetence is a medical condition in which a pregnant woman's cervix begins to dilate and efface before her pregnancy has reached term. Internal os opening more than 1 cm is abnormal and cervical length less than 2 cm is considered diagnostic...
– cervical stitch – cervicitis
Cervicitis
Cervicitis is inflammation of the uterine cervix. Cervicitis in women has many features in common with urethritis in men and many cases are caused by sexually transmitted infections...
– cervix
Cervix
The cervix is the lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina. It is cylindrical or conical in shape and protrudes through the upper anterior vaginal wall...
– CFNM – Chadwick's sign
Chadwick's sign
Chadwick's sign is a bluish discoloration of the cervix, vagina, and labia caused by the hormone estrogen which results in venous congestion. It can be observed as early as 6-8 weeks after conception, and its presence is an early sign of pregnancy....
– chancre
Chancre
A chancre is a painless ulceration formed during the primary stage of syphilis. This infectious lesion forms approximately 21 days after the initial exposure to Treponema pallidum, the gram-negative spirochaete bacterium yielding syphilis. Chancres transmit the sexually transmissible disease of...
– Chancroid
Chancroid
Chancroid is a sexually transmitted infection characterized by painful sores on the genitalia...
– chaperon(e)
Chaperone (clinical)
In clinical medicine, a chaperone is a person who serves as a witness for both a patient and a medical practitioner as a safeguard for both parties during a medical examination or procedure. The exact responsibilities vary according to the clinical situation....
– chaperone
Chaperone (clinical)
In clinical medicine, a chaperone is a person who serves as a witness for both a patient and a medical practitioner as a safeguard for both parties during a medical examination or procedure. The exact responsibilities vary according to the clinical situation....
– charivari
Charivari
Charivari is the term for a French folk custom in which the community gave a noisy, discordant mock serenade, also pounding on pots and pans, at the home of newlyweds. The loud, public ritual evolved to a form of social coercion, for instance, to force an as-yet-unmarried couple to wed...
– charms
Charisma
The term charisma has two senses: 1) compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others, 2) a divinely conferred power or talent. For some theological usages the term is rendered charism, with a meaning the same as sense 2...
– chastity
Chastity
Chastity refers to the sexual behavior of a man or woman acceptable to the moral standards and guidelines of a culture, civilization, or religion....
– chastity belt
Chastity belt
A chastity belt is a locking item of clothing designed to prevent sexual intercourse. They may be used to protect the wearer from rape or temptation. Some devices have been designed with additional features to prevent masturbation...
– chastity cage
Chastity cage
Chastity belts in modern times are sometimes used in BDSM play. Designs are available for both men and women. They are intended to prevent sexual intercourse...
– chastity device – chastity ring – chemical abortion – chemise cagoule
Chemise cagoule
A chemise cagoule was a heavy night shirt worn by Catholic men and women during the Middle Ages in order to permit a husband to impregnate his wife without having to endure any unnecessary physical contact with her. The chemise cagoule covered all sexual areas, but left an opening for necessary...
– Cheryl Chase
Cheryl Chase (activist)
Bo Laurent, better known by her pseudonym Cheryl Chase , is an American intersex activist and the founder of the Intersex Society of North America...
– Chevalier d'Eon
Chevalier d'Eon
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont , usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, soldier and Freemason whose first 49 years were spent as a man, and whose last 33 years were spent as a woman...
– chikan (body contact) – child abduction
Child abduction
Child abduction or Child theft is the unauthorized removal of a minor from the custody of the child's natural or legally appointed guardians....
– child marriage
Child marriage
Child marriage and child betrothal customs occur in various times and places, whereby children are given in matrimony - before marriageable age as defined by the commentator and often before puberty. Today such customs are fairly widespread in parts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and South America: in...
– child pornography
Child pornography
Child pornography refers to images or films and, in some cases, writings depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child...
– child sexual abuse – child sexuality
Child sexuality
Child sexuality is the sexual feelings, behaviors, and development of children.-Freud:Until Sigmund Freud published his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality in 1905, children were often regarded as asexual, having no sexuality until later development. Freud was one of the first researchers to...
– childbirth
Childbirth
Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus...
– chimera
Chimera (genetics)
A chimera or chimaera is a single organism that is composed of two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated from different zygotes involved in sexual reproduction. If the different cells have emerged from the same zygote, the organism is called a mosaic...
– Chinese marriage
Chinese marriage
Traditional Chinese marriage is a ceremonial ritual within Chinese societies that involve a marriage established by pre-arrangement between families. Within Chinese culture, romantic love was allowed, and monogamy was the norm for most ordinary citizens....
– Chinese marriage customs – Chlamydia – Chlamydia trachomatis
Chlamydia trachomatis
Chlamydia trachomatis, an obligate intracellular human pathogen, is one of three bacterial species in the genus Chlamydia. C. trachomatis is a Gram-negative bacteria, therefore its cell wall components retain the counter-stain safranin and appear pink under a light microscope.The inclusion bodies...
– chloasma – chordee
Chordee
Chordee is a condition in which the head of the penis curves downward or upward, at the junction of the head and shaft of the penis. The curvature is usually most obvious during erection, but resistance to straightening is often apparent in the flaccid state as well. In many cases but not all,...
– choreophilia – choriocarcinoma
Choriocarcinoma
Choriocarcinoma is a malignant, trophoblastic and aggressive cancer, usually of the placenta. It is characterized by early hematogenous spread to the lungs...
– chorion
Chorion
The chorion is one of the membranes that exist during pregnancy between the developing fetus and mother. It is formed by extraembryonic mesoderm and the two layers of trophoblast and surrounds the embryo and other membranes...
– chorionation – chorionic gonadotropin – chrematistophilia – Christian marriage customs – Christian view of marriage – Christina piercing
Christina piercing
A Christina piercing, also known as a Venus piercing, is a female genital piercing. It is located where the outer labia meet, below the pubic mound. Unless the recipient has an extremely sympathetic anatomy, Christinas are usually considered surface piercings and have a high rejection rate. Due to...
– chromosomal mosaicism – chromosome
Chromosome
A chromosome is an organized structure of DNA and protein found in cells. It is a single piece of coiled DNA containing many genes, regulatory elements and other nucleotide sequences. Chromosomes also contain DNA-bound proteins, which serve to package the DNA and control its functions.Chromosomes...
– chronophilia
Chronophilia
The term chronophilia was used by John Money that he defined as a form of paraphilia in which an individual experiences sexual attraction limited to individuals of particular age ranges...
– chubby chaser – Chukri System
Chukri System
The Chukri System, is a type of debt bondage or forced labour system found in Bangladesh and parts of West Bengal. Under Chukri System a female will be coerced into prostitution in order to pay off debts....
– Cialis – cicatrization
Scarification
Scarifying involves scratching, etching, burning, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification.In the process of body scarification, scars are formed by cutting or branding the skin...
– circadian – circle jerk – circuit party
Circuit party
A circuit party is a large dance event, extending through a night and into the following day, almost always with a number of affiliated events in the days leading up to and following the main event...
– circumcision
Circumcision
Male circumcision is the surgical removal of some or all of the foreskin from the penis. The word "circumcision" comes from Latin and ....
– circumcision scar
Circumcision scar
In males who have been circumcised, the circumcision scar refers to the scar after a circumcision has healed. In some cases, the scar can be darker-colored, and, in all cases, it will encircle the shaft of the penis.-Appearance:...
– civil marriage
Civil marriage
Civil marriage is marriage performed by a government official and not a religious organization.-History:Every country maintaining a population registry of its residents keeps track of marital status, and most countries believe that it is their responsibility to register married couples. Most...
– civil union
Civil union
A civil union, also referred to as a civil partnership, is a legally recognized form of partnership similar to marriage. Beginning with Denmark in 1989, civil unions under one name or another have been established by law in many developed countries in order to provide same-sex couples rights,...
– clamp (BDSM) – classical friendship – clear cell tumor
Clear cell adenocarcinoma
Clear cell adenocarcinoma or mesonephroma is a rare type of adenocarcinoma. It usually affects cells in the female genital tract. Vaginal clear cell adenoma is common in women in their late teens and early 20's whose mothers took diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy.Some of these cancers may not...
– clear plastic fetishism – cleft of Venus
Cleft of venus
The pudendal cleft is a part of the vulva, the furrow at the base of the mons pubis where it divides to form the labia majora...
– Cleveland steamer – climacteric – climax
Orgasm
Orgasm is the peak of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, characterized by an intense sensation of pleasure...
– clinical sexologist – clinical sexology – clip joint
Clip joint
A clip joint or fleshpot is an establishment, usually a strip club or entertainment bar, typically one claiming to offer adult entertainment or bottle service, in which customers are tricked into paying money and receive poor goods or services, or none, in return...
– clitoral crura
Clitoral crura
- Anatomy :The clitoral crura are an internal portion of the clitoris. A single one is called a clitoral crus. They are shaped like an inverted "V" with the vertex of the "V" connecting to the clitoral body....
– clitoral glans
Clitoral glans
The clitoral glans is an external portion of the clitoris.- Anatomy :It is covered by the clitoral hood, which is also external and attached to the labia minora...
– clitoral hood
Clitoral hood
In female human anatomy, the clitoral hood, , is a fold of skin that surrounds and protects the clitoral glans. It develops as part of the labia minora and is homologous with the foreskin in male genitals.-Variation:This is a protective hood of skin that covers the clitoral glans...
– clitoral hood piercing
Clitoral hood piercing
A clitoral hood piercing is a female genital piercing through the clitoral hood surrounding the clitoris. There are two main types of hood piercing, the vertical clitoral hood piercing and the horizontal clitoral hood piercing. As the name indicates, the difference is in the direction the piercing...
– clitoral orgasm – clitoral reduction – clitoral-vaginal index – clitoridectomy
Clitoridectomy
Clitoridectomy is the surgical removal of the clitoris. It is rarely needed as a therapeutic medical procedure, such as when cancer has developed in or spread to the clitoris...
– clitoridotomy – clitorilingus – clitoris
Clitoris
The clitoris is a sexual organ that is present only in female mammals. In humans, the visible button-like portion is located near the anterior junction of the labia minora, above the opening of the urethra and vagina. Unlike the penis, which is homologous to the clitoris, the clitoris does not...
– clitoris piercing
Clitoris piercing
A clitoris piercing is a piercing through the clitoris itself. It is a relatively uncommon piercing and is often confused with the more common clitoral hood piercing, which pierces only the hood of the clitoris. Depending on the anatomy of the individual, they can be oriented either vertically or...
– clitorism
Clitorism
Clitorism is a continued, painful condition in the female with recurring erection of the clitoris. The word is also used to describe an abnormal enlargement of the clitoris. Clitorism is painful, much like its male counterpart, priapism....
– clitoromegaly
Clitoromegaly
Clitoromegaly is an abnormal enlargement of the clitoris ....
– clitoropenis – cloacal exstrophy
Cloacal exstrophy
Cloacal exstrophy is a severe birth defect wherein much of the abdominal organs are exposed. It often causes the splitting of both male and female genitalia , and the anus is occasionally sealed.Cloacal exstrophy is an extremely rare birth defect, present in only one in 200,000 pregnancies - one...
– the closet
The Closet
The Closet may refer to:* The Closet , Chinese film* The Closet , French film* The closet, referring to undisclosed homosexuality- See also :* Closet* Closet * In the closet...
– clothed female, naked male
Clothed female, naked male
Clothed female, naked male is a genre of erotica featuring one or more nude men and one or more clothed women. It is sometimes described as a sexual fantasy, by women or men, depicting such a exhibitionist or physique worship scenario...
– clothed male, naked female
Clothed male, naked female
Clothed male, naked female is a genre of erotica featuring one or more nude women and one or more clothed men. Such a scenario is described as a sexual fantasy by some men and some women...
– clubwear
Clubwear
Clubwear is a general term for the type of provocative, revealing, or fetish clothing that is worn to nightclubs featuring a sensual atmosphere with a very relaxed dress code...
– CMNF – cock and ball torment – cockblock
Cockblock
A cockblock is an intentional, or sometimes unintentional action that serves to prevent someone from having sexual intercourse with a partner. Such behavior is often motivated by jealousy, or competitiveness, although it is sometimes accidental, or inadvertent...
– cock cage – cock harness – cock ring
Cock ring
A cock ring, or cockring, is a ring that is placed around a man's penis, usually at the base, primarily to slow the flow of blood from the erect penile tissue, thus maintaining erection for a much longer period of time....
– cock stuffing – cock vore – cock-stuffing – cockstuffing – coemptio – coercive sexual behavior – cohabitation
Cohabitation
Cohabitation usually refers to an arrangement whereby two people decide to live together on a long-term or permanent basis in an emotionally and/or sexually intimate relationship. The term is most frequently applied to couples who are not married...
– coital alignment technique
Coital alignment technique
The coital alignment technique sex position is a variant of the missionary position designed to maximize clitoral stimulation during coitus. This is achieved by combining the "riding high" variation of the missionary position with pressure-counterpressure movements performed by each partner in...
– coital aninsertia – coital fantasy – coition – coitus – coitus interfemoris – coitus interruptus
Coitus interruptus
Coitus interruptus, also known as the rejected sexual intercourse, withdrawal or pull-out method, is a method of birth-control in which a man, during intercourse withdraws his penis from a woman's vagina prior to ejaculation...
– coitus more ferarum – coitus reservatus
Coitus reservatus
Coitus reservatus , also known as sexual continence, is commonly thought of as a form of sexual intercourse in which the penetrative partner does not attempt to ejaculate within the receptive partner, but instead attempts to remain at the plateau phase of intercourse for as long as possible...
– coitus à cheval – coitus à mammilla – coitus à unda
Coitus à unda
Coitus à unda is sex play or sexual intercourse in water. This includes activities such as masturbation, oral sex, or having sex while in the shower, ocean, in the rain, or other similar contexts....
– cold knife cone biopsy – collaborative divorce – collar (BDSM)
Collar (BDSM)
In a BDSM context, a collar is a device of any material placed around the neck of the submissive partner. It is also a term used to show ownership of one partner by another. A person wearing a collar to symbolize their relationship with another is said to be collared...
– Collar
Collar (BDSM)
In a BDSM context, a collar is a device of any material placed around the neck of the submissive partner. It is also a term used to show ownership of one partner by another. A person wearing a collar to symbolize their relationship with another is said to be collared...
ing – colovaginoplasty – colposcope – colposcopy
Colposcopy
Colposcopy is a medical diagnostic procedure to examine an illuminated, magnified view of the cervix and the tissues of the vagina and vulva. Many premalignant lesions and malignant lesions in these areas have discernible characteristics which can be detected through the examination...
– colposuspension – combined oral contraceptive – Alex Comfort
Alex Comfort
Alexander Comfort, MB BChir, PhD, DSc was a medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer, best known for The Joy of Sex, which played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution...
– coming out
Coming out
Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....
– commitment ceremony – common penile artery – common prostitute
Common prostitute
"Common prostitute" is a term used in English law related to prostitution. The term was first used in the Vagrancy Act 1824. The term continued to be used in the Street Offences Act 1959 which maintained the illegality of street prostitution...
– common-law husband – common-law marriage
Common-law marriage
Common-law marriage, sometimes called sui juris marriage, informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute, is a form of interpersonal status that is legally recognized in limited jurisdictions as a marriage even though no legally recognized marriage ceremony is performed or civil marriage...
– common-law wife – commune
Commune (intentional community)
A commune is an intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, and, in some communes, work and income. In addition to the communal economy, consensus decision-making, non-hierarchical structures and ecological living have become...
– companiable love – companionate love – compensated dating – comprehensive sex education – compulsive cruising – computer sex – Anthony Comstock
Anthony Comstock
Anthony Comstock was a United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality.-Biography:...
– conception – conceptive phase – concubinage
Concubinage
Concubinage is the state of a woman or man in an ongoing, usually matrimonially oriented, relationship with somebody to whom they cannot be married, often because of a difference in social status or economic condition.-Concubinage:...
– concubine – concupiscence
Concupiscence
Concupiscence is often defined as an ardent, usually sensual, longing or lust. The concept is most commonly encountered in Christian theology, as the selfish human desire for an object, person, or experience...
– condom
Condom
A condom is a barrier device most commonly used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy and spreading sexually transmitted diseases . It is put on a man's erect penis and physically blocks ejaculated semen from entering the body of a sexual partner...
– condom fatigue
Condom fatigue
Condom fatigue is a term used by medical professionals and safer sex educators to refer to the phenomenon of decreased condom use. "Condom fatigue" can also be used to describe a general weariness of and decreased effectiveness of safer sex messages...
– condoms, needles, and negotiation
Condoms, needles, and negotiation
Condoms, needles, and negotiation, also known as the CNN approach, is a harm reduction approach to reducing the rate of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS through the use of safer sex and reducing the risks in intravenous drug use through the provision on clean needles.In...
– confarreatio
Confarreatio
In ancient Rome, confarreatio was a traditional patrician form of marriage. The ceremony involved the bride and bridegroom sharing a cake of spelt, in Latin far or panis farreus, hence the rite's name. The Flamen Dialis and Pontifex Maximus presided over the wedding, and ten witnesses had to be...
– confetti
Confetti
Confetti is a multitude of pieces of paper, mylar or metallic material which is usually thrown at parades and celebrations, especially weddings . Confetti is made in a variety of colors, and commercially available confetti is available in imaginative shapes...
– congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia refers to any of several autosomal recessive diseases resulting from mutations of genes for enzymes mediating the biochemical steps of production of cortisol from cholesterol by the adrenal glands ....
– congenital virilizing adrenal hyperplasia – conjugal visit
Conjugal visit
A conjugal visit is a scheduled extended visit during which an inmate of a prison is permitted to spend several hours or days in private, usually with a legal spouse...
– connection between paraphilia and sex crimes – consanguinity
Consanguinity
Consanguinity refers to the property of being from the same kinship as another person. In that respect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person...
– consecrated virgin
Consecrated virgin
In the Catholic Church a consecrated virgin is a woman who has been conscrated by the church to a life of perpetual virginity in the service of God. Consecrated virgins are to spend their time in works of penance and mercy, in apostolic activity and in prayer, according to their state of life and...
– consensual BDSM – consensual crime
Consensual crime
A consensual crime is a public order crime that involves more than one participant, all of whom give their consent as willing participants in an activity that is unlawful....
– consensual sex – consenting adult – constriction (sexology) – consummation
Consummate
Consummation or consummation of a marriage, in many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, is the first act of sexual intercourse between two individuals, following their marriage to each other...
– contact magazine
Contact magazine
A contact magazine is a type of classified magazine that is largely or wholly dedicated to personal ads. As well as publishing the personal ads, the publishers of contact magazines often run an anonymous mail forwarding service that allows advertisers to identify themselves only with box...
– contact rapist – contact tracing
Contact tracing
In epidemiology, contact tracing is the identification and diagnosis of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person. For sexually transmitted diseases, this is generally limited to sexual partners but for highly virulent diseases such as Ebola and tuberculosis, a thorough contact...
– continence
Urinary incontinence
Urinary incontinence is any involuntary leakage of urine. It is a common and distressing problem, which may have a profound impact on quality of life. Urinary incontinence almost always results from an underlying treatable medical condition but is under-reported to medical practitioners...
– continuous abstinence – contraception
Contraception
Contraception is the prevention of the fusion of gametes during or after sexual activity. The term contraception is a contraction of contra, which means against, and the word conception, meaning fertilization...
– contraceptive – contraceptive film – contraceptive foam – contraceptive patch
Contraceptive patch
A contraceptive patch is a transdermal patch applied to the skin that releases synthetic estrogen and progestin hormones to prevent pregnancy. They have been shown to be as effective as the combined oral contraceptive pill with perfect use, and the patch may be more effective in typical use.The...
– contraceptive pill – contraceptive sponge
Contraceptive sponge
The contraceptive sponge combines barrier and spermicidal methods to prevent conception. Three brands are marketed: Pharmatex, Protectaid and Today. Pharmatex is marketed in France and the province of Quebec; Protectaid in the rest of Canada and Europe; and Today in the United States.Sponges work...
– conversion party – conversion therapy – Coolidge effect
Coolidge effect
In biology and psychology, the Coolidge effect is a phenomenon—seen in nearly every mammalian species in which it has been tested—whereby males exhibit continuous sexual activity if they are introduced to receptive sexual partners, but will eventually stop having sex if the partner has already...
– Cooper's ligaments
Cooper's ligaments
Cooper's ligaments are connective tissue in the breast that help maintain structural integrity.Transmission diffraction tomography can reveal the anatomy....
– coprography – coprolagnia – coprolalia
Coprolalia
Coprolalia is involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks. Coprolalia comes from the Greek κόπρος meaning "feces" and λαλιά from lalein, "to talk"...
– coprophagia
Coprophagia
Coprophagia or coprophagy is the consumption of feces, from the Greek κόπρος copros and φαγεῖν phagein . Many animal species practice coprophagia as a matter of course; other species do not normally consume feces but may do so under unusual conditions...
– coprophagy – coprophilia
Coprophilia
Coprophilia , also called scatophilia or scat, is the paraphilia involving sexual pleasure from feces...
– copulate – copulation – copulation fantasy – core gender identity – corona glandis – corona of glans penis
Corona of glans penis
The corona of glans penis refers to the circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males which forms a rounded projecting border, overhanging a deep retroglandular sulcus, behind which is the neck of the penis....
– corona radiata (embryology)
Corona radiata (embryology)
The corona radiata surround an ovum or unfertilized egg cell, and consist of two or three strata of follicular cells. They are attached to the outer protective layer of the ovum, the zona pellucida, and their main purpose in many animals is to supply vital proteins to the cell...
– coronal sulcus – corpora cavernosa
Corpus cavernosum clitoridis
The corpus cavernosum clitoridis is one of a pair of sponge-like regions of erectile tissue which contain most of the blood in the clitoris during clitoral erection...
– corpus albicans
Corpus albicans
The corpus albicans is the regressed form of the corpus luteum. As the corpus luteum is being broken down by macrophages, fibroblasts lay down type I collagen, forming the corpus albicans. This process is called "luteolysis". The remains of the corpus albicans may persist as a scar on the surface...
– corpus cavernosum
Corpus cavernosum penis
The corpus cavernosum penis is one of a pair of sponge-like regions of erectile tissue which contain most of the blood in the penis during penile erection...
– corpus cavernosum clitoridis
Corpus cavernosum clitoridis
The corpus cavernosum clitoridis is one of a pair of sponge-like regions of erectile tissue which contain most of the blood in the clitoris during clitoral erection...
– corpus cavernosum penis
Corpus cavernosum penis
The corpus cavernosum penis is one of a pair of sponge-like regions of erectile tissue which contain most of the blood in the penis during penile erection...
– corpus hemorrhagicum
Corpus hemorrhagicum
The corpus hemorrhagicum is a temporary structure formed immediately after ovulation from the ovarian follicle. After the trauma heals, the subsequent structure is called the corpus luteum -External links:* *...
– corpus luteum
Corpus luteum
The corpus luteum is a temporary endocrine structure in mammals, involved in production of relatively high levels of progesterone and moderate levels of estradiol and inhibin A...
– corpus spongiosum
Corpus spongiosum
Corpus spongiosum is the mass of spongy tissue surrounding the male urethra within the penis...
– corpus spongiosum penis – corset
Corset
A corset is a garment worn to hold and shape the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or medical purposes...
– corsetting – cortisol
Cortisol
Cortisol is a steroid hormone, more specifically a glucocorticoid, produced by the adrenal gland. It is released in response to stress and a low level of blood glucocorticoids. Its primary functions are to increase blood sugar through gluconeogenesis; suppress the immune system; and aid in fat,...
– cortisone
Cortisone
Cortisone is a steroid hormone. It is one of the main hormones released by the adrenal gland in response to stress. In chemical structure, it is a corticosteroid closely related to corticosterone. It is used to treat a variety of ailments and can be administered intravenously, orally,...
– costumes – cottaging
Cottaging
Cottaging is a British gay slang term referring to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory , or cruising for sexual partners with the intention of having sex elsewhere...
– counseling – courtesan
Courtesan
A courtesan was originally a female courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person.In feudal society, the court was the centre of government as well as the residence of the monarch, and social and political life were often completely mixed together...
– courting - courting bench
Courting bench
A courting bench, also known as a kissing bench, conversation bench, or a tête-à-tête is a bench with two parallel seats, facing in opposite directions, with a shared arm of the bench separating them....
– courtly love
Courtly love
Courtly love was a medieval European conception of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration. Generally, courtly love was secret and between members of the nobility. It was also generally not practiced between husband and wife....
– courtship
Courtship
Courtship is the period in a couple's relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage, or establishment of an agreed relationship of a more enduring kind. In courtship, a couple get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement or other such agreement...
– courtship disorder
Courtship disorder
Courtship disorder is a theoretical construct in sexology in which a certain set of paraphilias are seen as specific instances of anomalous courtship instincts in men. The specific paraphilias are exhibitionism, voyeurism, telephone scatologia, frotteurism, and biastophilia...
– Couvade
Couvade
Couvade syndrome, also called sympathetic pregnancy or phantom pregnancy, is a condition in which a man experiences some of the same symptoms and behavior of an expectant mother. These most often include minor weight gain, altered hormone levels, morning nausea, and disturbed sleep patterns...
– Couvade syndrome – cowgirl sex position – Cowper's fluid – Cowper's glands – crab louse
Crab louse
Crab lice are parasitic insects notorious for infesting human pubic hair. The species may also live on other areas with hair, including the eyelashes. They feed exclusively on blood...
– crack whore – creampie (sexual act)
Creampie (sexual act)
Creampie, also known as internal ejaculation, internal cum shot and, in gay contexts, as breeding, is a term used in pornography to describe when a male ejaculates inside his partner's anus or vagina. The term also refers to the visible seeping or dripping of semen from the vagina...
– Creighton Model
Creighton Model
The Creighton Model FertilityCare System is a form of natural family planning which involves identifying the fertile period during a woman's menstrual cycle. The Creighton Model was developed by Dr Thomas Hilgers, the founder and director of the Pope Paul VI Institute...
– cremaster muscle
Cremaster muscle
-Contraction:Its function is to raise and lower the testes in order to regulate the temperature of the testes and promote spermatogenesis. Contraction may also occur during arousal which can prevent injury to the testicles during sex....
– cremasteric fascia
Cremasteric fascia
As the cremaster descends, it forms a series of loops which differ in thickness and length in different subjects. At the upper part of the cord the loops are short, but they become in succession longer and longer, the longest reaching down as low as the testis, where a few are inserted into the...
– cremasteric reflex
Cremasteric reflex
The cremasteric reflex is a superficial reflex observed in human males.This reflex is elicited by lightly stroking the superior and medial part of the thigh...
– Cretan pederasty
Cretan pederasty
Cretan pederasty was an archaic form of pederasty that involved the ritual kidnapping of a noble boy by an adult male of the aristocratic class, with the consent of the boy's father....
– crime against nature
Crime against nature
Crime against nature is a legal term used in published cases in the United States since 1814 and normally defined as a form of sexual behavior that is not considered natural and is seen as a punishable offense in dozens of countries and several U.S. states...
– crime of passion
Crime of passion
A crime of passion, or crime passionnel, in popular usage, refers to a crime in which the perpetrator commits a crime, especially assault or murder, against someone because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage or heartbreak rather than as a premeditated crime...
– critical period
Critical period
This article is about a critical period in an organism's or person's development. See also America's Critical Period.In general, a critical period is a limited time in which an event can occur, usually to result in some kind of transformation...
– cross dressing – cross-complementation – cross-cousin marriage – cross-dresser – cross-dressing
Cross-dressing
Cross-dressing is the wearing of clothing and other accoutrement commonly associated with a gender within a particular society that is seen as different than the one usually presented by the dresser...
– cross-identification – crotchless panties – cruising
Cruising for sex
Cruising for sex, or cruising is the act of walking or driving about a locality in search of a sex partner, usually of the anonymous, casual, one-time variety...
– cruising (for sex) – cruising for sex
Cruising for sex
Cruising for sex, or cruising is the act of walking or driving about a locality in search of a sex partner, usually of the anonymous, casual, one-time variety...
– crus glandis clitoridis – crus of penis
Crus of penis
For their anterior three-fourths the corpora cavernosa penis lie in intimate apposition with one another, but behind they diverge in the form of two tapering processes, known as the crura, which are firmly connected to the ischial rami....
– crush fetish
Crush fetish
A crush fetish is a paraphilia in which one is sexually aroused when usually someone of the opposite sex crushes objects, food and sometimes small animals or insects with/under their foot. The term soft crush, the more common fetish: refers to videos involving small animals being crushed, usually...
– cryptomenorrhea
Cryptomenorrhea
Cryptomenorrhea or cryptomenorrhoea, also known as hematocolpos, is a condition where menstruation occurs but is not visible due to an obstruction of the outflow tract. Specifically the endometrium is shed, but a congenital obstruction such as a vaginal septum or on part of the hymen retains the...
– cryptorchidism
Cryptorchidism
Cryptorchidism is the absence of one or both testes from the scrotum. It is the most common birth defect regarding male genitalia. In unique cases, cryptorchidism can develop later in life, often as late as young adulthood. About 3% of full-term and 30% of premature infant boys are born with at...
– cryptorchism – crystal and sex – crystal dick – cuckold
Cuckold
Cuckold is a historically derogatory term for a man who has an unfaithful wife. The word, which has been in recorded use since the 13th century, derives from the cuckoo bird, some varieties of which lay their eggs in other birds' nests...
– cuckold fetishism – cuckoldry – cum
Semen
Semen is an organic fluid, also known as seminal fluid, that may contain spermatozoa. It is secreted by the gonads and other sexual organs of male or hermaphroditic animals and can fertilize female ova...
– cum swallowing – cum swapping – cumulus oophorus
Cumulus oophorus
The cumulus oophorus , also called discus proligerus, is a cluster of cells that surround the oocyte both in the ovarian follicle and after ovulation...
– cunnilinctus – cunnilingus
Cunnilingus
Cunnilingus is an oral sex act performed on a female. It involves the use by a sex partner of the mouth, lips and tongue to stimulate the female's clitoris, vulva, or vagina...
– cunnus – cunt
Cunt
Cunt is a vulgarism, primarily referring to the female genitalia, specifically the vulva, and including the cleft of Venus. The earliest citation of this usage in the 1972 Oxford English Dictionary, c 1230, refers to the London street known as Gropecunt Lane...
– cupping – curettage
Curettage
Curettage, in medical procedures, is the use of a curette to remove tissue by scraping or scooping.Curettages are also a declining method of abortion. It has been replaced by vacuum aspiration over the last decade....
– curtesy
Curtesy
Curtesy tenure is the legal term denoting the life interest which a widower may claim in the lands of his deceased wife, under certain conditions...
– Cushing's syndrome
Cushing's syndrome
Cushing's syndrome is a hormone disorder caused by high levels of cortisol in the blood. This can be caused by taking glucocorticoid drugs, or by tumors that produce cortisol or adrenocorticotropic hormone or CRH...
– cutting
Self-harm
Self-harm or deliberate self-harm includes self-injury and self-poisoning and is defined as the intentional, direct injuring of body tissue most often done without suicidal intentions. These terms are used in the more recent literature in an attempt to reach a more neutral terminology...
– cybersex
Cybersex
Cybersex, also called computer sex, Internet sex, netsex, mudsex, TinySex and, colloquially, cybering, is a virtual sex encounter in which two or more persons connected remotely via computer network send each other sexually explicit messages describing a sexual experience...
– cyproterone
Cyproterone
Cyproterone acetate is an antiandrogen...
– cyproterone acetate – cystitis
Cystitis
Cystitis is a term that refers to urinary bladder inflammation that results from any one of a number of distinct syndromes. It is most commonly caused by a bacterial infection in which case it is referred to as a urinary tract infection.-Signs and symptoms:...
– cystoscope – cystoscopy
Cystoscopy
Cystoscopy is endoscopy of the urinary bladder via the urethra. It is carried out with a cystoscope.Diagnostic cystoscopy is usually carried out with local anaesthesia...
– cystostomy – cytogenetic syndrome – Cytomegalovirus
Cytomegalovirus
Cytomegalovirus is a viral genus of the viral group known as Herpesviridae or herpesviruses. It is typically abbreviated as CMV: The species that infects humans is commonly known as human CMV or human herpesvirus-5 , and is the most studied of all cytomegaloviruses...
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dacryphiliaDacryphilia
Dacryphilia is a form of paraphilia in which one is aroused by tears or sobbing.The term covers all forms of pleasure from the tears of others. The arousal is achieved when viewing a person in emotional distress...
– Daddy's girl fetish – daggering
Daggering
Daggering’ is a form of dance originating from the Caribbean which incorporates sexual and other forms of frantic movement.- History :The activity of 'daggering' has been present in Jamaica's dancehalls for many years, but just recently accepted the name of 'daggering'. Some argue that it's roughly...
– daisy-chaining – Dalkon Shield
Dalkon Shield
The Dalkon Shield was a contraceptive intrauterine device developed by the Dalkon Corporation and marketed by the A.H. Robins Company. The Dalkon Shield was found to cause severe injury to a disproportionately large percentage of its users, which eventually led to numerous lawsuits in which...
– dame de voyage – dan daudu – danse du ventre – Darby and Joan
Darby and Joan
Darby and Joan is a proverbial phrase for a married couple content to live a quiet shared life.-Usage:The Nuttall Encyclopædia defined the phrase as "a married couple celebrated for their mutual attachment", the Random House Dictionary as "a happily married couple who lead a placid, uneventful...
– darlexx – dartos
Dartos
The dartos fascia is a fat-free layer of smooth muscular fiber outside the external spermatic fascia but below the skin. It is a continuation of Scarpa's fascia, which is a membranous layer of the subcutaneous tissue in the abdominal wall...
– dartos muscle – date rape
Date rape
"Date rape", often referred to as acquaintance rape, is an assault or attempted assault usually committed by a new acquaintance involving sexual intercourse without mutual consent....
– date rape drug
Date rape drug
A date rape drug is any drug that can be used to assist in the execution of a sexual assault, such as date rape. Drugs used to facilitate rape may have sedative, hypnotic, dissociative, and/or amnesiac effects, and can be added to a food or drink without the victim's knowledge.The act of adding...
– dating – dating agency
Dating agency
A dating agency is a business which acts as a service for matchmaking between potential couples, with a view toward romance and/or marriage between them.-Variations:...
– dating coach
Dating coach
Dating coaches offer products and services to improve their clients' love lives.Through discussion, role-playing, behavior modeling, and other forms of direction, a dating coach trains clients to meet and attract romantic partners. As dating coaches are unlicensed, their methods vary widely...
– dating service – day belt – de Clérambault's syndrome – death erection
Death erection
A death erection, angel lust, or terminal erection is a post-mortem erection, technically a priapism, observed in the corpses of human males who have been executed, particularly by hanging.-Overview:...
– decapacitation – decapacitation factor – dechorionation – decidua
Decidua
Decidua is the term for the uterine lining during a pregnancy, which forms the maternal part of the placenta. It is formed under the influence of progesterone and forms highly-characteristic cells.-Etymology:...
– decoy prostitute – decree nisi
Decree nisi
A decree nisi is a court order that does not have any force until such time that a particular condition is met, such as a subsequent petition to the court or the passage of a specified period of time....
– deep shaft piercing
Deep shaft piercing
Deep shaft piercings are piercings which pass through the penile shaft. They are most commonly seen in the form of deeply placed ampallangs and apadravyas. They are more rare piercings due to associated pain, difficulty, bleeding and long healing times...
– deep throat (sexual act) – defeminization
Defeminization
Defeminization is a term in developmental biology, especially zoology, referring to an aspect of the process of sexual differentiation by which a potential female-specific structure, function, or behavior is prevented from developing by one of the processes of male development...
– defilement – defloration – degree of consanguinity – delayed ejaculation
Delayed ejaculation
Delayed ejaculation is the inability to ejaculate or persistent difficulty in achieving orgasm despite the presence of normal sexual desire and sexual stimulation...
– delayed puberty
Delayed puberty
Puberty is described as delayed puberty with exceptions when an organism has passed the usual age of onset of puberty with no physical or hormonal signs that it is beginning. Puberty may be delayed for several years and still occur normally, in which case it is considered constitutional delay, a...
– deliberate self-harm syndrome – delicatue – delivery health
Delivery health
, also known as shutchō health or by the abbreviation "deriheru" , is a form of prostitution in Japan similar to fashion health, "health" being a term for sexual services...
– delusional denial of pregnancy – delusional jealousy
Delusional jealousy
Morbid jealousy is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a strong delusional belief that that their spouse or sexual partner is being unfaithful without having any, very little, or insignificant proof to back up their claim.-Definition:This disorder occurs when a person typically makes...
– delusional pregnancy – demasculinization – demi-monde – demisexuality
Demisexuality
Demisexuality is the lack of sexual attraction outside of strong emotional connection. It is distinct from, but related to, asexuality, the complete lack of sexual attraction. The term comes from the orientation being "halfway between" sexual and asexual...
– dendrophilia
Dendrophilia (paraphilia)
Dendrophilia literally means "love of trees". The term may sometimes refer to a paraphilia in which people are sexually attracted to or sexually aroused by trees. This may involve sexual contact or veneration as phallic symbols or both....
– dental braces fetishism – dental dam
Dental dam
A dental dam or rubber dam is a rectangular sheet of latex used in dentistry, in particular endodontic therapy, to reduce contamination, and where dental composite are being placed, due to the need for the area to remain dry during filling placement...
– dental fetishism – depersonalization
Depersonalization
Depersonalization is an anomaly of the mechanism by which an individual has self-awareness. It is a feeling of watching oneself act, while having no control over a situation. Sufferers feel they have changed, and the world has become less real, vague, dreamlike, or lacking in significance...
– depilation – depilation fetishism – Depo Provera
Depo Provera
Depo-Provera is a branded progestogen-only contraceptive, depot medroxyprogesterone acetate long acting reversible hormonal contraceptive birth control drug that is injected every 3 months...
– Depo-Provera – destination wedding – Deuki
Deuki
Deuki is an ancient custom practiced in the far western regions of Nepal where a young girl is offered to the local Hindu temple to fulfill an earlier made promise to gain religious merit....
– Devadasi
Devadasi
In Hinduism, the devadasi tradition is a religious tradition in which girls are "married" and dedicated to a deity or to a temple and includes performance aspects such as those that take place in the temple as well as in the courtly and mujuvani [telegu] or home context. Dance and music were...
– Devaki
Devaki
In Hinduism, Devaki is the wife of Vasudeva and biological mother of Krishna.She was the daughter of Devaka, the younger brother of King Ugrasena of Mathura. She was a partial incarnation of Aditi, the mother of the Devas.-Imprisonment :...
– deviance
Deviance (sociology)
Deviance in a sociological context describes actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules as well as informal violations of social norms...
– deviant – Deviant Behavior – Deviant Desires – deviation
Deviant Behavior
Deviant Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal which focuses on social deviance, including criminal, sexual, and narcotic behaviors.The journal is published by Taylor and Francis, Inc., and was ranked 41st out of 46 psychology journals and 46th out of 90 sociology journals in 2004 by the...
– dhat syndrome
Dhat syndrome
Dhat syndrome is a condition found in the cultures of the Indian subcontinent in which male patients report that they suffer from premature ejaculation or impotence, and believe that they are passing semen in their urine....
– diabetes and sex drive – diagnosis
Medical diagnosis
Medical diagnosis refers both to the process of attempting to determine or identify a possible disease or disorder , and to the opinion reached by this process...
– Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders...
– Milton Diamond
Milton Diamond
Milton Diamond is a retired professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality...
– diaper fetishism
Diaper fetishism
Diaper fetishism, nappy fetishism or diaperism, is a sexual fetish in which a person feels a desire to wear or use diapers. This is normally not due to a medical need.Diaper fetishism is independent from pedophilia...
– diaperism – diaphragm (contraceptive)
Diaphragm (contraceptive)
The diaphragm is a cervical barrier type of birth control. It is a soft latex or silicone dome with a spring molded into the rim. The spring creates a seal against the walls of the vagina.-Use:...
– diethylstilbestrol
Diethylstilbestrol
Diethylstilbestrol is a synthetic nonsteroidal estrogen that was first synthesized in 1938. Human exposure to DES occurred through diverse sources, such as dietary ingestion from supplemented cattle feed and medical treatment for certain conditions, including breast and prostate cancers...
– diffarreatio – digital rectal examination – dihydrotestosterone
Dihydrotestosterone
Dihydrotestosterone is an androgen or male sex hormone. The enzyme 5α-reductase synthesises DHT in the prostate, testes, hair follicles, and adrenal glands...
– dilatation
Vasodilation
Vasodilation refers to the widening of blood vessels resulting from relaxation of smooth muscle cells within the vessel walls, particularly in the large arteries, smaller arterioles and large veins. The process is essentially the opposite of vasoconstriction, or the narrowing of blood vessels. When...
– dilation and curettage
Dilation and curettage
Dilation and curettage refers to the dilation of the cervix and surgical removal of part of the lining of the uterus and/or contents of the uterus by scraping and scooping . It is a diagnostic gynecological procedure.D&C normally is referred to a procedure involving a curette, also called sharp...
– dildo
Dildo
A dildo is a sex toy, often explicitly phallic in appearance, intended for bodily penetration during masturbation or sex with partners.- Description and uses :...
– dildo harness – dildos and plugs – dippoldism
Dippoldism
Dippoldism is the paraphilia of sexual arousal from spanking or otherwise applying corporal punishment to children. The term was coined in the early 1900s after Andreas Dippold, a German schoolteacher and presumed sexual sadist who in 1903 beat his pupil Heinz Koch to death.-References:* Robert...
– dirty joke – dirty old man
Dirty Old Man
"Dirty Old Man" is a single by American country music artist George Hamilton IV. Released in April 1973, it was a single from Hamilton's album Out West Country. The song reached #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada on June 2, 1973....
– dirty talk
Dirty talk
Dirty talk is the practice of using graphic word imagery to heighten sexual pleasure before and during sexual intercourse. It is commonly a part of foreplay.Dirty talk can include vivid erotic descriptions, sexual humor, sexual commands and rude words...
– dirty weekend
Dirty weekend
A dirty weekend is a romantic assignation which is commonly in a hotel so that the couple can sleep together. Places which became famous for this include Brighton and Maidenhead....
– disability fetishism – disability pornography – disability, attraction to
Attraction to disability
Attraction to disability is a sexualised interest of people in the appearance, sensation and experience of disability. It may extend from normal human sexuality into a type of sexual fetishism...
– discipline
Discipline
In its original sense, discipline is referred to systematic instruction given to disciples to train them as students in a craft or trade, or to follow a particular code of conduct or "order". Often, the phrase "to discipline" carries a negative connotation. This is because enforcement of order –...
– displacement paraphilia – divorce
Divorce
Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties...
– docking (sexology) – docking sleeve (sex toy) – dogging
Dogging (sexual slang)
Dogging is a British English euphemism for engaging in sexual acts in a public or semi-public place or watching others doing so. There may be more than two participants; both group sex and gang banging can be included. As observation is encouraged, voyeurism and exhibitionism are closely associated...
– doggy position – doggy style
Doggy style
Doggy style is a group of sex positions in which the receiving partner crouches on all fours with the legs slightly apart...
– dolphin piercing
Dolphin piercing
A Dolphin is a Prince Albert piercing attached to another, deeper Prince Albert piercing. It is usually done with a curved barbell as jewelry. Its name comes from the appearance of the jewelry "diving" through the surface of the skin....
– domestic partnership
Domestic partnership
A domestic partnership is a legal or personal relationship between two individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are neither joined by marriage nor a civil union...
– domestic partnership in California – domestic partnership in the United States – domestic violence
Domestic violence
Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence , is broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation...
– dominance and submission – dominant (BDSM) – dominatrix
Dominatrix
Dominatrix or mistress is a woman or women who takes the dominant role in bondage, discipline and sadomasochism, or BDSM. A common form of address for a submissive to a dominatrix is "mistress", "ma'am", "domina" or "maîtresse"...
– Don Juan
Don Juan
Don Juan is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630...
– Don Juan syndrome – Don Juanism
Don Juanism
Don Juanism is a non-clinical term for the desire, in a man, to have sex with many different female partners; that is: a "seducer of women."The name derives from Don Juan of opera and fiction, who seems in turn to have been patterned after the Spanish noble Don Juan Tenorio. The term satyriasis is...
– Donovanosis
Donovanosis
Granuloma inguinale is a bacterial disease caused by K. granulomatis characterized by ulcerative genital lesions. It is endemic in many less developed regions...
– dopamine
Dopamine
Dopamine is a catecholamine neurotransmitter present in a wide variety of animals, including both vertebrates and invertebrates. In the brain, this substituted phenethylamine functions as a neurotransmitter, activating the five known types of dopamine receptors—D1, D2, D3, D4, and D5—and their...
– doraphilia – double anal penetration – double bagging – double penetration – double vaginal penetration – double vaginal, double anal – double-ended dildo – douche
Douche
A douche is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself.Douche usually refers to vaginal irrigation, the rinsing of the vagina, but it can also refer to the rinsing of any body cavity. A douche bag is a piece of...
– dower
Dower
Dower or morning gift was a provision accorded by law to a wife for her support in the event that she should survive her husband...
– down-low – dowry
Dowry
A dowry is the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings forth to the marriage. It contrasts with bride price, which is paid to the bride's parents, and dower, which is property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage. The same culture may simultaneously practice both...
– drag queen
Drag queen
A drag queen is a man who dresses, and usually acts, like a caricature woman often for the purpose of entertaining. There are many kinds of drag artists and they vary greatly, from professionals who have starred in films to people who just try it once. Drag queens also vary by class and culture and...
– droit du seigneur – drugs and prostitution – drugs and sex – dry enema
Dry enema
A dry enema is an alternative technique for cleansing the human rectum either for reasons of health, or for sexual hygiene. It is accomplished by introducing a small amount of sterile lubricant into the rectum, resulting in a bowel movement more quickly and with less violence than can be achieved...
– dry humping – dry orgasm – dry sex
Dry sex
Dry sex is a sexual practice of people having sexual intercourse with the woman not having vaginal lubrication. Vaginal lubrication can be removed by using herbal aphrodisiacs, household detergents, antiseptics, by wiping out the vagina, or by placing leaves in the vagina besides other methods.The...
– DSM-IV
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders...
– Dual Personality – ductus deferens – dungeon (BDSM)
Dungeon (BDSM)
In BDSM sexual play, a dungeon is any space set aside for "scene" activities.Private dungeons are often fabricated in residential basements or spare rooms...
-dunk tank
Dunk tank
A dunk tank, also known as a dunking booth or dunking machine, is an attraction mainly used in funfairs, fundraisers, and personal parties. Basically, a dunk tank consists of a large tank of water, over which a seat is suspended...
– duration of sexual intercourse – DVDA – dydoe piercing – dysfunctional uterine bleeding
Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding is abnormal genital tract bleeding based in the uterus and found in the absence of demonstrable structural or organic pathology.usually due to hormonal disturbances....
– dysgerminoma
Dysgerminoma
A dysgerminoma is a type of germ cell tumor; it usually is malignant and usually occurs in the ovary.A tumor of the identical histology but not occurring in the ovary may be described by an alternate name: seminoma in the testis or germinoma in the central nervous system or other parts of the...
– dysmenorrhea
Dysmenorrhea
Dysmenorrhea is a gynecological medical condition of pain during menstruation that interferes with daily activities, as defined by ACOG and others. Still, dysmenorrhea is often defined simply as menstrual pain, or at least menstrual pain that is excessive...
– dysmorphophilia – dysorgasmia – dyspareunia
Dyspareunia
Dyspareunia is painful sexual intercourse, due to medical or psychological causes. The symptom is reported almost exclusively by women, although the problem can also occur in men. The causes are often reversible, even when long-standing, but self-perpetuating pain is a factor after the original...
–
E
eclampsiaEclampsia
Eclampsia , an acute and life-threatening complication of pregnancy, is characterized by the appearance of tonic-clonic seizures, usually in a patient who had developed pre-eclampsia...
– ecorchement
Flagellation
Flagellation or flogging is the act of methodically beating or whipping the human body. Specialised implements for it include rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails and the sjambok...
– ecouteurism – ecstasy
Ecstasy (emotion)
Ecstasy is a subjective experience of total involvement of the subject, with an object of his or her awareness. Because total involvement with an object of our interest is not our ordinary experience since we are ordinarily aware also of other objects, the ecstasy is an example of altered state of...
– ectopia testis – ectopic pregnancy
Ectopic pregnancy
An ectopic pregnancy, or eccysis , is a complication of pregnancy in which the embryo implants outside the uterine cavity. With rare exceptions, ectopic pregnancies are not viable. Furthermore, they are dangerous for the parent, since internal haemorrhage is a life threatening complication...
– edgeplay
Edgeplay
In BDSM, edgeplay is a subjective term for types of sexual play that are considered to be pushing on the edge of the traditional S.S.C. creed. They would be considered more R.A.C.K...
- edging
Orgasm control
Orgasm control, also known as "edging", "peaking", "surfing", and by other terms, is a sexual technique which involves the maintenance of a high level of sexual arousal for an extended period of time without reaching orgasm, although orgasm can be reached eventually. If orgasm is not reached after...
– effeminacy
Effeminacy
Effeminacy describes traits in a human male, that are more often associated with traditional feminine nature, behaviour, mannerisms, style or gender roles rather than masculine nature, behaviour, mannerisms, style or roles....
– effeminate – efferent ducts
Efferent ducts
The efferent ducts connect the rete testis with the initial section of the epididymis.There are two basic designs for efferent ductule structure:...
– egg donor
Egg donor
Egg donation is the process by which a woman provides one or several eggs for purposes of assisted reproduction or biomedical research. For assisted reproduction purposes, egg donation involves the process of in vitro fertilization as the eggs are fertilized in the laboratory. After the eggs...
– ego dystonic – ejaculatio praecox – ejaculation
Ejaculation
Ejaculation is the ejecting of semen from the male reproductory tract, and is usually accompanied by orgasm. It is usually the final stage and natural objective of male sexual stimulation, and an essential component of natural conception. In rare cases ejaculation occurs because of prostatic disease...
– ejaculatory duct
Ejaculatory duct
-Anatomy:The ejaculatory ducts are paired structures in male anatomy. Each ejaculatory duct is formed by the union of the vas deferens with the duct of the seminal vesicle. They pass through the prostate, and open into the urethra at the Colliculus seminalis...
– ejaculatory dysfunction – ejaculatory incompetence – ejaculatory overcontrol – Electra complex
Electra complex
In Neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, is a girl’s psychosexual competition with mother for possession of father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl’s phallic stage formation of a discrete sexual identity; a boy’s...
– electric shock
Electric shock
Electric Shock of a body with any source of electricity that causes a sufficient current through the skin, muscles or hair. Typically, the expression is used to denote an unwanted exposure to electricity, hence the effects are considered undesirable....
– electroejaculation
Electroejaculation
Electroejaculation is a procedure used to obtain semen samples from sexually mature male mammals. The procedure is applied for breeding programs and research purposes in various species, as well as in the treatment of an ejaculatory dysfunction in human males....
– electrolysis
Electrolysis
In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a method of using a direct electric current to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction...
– Elf Sternberg
Elf Sternberg
Elf Mathieu Sternberg, born May 7, 1966, is the former keeper of the alt.sex FAQ. He is also the author of many erotic stories and articles on sexuality and sexual practices, and is considered one of the most notable and prolific online erotica authors....
– eligibility
Eligible bachelor
An eligible bachelor is a bachelor considered to be a particularly desirable potential husband, usually due to wealth, or social status.In the United Kingdom, the heir to the throne or someone close in succession is often considered to be the nation's, or the world's most eligible bachelor, due to...
– eligible bachelor
Eligible bachelor
An eligible bachelor is a bachelor considered to be a particularly desirable potential husband, usually due to wealth, or social status.In the United Kingdom, the heir to the throne or someone close in succession is often considered to be the nation's, or the world's most eligible bachelor, due to...
– ELISA
ELISA
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay , is a popular format of a "wet-lab" type analytic biochemistry assay that uses one sub-type of heterogeneous, solid-phase enzyme immunoassay to detect the presence of a substance in a liquid sample."Wet lab" analytic biochemistry assays involves detection of an...
– ELISA test – Havelock Ellis
Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis , was a British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and...
– elongated labia
Elongated labia
Elongated labia is an possibly genetic feature of certain Khoisan groups, whose female members develop relatively elongated labia minora, hanging up to four inches outside their vulva when they are standing in an upright position...
– elopement – embryo
Embryo
An embryo is a multicellular diploid eukaryote in its earliest stage of development, from the time of first cell division until birth, hatching, or germination...
– embryology
Embryology
Embryology is a science which is about the development of an embryo from the fertilization of the ovum to the fetus stage...
– emergency contraception
Emergency contraception
Emergency contraception , or emergency postcoital contraception, refers to birth control measures that, if taken after sexual intercourse, may prevent pregnancy.Forms of EC include:...
– emetophilia
Emetophilia
Emetophilia is a paraphilia in which an individual is aroused by vomiting or observing others vomit. Emetophiles put emetophilia into practice by actually vomiting, especially on a partner...
– emotional affair
Emotional affair
An "emotional affair" is an affair, which excludes physical intimacy but includes emotional intimacy and can begin as innocently as a friendship. It may also be called an affair of the heart. Where one partner is in a committed monogamous relationship, an emotional affair is a type of chaste...
– emotional intimacy
Emotional intimacy
Emotional intimacy is an aspect of interpersonal relationships that varies in intensity from one relationship to another and varies from one time to another, much like physical intimacy. Affect, emotion and feeling may refer to different phenomena...
– Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices
Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices
The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices is a reference book written by Brenda Love, first published in 1992, and having since had various republications.-Description:...
– endocrine gland – endogamy
Endogamy
Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific ethnic group, class, or social group, rejecting others on such basis as being unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships. A Greek Orthodox Christian endogamist, for example, would require that a marriage be only with another...
– endometrial cancer
Endometrial cancer
Endometrial cancer refers to several types of malignancies that arise from the endometrium, or lining, of the uterus. Endometrial cancers are the most common gynecologic cancers in the United States, with over 35,000 women diagnosed each year. The incidence is on a slow rise secondary to the...
– endometrioid tumor
Endometrioid tumor
Endometrioid tumors are a class of tumor characterized by a resemblance to endometrium/ endometrial carcinoma, and over a third of cases have focal squamous differentiation.-Ovary:...
– endometriosis
Endometriosis
Endometriosis is a gynecological medical condition in which cells from the lining of the uterus appear and flourish outside the uterine cavity, most commonly on the ovaries. The uterine cavity is lined by endometrial cells, which are under the influence of female hormones...
– endometrium
Endometrium
-Function:The endometrium is the innermost glandular layer and functions as a lining for the uterus, preventing adhesions between the opposed walls of the myometrium, thereby maintaining the patency of the uterine cavity. During the menstrual cycle or estrous cycle, the endometrium grows to a...
– endytophilia – enema
Enema
An enema is the procedure of introducing liquids into the rectum and colon via the anus. The increasing volume of the liquid causes rapid expansion of the lower intestinal tract, often resulting in very uncomfortable bloating, cramping, powerful peristalsis, a feeling of extreme urgency and...
– enema cocktail – engagement
Engagement
An engagement or betrothal is a promise to marry, and also the period of time between proposal and marriage which may be lengthy or trivial. During this period, a couple is said to be betrothed, affianced, engaged to be married, or simply engaged...
– English vice – enjo kōsai
Enjo kosai
means "compensated dating" and is a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money and/or luxury gifts to attractive women for their companionship and, possibly, for sexual favors. The female participants range from primarily school-aged girls to housewives. A common misconception is...
– enkephalin
Enkephalin
An enkephalin is a pentapeptide involved in regulating nociception in the body. The enkephalins are termed endogenous ligands, or specifically endorphins, as they are internally derived and bind to the body's opioid receptors. Discovered in 1975, two forms of enkephalin were revealed, one...
– enlarged prostate – Entamoeba histolytica
Entamoeba histolytica
Entamoeba histolytica is an anaerobic parasitic protozoan, part of the genus Entamoeba. Predominantly infecting humans and other primates, E. histolytica is estimated to infect about 50 million people worldwide...
– entomophilia – enuresis
Enuresis
Enuresis refers to an inability to control urination. Use of the term is usually limited to describing individuals old enough to be expected to exercise such control.Types of enuresis include:* Nocturnal enuresis* Diurnal enuresis...
– Eonism – ephebiatrics – ephebophilia
Ephebophilia
Ephebophilia is the sexual preference of adults for mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19. The term was originally used in the late 19th to mid 20th century, and has been more recently revisited by Ray Blanchard. It is one of a number of sexual preferences across age groups subsumed...
– epicene
Epicene
Epicene is an adjective for loss of gender distinction, often specific loss of masculinity. It includes:* effeminacy — a man with characteristics that are traditionally feminine...
– epididymectomy – epididymis
Epididymis
The epididymis is part of the male reproductive system and is present in all male amniotes. It is a narrow, tightly-coiled tube connecting the efferent ducts from the rear of each testicle to its vas deferens. A similar, but probably non-homologous, structure is found in cartilaginous...
– epididymitis
Epididymitis
Epididymitis is a medical condition in which there is inflammation of the epididymis . This condition comprises gradual onset of testicular pain that can vary from mild to severe, and the scrotum may become red, warm and swollen...
– episioclisia – episiotomy
Episiotomy
An episiotomy , also known as perineotomy, is a surgically planned incision on the perineum and the posterior vaginal wall during second stage of labor. The incision, which can be midline or at an angle from the posterior end of the vulva, is performed under local anaesthetic , and is sutured...
– epispadias
Epispadias
An epispadias is a rare type of malformation of the penis in which the urethra ends in an opening on the upper aspect of the penis. It can also develop in females when the urethra develops too far anteriorly...
– epoophoron
Epoophoron
The epoophoron or epoöphoron is a remnant of the Mesonephric duct that can be found next to the ovary and fallopian tube.-Anatomy:...
– er nai – erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis during sexual performance....
– erection
Erection
Penile erection is a physiological phenomenon where the penis becomes enlarged and firm. Penile erection is the result of a complex interaction of psychological, neural, vascular and endocrine factors, and is usually, though not exclusively, associated with sexual arousal...
– erogenous zones – Eros
Eros (love)
Eros is one of the four words in Ancient Greek which can be rendered into English as “love”. The other three are storge, philia and agape...
– erotic actor – erotic apathy – erotic art
Erotic art
Erotic art covers any artistic work that is intended to evoke erotic arousal or that depicts scenes of love-making. It includes paintings, engravings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, music and writing.-Definition:...
– erotic ball – erotic dance – erotic electrostimulation
Erotic electrostimulation
Erotic electrostimulation is a human sexual practice involving the application of electrical stimulation to the nerves of the body, with particular emphasis on the genitals, using a power source for purposes of sexual stimulation...
– erotic furniture
Erotic furniture
Erotic furniture, represents any form of furniture that can act as an aid to sexual intercourse. Whilst almost anything can be used for this purpose, the most common form of furniture employed for sex is the bed, but couches and sofas come a close second...
– erotic humiliation
Erotic humiliation
Erotic humiliation is the consensual use of psychological humiliation in a sexual context, whereby one person gains arousal or erotic excitement from the powerful emotions of being humiliated and demeaned, or of humiliating another; often in conjunction with sexual stimulation of one or both...
– erotic inertia – erotic lactation
Erotic lactation
Erotic lactation refers to a person achieving sexual arousal by breastfeeding or sucking on a female's breast. Depending on the context, the practice can also be referred to as adult suckling, adult nursing, and adult breastfeeding. Practitioners sometimes refer to themselves as being in an adult...
– erotic literature
Erotic literature
Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of human sexual relationships which have the power to or are intended to arouse the reader sexually. Such erotica takes the form of novels, short stories, poetry, true-life memoirs, and sex manuals...
– erotic massage
Erotic massage
Erotic massage or sensuous massage is the use of massage techniques to achieve or enhance sexual arousal. Massages have been used for medical purposes for a very long time. Its use for erotic purposes also has a long history. Today it is used by some couples on occasions as part of lovemaking,...
– erotic objectification – erotic photography – erotic revulsion – erotic sexual denial
Erotic sexual denial
Erotic sexual denial, also known as orgasm denial, is a sexual practice in which a heightened state of sexual arousal is maintained for an extended length of time without orgasm, and is commonly practiced in association with BDSM and sexual bondage. Erotic sexual denial can be another name for or...
– erotic spanking
Erotic spanking
Erotic spanking is the act of spanking another person for the sexual arousal or gratification of either or both parties...
– erotic strangulation – erotic submission – erotic torture – erotic wrestling – erotica
Erotica
Erotica are works of art, including literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing descriptions...
– eroticism
Eroticism
Eroticism is generally understood to refer to a state of sexual arousal or anticipation of such – an insistent sexual impulse, desire, or pattern of thoughts, as well as a philosophical contemplation concerning the aesthetics of sexual desire, sensuality and romantic love...
– eroto-comatose lucidity
Eroto-comatose lucidity
Eroto-comatose lucidity is a technique of sex magic known best by its formulation by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley, but which has several variations and is used in a number of ways by different spiritual communities...
– erotographomania – erotography – erotolalia
Erotolalia
Erotolia means 'erotic speech'. It is commonly used between partners during sexual intercourse.-Etymology and usage:One form of erotolalia is λάγνολαλία .In Greek, the term λάγνο-ς means "'lecherous, lustful' prop...
– erotomania
Erotomania
Erotomania is a type of delusion in which the affected person believes that another person, usually a stranger or famous person, is in love with him or her. The illness often occurs during psychosis, especially in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar mania...
– erotophobia
Erotophobia
Erotophobia is a term coined by a number of researchers in the late 1970s and early 1980s to describe one pole on a continuum of attitudes and beliefs about sexuality...
– erotophonophilia – erotosexual – escort
Call girl
A call girl or female escort is a sex worker who is not visible to the general public; nor does she usually work in an institution like a brothel, although she may be employed by an escort agency...
– escort agency
Escort agency
Escort agencies are companies that provide escorts for the agency's clients. The agency typically arranges a meeting between one of its escorts and the client at the customer's house or hotel room , or at the escort's residence . Some agencies also provide escorts for longer durations, who may stay...
– escort prostitution – essayeur – estradiol
Estradiol
Estradiol is a sex hormone. Estradiol is abbreviated E2 as it has 2 hydroxyl groups in its molecular structure. Estrone has 1 and estriol has 3 . Estradiol is about 10 times as potent as estrone and about 80 times as potent as estriol in its estrogenic effect...
– estrogen
Estrogen
Estrogens , oestrogens , or œstrogens, are a group of compounds named for their importance in the estrous cycle of humans and other animals. They are the primary female sex hormones. Natural estrogens are steroid hormones, while some synthetic ones are non-steroidal...
– estrus – The Ethical Slut
The Ethical Slut
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities is an English language non-fiction narrative written by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt...
– ethnic pornography – ethology
Ethology
Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a sub-topic of zoology....
– etiology
Etiology
Etiology is the study of causation, or origination. The word is derived from the Greek , aitiologia, "giving a reason for" ....
– eugenics
Eugenics
Eugenics is the "applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population", usually referring to human populations. The origins of the concept of eugenics began with certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance,...
– eunuch
Eunuch
A eunuch is a person born male most commonly castrated, typically early enough in his life for this change to have major hormonal consequences...
– eunuch's fiddle – Eve principle – evening people – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex is a book by U.S. physician Dr. David Reuben. It was one of the first sex manuals that entered mainstream culture in the 1960s, and it had a profound effect on sex education and in liberalizing attitudes towards sex...
– excitement phase – excretory duct of seminal gland
Excretory duct of seminal gland
Each seminal vesicle consists of a single tube, coiled upon itself, and giving off several irregular cecal diverticula; the separate coils, as well as the diverticula, are connected together by fibrous tissue...
– executions – exemplar
Exemplar
Exemplar, in the sense developed by philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, is a well known usage of a scientific theory.According to Kuhn, scientific practice alternates between periods of normal science and extraordinary/revolutionary science...
– exhibitionism
Exhibitionism
Exhibitionism refers to a desire or compulsion to expose parts of one's body – specifically the genitals or buttocks of a man or woman, or the breasts of a woman – in a public or semi-public circumstance, in crowds or groups of friends or acquaintances, or to strangers...
– exhibitionist – exigency theory – exocrine – exogamy
Exogamy
Exogamy is a social arrangement where marriage is allowed only outside of a social group. The social groups define the scope and extent of exogamy, and the rules and enforcement mechanisms that ensure its continuity. In social studies, exogamy is viewed as a combination of two related aspects:...
– exogenous
Exogenous
Exogenous refers to an action or object coming from outside a system. It is the opposite of endogenous, something generated from within the system....
– exoletus
Exoletus
Exoletus is a Latin term, the perfect passive participle of the verb exolescere, which means "to wear out with age." In ancient Rome the word referred to a certain class of homosexual males or male prostitutes, although its precise meaning is unclear to historians.In his essay on sexual morality,...
– exophilia
Exophilia
Exophilia is the love of strange, new, extraterrestrial, robotic, supernatural, or otherwise non-human life-forms. It can be considered as a sexual form of neophilia. People with exophilia have a desire to be with non-human life forms, but that are essentially human in an alien form.It also is...
– exorcist syndrome – exoticism
Exoticism
Exoticism is a trend in art and design, influenced by some ethnic groups or civilizations since the late 19th-century. In music exoticism is a genre in which the rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far-off lands or ancient times Exoticism (from 'exotic')...
– expiation – extended family
Extended family
The term extended family has several distinct meanings. In modern Western cultures dominated by nuclear family constructs, it has come to be used generically to refer to grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins, whether they live together within the same household or not. However, it may also refer...
– extended hookup – extended orgasm
Orgasm control
Orgasm control, also known as "edging", "peaking", "surfing", and by other terms, is a sexual technique which involves the maintenance of a high level of sexual arousal for an extended period of time without reaching orgasm, although orgasm can be reached eventually. If orgasm is not reached after...
– external orifice of the uterus
External orifice of the uterus
The external orifice of the uterus is a small, depressed, somewhat circular aperture on the rounded extremity of the vaginal portion of the cervix. Through this aperture, the cervical cavity communicates with that of the vagina.The external orifice is bounded by two lips, an anterior and a posterior...
– external spermatic fascia
External spermatic fascia
The external spermatic fascia is a thin membrane, prolonged downward around the surface of the spermatic cord and testis. It is separated from the dartos tunic by loose areolar tissue...
– external urethral orifice (male)
External urethral orifice (male)
The external urethral orifice is the external opening or meatus of the urethra, normally placed at the tip of glans penis; it presents as a vertical slit, possibly bounded on either side by two small labia-like projections, In some cases the slit may be more rounded. This occurs naturally in some...
– exteroceptive – extramarital intercourse – extravasate – eyeglasses fetishism –
F
fa'afafineFa'afafine
Fa'afafine may be viewed as a third gender specific to Samoan culture.Fa'afafine are biological males who have a strong feminine gender orientation, which the Samoan parents recognize quite early in childhood. Not always are they raised as female children or rather 'third gender' children...
– facial (sex act) – facial feminization surgery
Facial feminization surgery
Facial feminization surgery is a set of reconstructive surgical procedures that alter typically male facial features to bring them closer in shape and size to typical female facial features...
– FACOG – faecal-oral route – fag hag
Fag hag
Fag hag is a gay slang phrase referring to a woman who either associates mostly or exclusively with gay and bisexual men, or has gay and bisexual men as close friends. The phrase originated in gay male culture in the United States and was historically an insult. Some women who associate with gay...
– fainting – faithfulness – fakaleiti
Fakaleiti
A fakaleiti is a Tongan male who behaves in effeminate ways, in contrast to mainstream Tongan men, who tend to be very masculine....
– fake orgasm
Fake orgasm
Faking orgasm refers to the act of pretending to have an orgasm without actually experiencing one. It usually means simulating or acting out behaviors, such as body movements, vocal sounds, and sequences of apparent intensification followed by apparent release, typically associated with orgasm...
– fake prostitution – falling in love
Falling in love
In romantic relationships, "falling in love" is mainly a Western term used to describe the process of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards a person to one of love...
– Fallopian pregnancy – Fallopian tube
Fallopian tube
The Fallopian tubes, also known as oviducts, uterine tubes, and salpinges are two very fine tubes lined with ciliated epithelia, leading from the ovaries of female mammals into the uterus, via the utero-tubal junction...
– Gabriele Falloppio
Gabriele Falloppio
Gabriele Falloppio , often known by his Latin name Fallopius, was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century....
– family
Family
In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children...
– family planning
Family planning
Family planning is the planning of when to have children, and the use of birth control and other techniques to implement such plans. Other techniques commonly used include sexuality education, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, pre-conception counseling and...
– famosae – fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
– fantasy play – fantasy role play – fart fetishism – fashion health
Fashion health
', or health for short, is a form of massage parlor which circumvents Japanese anti-prostitution laws by offering a range of services that stop short of sexual intercourse....
– fat admirer – fat fetishism
Fat fetishism
Fat fetishism is the strong or exclusive sexual attraction to overweight or obese people.As well as traditional attraction, the topic also incorporates feederism and gaining, where sexual gratification is obtained via the process of gaining body fat...
– Anne Fausto-Sterling
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph. D. is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University. She participates actively in the field of sexology and has written extensively on the fields of biology of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, and gender roles.-Life and career:Fausto-Sterling...
– fear play
Fear play
Fear play is any sexual activity involving the use of fear to create sexual arousal. Unlike masochistic tendencies, fear play does not offer the subject pleasure or arousal through a rush of endorphins, but rather a terrified mental state which triggers a release of adrenaline...
– feces
Feces
Feces, faeces, or fæces is a waste product from an animal's digestive tract expelled through the anus or cloaca during defecation.-Etymology:...
– fecophilia – fecundity
Fecundity
Fecundity, derived from the word fecund, generally refers to the ability to reproduce. In demography, fecundity is the potential reproductive capacity of an individual or population. In biology, the definition is more equivalent to fertility, or the actual reproductive rate of an organism or...
– feedee – feeder (fetish) – feederism – felching
Felching
Felching is a sexual practice involving the act of sucking semen out of the vagina or anus of one's partner after sex.-Earliest appearance of the term:...
– fellatio
Fellatio
Fellatio is an act of oral stimulation of a male's penis by a sexual partner. It involves the stimulation of the penis by the use of the mouth, tongue, or throat. The person who performs fellatio can be referred to as the giving partner, and the other person is the receiving partner...
– female
Female
Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova .- Defining characteristics :The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male...
– female circumcision – female condom
Female condom
A female condom is a device that is used during sexual intercourse as a barrier contraceptive and to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy...
– female dominant sex position – female ejaculate – female ejaculation
Female ejaculation
Female ejaculation refers to the expulsion of noticeable amounts of clear fluid by human females from the paraurethral ducts through and around the urethra during or before an orgasm...
– female fertility after 30 – female genital mutilation – female impersonator – female masking – female prostate – female pseudohermaphroditism – female reproductive system (human)
Female reproductive system (human)
The female reproductive system contains two main parts: the uterus, which hosts the developing fetus, produces vaginal and uterine secretions, and passes the anatomically male person's sperm through to the fallopian tubes; and the ovaries, which produce the anatomically female person's egg cells...
– female sex tourism
Female sex tourism
Female sex tourism is travel by women, partially or fully for the purpose of having sex. The practice differs from male sex tourism in that women do not typically use the structures of the sex industry Female sex tourism is travel by women, partially or fully for the purpose of having sex. The...
– femaleness – fem-dom – femdom – femidom – femidon – femininity
Femininity
Femininity is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with girls and women. Though socially constructed, femininity is made up of both socially defined and biologically created factors...
– feminine essence theory of transsexuality
Feminine essence theory of transsexuality
In the study of transsexuality, the idea of a feminine essence refers to the proposal that male-to-female transsexuals are females trapped in male bodies...
– feminism
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
– feminist – feminist sexology
Feminist sexology
Feminist sexology is an offshoot of traditional studies of sexology that focuses on the intersectionality of sex and gender in relation to the sexual lives of women...
– femme – femme fatale
Femme fatale
A femme fatale is a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. She is an archetype of literature and art...
– fertility
Fertility
Fertility is the natural capability of producing offsprings. As a measure, "fertility rate" is the number of children born per couple, person or population. Fertility differs from fecundity, which is defined as the potential for reproduction...
– fertility and diet – fertility awareness method – fertility clinic
Fertility clinic
Fertility clinics are staffed medical clinics that assist couples, and sometimes individuals, who want to become parents but for medical reasons have been unable to achieve this goal via the natural course...
– fertility rite
Fertility rite
Fertility rites are religious rituals that reenact, either actually or symbolically, sexual acts and/or reproductive processes: 'sexual intoxication is a typical component of the...rites of the various functional gods who control reproduction, whether of man, beast, cattle, or grains of seed'..They...
– fertilization – fetal genitalia – fetish
Sexual fetishism
Sexual fetishism, or erotic fetishism, is the sexual arousal a person receives from a physical object, or from a specific situation. The object or situation of interest is called the fetish, the person a fetishist who has a fetish for that object/situation. Sexual fetishism may be regarded, e.g...
– fetish clothing – fetish club
Fetish club
A fetish club is a nightclub, bar or other entertainment hub which caters to clientele interested in some of fetish fashion, bondage, dominance/submission, and/or sadism and masochism...
– fetish community – fetish subculture
Fetish subculture
Fetish culture is a term used to describe the lifestyle and arts relating to and influenced by the interest in sexual fetishism and paraphilias. This includes fetish magazines, and a particular style of fashion, photography, art and modelling. Also within fetish culture is a nightclub scene that is...
– fetishism
Fetishism
A fetish is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a man-made object that has power over others...
– fetus
Fetus
A fetus is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate after the embryonic stage and before birth.In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development starts at the beginning of the 11th week in gestational age, which is the 9th week after fertilization.-Etymology and spelling variations:The...
– fiancé – fiancée – fibroblast
Fibroblast
A fibroblast is a type of cell that synthesizes the extracellular matrix and collagen, the structural framework for animal tissues, and plays a critical role in wound healing...
– fibroma
Fibroma
Fibromas are benign tumors that are composed of fibrous or connective tissue. They can grow in all organs, arising from mesenchyme tissue. The term "fibroblastic" or "fibromatous" is used to describe tumors of the fibrous connective tissue...
– fibula – fidelity
Fidelity
"Fidelity" is the quality of being faithful or loyal. Its original meaning regarded duty to a lord or a king, in a broader sense than the related concept of fealty. Both derive from the Latin word fidēlis, meaning "faithful or loyal"....
– figging
Figging
Figging is the practice of inserting a piece of ginger root into the anus, vagina or male urethra. Originally applied to horses as a form of deception as to the horse's condition, it now most commonly refers to a practice in BDSM....
– fimbria (female reproductive system)
Fimbria (female reproductive system)
In the female reproductive system, the fimbria is a fringe of tissue around the ostium of the Fallopian tube, in the direction of the ovary....
– finger cot
Finger cot
A finger cot is a medical supply used to cover one or more fingers in situations where a full glove is unnecessary. Like medical gloves, finger cots may be made from a variety of water-tight materials including latex, nitrile rubber, or vinyl...
– finger fucking – fingering (sexual act)
Fingering (sexual act)
Fingering is the manual manipulation of the clitoris, vulva, vagina, or anus for the purpose of sexual arousal and stimulation. It may constitute the entire sexual encounter or it may be part of mutual masturbation, foreplay or other sexual activities. To "finger oneself" is to masturbate in this...
– fire play – fist fucking – fisting
Fisting
Fisting is a sexual activity that involves inserting a hand into the vagina or rectum. Once insertion is complete, the fingers either naturally clench into a fist or remain straight. In more vigorous forms of fisting, such as "punching", a fully clenched fist may be inserted and withdrawn slowly...
– fisting sling – Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome
Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome
Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome is a rare complication of pelvic inflammatory disease named after the two physicians, Thomas Fitz-Hugh, Jr and Arthur Hale Curtis who first reported this condition in 1934 and 1930 respectively. It involves liver capsule inflammation.-Pathophysiology:Fitz-Hugh-Curtis...
– flagellant
Flagellant
Flagellants are practitioners of an extreme form of mortification of their own flesh by whipping it with various instruments.- History :Flagellantism was a 13th and 14th centuries movement, consisting of radicals in the Catholic Church. It began as a militant pilgrimage and was later condemned by...
– flagellation
Flagellation
Flagellation or flogging is the act of methodically beating or whipping the human body. Specialised implements for it include rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails and the sjambok...
– flamer
Flamboyant
Flamboyant is the name given to a florid style of late Gothic architecture in vogue in France from the 14th to the early 16th century, a version of which spread to Spain and Portugal during the 15th century; the equivalent stylistic period in English architecture is called the Decorated Style, and...
– flatulence
Flatulence
Flatulence is the expulsion through the rectum of a mixture of gases that are byproducts of the digestion process of mammals and other animals. The medical term for the mixture of gases is flatus, informally known as a fart, or simply gas...
– Fleet Marriage
Fleet Marriage
A Fleet Marriage is the best-known example of an irregular or a clandestine marriage taking place in England before the Marriage Act 1753 came into force on March 25, 1754...
– fleshlight
Fleshlight
The Fleshlight is a brand of male sex toys. The Fleshlight is designed and marketed by Interactive Life Forms . The Fleshlight is named for the flesh-like material used in its inner sleeve, as well as the plastic case that houses the sleeve, which is fashioned to look like an oversized flashlight....
– Wilhelm Fliess
Wilhelm Fliess
Wilhelm Fliess was a German Jewish otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin. On Josef Breuer's suggestion, Fliess attended several "conferences" with Sigmund Freud beginning in 1887 in Vienna, and the two soon formed a strong friendship...
– flirt – flirting
Flirting
Flirting is a playful, romantic, or sexual overture by one person to another subtly indicating an interest in a deeper relationship with the other person, and can involve verbal communication as well as body language...
– Flirty Fishing
Flirty fishing
Flirty Fishing is a form of evangelistic religious prostitution practiced from around 1974 to 1987 by female members in the new religious movement, the Children of God, now known as The Family International.-Etymology, definition:...
– Florentine girdle – flowergirl – fluid bonding (sexual practice) – fluid monogamy – folie à deux
Folie à deux
-Further reading:*Halgin, R. & Whitbourne, S. Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0072817216...
– follicle-stimulating hormone
Follicle-stimulating hormone
Follicle-stimulating hormone is a hormone found in humans and other animals. It is synthesized and secreted by gonadotrophs of the anterior pituitary gland. FSH regulates the development, growth, pubertal maturation, and reproductive processes of the body. FSH and Luteinizing hormone act...
– follicular antrum
Follicular antrum
The follicular antrum is the portion of an ovarian follicle filled with liquor folliculi.-External links: "Graafian Follicle" - "Mammal, canine ovary "*...
– follicular fluid
Follicular fluid
Follicular fluid is a liquid which fills the follicular antrum and surrounds the ovum in an ovarian follicle. This fluid is rich in hyaluronic acid.-External links:* *...
– folliculogenesis
Folliculogenesis
In biology, folliculogenesis is the maturation of the ovarian follicle, a densely-packed shell of somatic cells that contains an immature oocyte...
– foot binding
Foot binding
Foot binding was the custom of binding the feet of young girls painfully tight to prevent further growth. The practice probably originated among court dancers in the early Song dynasty, but spread to upper class families and eventually became common among all classes. The tiny narrow feet were...
– foot fetish
Foot Fetish
Foot Fetish is the first solo studio album by the Jackyl's lead singer, Jesse James Dupree.- Track listing :All songs written by Jesse James Dupree except where noted.# "Mainline" – 3:25 # "First Taste of Freedom" – 3:53...
– foot fetishism
Foot fetishism
Foot fetishism, foot partialism, foot worship, or podophilia is a pronounced sexual interest in feet. It is the most common form of sexual preference for otherwise non-sexual objects or body parts.-Characteristics:...
– forced abortion – forced bi – forced bisexuality – forced chastity – forced feminization – forced marriage
Forced marriage
Forced marriage is a term used to describe a marriage in which one or both of the parties is married without his or her consent or against his or her will...
– forced sterilization – Auguste Forel – forensic sexology – foreplay
Foreplay
In human sexual behavior, foreplay is a set of intimate psychological and physically intimate acts between two or more people meant to create desire for sexual activity and sexual arousal. Either or any of the sexual partners may initiate the foreplay, and they may not be the active partner during...
– foreskin
Foreskin
In male human anatomy, the foreskin is a generally retractable double-layered fold of skin and mucous membrane that covers the glans penis and protects the urinary meatus when the penis is not erect...
– foreskin piercing
Foreskin piercing
A foreskin piercing is a piercing that passes through the foreskin . It is a fast healing piercing and involves a fairly simple procedure. The only true requirement is the male must be uncircumcised . It is the male equivalent of clitoral hood piercing.Foreskin piercing has been used for male...
– foreskin restoration
Foreskin restoration
Foreskin restoration is the process of expanding the residual skin on the penis, via surgical or non-surgical methods. It can be performed for several reasons, among them being a desire to create the appearance of a natural foreskin covering the glans penis, or to increase sexual sensitivity of...
– formicophilia
Formicophilia
Formicophilia, a form of zoophilia, is the sexual interest in being crawled upon or nibbled by small insects, such as ants. This paraphilia often involves the application of insects to the genitals, but other areas of the body may also be the focus. The desired effect may be a tickling or stinging...
– Forms of nonmonogamy
Forms of nonmonogamy
Non-monogamy is a blanket term which covers several types of interpersonal relationships in which an individual forms multiple and simultaneous sexual and/or romantic bonds. This can be contrasted with its opposite, monogamy, and yet may arise from the same psychology...
– fornication
Fornication
Fornication typically refers to consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other. For many people, the term carries a moral or religious association, but the significance of sexual acts to which the term is applied varies between religions, societies and cultures. The...
– fornicatory doll – fossa of vestibule of vagina
Fossa of vestibule of vagina
The fossa of vestibule of vagina is a boat-shaped depression between the vagina/hymen and the frenulum labiorum pudendi. The small openings of the Bartholin's ducts can be seen in the grooves between the hymen and the labia minora, on either side.-See also:* Vulval vestibule...
– four-letter word
Four-letter word
The phrase four-letter word refers to a set of English-language words written with four letters which are considered profane, including common popular or slang terms for excretory functions, sexual activity and genitalia, and sometimes also certain terms relating to Hell and damnation when used...
– fourchette
Frenulum labiorum pudendi
In female human anatomy, the frenulum labiorum pudendi is a frenulum where the labia minora meet posteriorly.-Pathology:...
– fourchette piercing
Fourchette piercing
A fourchette piercing is a female genital piercing. It is a piercing done at the rear rim of the vulva, in the area of frenulum labiorum pudendi. Many women do not have a pinchable flap of skin in the area, and are not suited for this piercing...
– foxy boxing
Foxy boxing
Foxy boxing is a sports entertainment which involves two or more women boxing in a sexualized context as a form of erotic entertainment. The participants are typically dressed in revealing clothing such as bikinis or skintight leotards, while the actual fight usually focuses on the beauty of the...
– fraternal polyandry – fraternal twin – Free Hosted Gallery
Free hosted gallery
A free hosted gallery is a web page of sample content which is provided at no charge to affiliates of subscription websites . Affiliates promote these galleries to web surfers in order to drive web traffic to the paysite; every subscription sold generates a commission for the affiliate...
– free love
Free love
The term free love has been used to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage. The Free Love movement’s initial goal was to separate the state from sexual matters such as marriage, birth control, and adultery...
– freemartin
Freemartin
A freemartin or free-martin is an infertile female mammal which has masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries. Genetically and externally the animal is female, but it is sterilized in the womb by hormones from a male twin, becoming an infertile partial intersex...
– frenar band – French kiss
French kiss
A French kiss is a kiss in which one participant's tongue touches the partner's lips or tongue and usually enters his or her mouth. A French kiss is a slow passionate kiss which is usually considered intimate, romantic, erotic or sexual...
– French kissing
French Kissing
"French Kissing" is a song by German singer-songwriter Sarah Connor from her debut album, Green Eyed Soul . Written and produced by Rob Tyger and Kay Denar, the track incorporates a sample of Blackstreet's 1996 hit song "No Diggity" featuring Dr...
– French letter – French postcard – French tickler
French tickler
A French tickler is a latex condom that is designed with additional protrusions, for enhancing the sexual pleasure of the receiver.A typical French Tickler uses a number of bumps, crests and falls in the lining of the latex ostensibly to make sexual intercourse more enjoyable or pleasurable.It may...
– frenulum – frenulum breve
Frenulum breve
Frenulum breve, or a short frenulum, is a condition in which the frenulum preputii penis, which is an elastic band of tissue under the glans penis that connects to the prepuce and helps contract the prepuce over the glans, is short and restricts the movement of the prepuce...
– frenulum clitoridis
Frenulum clitoridis
The Frenulum clitoridis is a frenulum on the under-surface of the clitoral glans, created by the two medial parts of the labia minora.-External links:...
– frenulum labiorum pudendi
Frenulum labiorum pudendi
In female human anatomy, the frenulum labiorum pudendi is a frenulum where the labia minora meet posteriorly.-Pathology:...
– frenulum of prepuce of penis
Frenulum of prepuce of penis
The word frenulum on its own is often used for the frenulum of prepuce of penis, which is an elastic band of tissue under the glans penis that connects to the prepuce, or foreskin to the vernal mucosa, and helps contract the prepuce over the glans. This is sometimes colloquially known as the "banjo...
– frenulum preputii penis – frenum – frenum ladder
Frenum ladder
A Frenum Ladder, also known as a Jacob's Ladder, consists of a series of frenum piercings often extending from below the head of the penis and as far as the base of the shaft of the penis....
– frenum piercing
Frenum piercing
A frenulum piercing is a type of body piercing located on the underside of the shaft of the penis. A series of parallel frenulum piercings is known as a frenum ladder. A frenum ladder may be extended to include lorum piercings, hafada piercings and guiche piercings.-Placement:Frenum piercings are...
– frequency of sexual intercourse – Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
– Freudian psychosexual stages
Psychosexual development
In Freudian psychology, psychosexual development is a central element of the psychoanalytic sexual drive theory, that human beings, from birth, possess an instinctual libido that develops in five stages. Each stage — the oral, the anal, the phallic, the latent, and the genital — is characterized...
– Kurt Freund
Kurt Freund
Kurt Freund was a Czech-Canadian physician and sexologist best known for developing phallometry , research studies in pedophilia, and for the "courtship disorder" hypothesis as a taxonomy of certain paraphilias Kurt Freund (17 January 1914–23 October 1996) was a Czech-Canadian physician and...
– friends with benefits
Casual relationship
A casual relationship, colloquially known as a fling, is a physical and emotional relationship between two people who may have a sexual relationship or a near-sexual relationship without necessarily demanding or expecting the extra commitments of a more formal romantic relationship...
– frigidity – frogtie
Frogtie
The frogtie is a bondage position in which a person's legs are bound ankle-to-thigh, in the likeness of a crouched frog. The wrists on each side are often then tied to the ankle/thigh combination on their respective sides, although it is possible to tie each wrist to the opposite ankle and make the...
– frot
Frot
Frot is a slang term derived from frottage describing a form of non-penetrative male/male sex that usually but not always involves direct penis-to-penis contact....
– frottage – frotteur – frotteurism
Frotteurism
Frotteurism refers to a paraphilic interest in rubbing, usually one's pelvis or erect penis, against a non-consenting person for sexual gratification. It may involve touching any part of the body including the genital area. A person who practices frotteurism is known as a frotteur...
– fuck
Fuck
"Fuck" is an English word that is generally considered obscene which, in its most literal meaning, refers to the act of sexual intercourse. By extension it may be used to negatively characterize anything that can be dismissed, disdained, defiled, or destroyed."Fuck" can be used as a verb, adverb,...
– fuck of death – fuck-buddy – fuck-me shoes – fuckbuddy – Fumoto no iro
Fumoto no iro
Fumoto no iro is a novel and treatise on homosexual behavior published in Japan in 1768 that tells the story of a sixty year old gigolo named Ogiya Yashige...
– fundiform ligament
Fundiform ligament
The fundiform ligament is a specialization, thickening, of the superficial fascia extending from the linea alba of the lower abdominal wall....
– fundus (uterus)
Fundus (uterus)
The fundus of the uterus is the top portion, opposite from the cervix.Fundal height, measured from the top of the pubic bone, is routinely measured in pregnancy to determine growth rates...
– fur fetishism – furor uterinus –
G
G spot – G-spotG-spot
The Gräfenberg Spot, often called the G-Spot, is a bean-shaped area of the vagina. Many women report that it is an erogenous zone which, when stimulated, can lead to strong sexual arousal, powerful orgasms and female ejaculation...
– Gag (BDSM)
Gag (BDSM)
A gag is sometimes worn during some bondage and BDSM roleplays. Gags are usually associated with roleplays involving bondage, but that is not necessarily the case. The person who wears the gag is regarded as the submissive partner, while the one not wearing one is regarded as the dominant...
– John Gagnon
John Gagnon
Dr. John Gagnon of the State University of New York at Stony Brook is a sociologist and sexologist. Gagnon and William S. Simon developed the concept of sexual scripts, which posits that a person's sexual behavior and experience of that behavior is influenced by their subjective understanding of...
– galactophilia – galactorrhea
Galactorrhea
Galactorrhea or galactorrhoea is the spontaneous flow of milk from the breast, unassociated with childbirth or nursing.Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care defines galactorrhea as "nipple discharge." -Causes:...
– gamahuche – gamahucheur – gamete
Gamete
A gamete is a cell that fuses with another cell during fertilization in organisms that reproduce sexually...
– gamete intra-fallopian transfer – gang bang
Gang bang
A gang bang is a situation in which one person has sexual intercourse and performs other sex acts with a number of people, either in turn or at the same time. When the person has not consented to such activity, it is called gang rape or pack rape.A limited study by Joan and Dwight Dixon indicate...
– Gardnerella
Gardnerella
Gardnerella is a genus of gram-variable-staining facultative anaerobic bacteria of which G. vaginalis is the only species.Once classified as Haemophilus vaginalis and afterwards as Corynebacterium vaginalis, Gardnerella vaginalis grows as small, circular, convex, gray colonies on chocolate agar; it...
– Gardnerella vaginalis – Gartner's duct
Gartner's duct
Gartner's duct is a potential embryological remnant in human female development of the mesonephric ducts in the development of the urinary and reproductive organs...
– gas mask fetishism – Katharine Gates – gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
– gay bathhouse
Gay bathhouse
Gay bathhouses, also known as gay saunas or steam baths, are commercial bathhouses for men to have sex with other men. In gay slang in some regions these venues are also known colloquially as "the baths" or "the tubs," and should not be confused with public bathing.Not all men who visit gay...
– gay beat
Gay beat
In Australia, the term beat is used to refer to an area frequented by gay men and non-gay-identifying men who have sex with men who are cruising for casual sex, and where sexual acts occur. This use of the word parodies the beat walked by a police officer or a prostitute...
– gay cruising – gay liberation
Gay Liberation
Gay liberation is the name used to describe the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand...
– gay-bashing – gay-for-pay
Gay-for-pay
Gay-for-pay describes male or female actors, pornographic stars, or sex workers who self-identify as heterosexual but who are paid to act or perform as homosexual professionally. The term has also applied to other professions and even companies with the same core concerns and criticism in place...
– gaydar
Gaydar
Gaydar is a colloquialism referring to the intuitive ability of a person to assess others' sexual orientations as homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Gaydar relies almost exclusively on non-verbal clues and LGBT stereotypes...
– geek code
Geek Code
The Geek Code is a series of letters and symbols used by self-described "geeks" to inform fellow geeks about their personality, appearance, interests, and opinions. The idea is that everything that makes a geek individual and different from all the other geeks in the world can be written down in...
– geisha
Geisha
, Geiko or Geigi are traditional, female Japanese entertainers whose skills include performing various Japanese arts such as classical music and dance.-Terms:...
– gender
Gender
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...
– gender and sexuality studies – gender coding – gender crosscoding – gender dysphoria – gender fluidity – gender identity
Gender identity
A gender identity is the way in which an individual self-identifies with a gender category, for example, as being either a man or a woman, or in some cases being neither, which can be distinct from biological sex. Basic gender identity is usually formed by age three and is extremely difficult to...
– gender identity disorder
Gender identity disorder
Gender identity disorder is the formal diagnosis used by psychologists and physicians to describe persons who experience significant gender dysphoria . It describes the symptoms related to transsexualism, as well as less severe manifestations of gender dysphoria...
– gender reassignment surgery – gender role
Gender role
Gender roles refer to the set of social and behavioral norms that are considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex in the context of a specific culture, which differ widely between cultures and over time...
– gender threat – gender transposition
Gender transposition
Gender transposition is a term in linguistics to describe the substitution of a gendered personal pronoun for the other gendered form. When used to describe a woman, this would be using the pronounse his or him instead of her, and he instead of she...
– gender-bending – gendermap – gene
Gene
A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...
– genetic counseling
Genetic counseling
Genetic counseling or traveling is the process by which patients or relatives, at risk of an inherited disorder, are advised of the consequences and nature of the disorder, the probability of developing or transmitting it, and the options open to them in management and family planning...
– genetic sexual attraction
Genetic sexual attraction
Genetic sexual attraction is a term that describes the phenomenon of sexual attraction between close relatives, such as siblings, first and second cousins or a parent and offspring, who first meet as adults.- History and definition :...
– genital – genital anatomy – genital bisection
Genital bisection
Genital bisection in males involves the splitting of the penis . This still allows for erection, though often the two halves curve into each other, making insertion more difficult....
– genital corpuscles
Genital corpuscles
End-bulbs found in the penis and the clitoris have received the name of genital corpuscles; in these situations they have a mulberry-like appearance, being constricted by connective-tissue septa into from two to six knob-like masses.-External links:*...
– genital herpes – genital insert
Genital insert
A genital insert is a switchable part of an anatomical model that allows an otherwise unisex anatomical model to represent an individual of either sex....
– genital intercourse – genital kiss – genital modification – genital mutilation – genital piercing
Genital piercing
Genital piercing is a form of body piercing and is considered a form of body modification. It involves piercing a part of the genitalia and subsequently inserting and keeping a foreign object in the opening until the wound heals. This forms a tunnel of skin around the foreign object, thus creating...
– genital play
Genital play
Genital play is a common early childhood behavior of genital exploration distinct from autoerotic stimulation. This behavior is part of a normative period of children exploring all of their bodies, and some psychologists have even suggested genital play is a sign of healthy psychosexual development...
– genital retraction syndrome
Genital retraction syndrome
Koro is a culture-specific syndrome from Southeast Asia in which the patient has an overpowering belief that his penis is shrinking and will shortly disappear. Also known as shrinking penis, the syndrome is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...
– genital stage
Genital stage
The genital stage in psychology is the term used by Sigmund Freud to describe the final stage of human psychosexual development. This stage begins at the start of puberty when sexual urges are once again awakened. Through the lessons learned during the previous stages, adolescents direct their...
– genital stretching – genital tattooing
Genital tattooing
Genital tattooing is the practice of placing permanent marks under the skin of the genitals in the form of tattoos.Though tattoos in general have enjoyed an upsurge of popularity, particularly in the west and among younger people, genital tattoos are still relatively rare...
– genital tubercle
Genital tubercle
A phallic tubercle or genital tubercle is a body of tissue present in the development of the urinary and reproductive organs. It forms in the ventral, caudal region of mammalian embryos of both sexes, and eventually develops into a phallus...
– genital wart
Genital wart
Genital warts is a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease caused by some sub-types of human papillomavirus . It is spread through direct skin-to-skin contact during oral, genital, or anal sex with an infected partner...
– genitalia – genitoerotic – genitofemoral nerve
Genitofemoral nerve
In human anatomy, the genitofemoral nerve originates from the upper part of the lumbar plexus of spinal nerves. Its roots are L1 and L2 .The genitofemoral nerve is responsible for both the efferent and afferent limbs of the cremasteric reflex...
– genitourinary medicine
Genitourinary medicine
Genitourinary medicine is a portmanteau that includes aspects of andrology, gynecology and urology. It is primarily related to medicine dealing with sexually transmitted diseases.- References :...
– genophobia
Genophobia
Genophobia is the physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse. The word comes from the Greek terms genos, meaning “offspring,” and phobos, meaning “fear.” Genophobia can also be called coitophobia...
– genotype
Genotype
The genotype is the genetic makeup of a cell, an organism, or an individual usually with reference to a specific character under consideration...
– genuphallation – gerbilling
Gerbilling
Gerbilling, also known as gerbil stuffing or gerbil shooting, is an urban legend that describes a supposed sexual practice of inserting small live animals into the human rectum to obtain stimulation.Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand records that the urban legend began in 1984, and initially involved a...
– geriatric sexology
Geriatric sexology
Geriatric sexology is the systematic study of sexuality in the elderly. It encompasses all aspects of sexuality, including attempting to characterise "normal sexuality" and its variants, including paraphilias and disorders of or relating to sex and the sex organs. The field covers physiological and...
– germ cell ovarian cancer – germ cell tumor
Germ cell tumor
A germ cell tumor is a neoplasm derived from germ cells. Germ cell tumors can be cancerous or non-cancerous tumors. Germ cells normally occur inside the gonads...
– German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research
German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research
The German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research [in German: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaftliche Sexualforschung ] is a sexuality research and counselling organization . It is primarily devoted to sociological, behavioral, and cultural sexuality research...
– germinal epithelium (female)
Germinal epithelium (female)
The surface of the ovary is covered by a layer of simple cuboidal cells which constitutes the germinal epithelium of Waldeyer.These cells are derived from the mesoderm during embryonic development and are closely related to the mesothelium of the peritoneum...
– gerontalism – gerontology
Gerontology
Gerontology is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging...
– gerontophilia
Gerontophilia
The term gerontophilia refers to the sexual preference for the elderly. The word is originated from Greek: Geron, which means "old man" and philie, which means "love"...
– gestagen – gestation
Gestation
Gestation is the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside a female viviparous animal. Mammals during pregnancy can have one or more gestations at the same time ....
– get hitched - GFE
Girlfriend experience
The girlfriend experience is a type of service a female sex worker offers which includes acting like a girlfriend to the client.If the service provider is male, the service is called boyfriend experience....
– ghost marriage – Giardia lamblia
Giardia lamblia
Giardia lamblia is a flagellated protozoan parasite that colonizes and reproduces in the small intestine, causing giardiasis. The giardia parasite attaches to the epithelium by a ventral adhesive disc, and reproduces via binary fission...
– giardiasis
Giardiasis
Giardiasis or beaver fever in humans is a diarrheal infection of the small intestine by a single-celled organism Giardia lamblia. Giardiasis occurs worldwide with a prevalence of 20–30% in developing countries. In the U.S., 20,000 cases are reported to the CDC annually, but the true annual...
– GIFT
Gamete intrafallopian transfer
Gamete intrafallopian transfer is a tool of assisted reproductive technology against infertility. Eggs are removed from a woman's ovaries, and placed in one of the Fallopian tubes, along with the man's sperm...
– gigolo
Gigolo
Gigolo may refer to:* A male prostitute, escort, or dancer, who offers services to women* Gigolo , a 2006 single by Helena Paparizou* Gigolo , a 2003 single by Nick Cannon...
– gimp mask – gimp suit
Gimp suit
A bondage suit, also commonly called a gimp suit, is a garment designed to cover the body completely , fitting it closely, and often including anchor points for bondage. It often has an attached hood; if not, it will be worn with a bondage hood or "gimp mask"...
– Rolf Gindorf
Rolf Gindorf
Rolf Gindorf is a German sexologist. He is also a member of Mensa.-Life and work:Originally a graduate from a language school , Dr. Gindorf first worked as a translator...
– girlfriend
Girlfriend
Girlfriend is a term that can refer to either a female partner in a non-marital romantic relationship or a female non-romantic friend that is closer than other friends....
– girlfriend experience
Girlfriend experience
The girlfriend experience is a type of service a female sex worker offers which includes acting like a girlfriend to the client.If the service provider is male, the service is called boyfriend experience....
– giving head – glabrousness
Glabrousness
Glabrousness is the technical term for an anatomically atypical lack of hair, down, or similar structures...
– glamor photography – glans
Glans
The glans is a vascular structure located at the tip of the penis in men or a homologous genital structure of the clitoris in women.-Structure:...
– glans clitoridis – glans penis
Glans penis
The glans penis is the sensitive bulbous structure at the distal end of the penis. The glans penis is anatomically homologous to the clitoral glans of the female...
– glanuloplasty
Glanuloplasty
Glanuloplasty is plastic surgery carried out on a glans. Typical examples include correcting a hypospadias on the penis, or attempting to restore a clitoris mutilated by female genital cutting....
– gliding action – glory hole
Glory hole (sexual)
A glory hole is a hole in a wall, or other partition, often between public lavatory stalls or adult video arcade booths for people to engage in sexual activity or observe the person in the next cubicle while one or both parties masturbate. The partition maintains anonymity...
– glove fetishism
Glove fetishism
Glove fetishism is a clothing fetish where an individual is sexually stimulated, often to the point of obsession, by another person or oneself wearing gloves on their hands. In some cases, the fetish is enhanced by the material of the glove,...
– glucocorticoids – GnRH – goddess worship – godemiche – going down on – gokkun
Gokkun
is a Japanese term for a sexual activity in which a woman consumes the semen of one or more men. It also refers to the sexual act of swallowing semen after performing fellatio or participating in a bukkake...
– gold-digger – golden enema – golden shower
Urolagnia
Urolagnia is a paraphilia in which sexual excitement is associated with the sight or thought of urine or urination. The term has origins in the Greek Language .Those who enjoy urolagnia may enjoy urinating on another person or persons, or being urinated upon...
– gonad
Gonad
The gonad is the organ that makes gametes. The gonads in males are the testes and the gonads in females are the ovaries. The product, gametes, are haploid germ cells. For example, spermatozoon and egg cells are gametes...
– gonadal dysgenesis
Gonadal dysgenesis
Gonadal dysgenesis is a term used to describe multiple reproductive system development disorders. They are conditions of genetic origin. It is characterized by a progressive loss of primordial germ cells on the developing gonads of an embryo....
– gonadal steroid – gonadectomy – gonadostat – gonadotropin
Gonadotropin
Gonadotropins are protein hormones secreted by gonadotrope cells of the pituitary gland of vertebrates. This is a family of proteins, which include the mammalian hormones follitropin , lutropin , placental chorionic gonadotropins hCG and eCG and chorionic gonadotropin , as well as at least two...
– gonadotropin-releasing hormone
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone , also known as Luteinizing-hormone-releasing hormone and luliberin, is a tropic peptide hormone responsible for the release of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone from the anterior pituitary. GnRH is synthesized and released from neurons within...
– gonococcus – gonorrhea
Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea is a common sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The usual symptoms in men are burning with urination and penile discharge. Women, on the other hand, are asymptomatic half the time or have vaginal discharge and pelvic pain...
– gonorrhoea – Good, giving and game – Goodell's sign
Goodell's sign
In medicine, Goodell's sign is an indication of pregnancy. It is a significant softening of the vaginal portion of the cervix.The sign is named after William Goodell.-References:* at pregnancytoday.com...
– gossypol
Gossypol
Gossypol is a natural phenol derived from the cotton plant . Gossypol is a phenolic aldehyde that permeates cells and acts as an inhibitor for several dehydrogenase enzymes. It is a yellow pigment....
– Regnier de Graaf
Regnier de Graaf
Regnier de Graaf, Dutch spelling Reinier de Graaf or latinized Reijnerus de Graeff was a Dutch physician and anatomist who made key discoveries in reproductive biology. His first name is often spelled Reinier or Reynier.-Biography:De Graaf was born in Schoonhoven and perhaps a relative to the De...
– Graafian follicle – Granuloma inguinale – granulosa cell tumor – granulosa cells – gratification disorder
Gratification disorder
Gratification disorder is a form of masturbatory behavior that has often been mistaken for epilepsy, abdominal pain, and paroxysmal dystonia or dyskinesia. Little research has been published regarding this early childhood condition...
– gravida – gravida 0 – gravida 1 – gravidity
Gravidity
In medicine, gravidity refers to the number of times a woman has been pregnant, regardless of whether the pregnancies were interrupted or resulted in a live birth....
– Great Rite
Great Rite
In Wicca, the Great Rite is a form of sex magic that includes either ritual sexual intercourse or else a ritual symbolic representation of sexual intercourse....
– Greek marriage customs – grooming (child abuse) – grooming (sexology) – grope box – groping
Groping
When used in a sexual context, groping is touching or fondling another person in a sexual way using the hands; it generally has a negative connotation, and is considered molestation in most societies. The term 'frotteurism' may be applied when a person rubs up against another person, typically...
– group marriage
Group marriage
Group marriage, also known as multi-lateral marriage, is a form of polyamory in which more than two persons form a family unit, with all the members of the group marriage being considered to be married to all the other members of the group marriage, and all members of the marriage share parental...
– group sex
Group sex
Group sex is sexual behavior involving more than two participants. Group sex can occur amongst people of all sexual orientations and genders...
– groupie
Groupie
A groupie is a person who seeks emotional and sexual intimacy with a musician or other celebrity. "Groupie" is derived from group in reference to a musical group, but the word is also used in a more general sense, especially in casual conversation....
– growth hormone
Growth hormone
Growth hormone is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals. Growth hormone is a 191-amino acid, single-chain polypeptide that is synthesized, stored, and secreted by the somatotroph cells within the lateral wings of the anterior...
– Gräfenberg spot – Ernst Gräfenberg
Ernst Gräfenberg
Ernst Gräfenberg was a German-born physician and scientist...
– guevedoce – guiche
Perineum
In human anatomy, the perineum is a region of the body including the perineal body and surrounding structures...
– guiche piercing
Guiche piercing
A guiche piercing is a body piercing on the perineum. Guiche piercings are much more common in men than in women. Although a guiche normally runs perpendicular to the direction of the penis, lateral placements are possible...
– gukuna imishino – GUM clinic – gynae – gynaecology
Gynaecology
Gynaecology or gynecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system . Literally, outside medicine, it means "the science of women"...
– gynandromorph
Gynandromorph
A gynandromorph is an organism that contains both male and female characteristics. The term gynandromorph, from Greek "gyne" female and "andro" male, is mainly used in the field of Lepidopterology or entomology...
– gynandry – gynecaeum – gynecologic hemorrhage
Gynecologic hemorrhage
Gynecologic hemorrhage represents excessive bleeding of the female reproductive system. Such bleeding could be visible or external, namely bleeding from the vagina, or it could be internal into the pelvic cavity or form a hematoma. Normal menstruation is not considered a gynecologic hemorrhage, as...
– gynecology – gynecomania – gynecomastia
Gynecomastia
Gynecomastia or Gynaecomastia, , is the abnormal development of large mammary glands in males resulting in breast enlargement. The term comes from the Greek γυνή gyné meaning "woman" and μαστός mastós meaning "breast"...
– gynecomimetic – gynemimesis – gynemimetophile – gynemimetophilia – gynophilia – gynophobia
Gynophobia
Gynophobia is an abnormal fear of women. In the past, the Latin term was used, horror feminae, meaning "fear of women"....
H
H-Y antigen – Haemophilus ducreyiHaemophilus ducreyi
Haemophilus ducreyi is a fastidious gram-negative coccobacillus causing the sexually transmitted disease chancroid, a major cause of genital ulceration in developing countries characterized by painful sores on the genitalia. Another early symptom is dark or light green shears in excrement...
– hafada piercing
Hafada piercing
A hafada piercing is a surface piercing located anywhere on the skin of the scrotum. This piercing does not penetrate deep into the scrotum, and due to the looseness and flexibility of the skin in that area, does not migrate or reject as much as many other surface piercings...
– hair fetishism – hallucinosis – hand job – hand relief – hand-holding – handballing
Fisting
Fisting is a sexual activity that involves inserting a hand into the vagina or rectum. Once insertion is complete, the fingers either naturally clench into a fist or remain straight. In more vigorous forms of fisting, such as "punching", a fully clenched fist may be inserted and withdrawn slowly...
– handfasting
Handfasting
Handfasting is a traditional European ceremony of betrothal or wedding. It usually involved the tying or binding of the right hands of the bride and groom with a cord or ribbon for the duration of the wedding ceremony.-Etymology:...
– handicap fetishism – handjob
Handjob
Handjob is a slang or informal word referring to an act of manual stimulation of a male's penis by a sexual partner, whether female or male, usually to the point of orgasm and ejaculation. The act is similar to male masturbation, though the latter is performed by a male on himself...
– handkerchief code
Handkerchief code
Handkerchief code or hanky code is color-coded system, employed usually among the gay male casual-sex seekers or BDSM practitioners in the leather subculture in the United States, Canada and Europe, to indicate preferred fetishes, what kind of sex they are seeking, and whether they are a...
– Happy Endings?
Happy Endings?
Happy Endings? is a 2009 cinema verite documentary film directed and produced by Tara Hurley.Filmed over 27 months, it chronicles the lives of the women in massage parlors in Rhode Island during a battle in the state legislature to make prostitution illegal...
– happy finish
Erotic massage
Erotic massage or sensuous massage is the use of massage techniques to achieve or enhance sexual arousal. Massages have been used for medical purposes for a very long time. Its use for erotic purposes also has a long history. Today it is used by some couples on occasions as part of lovemaking,...
– hard-on – hardcore pornography
Hardcore pornography
Hardcore pornography is a form of pornography that features explicit sexual acts. The term was coined in the second half of the 20th century to distinguish it from softcore pornography. It usually takes the form of photographs, often displayed in magazines or on the Internet, or films. It can also...
– harem
Harem (zoology)
The term harem is used in zoology to describe the social organization of certain herbivore species, such as those in the Hominidae and Equidae families, into groups of females and young surrounding a single dominant male...
– harem effect
Harem effect
The harem effect is an example of situational sexual behaviour in which women confined in a harem practice lesbianism due to lack of male contact. This is similar to prison sexuality in that those involved would, presumably, be exclusively heterosexual given the option....
– harm reduction
Harm reduction
Harm reduction refers to a range of public health policies designed to reduce the harmful consequences associated with recreational drug use and other high risk activities...
– harmatophilia – Harmful to Minors
Harmful to Minors
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex is a 2002 book by Judith Levine...
– harnesses
Bondage harness
A bondage harness is a piece of BDSM equipment worn for the purposes of sexual bondage. It typically consists of a series of leather straps, typically between 1 and 2 cm wide, attached together in such a way as to allow a person to "wear" the item. The item can be worn by both men and women...
– harpaxophilia – Hart's Line
Hart's Line
The Hart's Line is the edge of the vulval vestibule.To its left and right are the labia minora. Anterior to it are the clitoral hood, clitoral frenulum, and the clitoral glans. Posterior to it is the posterior commisure of the labia minora and the frenulum labiorum pudendi.The sides of the...
– health benefits of sex – heavy petting – hebephilia
Hebephilia
Hebephilia refers to the sexual preference for individuals in the early years of puberty . Girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11; boys at age 11 or 12...
– hedonism
Hedonism
Hedonism is a school of thought which argues that pleasure is the only intrinsic good. In very simple terms, a hedonist strives to maximize net pleasure .-Etymology:The name derives from the Greek word for "delight" ....
– Hegar's sign
Hegar's sign
Hegar's sign is a non-sensitive indication of pregnancy in women — its absence does not exclude pregnancy. It pertains to the features of the cervix and the uterine isthmus....
– hematocolpos
Hematocolpos
Hematocolpos is a medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood. It is often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen....
– hematometra
Hematometra
Hematometra is a medical condition involving collection of blood in the uterus. It can rarely be caused by a proximal transverse vaginal septum, as can hematosalpinx.A collection or retention of blood in the uterine cavity. Also called hemometra....
– hemophilia – hen party
Hen party
A bachelorette party, hen party, hen night or hen do, is a party held for a woman who is about to be married. The terms hen party or hen night are common in the United Kingdom and Ireland, while the terms hens party or hens night are common in Australia and New Zealand, and the term bachelorette...
– henogamy
Henogamy
Henogamy is a social custom allowing exactly one of the children in a family to marry.Henogamy typically exists in order to preserve family property. It is practised by the Nambudiri Brahmin caste in the state of Tamil Nadu, India....
– Hentai
Hentai
is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and computer games. The word hentai is a kanji compound of 変 and 態...
– Hepatitis
Hepatitis
Hepatitis is a medical condition defined by the inflammation of the liver and characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ. The name is from the Greek hepar , the root being hepat- , meaning liver, and suffix -itis, meaning "inflammation"...
– Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is an acute infectious disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis A virus , an RNA virus, usually spread the fecal-oral route; transmitted person-to-person by ingestion of contaminated food or water or through direct contact with an infectious person...
– Hepatitis B – Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease primarily affecting the liver, caused by the hepatitis C virus . The infection is often asymptomatic, but chronic infection can lead to scarring of the liver and ultimately to cirrhosis, which is generally apparent after many years...
– Hepatitis D
Hepatitis D
Hepatitis D, also referred to as hepatitis D virus and classified as Hepatitis delta virus, is a disease caused by a small circular enveloped RNA virus. It is one of five known hepatitis viruses: A, B, C, D, and E. HDV is considered to be a subviral satellite because it can propagate only in the...
– Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E is a viral hepatitis caused by infection with a virus called hepatitis E virus . HEV is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA icosahedral virus with a 7.5 kilobase genome. HEV has a fecal-oral transmission route. It is one of five known hepatitis viruses: A, B, C, D, and E...
– Hepatitis G – Gilbert Herdt
Gilbert Herdt
Gilbert H. Herdt is Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology and a Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies and National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University.-Biography:...
– hermaphrodite
Hermaphrodite
In biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has reproductive organs normally associated with both male and female sexes.Many taxonomic groups of animals do not have separate sexes. In these groups, hermaphroditism is a normal condition, enabling a form of sexual reproduction in which both...
– hermaphroditism – herpes – Herpes simplex type II – Herpes simplex virus
Herpes simplex virus
Herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 , also known as Human herpes virus 1 and 2 , are two members of the herpes virus family, Herpesviridae, that infect humans. Both HSV-1 and HSV-2 are ubiquitous and contagious...
– Preben Hertoft
Preben Hertoft
Preben Hertoft , Danish psychiatrist and professor in medical sexology, senior doctorate in medicine.After the death of his mentor Kirsten Auken, Hertoft worked over 40 years as a sexologist doing research, treatment, counseling and education. In 1986 he founded the first medical centre for...
– hetaera
Hetaera
In ancient Greece, hetaerae were courtesans, that is to say, highly educated, sophisticated companions...
– hetaerae – heterocentrism – heteroflexible
Heteroflexible
Heteroflexibility is a form of a sexual orientation or situational sexual behavior characterized by limited homosexual activity despite a primarily heterosexual sexual orientation that is considered to distinguish it from bisexuality. It has been characterized as "mostly straight"...
– heteronormativity
Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity is a term invented in 1991 to describe any of a set of lifestyle norms that hold that people fall into distinct and complementary genders with natural roles in life. It also holds that heterosexuality is the normal sexual orientation, and states that sexual and marital relations...
– heterophilia – heterosexual – heterosexualism
Heterosexism
Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships. It can include the presumption that everyone is heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the only norm and therefore superior...
– heterosexuality
Heterosexuality
Heterosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the opposite sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, physical or romantic attractions to persons of the opposite sex";...
– heterosexual-homosexual continuum
Heterosexual-homosexual continuum
The concept of the heterosexual–homosexual continuum is a psychological and philosophical understanding of human sexuality that places sexual orientation on a continuum from heterosexuality to homosexuality...
– hierodule
Hierodule
In ancient Greece and Anatolia a hierodule, from the Greek ' , was a temple slave in the service of a specific deity, often with the connotation of religious prostitution. Her prostitution would technically be excused because of the service she provided to the deity...
– hierogamy – hierophilia
Hierophilia
Hierophilia or theophilia is the paraphilia involving sexual attraction to religious and sacred objects. The etymology is from the Greek language hieros, meaning sacred or holy....
– Hieros Gamos
Hieros gamos
Hieros gamos or Hierogamy refers to a sexual ritual that plays out a marriage between a god and a goddess, especially when enacted in a symbolic ritual where human participants represent the deities. It is the harmonization of opposites...
– hieros gamos
Hieros gamos
Hieros gamos or Hierogamy refers to a sexual ritual that plays out a marriage between a god and a goddess, especially when enacted in a symbolic ritual where human participants represent the deities. It is the harmonization of opposites...
– high-class prostitute – high-class prostitution – hijra – Hindu marriage customs – Hindu view of marriage – Hindu views of homosexuality – hippocampus
Hippocampus
The hippocampus is a major component of the brains of humans and other vertebrates. It belongs to the limbic system and plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation. Humans and other mammals have two hippocampi, one in...
– Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles , and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine...
– Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician and sexologist. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, which Dustin Goltz called "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights."-Early life:Hirschfeld was born in Kolberg in a...
– hirsuties papillaris genitalis
Hirsuties papillaris genitalis
Hirsuties coronae glandis are small saliences on the ridge of the glans of the male genital organs. It is a harmless anatomical variation. They are found significantly more often on uncircumcised men, and on younger men...
– hirsuties papillaris penis – hirsuties papillaris vulvae – hirsutism
Hirsutism
Hirsutism or frazonism is the excessive hairiness on women in those parts of the body where terminal hair does not normally occur or is minimal - for example, a beard or chest hair. It refers to a male pattern of body hair and it is therefore primarily of cosmetic and psychological concern...
– Hispanic marriage customs – histocompatibility
Histocompatibility
Histocompatibility is the property of having the same, or mostly the same, alleles of a set of genes called the major histocompatibility complex. These genes are expressed in most tissues as antigens, to which the immune system makes antibodies...
– history of sex – The History of Sexuality
The History of Sexuality
The History of Sexuality is a three-volume series of books by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault written between 1976 and 1984...
– hitch a ride by flaunting - HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
– HIV test
HIV test
HIV tests are used to detect the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus , the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , in serum, saliva, or urine. Such tests may detect antibodies, antigens, or RNA.- Terminology :...
– HIV+ – HIV-positive – HIV/AIDS – HIV/AIDS in Africa
HIV/AIDS in Africa
HIV/AIDS is a major public health concern and cause of death in Africa. Although Africa is home to about 14.5% of the world's population, it is estimated to be home to 67% of all people living with HIV and to 72% of all AIDS deaths in 2009.-Overview:...
– HIV/AIDS in Asia
HIV/AIDS in Asia
In 2008, 4.7 million people in Asia were living with HIV according to the United Nations. The UN believes that Asia’s epidemic peaked in the mid-1990s, and annual HIV incidence has subsequently declined by more than half...
– HIV/AIDS in Central Asia – HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China – HIV/AIDS in the Republic of China – HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe – HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia – HIV/AIDS in India
HIV/AIDS in India
According to a recent study in the British Medical Journal, India has an HIV/AIDS population of approximately 1.4-1.6 million people. The estimated number of human immunodeficiency virus infections in India has declined drastically in recent years—from 5.5 million in 2005 to below 2.5...
– HIV/AIDS in Latin America
HIV/AIDS in Latin America
In Latin America, the Central American countries of Guatemala, and Honduras, and the Caribbean countries of Haiti, and the Dominican Republic have national HIV prevalence of over 1%. In these countries, HIV-infected men outnumber HIV-infected women by roughly 3:1. Low prevalence in other countries...
– HIV/AIDS in Oceania – HIV/AIDS in Russia
HIV/AIDS in Russia
In 2007, 83% of HIV infections in Russia were registered among injecting drug users, 6% among sex workers, and 5% among prisoners. - though as of 2010 the injecting drug users' share had gone down to ca. 70%. In 2007, 93.19% of adults and children with advanced HIV infection were receiving...
– HIV/AIDS in Taiwan
HIV/AIDS in Taiwan
Taiwans epidemic of HIV/AIDS began with the first case reported in December 1984. In 1990, the government promulgated the AIDS Prevention and Control Act. As of Nov. 2009 there are 18,815 reported cases, or 0.082% of the total population. HIV/AIDS patients in Taiwan can receive free medical care ,...
– HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
In the global AIDS pandemic, the Caribbean is the second-most affected region in the world. Among adults aged 15–44, AIDS has become the leading cause of death. The region's adult prevalence rate is 1.6% with national rates ranging from 0.2% to 2.7%. HIV transmission occurs largely through...
– HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation – HIV/AIDS in the United States
HIV/AIDS in the United States
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– HIV/AIDS in Western Europe
HIV/AIDS in Western Europe
In most countries in Western Europe, AIDS cases have fallen to levels not seen since the original outbreak; many attribute this trend to aggressive educational campaigns, screening of blood transfusions and increased use of condoms...
– hodophilia – hogging – hogtie bondage
Hogtie bondage
The hogtie is a bondage position in which a submissive's wrists and ankles are fastened together behind their back using some form of physical restraints, such as rope or cuffs....
– holding hands
Holding hands
Holding hands is a form of physical intimacy involving two or more people. It may or may not be sexual.Whether friends hold hands depends on culture and gender: in the Western culture this is mainly done by women and small children , spouses and romantic couples...
– Xaviera Hollander – homicidophilia – homilophilia – homoeroticism
Homoeroticism
Homoeroticism refers to the erotic attraction between members of the same sex, either male–male or female–female , most especially as it is depicted or manifested in the visual arts and literature. It can also be found in performative forms; from theatre to the theatricality of uniformed movements...
– homoerotophobia – homogamy
Homogamy
-In sociology:Homogamy is marriage between individuals who are, in some culturally important way, similar to each other. Homogamy may be based on socio-economic status, class, gender, ethnicity, or religion...
– homologue
Homology (biology)
Homology forms the basis of organization for comparative biology. In 1843, Richard Owen defined homology as "the same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function". Organs as different as a bat's wing, a seal's flipper, a cat's paw and a human hand have a common underlying...
– homology (biology)
Homology (biology)
Homology forms the basis of organization for comparative biology. In 1843, Richard Owen defined homology as "the same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function". Organs as different as a bat's wing, a seal's flipper, a cat's paw and a human hand have a common underlying...
– homomasculinity – homophile
Homophile
The word homophile is an alternative to the word for homosexual or gay. The homophile movement also refers to the gay rights movement of the 1950s and '60s....
– homophobia
Homophobia
Homophobia is a term used to refer to a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards lesbian, gay and in some cases bisexual, transgender people and behavior, although these are usually covered under other terms such as biphobia and transphobia. Definitions refer to irrational fear, with the...
– homosexology – homosexual – homosexual transsexual – homosexualism – homosexuality
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same...
– homosexuality and Christianity
Homosexuality and Christianity
Christian denominations hold a variety of views on the issues of sexual orientation and homosexuality, ranging from outright condemnation to complete acceptance. In accordance with the traditional values of Abrahamic religions, most Christian denominations welcome people attracted to the same sex,...
– homosexuality in Africa – homosexuality in China
Homosexuality in China
Homosexuality in China refers to homosexuality in Chinese culture; which, as a term, is relatively ambiguous in the contemporary context, although many instances have been recorded in the dynastic histories.-Terminology in China:...
– homosexuality in India
Homosexuality in India
Homosexuality is generally considered a taboo subject by both Indian civil society and the government. Public discussion of homosexuality in India has been inhibited by the fact that sexuality in any form is rarely discussed openly. In recent years, however, attitudes towards homosexuality have...
– homosexuality in Japan
Homosexuality in Japan
Records of men who have sex with men in Japan date back to ancient times. Western scholars have identified these as evidence of homosexuality in Japan.There were few laws restricting sexual behavior in Japan before the early modern period...
– homosexuality in Latin America – homosocial
Homosocial
In sociology, homosociality describes same-sex relationships that are not of a romantic or sexual nature, such as friendship, mentorship, or others. The opposite of homosocial is heterosocial, preferring non-sexual relations with the opposite sex...
– homosociality
Homosociality
In sociology, homosociality describes same-sex relationships that are not of a romantic or sexual nature, such as friendship, mentorship, or others. The opposite of homosocial is heterosocial, preferring non-sexual relations with the opposite sex...
– honeymoon
Honeymoon
-History:One early reference to a honeymoon is in Deuteronomy 24:5 “When a man is newly wed, he need not go out on a military expedition, nor shall any public duty be imposed on him...
– honor killing
Honor killing
An honor killing or honour killing is the homicide of a member of a family or social group by other members, due to the belief of the perpetrators that the victim has brought dishonor upon the family or community...
– hood piercing
Clitoral hood piercing
A clitoral hood piercing is a female genital piercing through the clitoral hood surrounding the clitoris. There are two main types of hood piercing, the vertical clitoral hood piercing and the horizontal clitoral hood piercing. As the name indicates, the difference is in the direction the piercing...
– hooker – hookup
Casual relationship
A casual relationship, colloquially known as a fling, is a physical and emotional relationship between two people who may have a sexual relationship or a near-sexual relationship without necessarily demanding or expecting the extra commitments of a more formal romantic relationship...
– hormonal cyclicity – hormone
Hormone
A hormone is a chemical released by a cell or a gland in one part of the body that sends out messages that affect cells in other parts of the organism. Only a small amount of hormone is required to alter cell metabolism. In essence, it is a chemical messenger that transports a signal from one...
– hormone blockers – hormone replacement therapy – hormone therapy
Hormone therapy
Hormone therapy, or hormonal therapy is the use of hormones in medical treatment. Treatment with hormone antagonists may also referred to as hormonal therapy...
– hormonodynamics – hot flashes – hot wax
Wax play
Wax play is a form of sensual play involving warm or hot wax usually dripped from candles or ladled onto a person's naked skin. Wax play may be combined with other BDSM or sexual activity....
– hotwife – HRT – human branding
Human branding
Human branding or stigmatizing is the process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention that the resulting scar makes it permanent. This is performed using a hot or very cold branding iron...
– human chorionic gonadotropin
Human chorionic gonadotropin
Human chorionic gonadotropin or human chorionic gonadotrophin is a glycoprotein hormone produced during pregnancy that is made by the developing embryo after conception and later by the syncytiotrophoblast .. Some tumors make this hormone; measured elevated levels when the patient is not...
– human female sexuality
Human female sexuality
Human female sexuality encompasses a broad range of behaviors and processes, including female sexual identity and sexual behavior, the physiological, psychological, social, cultural, political, and spiritual or religious aspects of sex...
– Human Immunodeficiency Virus – human male sexuality
Human male sexuality
Human male sexuality covers physiological, psychological, social, cultural, and political aspects of the human male sexual response and related phenomenon...
– human papillomavirus
Human papillomavirus
Human papillomavirus is a member of the papillomavirus family of viruses that is capable of infecting humans. Like all papillomaviruses, HPVs establish productive infections only in keratinocytes of the skin or mucous membranes...
– human pony – human seminal plasma hypersensitivity – human sexual behavior
Human sexual behavior
Human sexual activities or human sexual practices or human sexual behavior refers to the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality. People engage in a variety of sexual acts from time to time, and for a wide variety of reasons...
– Human Sexual Inadequacy – Human Sexual Response – human sexual response cycle
Human sexual response cycle
The human sexual response cycle is a four-stage model of physiological responses during sexual stimulation. These phases, in order of their occurrence, are the excitement phase, plateau phase, orgasmic phase, and resolution phase. The term was coined by William H. Masters and Virginia E...
– human sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
– humbler (BDSM) – humiliation
Humiliation
Humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission. It can be brought about through bullying, intimidation, physical or mental mistreatment or trickery, or by embarrassment if a person is revealed to have...
– Huntington's chorea – hustler
Hustler
Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at men and published in the United States. It was first published in 1974 by Larry Flynt. It was a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter which was cheap advertising for his strip club businesses at the time. The magazine grew from a shaky start to...
– hybridization – hybristophilia
Hybristophilia
Hybristophilia is a paraphilia involving being sexually aroused or attracted to people who have committed an outrage or a gruesome crime. In popular culture, this phenomenon is also known as "Bonnie and Clyde Syndrome"....
– hydatiform mole – hydrocele
Hydrocele
A hydrocoele denotes a pathological accumulation of serous fluid in a body cavity. It can also be noted as a minor malformation of newborns due to high levels of lead in the mother's blood during pregnancy....
– hydrosalpinx
Hydrosalpinx
A hydrosalpinx is a distally blocked fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid. The blocked tube may become substantially distended giving the tube a characteristic sausage-like or retort-like shape. The condition is often bilateral and the affected tubes may reach several centimeters in...
– hygiene
Hygiene
Hygiene refers to the set of practices perceived by a community to be associated with the preservation of health and healthy living. While in modern medical sciences there is a set of standards of hygiene recommended for different situations, what is considered hygienic or not can vary between...
– hygrophilia – hymen
Hymen
The hymen is a membrane that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening. It forms part of the vulva, or external genitalia. The size of the hymenal opening increases with age. Although an often practiced method, it is not possible to confirm with certainty that a girl or woman is a...
– hymenal remnants – hymenorrhaphy
Hymenorrhaphy
Hymenorrhaphy or hymenoplasty or hymen reconstruction surgery is the surgical restoration of the hymen. The term comes from the Greek words hymen meaning membrane, and raphe meaning suture...
– hymenotomy
Hymenotomy
A hymenotomy is a minor medical procedure involving the surgical removal or opening of the hymen. It is often performed on patients with imperforate hymens or septate hymens, or other situations where the hymen is unusually thick or rigid. In the case of a female with a hymen without any opening,...
– hyperactivation
Hyperactivation
Hyperactivation is a type of sperm motility. Hyperactivated sperm motility is characterised by a high amplitude, asymmetrical beating pattern of the sperm tail...
– hypergyny – hypermasculinity
Hypermasculinity
Hypermasculinity is a psychological term for the exaggeration of male stereotypical behavior, such as an emphasis on physical strength, aggression, body hair, body odor, and virility. This term can be pejorative, though it is also used when examining the behavior dispassionately.One of the first...
– hypermasculinity theory of male homosexuality – hyperorgasmia – hyperparathyroidism
Hyperparathyroidism
Hyperparathyroidism is overactivity of the parathyroid glands resulting in excess production of parathyroid hormone . The parathyroid hormone regulates calcium and phosphate levels and helps to maintain these levels...
– hyperphilia – hypersexuality
Hypersexuality
Hypersexuality is extremely frequent or suddenly increased sexual urges or sexual activity. Hypersexuality is typically associated with lowered sexual inhibitions. Although hypersexuality can be caused by some medical conditions or medications, in most cases the cause is unknown...
– hyphephilia – hypnosis
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is "a trance state characterized by extreme suggestibility, relaxation and heightened imagination."It is a mental state or imaginative role-enactment . It is usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a long series of preliminary...
– hypoandrogenic state – hypoandrogenism – hypogonadism
Hypogonadism
Hypogonadism is a medical term for decreased functional activity of the gonads. Low testosterone is caused by a decline or deficiency in gonadal production of testosterone in males...
– hypophilia – hypopituitarism
Hypopituitarism
Hypopituitarism is the decreased secretion of one or more of the eight hormones normally produced by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain...
– hypospadias
Hypospadias
Hypospadias is a birth defect of the urethra in the male that involves an abnormally placed urinary meatus...
– hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis
Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis
The hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis refers to the effects of the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and gonads as if these individual endocrine glands were a single entity as a whole...
– hypothalamus
Hypothalamus
The Hypothalamus is a portion of the brain that contains a number of small nuclei with a variety of functions...
– hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland does not make enough thyroid hormone.Iodine deficiency is the most common cause of hypothyroidism worldwide but it can be caused by other causes such as several conditions of the thyroid gland or, less commonly, the pituitary gland or...
– hypoxyphilia – hysterectomy
Hysterectomy
A hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus, usually performed by a gynecologist. Hysterectomy may be total or partial...
– hysteria
Hysteria
Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable emotional excesses. People who are "hysterical" often lose self-control due to an overwhelming fear that may be caused by multiple events in one's past that involved some sort of severe conflict; the fear can be centered on a body part, or,...
– hysterical pregnancy – hysterotomy
Hysterotomy
A hysterotomy is an incision in the uterus, commonly combined with a laparotomy during a caesarean section. Hysterotomies are also performed during fetal surgery....
–
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IAG – ice dildo – ice play – ICSH – ICSIIntracytoplasmic sperm injection
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection is an in vitro fertilization procedure in which a single sperm is injected directly into an egg.-Indications:...
– Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique
Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique
Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique is a famous popular scientific treatise and self-help book published in London in 1926 by Dutch gynecologist Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, retired director of the Gynecological Clinic in Haarlem, and "one of the major writers on human sexuality during...
– idealization of romantic love – identical twins – idiographic – idiopathic
Idiopathic
Idiopathic is an adjective used primarily in medicine meaning arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause. From Greek ἴδιος, idios + πάθος, pathos , it means approximately "a disease of its own kind". It is technically a term from nosology, the classification of disease...
– idiopathic adolescent gynecomastia – illegal sex – illegitimacy – illegitimate child – image club
Image club
An ', or ', is a type of brothel in Japan similar to fashion health parlors. They differ in that image clubs are themed along popular sexual fantasies such as an office, a doctor's surgery, a classroom, or a train carriage...
– Imaginative Sex
Imaginative Sex
Imaginative Sex is a non-fiction book by John Norman which includes a list of male-dominant heterosexual BDSM-type sexual fantasy scenarios, and suggested guidelines as to how a couple can act them out in order to improve their sex life...
– immissio penis – immunocontraception
Immunocontraception
Immunocontraception is a birth control method that uses the body's immune response to prevent pregnancy.-In humans:Experiments are undergoing to test the effectiveness of an immunocontraceptive vaccine that inhibits the fusing of spermatozoa to the zona pellucida. This vaccine is currently being...
– imperforate hymen – impersonator
Impersonator
An impersonator is someone who imitates or copies the behavior or actions of another. There are many reasons for someone to be an impersonator, some common ones being as follows:...
– Implanon
Implanon
Implanon, made by Organon International, is a single-rod long acting reversible hormonal contraceptive subdermal implant that is inserted just under the skin of a woman's upper arm. The 4 cm by 2 mm Implanon rod contains 68 milligrams of etonogestrel which is released over a three year...
– impotence – impotentia coeundi – impotentia procreandi – impregnation – imprinting – imsak (sexual technique) – in flagrante – in flagrante delicto
In flagrante delicto
In flagrante delicto or sometimes simply in flagrante is a legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence...
– in vitro fertilisation
In vitro fertilisation
In vitro fertilisation is a process by which egg cells are fertilised by sperm outside the body: in vitro. IVF is a major treatment in infertility when other methods of assisted reproductive technology have failed...
– in vitro fertilization – incest
Incest
Incest is sexual intercourse between close relatives that is usually illegal in the jurisdiction where it takes place and/or is conventionally considered a taboo. The term may apply to sexual activities between: individuals of close "blood relationship"; members of the same household; step...
– incontinence
Urinary incontinence
Urinary incontinence is any involuntary leakage of urine. It is a common and distressing problem, which may have a profound impact on quality of life. Urinary incontinence almost always results from an underlying treatable medical condition but is under-reported to medical practitioners...
– incubus
Incubus (demon)
An incubus is a demon in male form who, according to a number of mythological and legendary traditions, lies upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have intercourse with them. Its female counterpart is the succubus...
– indecent exposure
Indecent exposure
Indecent exposure is the deliberate exposure in public or in view of the general public by a person of a portion or portions of his or her body, in circumstances where the exposure is contrary to local moral or other standards of appropriate behavior. Indecent exposure laws vary in different...
– Indian marriage customs – indolamine – infancy – infantilism – infantophilia – infatuation
Limerence
Limerence is a term coined c. 1977 by the psychologist Dorothy Tennov to describe an involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated...
– infertility
Infertility
Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to conception. Infertility may also refer to the state of a woman who is unable to carry a pregnancy to full term...
– infibulation
Infibulation
Infibulation is the surgical modification or mutilation of the genitals in males and females, particularly the foreskin, labia minora and labia majora...
– infidelity
Infidelity
In many intimate relationships in many cultures there is usually an express or implied expectation of exclusivity, especially in sexual matters. Infidelity most commonly refers to a breach of the expectation of sexual exclusivity.Infidelity can occur in relation to physical intimacy and/or...
– inflatable doll – inflatable fetishism – inflation fetishism – informed consent
Informed consent
Informed consent is a phrase often used in law to indicate that the consent a person gives meets certain minimum standards. As a literal matter, in the absence of fraud, it is redundant. An informed consent can be said to have been given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the...
– infundibulum of uterine tube
Infundibulum of uterine tube
The third part of the uterine tube is the infundibulum. It terminates with the ostium of Fallopian tube, surrounded by fimbriae, one of which is attached to the ovary. Together, the infundibulum and fimbria find the oocyte after ovulation.-External links: - "The Female Pelvis: The Oviduct"...
– inhibited orgasm – inhibited sexual desire
Inhibited sexual desire
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder , is considered as a sexual dysfunction and is characterized as a lack or absence of sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity for some period of time...
– Inis Beag
Inis Beag
Inis Beag is a remote island off the coast of Connemara, Ireland and near the Aran Islands. It contains a small, isolated Gaelic-speaking Irish Catholic community which cultural anthropologist John Cowan Messenger observed in his study "Sex and Repression in an Irish Folk Community." During the...
– innate bisexuality
Innate bisexuality
Innate bisexuality is a term introduced by Sigmund Freud , that expounds all humans are born bisexual but through psychological development become monosexual while the bisexuality remains in a latent state.There is no modern scientific consensus as to...
– insect fetish – insemination
Insemination
Insemination is the deliberate introduction of sperm into the uterus of a mammal or the oviduct of an oviparous animal for the objective of impregnating a female for reproduction...
– insertion fantasy – Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute of Sex Research, Institute for Sexology or Institute for the Science of Sexuality...
– Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality is a non-accredited degree-granting institution and resource center in the field of sexology located in San Francisco, California. Degree and certificate programs focus on public health, sex therapy, and sexological research...
– insufflation
Insufflation
In religious and magical practice, insufflation and exsufflation are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing that signify variously expulsion or renunciation of evil or of the devil , or infilling or blessing with good .In historical Christian practice, such blowing appears most...
– interaxillary intercourse – intercourse
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...
– intercrural intercourse – interfemoral intercourse – intergenerational – interlabial sulci
Interlabial sulci
The interlabial sulci are the grooves between the labia majora and the labia minora. The singular for this term is interlabial sulcus, of which there is a left and a right....
– intermammary intercourse – intermarriage – intermediate part of male urethra – internal orifice of the uterus
Internal orifice of the uterus
The internal orifice of the uterus is an interior narrowing of the uterine cavity. It corresponds to a slight constriction known as the isthmus that can be observed on the surface of the uterus about midway between the apex and base.-External links:...
– internal pudendal artery
Internal pudendal artery
The internal pudendal artery is an artery that branches off the internal iliac artery, providing blood to the external genitalia.The internal pudendal artery is the terminal branch of the anterior trunk of the internal iliac artery...
– internal spermatic fascia
Internal spermatic fascia
The internal spermatic fascia is a thin layer, which loosely invests the cord; it is a continuation downward of the transversalis fascia....
– internal urethral orifice
Internal urethral orifice
The internal urethral orifice is the opening of the urinary bladder into the urethra. It is placed at the apex of the trigonum vesicae, in the most dependent part of the bladder, and is usually somewhat crescent-shaped; the mucous membrane immediately behind it presents a slight elevation in males,...
– internalized homophobia – International Academy of Sex Research
International Academy of Sex Research
The International Academy of Sex Research is a scientific society for researchers in sexology. According to John Bancroft, retired director of the Kinsey Institute, IASR "can claim...most of the field's leading researchers." IASR is unique among sexology organizations in that individuals must...
– International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality is a four-volume reference work on human sexuality, organized by country. It is also available online. It was published between 1997 and 2001 and was edited by Robert T. Francoeur and Raymond J. Noonan with contributions from academics worldwide...
– Internet pornography
Internet pornography
Internet pornography is pornography that is distributed by means of various sectors of the Internet, primarily via websites, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups...
– interoceptive – interracial pornography – interreligious marriage
Interreligious marriage
Interfaith marriage, traditionally called mixed marriage, is marriage between partners professing different religions. Some religious doctrines prohibit interfaith marriage, and while others do allow it, most restrict it...
– interrogation scene
Interrogation scene
An interrogation scene is a form of BDSM roleplay in which the participants act out the parts of torturer and victim. As in real life torture chambers throughout the world over, the "torturer" uses threats, humiliation and physical pain to extract whatever information he/she believes the "victim"...
– intersex
Intersex
Intersex, in humans and other animals, is the presence of intermediate or atypical combinations of physical features that usually distinguish female from male...
– Intersex Society of North America
Intersex Society of North America
The Intersex Society of North America was a non-profit advocacy group founded in 1993 by Cheryl Chase to represent the interest of intersex people. Their objective was to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries...
– intersexuality – interstitial cell stimulating hormone – intimacy – intimacy-avoidancy – intimate examination
Intimate examination
An intimate examination is a physical examination for medical purposes that includes examination of female breasts, the genitalia, or the rectum of a patient. Such examinations can cause patients stress or embarrassment...
– intimate relationship
Intimate relationship
An intimate relationship is a particularly close interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy. Physical intimacy is characterized by romantic or passionate love and attachment, or sexual activity. The term is also sometimes used euphemistically for a sexual...
– intracavernosal injection
Intracavernosal injection
An intracavernous injection is an injection into the base of the penis. This injection site is often used to administer medications to check for or treat erectile dysfunction in adult men .-References:...
– intracytoplasmic sperm injection
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection is an in vitro fertilization procedure in which a single sperm is injected directly into an egg.-Indications:...
– intrauterine device
Intrauterine device
A copper IUD is a type of intrauterine device. Most IUDs have a plastic T- or U-shaped frame which is wrapped in copper wire, with the exception of Gynefix, which is a plastic string with several copper beads, affixed to the fundus of the uterus...
– introitus
Introitus
The introitus is an entrance that goes into a canal or hollow organ. Introitus is another name for the vaginal orifice.Introitus has also been used for classifying uterine prolapse:*1st degree prolapse: cervix is in the vagina...
– intromission – Inuit marriage customs – Inuit wedding – inunction – invert
Sexual inversion (sexology)
Sexual inversion is a term used by sexologists, primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century, to refer to homosexuality. Sexual inversion was believed to be an inborn reversal of gender traits: male inverts were, to a greater or lesser degree, inclined to traditionally female pursuits and...
– inviolacy – involuntary celibacy
Involuntary celibacy
Involuntary celibacy is the absence in human sexuality of intimate relationships or sexual intercourse for reasons other than voluntary celibacy, asexuality, antisexualism, or sexual abstinence...
– involuntary sterilization – irrumatio
Irrumatio
Irrumatio, also called irrumation, is a type of sexual intercourse performed by actively thrusting one's penis into a partner's mouth and throat. It may also be the thrusting of the penis between the legs, breasts, feet, upper thighs , or between the abdomens of two partners."Latin erotic...
– irrumation – Isabella piercing
Isabella piercing
Isabella piercing is a female genital piercing. This extremely deep clitoral shaft piercing starts below the clitoris and just above the urethra, and then goes up through the clitoral shaft and exits at the top of the hood .This piercing was first documented in issue 17 of Piercing World Magazine...
– ischiocavernosus muscle
Ischiocavernosus muscle
The ischiocavernosus muscle is a muscle just below the surface of the perineum, present in both men and women.-Function:It helps flex the anus, and stabilize the erect penis or tense the vagina during orgasm...
– Islamic marriage customs – Islamic view of marriage – Islamic views of homosexuality – isthmus of uterine tube
Isthmus of uterine tube
The visible medial third of the uterine tube is the isthmus tubae uterinae. It is medidally bordered by the intramural portion of the tube that connects to the endometrial cavity and laterally by the ampullary part of the tube....
– IUD – IUS
IntraUterine System
The IUD with progestogen, intrauterine system , or IntraUterine Contraceptive is a long-acting reversible hormonal contraceptive device that is placed in the uterus. An IUS has a hormone cylinder that releases a progestin called levonorgestrel...
– IVF –
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Jain marriage customs – Jain wedding – Japanese bondageJapanese bondage
' means 'tight binding ' which literally means 'the beauty of tight binding'. Kinbaku is a Japanese style of bondage or BDSM which involves tying up the bottom using simple yet visually intricate patterns, usually with several pieces of thin rope–often jute and generally around 6 mm in...
– Japanese marriage customs – Japanese wedding
Japanese wedding
Japanese wedding customs fall into two categories: traditional Shinto ceremonies, and modern Western-style weddings. In either case, the couple must first be legally married by filing for marriage at their local government office, and the official documentation must be produced in order for the...
– jealousy
Jealousy
Jealousy is a second emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, particularly in reference to a human connection. Jealousy often consists of a combination of presenting emotions...
– jello wrestling – jelqing – jewelry – Jewish marriage customs – Jewish view of marriage
Jewish view of marriage
In Judaism, marriage is viewed as a contractual bond commanded by God in which a man and a woman come together to create a relationship in which God is directly involved. Though procreation is not the sole purpose, a Jewish marriage is also expected to fulfill the commandment to have children. The...
– Jewish views of homosexuality – Jewish wedding
Jewish wedding
A Jewish wedding is a wedding ceremony that follows Jewish law and traditions.While wedding ceremonies vary, common features of a Jewish wedding include a ketuba signed by two witnesses, a wedding canopy , a ring owned by the groom that is given to the bride under the canopy, and the breaking of a...
– jinetera – jineterismo
Jineterismo
Jineterismo is a term used to describe an alleged number of illegal or semi-legal economic activities related to tourism in Cuba. These activities include prostitution and pimping, as well as other forms of hustling, such as selling black-market and counterfeit goods. The term derives from the...
– jism
Semen
Semen is an organic fluid, also known as seminal fluid, that may contain spermatozoa. It is secreted by the gonads and other sexual organs of male or hermaphroditic animals and can fertilize female ova...
– jock itch
Jock itch
Tinea cruris, also known as crotch itch, crotch rot, Dhobie itch, eczema marginatum, gym itch, jock itch, and ringworm of the groin in American English is a dermatophyte fungal infection of the groin region in either sex, though more often seen in males...
– john (prostitution) – johnny-bag – V. E. Johnson – Virginia Eshelman Johnson – Georgeanna S. Jones – Christine Jorgensen
Christine Jorgensen
Christine Jorgensen was the first widely known person to have sex reassignment surgery—in this case, male to female.-Early life:...
– Journal of Sex Research
Journal of Sex Research
The Journal of Sex Research is a scientific journal published by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality . In 1963, the society had published a one-issue journal entitled Advances in Sex Research...
– The Joy of Sex
The Joy of Sex
The Joy of Sex is an illustrated sex manual by Alex Comfort, M.B., Ph.D., first published in 1972. An updated edition was released in September, 2008.-Overview:...
– jumping the broom
Jumping the broom
Jumping the broom is a phrase and custom relating to wedding ceremonies in different cultural traditions: "many diverse cultures, those of Africa − Europe including Scotland, Hungary and Gypsy culture – include brooms at wedding rituals." It is particularly associated with the Romani gypsy people...
– jus primae noctis – Justine – juvenilism –
K
K-selection – K-Y JellyK-Y Jelly
K-Y Jelly is a water-based, water-soluble personal lubricant produced by Johnson & Johnson. According to the company, "The origins of the brand name 'K-Y' are unknown...
– kabazzah – kagema
Kagema
Kagema is a historical Japanese term for young male prostitutes. Kagema were often passed off as apprentice kabuki actors and catered to a mixed male and female clientele. For male clients, the preferred service was anal sex; homosexual fellatio is almost unmentioned in Tokugawa-era documents...
– Kali's teeth bracelet – Kallmann's syndrome – Kama Sutra
Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses...
– Kamashastra
Kamashastra
In Indian literature, Kāmashastra refers to the tradition of works on Kāma: love, erotics, or sensual pleasures. It therefore has a practical orientation, similar to that of Arthashastra, the tradition of texts on politics and government...
– Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome – karezza – karwa chauth
Karwa Chauth
Karva Chauth is an annual one-day festival celebrated by Hindu and some Sikh women in North India and parts of Pakistan in which married women fast from sunrise to moonrise for the safety and longevity of their husbands...
– karyotype
Karyotype
A karyotype is the number and appearance of chromosomes in the nucleus of an eukaryotic cell. The term is also used for the complete set of chromosomes in a species, or an individual organism.p28...
– kathoey
Kathoey
Kathoey or katoey is a male-to-female transgender person or an effeminate gay male in Thailand. Related phrases include sao praphet song , or phet thi sam . The word kathoey is thought to be of Khmer origin...
– Kegel exercise
Kegel exercise
A pelvic floor exercise, more commonly called a Kegel exercise , consists of contracting and relaxing the muscles that form part of the pelvic floor, which are now sometimes colloquially referred to as the "Kegel muscles". Several tools exist to help with these exercises, though many are ineffective...
– Kegel exerciser – Arnold Kegel
Arnold Kegel
Arnold H. Kegel M.D., F.A.C.S. was a gynecologist who invented the Kegel Perineometer and Kegel exercises as non-surgical treatment of genital relaxation...
– kept woman – kerb crawler
Kerb crawler
A kerb crawler is a person who drives around areas known for street prostitution soliciting prostitutes for sex. The act is known as "kerb crawling" because the person will typically drive very slowly along the kerbside....
– kerb crawling – kerb-crawler – kerb-crawling – ketubah
Ketubah
A ketubah is a special type of Jewish prenuptial agreement. It is considered an integral part of a traditional Jewish marriage, and outlines the rights and responsibilities of the groom, in relation to the bride.-History:...
– khanith
Khanith
Khanith or Khaneeth is a vernacular Arabic term for both standard written Arabic mukhannath and khuntha. The Arabic word Mukhannath مخنث refers to individuals with a gender identity that is discordant with their visible sexual organs...
– kink (sexual)
Kink (sexual)
In human sexuality, kinkiness and kinky are terms used to refer to a playful usage of sexual concepts in an accentuated, and unambiguously expressive form....
– kink
Kink (sexual)
In human sexuality, kinkiness and kinky are terms used to refer to a playful usage of sexual concepts in an accentuated, and unambiguously expressive form....
y – kinky sex – Kinsey Institute – Kinsey Reports
Kinsey Reports
The Kinsey Reports are two books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female , by Dr. Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others and published by Saunders...
– Kinsey scale
Kinsey scale
The Kinsey scale, also called the Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale, attempts to describe a person's sexual history or episodes of his or her sexual activity at a given time. It uses a scale from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to 6, meaning exclusively homosexual...
– Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, as well as producing the Kinsey Reports and the Kinsey...
– kiss
Kiss
A kiss is the act of pressing one's lips against the lips or other body parts of another person or of an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, affection, respect, greeting, friendship, and good...
– kissing booth
Kissing booth
A kissing booth is a carnival attraction where the person running the booth kisses customers for money, often to raise funds for charity. Animals may also be used.-External links:* http://www.sptimes.com/2006/08/28/Pasco/A_fundraiser_in_the_b.shtml...
- Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid developed by Dr. Fritz Klein attempts to further measure sexual orientation by expanding upon the earlier Kinsey scale which categorizes sexual history from 0 to 6...
– kleptolagnia
Kleptolagnia
Kleptolagnia is the state of being sexually aroused by theft. A kleptolagniac is a person aroused by the act of theft. A sexual form of kleptomania....
– kleptomania
Kleptomania
Kleptomania is an irresistible urge to steal items of trivial value. People with this disorder are compelled to steal things, generally, but not limited to, objects of little or no significant value, such as pens, paper clips, paper and tape...
– Klinefelter's syndrome
Klinefelter's syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome, 46/47, XXY, or XXY syndrome is a condition in which human males have an extra X chromosome. While females have an XX chromosomal makeup, and males an XY, affected individuals have at least two X chromosomes and at least one Y chromosome...
– Klinefelter syndrome – klismaphilia
Klismaphilia
The term Klismaphilia refers to the receiving of sexual arousal from introducing liquids into the rectum and colon via the anus. This paraphilia often involves the use of enemas. The term klismaphilia was coined in 1973 by Dr...
– klismophilia – klysmaphilia – knife play
Knife play
Knife play is form of consensual BDSM edgeplay involving knives, daggers, and swords as a source of physical and mental stimulation. Knives are typically used to cut away clothing, scratch the skin, remove wax after wax play, or simply provide sensual stimulation...
– knismolagnia – Oswalt Kolle
Oswalt Kolle
Oswalt Kolle was a German sex educator, who became famous during the late 1960s and early 1970s for his numerous pioneering books and films on human sexuality. His work was translated into all major languages, while his films found an audience of 140 million worldwide. In his 1997 book Open to...
– Robert C. Kolodny
Robert C. Kolodny
Robert C. Kolodny is the author of numerous books on human sexuality and related topics. Born in New York City as the eldest child of Maxwell H. Kolodny, M.D., Ph.D., and Selma B. Kolodny, he attended Edgemont High School in Scarsdale, New York, and Columbia University , where he studied with Moses...
– koro (sexual disorder) – kothi (transgender) – Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
-Bibliography :* Heinrich Ammerer: Am Anfang war die Perversion. Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychiater und Pionier der modernen Sexualkunde. Styria premium 2011 in der Verlagsgruppe Styria GmbH & Co KG, Wien-Graz-Klagenfurt, ISBN 978-3-222-13321-3....
– Friedrich Salomon Krauss
Friedrich Salomon Krauss
Friedrich Salomon Krauss was an Austrian Jewish sexologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and Slavist.In 1877–78 Krauss attended the University of Vienna...
– Krukenberg tumor
Krukenberg tumor
A Krukenberg tumor refers to a malignancy in the ovary that metastasized from a primary site, classically the gastrointestinal tract, although it can arise in other tissues such as the breast. Gastric adenocarcinoma, especially at the pylorus, is the most common source...
– kundalini
Kundalini
Kundalini literally means coiled. In yoga, a "corporeal energy" - an unconscious, instinctive or libidinal force or Shakti, lies coiled at the base of the spine. It is envisioned either as a goddess or else as a sleeping serpent, hence a number of English renderings of the term such as 'serpent...
– kynodesme
Kynodesme
A kynodesme was a thin leather strip worn by some athletes in Ancient Greece to restrain the penis such as to prevent the exposure of the glans. It was tied tightly around the akroposthion, the part of the foreskin that extended beyond the glans...
– köçek
Köçek
The köçek phenomenon is one of the significant features of Ottoman Empire culture...
–
L
la petite mortLa Petite Mort
La Petite Mort is the seventh album by German rapper King Orgasmus One.- Tracklist :# "Rollt auf Chrom"# "Elfenklänge"# "La petite mort"# "Es war einmal"...
– labia (genitalia) – labia majora
Labia majora
The labia majora are two prominent longitudinal cutaneous folds that extend downward and backward from the mons pubis to the perineum and form the lateral boundaries of the pudendal cleft, which contains the labia minora, interlabial sulci, clitoral hood, clitoral glans, frenulum clitoridis, the...
– labia minora
Labia minora
The labia minora , also known as the inner labia, inner lips, or nymphae, are two flaps of skin on either side of the human vaginal opening, situated between the labia majora...
– labia minora reduction – labia piercing
Labia piercing
Labia piercings are one type of female genital piercing. This piercing can be placed either through the labia minora or the labia majora. They are one of the simpler and more common genital piercings performed on women, and are often pierced in symmetrical pairs...
– labia reduction – labia stretching
Labia stretching
Labia stretching is the act of elongating the labia minora through manual manipulation or physical equipment .It is a familial cultural practice in Rwanda, common in Sub-Saharan Africa, and a body modification practice elsewhere...
– labiocrural fold
Labiocrural fold
The labiocrural folds are the areas where the labia majora and the inner thighs meet. There is a left labiocrural fold and a right labiocrural fold....
– labium (genitalia) – lactation
Lactation
Lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands and the period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young. The process occurs in all female mammals, however it predates mammals. In humans the process of feeding milk is called breastfeeding or nursing...
– lactational amenorrhea method
Lactational Amenorrhea Method
The lactational amenorrhea method is a method of avoiding pregnancies which is based on the natural postnatal infertility that occurs when a woman is amenorrheic and fully breastfeeding...
– lactiferous duct
Lactiferous duct
Lactiferous ducts lead from the lobules of the mammary gland to the tip of the nipple. They are also referred to as galactophores, galactophorous ducts, mammary ducts, mamillary ducts and milk ducts...
– lactogenic hormone – lactophilia – Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy with assistance from Pino Orioli; it could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960...
– ladyboy – lagnolalia – lap dancing – laparoscopic surgery
Laparoscopic surgery
Laparoscopic surgery, also called minimally invasive surgery , bandaid surgery, or keyhole surgery, is a modern surgical technique in which operations in the abdomen are performed through small incisions as opposed to the larger incisions needed in laparotomy.Keyhole surgery makes use of images...
– laparotomy
Laparotomy
A laparotomy is a surgical procedure involving a large incision through the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. It is also known as coeliotomy.- Terminology :...
– latex
Latex
Latex is the stable dispersion of polymer microparticles in an aqueous medium. Latexes may be natural or synthetic.Latex as found in nature is a milky fluid found in 10% of all flowering plants . It is a complex emulsion consisting of proteins, alkaloids, starches, sugars, oils, tannins, resins,...
– latex clothing
Latex clothing
Latex rubber is used in many types of clothing. Rubber has traditionally been used in protective clothing, including gas masks and Wellington boots. Rubber is now generally being replaced in these application by plastics...
– Latin American marriage customs – lavender marriage
Lavender marriage
Lavender marriage is a type of male-female marriage of convenience in which the couple are not both heterosexual and conceal the homosexual or bisexual orientation of one or both spouses...
– Lea's Shield – leapfrog sex position – leather culture – leather fetishism – left-handed marriage – leg spreader – legalized prostitution – legbrace fascination – lena (sexology) – leno (sexology) – lent challenge – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name....
– leptosadism
Leptosadism
Leptosadism is a mild form of sadism .- External links :*...
– lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
– lesbian bed death
Lesbian bed death
Lesbian bed death is a term coined by University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz in her 1983 book American Couples. According to Schwartz, lesbian couples in committed relationships have less sex than any other type of couple, and they generally experience less sexual intimacy the longer...
– lesbianism – lesbian utopia
Lesbian utopia
Lesbian utopia refers to a conceptual community made up entirely of biological females who are not dependent on men for anything.The concept of an all-female society is mentioned in Greek mythology through a legend of the Amazons, a nation of all-female warriors...
– Simon LeVay
Simon LeVay
Simon LeVay is a British-American neuroscientist. He is known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation.-Personal life:LeVay was born on August 28, 1943 in Oxford, England...
– levirate marriage
Levirate marriage
Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obligated to marry his brother's widow, and the widow is obligated to marry her deceased husband's brother....
– Leydig cell
Leydig cell
Leydig cells, also known as interstitial cells of Leydig, are found adjacent to the seminiferous tubules in the testicle. They produce testosterone in the presence of luteinizing hormone...
– LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
– LGV
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Lymphogranuloma venereum is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the invasive serovars L1, L2, L2a or L3 of Chlamydia trachomatis....
– LHRH – libidinal bond – libido
Libido
Libido refers to a person's sex drive or desire for sexual activity. The desire for sex is an aspect of a person's sexuality, but varies enormously from one person to another, and it also varies depending on circumstances at a particular time. A person who has extremely frequent or a suddenly...
– lichen sclerosus et atrophicus – lie back and think of England
Lie back and think of England
"Lie back and think of England" is an English saying with roughly the same meaning as "grit one's teeth", i.e. put up with what is happening, though this comparison is complicated by the statement's seemingly sexual undertone. It was used both in England and among expatriates outside the country...
– life partner
Life partner
A life partner is a romantic or otherwise very close friend for life. The partners can be of the same or opposite sexes, married or unmarried, and monogamous or polyamorous....
– limbic system
Limbic system
The limbic system is a set of brain structures including the hippocampus, amygdala, anterior thalamic nuclei, septum, limbic cortex and fornix, which seemingly support a variety of functions including emotion, behavior, long term memory, and olfaction. The term "limbic" comes from the Latin...
– limerence
Limerence
Limerence is a term coined c. 1977 by the psychologist Dorothy Tennov to describe an involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated...
– line marriage – linea nigra – lingam
Lingam
The Lingam is a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva used for worship in temples....
– lipstick fetish – lipstick lesbian
Lipstick lesbian
Lipstick lesbian is a slang term used to describe lesbian and bisexual women who exhibit extremely feminine gender attributes, such as wearing make-up , wearing dresses or skirts and having other characteristics associated with feminine women...
– List of Japanese sex terms – list of phobias – list of sex positions – List of transgender-related topics – live-in relationship – lobules of testis
Lobules of testis
The glandular structure of the testis consists of numerous lobules.Their number, in a single testis, is estimated by Berres at 250, and by Krause at 400.They differ in size according to their position, those in the middle of the gland being larger and longer....
– lochia
Lochia
In the field of obstetrics, lochia is post-partum vaginal discharge, containing blood, mucus, and placental tissue. Lochia discharge typically continues for 4 to 6 weeks after childbirth.It progresses through three stages....
– lock and key party – loli-con – Lolita complex – long-distance relationship
Long-distance relationship
A long-distance relationship is typically an intimate relationship that takes place when the partners are separated by a considerable distance....
– loop electrical excision procedure
Loop electrical excision procedure
The loop electrosurgical excision procedure is currently one of the most commonly used approaches to treat high grade cervical dysplasia discovered on colposcopic examination. In UK it is known as "large loop excision of the transformation zone" . The procedure has many advantages including low...
– lordosis
Lordosis
Lordosis is a medical term used to describe an inward curvature of a portion of the lumbar and cervical vertebral column. Two segments of the vertebral column, namely cervical and lumbar, are normally lordotic, that is, they are set in a curve that has its convexity anteriorly and concavity...
– lordosis behavior
Lordosis behavior
Lordosis behavior, or mammalian lordosis, is a sexual response in mammals, such as mice and cats, that consists of a ventral arching of the spine. During lordosis, the spine curves so that the apex points in the ventral direction. That is, the spine arches inward toward the abdomen.Lordosis aids in...
– lorum
Lorum
A lorum is a male genital piercing, placed horizontally on the underside of the penis at its base, where the penis meets the scrotum. The word "lorum" is a portmanteau of the words "low" and "frenum", so named because it is essentially a very low-placed frenum piercing.Much like the frenum piercing...
– losing your virginity – loss of virginity – lot lizard – lothario
Lothario
Lothario is a male first name which came to connote an unscrupulous seducer of women.In The Impertinent Curiosity, a story-within-the-story in Don Quixote , by Miguel de Cervantes, a man named Anselmo coerces Lothario, his faithful friend, to test the virtue of Anselmo's wife, Camila...
– love
Love
Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...
– love at first sight
Love at first sight
Love at first sight is a common trope in Western literature, in which a person, character, or speaker feels romantic attraction for a stranger on the first sight of them...
– love addiction
Love addiction
Love addiction is a human behavior in which people become addicted to the feeling of being in love. Love addicts can take on many different behaviors. Love addiction is common; however, most love addicts do not realize they are addicted to love...
– love and marriage
Love and Marriage
"Love and Marriage" is a song with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. It is published by Barton Music Corporation .-Frank Sinatra versions:...
– love egg
Love egg
A love egg is a type of sensual vibrator that is egg or bullet shaped that can be completely inserted into the vagina or anus due to their small size. They can also be referred to as egg vibrators or bullet vibrators depending on their shape...
– love hotel
Love hotel
A love hotel is a type of short-stay hotel found around the world operated primarily for the purpose of allowing couples privacy for sexual activities...
– love map – love pillow
Love pillow
In Japan, love pillows are a subset of dakimakura and a type of inflatable sex toy. They usually have life-size pictures of anime characters or porn actresses on them....
– love potion – love slave
Love slave
A love slave is a person that, usually, would do anything for affection from their "master". Love slaves can be men or women.-See also:*Dominatrix*BDSM*Male dominance*Female chauvinism*Kajira*Misandry*Misogyny...
– love-bite – love-shyness
Love-shyness
- The Definition Of Love-shyness:Love-shyness is a specific type of severe chronic shyness that impairs or prevents intimate relationships. It implies a degree of inhibition and reticence with potential partners that is sufficiently severe to preclude participation in courtship, marriage and family...
– loveblot – lovemaking – lovemap
Lovemap
The concept of a lovemap was originated by John Money to assist a discussion of why people like what they enjoy sexually and erotically. According to Money, it is "a developmental representation or template in the mind and in the brain depicting the idealized lover and the idealized program of...
– lovemap displacement – lovemap inclusion – lover
Courtly love
Courtly love was a medieval European conception of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration. Generally, courtly love was secret and between members of the nobility. It was also generally not practiced between husband and wife....
– Lovers' lane - lovesickness
Lovesickness
Lovesickness describes the informal syndrome of rejected or unrequited love and covers physical as well as mental symptoms. It is not to be confused with the condition of being lovestruck....
– Loving Female Authority – Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia, , was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v...
– lubricant
Lubricant
A lubricant is a substance introduced to reduce friction between moving surfaces. It may also have the function of transporting foreign particles and of distributing heat...
– Lucky Pierre – lues – lust
Lust
Lust is an emotional force that is directly associated with the thinking or fantasizing about one's desire, usually in a sexual way.-Etymology:The word lust is phonetically similar to the ancient Roman lustrum, which literally meant "purification"...
– lust murder
Lust murder
A lust murder is a homicide in which the offender searches for erotic satisfaction by killing someone. Lust murder is synonymous with the paraphilic term erotophonophilia which is sexual arousal or gratification contingent on the death of a human being...
– luteinizing hormone
Luteinizing hormone
Luteinizing hormone is a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland. In females, an acute rise of LH called the LH surge triggers ovulation and development of the corpus luteum. In males, where LH had also been called interstitial cell-stimulating hormone , it stimulates Leydig cell...
– Lymphogranuloma venereum
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Lymphogranuloma venereum is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the invasive serovars L1, L2, L2a or L3 of Chlamydia trachomatis....
– Lysistrata
Lysistrata
Lysistrata is one of eleven surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War...
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M
mac daddyPimp
A pimp is an agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings. The pimp may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing a location where she may engage clients...
– machismo
Machismo
Machismo, or machoism, is a word of Spanish and Portuguese origin that describes prominently exhibited or excessive masculinity. As an attitude, machismo ranges from a personal sense of virility to a more extreme male chauvinism...
– macroorchidism
Macroorchidism
Macroorchidism is the medical term used to describe a genetic disorder found in males where a subject has abnormally large testes. The condition is commonly inherited in connection with fragile X syndrome, which is also the second most common genetic cause of mental disabilities...
– macrophilia
Macrophilia
Macrophilia refers to a fascination with or a sexual fantasy involving giants. The fantasy is typically based around one or more giantesses or giant's domination of a smaller human...
– madonna-whore complex
Madonna-whore complex
In Freudian psychoanalysis, a Madonna–whore complex is a psychological complex that is said to develop in the human male when he sees all women not as individuals, but as either saintly Madonnas or debased prostitute-like personalities. This dichotomy limits women's sexual expression because it...
– maid of honor – maiden
Maiden
Maiden or Maidens may refer to:* A female virgin; see virginity* Maiden name, the family name carried by a woman before marriage; see married and maiden names* Maiden, the first of the three aspects of the Triple Goddess...
– maidenhead
Hymen
The hymen is a membrane that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening. It forms part of the vulva, or external genitalia. The size of the hymenal opening increases with age. Although an often practiced method, it is not possible to confirm with certainty that a girl or woman is a...
– maiesiophilia – maieusiophilia – mail-order bride
Mail-order bride
Mail-order bride is a label applied to a woman who publishes her intent to marry someone from another country. This term is considered offensive by some people. The mail-order bride industry is the economic trade of contracted domestic partnerships, often between citizens of different countries or...
– major vestibular glands – make-out slut – makeup – makeup sex - make a pass – mala badal
Mala badal
Mala badal is part of the traditional Bengali wedding ceremony that involves the exchange of flower garlands between the bride and bridegroom, and is supposed to mark the first time when the bride and the bridegroom set eyes on each other. It is a ritual that is carried forward from the past, as...
– male
Male
Male refers to the biological sex of an organism, or part of an organism, which produces small mobile gametes, called spermatozoa. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete or ovum, in the process of fertilization...
– male chauvinism – male circumcision – male dominant sex position – male ejaculation – male gaze – male hermaphroditism – male lactation
Male lactation
Male lactation in zoology means production of milk from mammary glands in the presence of physiological stimuli connected with nursing infants. It is well documented in the Dayak fruit bat.The term male lactation is not used in human medicine...
– male menopause – male Pill – male prostitute – male prostitution
Male prostitution
Male prostitution is the practice of engaging in sexual acts for money. Compared to female sex workers, male sex workers have been far less studied by researchers, and while studies suggest that there are differences between the ways these two groups look at their work, more research is needed.Male...
– male rape – male reproductive system (human)
Male reproductive system (human)
The human male reproductive system consists of a number of sex organs that are a part of the human reproductive process...
– maledom – maleness – mammae – mammal
Mammal
Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...
– mammary gland
Mammary gland
A mammary gland is an organ in mammals that produces milk to feed young offspring. Mammals get their name from the word "mammary". In ruminants such as cows, goats, and deer, the mammary glands are contained in their udders...
– mammary intercourse
Mammary intercourse
Mammary intercourse describes a sex act, performed as foreplay or as non-penetrative sex, that involves the stimulation of the male penis by the female breasts. Commonly, this sex act involves the man placing his penis in the woman's cleavage and thrusting between her breasts, while the breasts are...
– manic-depressive hypersexuality – Thaddeus Mann
Thaddeus Mann
Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann was a biochemist who made significant contributions to the field of reproductive biology. Mann was born in Lwow, Austria-Hungary and was educated at Lwow University...
– manual genital stimulation – manual-genital stimulation – marianismo
Marianismo
"Marianismo" is an aspect of the female gender role in the machismo of Latin American folk culture. It is the veneration for feminine virtues like purity and moral strength...
– marital aid – marital arts – marital bed – marital rape – marital status
Marital status
A person's marital status indicates whether the person is married. Questions about marital status appear on many polls and forms, including censuses and credit card applications.In the simplest sense, the only possible answers are "single" or "married"...
– maritate – marriage
Marriage
Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...
– marriage banquet – marriage by abduction – marriage by capture – marriage ceremony – marriage contract – marriage guidance – marriage in South Korea
Marriage in South Korea
Marriage in South Korea is similar to that in the West, but has unique features of its own, especially due to the influence of Korean Confucianism.-Eligibility:Marriage in South Korea is a union between a man and a woman...
– marriage license
Marriage license
A marriage license is a document issued, either by a church or state authority, authorizing a couple to marry. The procedure for obtaining a license varies between countries and has changed over time...
– marriage of convenience
Marriage of convenience
A marriage of convenience is a marriage contracted for reasons other than the reasons of relationship, family, or love. Instead, such a marriage is orchestrated for personal gain or some other sort of strategic purpose, such as political marriage. The phrase is a calque of - a marriage of...
– marriage strike – marriage vows
Marriage vows
Marriage vows are promises each partner in a couple makes to the other during a wedding ceremony. Marriage customs have developed over history and keep changing as human society develops.-Background:...
– marriageable age
Marriageable age
Marriageable age is the age at which a person is allowed to marry, either as of right or subject to parental or other forms of consent. The age and other requirements vary between countries, but generally it is set at 18, although most jurisdictions allow marriage at slightly younger ages with...
– Married Love
Married Love
Married Love or Love in Marriage is a book written by Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes, first published in March 1918 by a small publisher, after many other larger publishers turned her down because of the content. It rapidly sold out, and was in its sixth printing within a fortnight.The US Customs...
– Mars Bar party – masculinity
Masculinity
Masculinity is possessing qualities or characteristics considered typical of or appropriate to a man. The term can be used to describe any human, animal or object that has the quality of being masculine...
– masculinization – mask
Mask
A mask is an article normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance or entertainment. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes...
– mask fetishism
Mask fetishism
Mask fetishism is a fetishistic desire to see a subject wearing or taking off a mask. The mask may be of any kind.-External links:*...
– mask of pregnancy – masochism – masochist – massage
Massage
Massage is the manipulation of superficial and deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue to enhance function, aid in the healing process, and promote relaxation and well-being. The word comes from the French massage "friction of kneading", or from Arabic massa meaning "to touch, feel or handle"...
– massage parlor
Massage parlor
A massage parlor is a business where customers can receive a massage. Sometimes the term is synonymous with brothel as the term "massage" may be used as a euphemism for paid sexual favours....
– mastectomy
Mastectomy
Mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. Mastectomy is usually done to treat breast cancer; in some cases, women and some men believed to be at high risk of breast cancer have the operation prophylactically, that is, to prevent cancer...
– master – Masters and Johnson
Masters and Johnson
The Masters and Johnson research team, composed of William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s....
– William Masters and Virginia Johnson – W. H. Masters – William Howell Masters – mastopexy – masturband – masturbation
Masturbation
Masturbation refers to sexual stimulation of a person's own genitals, usually to the point of orgasm. The stimulation can be performed manually, by use of objects or tools, or by some combination of these methods. Masturbation is a common form of autoeroticism...
– masturbation aid – masturbation fantasy – masturbilia – matchmaker
Matchmaking
Matchmaking is any process of matching two people for the purpose of marriage or a sporting contest.-Practice:In some cultures, the role of the matchmaker was and is quite professionalized...
– matriarchy
Matriarchy
A matriarchy is a society in which females, especially mothers, have the central roles of political leadership and moral authority. It is also sometimes called a gynocratic or gynocentric society....
– matrilinearity – matrilocal residence – matron of honor – Mattachine Society
Mattachine Society
The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was one of the earliest homophile organizations in the United States, probably second only to Chicago’s Society for Human Rights . Harry Hay and a group of Los Angeles male friends formed the group to protect and improve the rights of homosexuals...
– Max Marcuse
Max Marcuse
Max Marcuse was a Jewish - German dermatologist and sexologist. He became an editor for Magnus Hirschfeld’s Journal of Sexology in 1919 and continued editing the journal until 1932. Marcuse immigrated to Palestine in 1933, following the Nazi rise to power. Several of Marcuse's unpublished...
– May–December marriage – Mayer-Rokitansky syndrome – Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome – meat market (sexuality) – meatal advancement – meatal stenosis
Meatal stenosis
Urethral meatal stenosis or urethral stricture is a narrowing of the opening of the urethra at the external meatus , thus constricting the opening through which urine leaves the body from the urinary bladder....
– meatal ulceration – meatitis – meatotomy
Meatotomy
A meatotomy is a form of penile modification in which the underside of the glans is split. The procedure may be performed by a doctor to alleviate meatal stenosis or urethral stricture...
– meatus
Urinary meatus
The urinary meatus is an orifice of the urethra. It is the point at which urine and, in males, semen exits the urethra. The meatus features varying degrees of sensitivity to the touch among males and females....
– mechanism
Mechanism (biology)
In biology --and in science in general-- a mechanism is a complex object or, more generally, a process that produces a regular phenomenon. For example, natural selection is one of the mechanisms of biological evolution, other being genetic drift, biased mutation, and gene flow; competition,...
– mediastinum testis
Mediastinum testis
The mediastinum testis is a network of fibrous connective tissue that extends from the upper to near the lower extremity of the testis, and is wider above than below....
– medical fetishism
Medical fetishism
Medical fetishism refers to a collection of sexual fetishes for objects, practices, environments, and situations of a medical or clinical nature....
– medical scene – medroxyprogesterone acetate – medulla of ovary
Medulla of ovary
The medulla of ovary is a highly vascular stroma in the center of the ovary. It forms from embryonic mesenchyme and contains blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves....
– Meese Commission – megalopenis – melanotan II
Melanotan II
Melanotan II developed at the University of Arizona is a synthetic analog of the naturally occurring melanocortin peptide hormone alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone that in usage has been shown to have melanogenesis and aphrodisiac effects in preliminary studies and clinical trials...
– melasma
Melasma
Melasma is a tan or dark skin discoloration. Although it can affect anyone, melasma is particularly common in women, especially pregnant women and those who are taking oral or patch contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy medications...
– melasma praegnans – membrana granulosa
Membrana granulosa
The larger ovarian follicles consist of an external fibrovascular coat, connected with the surrounding stroma of the ovary by a network of bloodvessels; and an internal coat, which consists of several layers of nucleated cells, called the membrana granulosa...
– membrum virile – men on the down-low (DL) – men who have sex with men
Men who have sex with men
Men who have sex with men are male persons who engage in sexual activity with members of the same sex, regardless of how they identify themselves; many men choose not to accept sexual identities of homosexual or bisexual...
– menarche
Menarche
Menarche is the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding, in female human beings. From both social and medical perspectives it is often considered the central event of female puberty, as it signals the possibility of fertility....
– menopause
Menopause
Menopause is a term used to describe the permanent cessation of the primary functions of the human ovaries: the ripening and release of ova and the release of hormones that cause both the creation of the uterine lining and the subsequent shedding of the uterine lining...
– menstrual
Menstrual cycle
The menstrual cycle is the scientific term for the physiological changes that can occur in fertile women for the purpose of sexual reproduction. This article focuses on the human menstrual cycle....
– menstrual cramp – menstrual cup
Menstrual cup
A menstrual cup is a type of cup or barrier worn inside the vagina during menstruation to collect menstrual fluid. Unlike tampons and pads, the cup collects menstrual fluid rather than absorbing it...
– menstrual cycle
Menstrual cycle
The menstrual cycle is the scientific term for the physiological changes that can occur in fertile women for the purpose of sexual reproduction. This article focuses on the human menstrual cycle....
– menstrual flow – menstrual taboo
Menstrual taboo
A Menstrual taboo is any social taboo concerned with menstruation. In some societies it involves menstruation being perceived as unclean or embarrassing, extending even to the mention of menstruation both in public and in private .Different cultures view menstruation differently...
– menstruation
Menstruation
Menstruation is the shedding of the uterine lining . It occurs on a regular basis in sexually reproductive-age females of certain mammal species. This article focuses on human menstruation.-Overview:...
– mental disorder – merkin
Merkin
A merkin is a pubic wig. Merkins were originally worn by prostitutes after shaving their genitalia, and are now used as decorative items, erotic devices, or in films, by both men and women.-Origin of term:...
– mesometrium
Mesometrium
The mesometrium is the mesentery of the uterus. It constitutes the majority of the broad ligament of the uterus, excluding only the portions adjacent to the uterine tube and ovary.It is adjacent to the mesosalpinx....
– mesosalpinx
Mesosalpinx
The mesosalpinx is part of the lining of the abdominal cavity in higher vertebrates, specifically the portion of the broad ligament that stretches from the ovary to the level of the uterine tube....
– mesovarium
Mesovarium
The mesovarium is the portion of the broad ligament of the uterus that covers the ovaries.At first the mesonephros and genital ridge are suspended by a common mesentery, but as the embryo grows the genital ridge gradually becomes pinched off from the mesonephros, with which it is at first...
– methyltestosterone
Methyltestosterone
Methyltestosterone is a 17-alpha-alkylated anabolic steroid used to treat men with a testosterone deficiency. It is also used in women to treat breast cancer, breast pain, swelling due to pregnancy, and with the addition of estrogen it can treat symptoms of menopause...
– microorchidism
Microorchidism
Microorchidism is the medical term used to describe a genetic disorder found in males where a subject has abnormally small testes. The condition is associated with a number of other genetic disorders, including Klinefelter's Syndrome and Prader-Willi syndrome, as well as other multiple...
– micropenis
Micropenis
Micropenis is an unusually small penis. A common criterion is a dorsal erect penile length of at least 2.5 standard deviations smaller than the mean human penis size. The condition is usually recognized shortly after birth...
– microphallus
Microphallus
Microphallus is a genus of parasitic trematodes in the family Microphallidae. The Greek name means "tiny penis".- Hosts :They are parasitic on a variety of molluscs, crustaceans, birds, and mammals, some species having complex life cycles involving more than one host.For example, Microphallus...
– microphilia – mid-life crisis
Mid-life crisis
Midlife crisis is a term coined in 1965 by Elliott Jaques and used in Western societies to describe a period of dramatic self-doubt that is felt by some individuals in the "middle years" or middle age of life, as a result of sensing the passing of their own youth and the imminence of their old age...
– mifepristone
Mifepristone
Mifepristone is a synthetic steroid compound used as a pharmaceutical. It is a progesterone receptor antagonist used as an abortifacient in the first months of pregnancy, and in smaller doses as an emergency contraceptive. During early trials, it was known as RU-38486 or simply RU-486, its...
– mile high club
Mile High Club
The Mile High Club is a slang term applied collectively to individuals who have sex while on board an aircraft in flight. There is no known formally constituted club so named...
- military fetishism – milk fetishism – mindfuck
Mindfuck
Mindfuck may refer to:*Operation Mindfuck, a principle of discordianism*Incredible Expanding Mindfuck, an experimental music group founded by Steven Wilson*I.E.M. , eponymous debut album of said group...
– minor vestibular glands – minotaur
Minotaur
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur , as the Greeks imagined him, was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, "part man and part bull"...
– misattribution of arousal
Misattribution of Arousal
Misattribution of arousal is a term in psychology which describes the process whereby people make a mistake in assuming what is causing them to feel aroused.- Experiment :...
– miscarriage
Miscarriage
Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or fetus is incapable of surviving independently, generally defined in humans at prior to 20 weeks of gestation...
– miscegenation
Miscegenation
Miscegenation is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and procreation....
– misogynist – misogyny
Misogyny
Misogyny is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. Philogyny, meaning fondness, love or admiration towards women, is the antonym of misogyny. The term misandry is the term for men that is parallel to misogyny...
– missionary position
Missionary position
The missionary position is a "man-on-top" sex position usually described as the act in which the woman lies on her back and the partners face each other. Though often acted on and applied by heterosexual pairings, it may also be used by gay and lesbian couples.The missionary position is an example...
– mistress
Mistress (lover)
A mistress is a long-term female lover and companion who is not married to her partner; the term is used especially when her partner is married. The relationship generally is stable and at least semi-permanent; however, the couple does not live together openly. Also the relationship is usually,...
– misyar marriage – mittelschmerz
Mittelschmerz
Mittelschmerz is a medical term for "ovulation pain" or "midcycle pain". About 20% of women experience mittelschmerz, some every cycle, some intermittently.-Symptoms and diagnosis:...
– mixed wrestling – mixophilia – mixoscopia – mock execution – Modern Primitives
Modern Primitives (book)
Modern Primitives, written by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, is a RE/Search publications book about body modification, published in 1989. The book consists of a collection of twenty two interviews and two essays with individuals and key figures involved the field of body modification in the late 1980s...
– modern primitive
Modern primitive
Modern primitives or urban primitives are people in developed nations who engage in body modification rituals and practices while making reference or homage to the rite of passage practices in "primitive cultures" These practices may include body piercing, tattooing, play piercing, flesh hook...
s – mole fetishism – Albert Moll – Molluscum contagiosum
Molluscum contagiosum
Molluscum contagiosum is a viral infection of the skin or occasionally of the mucous membranes. It is caused by a DNA poxvirus called the molluscum contagiosum virus . MCV has no animal reservoir, infecting only humans. There are four types of MCV, MCV-1 to -4; MCV-1 is the most prevalent and...
– John Money
John Money
John William Money was a psychologist, sexologist and author, specializing in research into sexual identity and biology of gender...
– Monilia
Candidiasis
Thrush redirects here. For the hoof infection see Thrush .Candidiasis or thrush is a fungal infection of any of the Candida species , of which Candida albicans is the most common...
– monilial vaginitis – monogamous relationship – monogamy
Monogamy
Monogamy /Gr. μονός+γάμος - one+marriage/ a form of marriage in which an individual has only one spouse at any one time. In current usage monogamy often refers to having one sexual partner irrespective of marriage or reproduction...
– monopedomania – monorchism
Monorchism
-Causes:This can be due to:* One testicle not descending into the scrotum during normal embryonic or fetal development , also known as: undescended testis or cryptorchidism. In this case the testis is within the abdominal cavity, somewhere along the normal route of descent — most commonly,...
– mons pubis
Mons pubis
In human anatomy or in mammals in general, the mons pubis , also known as the mons veneris or simply the mons, is the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone of adult females, anterior to the pubic symphysis...
– mons veneris – morbid jealousy – morganatic marriage
Morganatic marriage
In the context of European royalty, a morganatic marriage is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which prevents the passage of the husband's titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage...
– Mormon marriage – Mormon view of marriage – morning gift – morning-after pill – morning-after-pill – morphophilia – mortality
Death
Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include old age, predation, malnutrition, disease, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury....
– morula
Morula
A morula is an embryo at an early stage of embryonic development, consisting of cells in a solid ball contained within the zona pellucida....
– Mother Clap
Margaret Clap
Margaret Clap , better known as Mother Clap, ran a coffee house from 1724 to 1726 in Holborn, London. Notable for running a molly house, an inn or tavern primarily frequented by homosexual men, she was also heavily involved in the ensuing legal battles after her premise was raided and shut down...
– motivation theories – mount – mourning clothing – MSM
Men who have sex with men
Men who have sex with men are male persons who engage in sexual activity with members of the same sex, regardless of how they identify themselves; many men choose not to accept sexual identities of homosexual or bisexual...
– mucinous tumor
Mucinous tumor
Mucinous tumors are part of the surface epithelial-stromal tumor group of ovarian neoplasms, and account for 12-15% of all ovarian tumors.Approximately 75% are benign, 10% are borderline and 15% are malignant....
– mucopurulent cervicitis – mud wrestling
Mud wrestling
Mud wrestling is defined as physical confrontation that occurs in mud or a mud pit. The popular modern interpretation specifies that participants wrestle while wearing minimal clothing and usually going barefoot, with the emphasis on presenting an entertaining spectacle as opposed to physically...
– mujra (courtesan) – mukhannathun
Mukhannathun
Mukhannathun is classical Arabic for people who would now be called transgender women, perhaps poorly distinguished from eunuchs. Various "mukhannathun" appear in several hadith. In one hadith the prophet Muhammad banishes a mukhannath to a region near Medina, but prohibits people from killing...
– muliebrity – Müllerian agenesis
Mullerian agenesis
Müllerian agenesis is a congenital malformation in women characterised by a failure of the müllerian ducts to develop, resulting in a missing uterus and fallopian tubes and variable malformations of the upper portion of the vagina. It is the second most common cause of primary amenorrhea after...
– Müllerian duct
Müllerian duct
Müllerian ducts are paired ducts of the embryo that run down the lateral sides of the urogenital ridge and terminate at the Müllerian eminence in the primitive urogenital sinus. In the female, they will develop to form the Fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, and the upper two-third of the vagina; in...
– Müllerian duct structures – Müllerian-inhibiting hormone – multipara – multiparous – multiphilia – multiple birth
Multiple birth
A multiple birth occurs when more than one fetus is carried to term in a single pregnancy. Different names for multiple births are used, depending on the number of offspring. Common multiples are two and three, known as twins and triplets...
– multiple orgasm – multiple personality – multiple wedding – multiplexed paraphilia – mummification
Mummification (BDSM)
Mummification as a BDSM bondage practice involves restraining a living person's body in a non-damaging way by wrapping it head to toe, or neck to toe, in materials like saran wrap, clingfilm, cloth, bandages, rubber strips, duct tape, plaster bandages, bodybags, or straitjackets. The end result is...
– Muslim marriage – Musée de l'Érotisme – music fetish – mut'a marriage – mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation or maiming is an act of physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of any living body, usually without causing death.- Usage :...
– mutta marriage – mutual masturbation – muxe
Muxe
In Zapotec cultures of Oaxaca , a muxe is a physically male individual who dresses and behaves in a feminine manner; they may be seen as a third gender. Some marry women and have children while others choose men as sexual or romantic partners...
– Mycoplasma hominis
Mycoplasma hominis
Mycoplasma hominis is a strain of bacteria present in the vagina. It may or may not belong to the normal vaginal flora. It is also believed to be a cause of pelvic inflammatory disease. If so, it would be only one of many known causes....
– myometrium
Myometrium
The myometrium is the middle layer of the uterine wall, consisting mainly of uterine smooth muscle cells , but also of supporting stromal and vascular tissue...
– mysophilia – ménage à trois
Ménage à trois
Ménage à trois is a French term which originally described a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household – the phrase literally translates as "household of three"...
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nancy boyNancy Boy
"Nancy Boy" is a song by British alternative rock band Placebo, released as the third single from their self-titled debut album. It was released on January 20, 1997 and became their breakthrough single, reaching #4 in the UK charts and making them known to mainstream audiences. As with their first...
– narcissism
Narcissism
Narcissism is a term with a wide range of meanings, depending on whether it is used to describe a central concept of psychoanalytic theory, a mental illness, a social or cultural problem, or simply a personality trait...
– narratophilia
Narratophilia
Narratophilia is a sexual fetish, in which the telling of dirty and obscene words or stories to a partner is sexually arousing.. The term is also used for arousal by means of listening to obscene words and stories....
– nasophilia – natal sex – native lovemap – natural birth control – natural childbirth
Natural childbirth
Natural Childbirth is a philosophy of childbirth that is based on the notion that women who are adequately prepared are innately able to give birth without routine medical interventions. Natural childbirth arose in opposition to the techno-medical model of childbirth that has recently gained...
– natural family planning
Natural family planning
Natural family planning is a term referring to the family planning methods approved by the Roman Catholic Church. In accordance with the Church's requirements for sexual behavior in keeping with its philosophy of the dignity of the human person, NFP excludes the use of other methods of birth...
– natural law
Natural law
Natural law, or the law of nature , is any system of law which is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal. Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature and deduce binding rules of moral behavior. Natural law is contrasted with the positive law Natural...
– navel fetish – navicular fossa of male urethra
Navicular fossa of male urethra
The cavernous portion of the urethra is narrow, and of uniform size in the body of the penis, measuring about 6 mm in diameter; it is dilated behind, within the bulb, and again anteriorly within the glans penis, where it forms the fossa navicularis urethræ....
– necking
Making out
In human sexuality, making out is a sexual euphemism of American origin dating back to at least 1949, and is used synonymously with the terms necking, heavy petting, and hooking up to refer to non-penetrative sex, though "hooking up" is also used in some cultures to imply casual sex.-History:The...
– necrobestiality – necromania
Necromania
Necromania is a pornographic film by Edward D. Wood, Jr., released in 1971.-Production and rediscovery:...
– necrophagia
Necrophagia
Necrophagia is an American death metal band. The group was assembled in Wellsville, Ohio in 1983 and are credited as being one of the very first musical groups to be classified within the death metal genre. The group was founded by Frank Pucci...
– necrophilia
Necrophilia
Necrophilia, also called thanatophilia or necrolagnia, is the sexual attraction to corpses,It is classified as a paraphilia by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. The word is artificially derived from the ancient Greek words: νεκρός and φιλία...
– necrosadism – necrozoophilia – needle play – Sheikh Nefzaoui – neg (seduction) – negotiation
Negotiation (BDSM)
In the BDSM community, negotiation is a form of communication where participants make arrangements on each others' requirements, responsibilities, and limits to find the best possible agreement....
– Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Neisseria gonorrhoeae, also known as gonococci , or gonococcus , is a species of Gram-negative coffee bean-shaped diplococci bacteria responsible for the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea.N...
– neocortex
Neocortex
The neocortex , also called the neopallium and isocortex , is a part of the brain of mammals. It is the outer layer of the cerebral hemispheres, and made up of six layers, labelled I to VI...
– neolocal residence
Neolocal residence
Neolocal residence is a type of post-marital residence when a newly married couple resides separately from both the husband's natal household and the wife's natal household...
– neopagan marriage – neopagan views of marriage – neopagan wedding – neopenis – neophalloplasty – neophilia – nepiophilia – nepiphtherosis – NGU – niddah
Niddah
Niddah is a Hebrew term describing a woman during menstruation, or a woman who has menstruated and not yet completed the associated requirement of immersion in a mikveh ....
– nikah
Nikah
Marriage in Islam is an Islamic prenuptial contract between a man and woman to live as husband and wife. It is a formal, binding contract considered integral to a religiously valid Islamic marriage, and outlines the rights and responsibilities of the groom and bride involved in marriage proceedings...
– nipple
Nipple
In its most general form, a nipple is a structure from which a fluid emanates. More specifically, it is the projection on the breasts or udder of a mammal by which breast milk is delivered to a mother's young. In this sense, it is often called a teat, especially when referring to non-humans, and...
– nipple clamps – nipple covers – nipple discharge
Nipple discharge
Nipple discharge is the release of fluid from the nipples of the breasts. Although it is considered normal in a wide variety of circumstances it is the third major reason involving the breasts for which women seek medical attention, after breast lumps and breast pain. It is also known to occur in...
– nipple piercing
Nipple piercing
A nipple piercing is a piercing, centered usually at the base of the nipple. It can be pierced at any angle but is usually done horizontally or, less often, vertically. It is also possible to place multiple piercings on top of one another...
– nipple reconstruction – nipple tassels – nitrite inhalants – no prostitutes here – no-fault divorce
No-fault divorce
No-fault divorce is a divorce in which the dissolution of a marriage requires neither a showing of wrong-doing of either party nor any evidentiary proceedings at all...
– no-pan kissa
No-pan kissa
No-pan kissa is a Japanese term for cafes where the waitresses wear short skirts with no underwear. The floors, or sections of the floor, are often mirrored.-Concept:...
– nocturnal emission
Nocturnal emission
A nocturnal emission involves either ejaculation during sleep for a male, or lubrication of the vagina for a female. It is also called a wet dream, and is sometimes considered a type of spontaneous orgasm....
– non-gonococcal urethritis
Non-gonococcal urethritis
Nongonococcal urethritis is an inflammation of the urethra that is not caused by gonorrheal infection.For treatment purposes, doctors usually classify infectious urethritis in two categories: gonococcal urethritis, caused by gonorrhea, and nongonococcal urethritis .-Causes:There are many causes of...
– non-specific urethritis – non-western concepts of male sexuality – nonce
Nonce (slang)
In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser...
– nonmonogamy – norm
Norm (sociology)
Social norms are the accepted behaviors within a society or group. This sociological and social psychological term has been defined as "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. These rules may be explicit or implicit...
– normal (behavior) – normal sexuality – normophilia – normophiliac – Norplant
Norplant
Norplant is a form of birth control developed by the Population Council that was first approved in 1983 in Finland, where it was manufactured by Leiras Oy Pharmaceuticals...
– nosophilia – NSU
Non-gonococcal urethritis
Nongonococcal urethritis is an inflammation of the urethra that is not caused by gonorrheal infection.For treatment purposes, doctors usually classify infectious urethritis in two categories: gonococcal urethritis, caused by gonorrhea, and nongonococcal urethritis .-Causes:There are many causes of...
– Nubian wedding – nuclear family
Nuclear family
Nuclear family is a term used to define a family group consisting of a father and mother and their children. This is in contrast to the smaller single-parent family, and to the larger extended family. Nuclear families typically center on a married couple, but not always; the nuclear family may have...
– nude – nude chat – nudism – nudity
Nudity
Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic. The amount of clothing worn depends on functional considerations and social considerations...
– nulligravida – nullipara – nulliparous – nunsploitation
Nunsploitation
Nunsploitation is a subgenre of exploitation film which had its peak in Europe in the 1970s. These films typically involve Christian nuns living in convents during the Middle Ages. The main conflict of the story is usually of a religious or sexual nature, such as religious oppression or sexual...
– nutrition and pregnancy
Nutrition and pregnancy
Nutrition and pregnancy refers to the nutrient intake, and dietary planning that is undertaken before, during and after pregnancy.In a precursory study into the link between nutrition and pregnancy in 1950 women who consumed minimal amounts over the eight week period had a higher mortality or...
– nymph
Nymph
A nymph in Greek mythology is a female minor nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from gods, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing;...
– nymphae – nymphectomy – nympholepsy – nymphomania – nymphophilia – nymphotomy
Nymphotomy
Nymphotomy is the surgical procedure of incision into the labia minora.Surgical removal of the labia minora is called nymphectomy. In plastic surgery, the term labiaplasty, which describes plastic surgery of the labia is now more commonly used.The term "nymphectomy" is also used to describe...
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ob/gyn – object sexualityObject sexuality
Object sexuality or objectum sexuality, in German objektophil , is a pronounced emotional and often romantic desire towards developing significant relationships with particular inanimate objects. Those individuals with this expressed preference may feel strong feelings of attraction, love, and...
– objectum-sexuality – obscene phone call
Obscene phone call
An obscene phone call is an unsolicited telephone call where a person derives sexual pleasure by using sexual or foul language to an unknown person. Making obscene telephone calls for sexual pleasure is known as telephone scatologia and is considered a form of exhibitionism...
– Obscene Publications Act
Obscene Publications Act
Since 1857, a series of obscenity laws known as the Obscene Publications Acts have governed what can be published in England and Wales. The classic definition of criminal obscenity is if it "tends to deprave and corrupt," stated in 1868 by John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge.There have been...
– obscenity
Obscenity
An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious...
– obstetrics
Obstetrics
Obstetrics is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy , childbirth and the postnatal period...
– obstetrics and gynaecology
Obstetrics and gynaecology
Obstetrics and gynaecology are the two surgical–medical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs in their pregnant and non-pregnant state, respectively, and as such are often combined to form a single medical specialty and postgraduate training programme...
– ochlophilia – oculolinctus – oculophilia
Oculophilia
Oculophilia is a sexual fetish for the eye. The phenomenon is described in some detail by Jonathan Coe in his 1997 novel The House of Sleep. However, the interest of the person in question is not always of an entirely sexual nature, but sometimes of an intellectual nature...
– odalisque
Odalisque
An odalisque was a female slave in an Ottoman seraglio. She was an assistant or apprentice to the concubines and wives, and she might rise in status to become one of them...
– odontophilia – odynorgasmia
Odynorgasmia
Odynorgasmia, or painful ejaculation, is a physical syndrome described by pain or burning sensation of the urethra or perineum during or following ejaculation. Causes include infections associated with Urethritis, Prostatitis, Epididymitis as well as use of anti-depressants....
– Oedipal conflict – Oedipal fantasy – Oedipus complex
Oedipus complex
In psychoanalytic theory, the term Oedipus complex denotes the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrate upon a boy’s desire to sexually possess his mother, and kill his father...
– oestrogen – office affair – old maid's insanity – olfactophilia
Olfactophilia
Olfactophilia or osmolagnia is a paraphilia for, and sexual attraction to, or sexual arousal by smells and odors emanating from the body, especially the sexual areas...
– oligospermia
Oligospermia
Oligospermia, also oligozoospermia, refers to semen with a low concentration of sperm and is a common finding in male infertility. Often semen with a decreased sperm concentration may also show significant abnormalities in sperm morphology and motility...
– olisbos – omiai
Omiai
or is a Japanese traditional custom in which unattached individuals are introduced to each other to consider the possibility of marriage. Since this "Miai" or "Omiai" was sometimes translated as "arranged marriage" in English and other foreign languages, which is a total misnomer, some foreigners...
– omnisexuality – omorashi
Omorashi
is a fetish subculture recognized predominantly in Japan, in which participants experience arousal from having a full bladder or a sexual attraction to someone else experiencing the feeling of a full urinary bladder. Outside of Japan, it is not usually identified separately from urolagnia , though...
– onanie – onanism – ondinisme – one child policy – one-night stand
One-night stand
Originally, a one-night stand was a single theatre performance, usually by a guest performer on tour, as opposed to an ongoing engagement. Today, however, the term is more commonly defined as a single sexual encounter, in which neither participant has any intention or expectation of a relationship...
– onsen geisha
Onsen geisha
Onsen geisha is a term referring to Japanese geisha, or entertainers, who work in onsen resorts or towns. The term onsen geisha has a negative connotation in that the term has come to be synonymous with prostitute...
– oogenesis
Oogenesis
Oogenesis, ovogenesis or oögenesis is the creation of an ovum . It is the female form of gametogenesis. The male equivalent is spermatogenesis...
– open marriage
Open marriage
Open marriage typically refers to a marriage in which the partners agree that each may engage in extramarital sexual relationships, without this being regarded as infidelity. There are many different styles of open marriage, with the partners having varying levels of input on their spouse's...
– ophidicism
Ophidicism
Ophidiophilia is defined as the sexual attraction to snakes; it is the opposite of ophidiophobia . Ophidiophilia is a subcategory of zoophilia, the sexual attraction to animals in general. People with ophidiophilia are known as ophidiophiles...
– opioid
Opioid
An opioid is a psychoactive chemical that works by binding to opioid receptors, which are found principally in the central and peripheral nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract...
– opponent-process theory
Opponent-process theory
Opponent-process theory is a universal psychological and neurological model proposed by Ewald Hering to account for a wide range of behaviors including color vision; this model was expanded by his co-worker at the University of Pennsylvania, Richard Solomon, to explain addictive and emotional...
– opposite sex – oral contraceptive
Oral contraceptive
The combined oral contraceptive pill , often referred to as the birth-control pill or colloquially as "the Pill", is a birth control method that includes a combination of an estrogen and a progestin . When taken by mouth every day, these pills inhibit female fertility...
– oral contraceptive formulations
Oral contraceptive formulations
Oral contraceptives come in a variety of formulations. The main division is between combined oral contraceptive pills, containing both estrogen and synthetic progestogens , and progestogen only pills...
– oral contraceptive pill – oral intercourse – oral sex
Oral sex
Oral sex is sexual activity involving the stimulation of the genitalia of a sex partner by the use of the mouth, tongue, teeth or throat. Cunnilingus refers to oral sex performed on females while fellatio refer to oral sex performed on males. Anilingus refers to oral stimulation of a person's anus...
– oral sex during menstruation – oral stage
Oral stage
In Freudian psychoanalysis, the term oral stage denotes the first psychosexual development stage wherein the mouth of the infant is his or her primary erogenous zone...
– orchalgia – orchidectomy – orchidometer
Orchidometer
An orchidometer is a medical instrument used to measure the volume of the testicles.The orchidometer was introduced in 1966 by pediatric endocrinologist Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Andrea Prader of the University of Zurich. It consists of a string of twelve numbered wooden or plastic beads of increasing...
– orchiectomy – orchiopexy
Orchiopexy
Orchiopexy is a surgery to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum and permanently fix it there. It is performed by a pediatric urologist or surgeon on boys with cryptorchidism, typically before they reach the age of two...
– orgasm
Orgasm
Orgasm is the peak of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, characterized by an intense sensation of pleasure...
– orgasm control
Orgasm control
Orgasm control, also known as "edging", "peaking", "surfing", and by other terms, is a sexual technique which involves the maintenance of a high level of sexual arousal for an extended period of time without reaching orgasm, although orgasm can be reached eventually. If orgasm is not reached after...
– orgasm denial – orgasmalgia
Orgasmalgia
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– orgasmic dysfuction – orgasmic phase – orgasmic platform
Orgasmic platform
The orgasmic platform is the tissues of the outer third of the vagina, labeled by Masters and Johnson. They swell considerably, and the pubococcygeus muscle tightens, reducing the diameter of the opening of the vagina. During orgasm, women experience rhythmic contractions of the orgasmic platform....
– orgasmic spasm – orgy
Orgy
In modern usage, an orgy is a sex party where guests engage in promiscuous or multifarious sexual activity or group sex. An orgy is similar to debauchery, which refers to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures....
– orientalism
Orientalism
Orientalism is a term used for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, as well as having other meanings...
– osmolagnia – osphresiolagnia – Othello syndrome – the Other
Other
The Other or Constitutive Other is a key concept in continental philosophy; it opposes the Same. The Other refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is Other than the initial concept being considered...
– outercourse – ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from the ovary. Symptoms are frequently very subtle early on and may include: bloating, pelvic pain, difficulty eating and frequent urination, and are easily confused with other illnesses....
– ovarian cyst
Ovarian cyst
An ovarian cyst is any collection of fluid, surrounded by a very thin wall, within an ovary. Any ovarian follicle that is larger than about two centimeters is termed an ovarian cyst. An ovarian cyst can be as small as a pea, or larger than an orange....
– ovarian follicle
Ovarian follicle
Ovarian follicles are the basic units of female reproductive biology, each of which is composed of roughly spherical aggregations of cells found in the ovary. They contain a single oocyte . These structures are periodically initiated to grow and develop, culminating in ovulation of usually a single...
– ovarian ligament
Ovarian ligament
The ovarian ligament is a fibrous ligament that connects the ovary to the lateral surface of the uterus....
– ovarian reserve
Ovarian reserve
Ovarian reserve is a term that is used to determine the capacity of the ovary to provide eggs that are capable of fertilization resulting in a healthy and successful pregnancy...
– ovariectomy – ovary
Ovary
The ovary is an ovum-producing reproductive organ, often found in pairs as part of the vertebrate female reproductive system. Ovaries in anatomically female individuals are analogous to testes in anatomically male individuals, in that they are both gonads and endocrine glands.-Human anatomy:Ovaries...
– ovulation
Ovulation
Ovulation is the process in a female's menstrual cycle by which a mature ovarian follicle ruptures and discharges an ovum . Ovulation also occurs in the estrous cycle of other female mammals, which differs in many fundamental ways from the menstrual cycle...
– ovum
Ovum
An ovum is a haploid female reproductive cell or gamete. Both animals and embryophytes have ova. The term ovule is used for the young ovum of an animal, as well as the plant structure that carries the female gametophyte and egg cell and develops into a seed after fertilization...
– oxygen regulation
Erotic asphyxiation
Erotic asphyxiation or breath control play is the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for sexual arousal. The sexual preference for that behavior is variously called asphyxiophilia, autoerotic asphyxia, hypoxyphilia. Colloquially, a person engaging in the activity is sometimes called a...
– oxytocin
Oxytocin
Oxytocin is a mammalian hormone that acts primarily as a neuromodulator in the brain.Oxytocin is best known for its roles in sexual reproduction, in particular during and after childbirth...
– ozolagnia –
P
p'ye-baek – pacte civil de solidaritéPacte civil de solidarité
In France, a pacte civil de solidarité commonly known as a PACS /paks/ , is a form of civil union between two adults for organising their joint life. It brings rights and responsibilities, but less so than marriage...
– pain during intercourse – painful ejaculation – painful intercourse – painful ovulation – painful sex – pair-bonding – pairbond – pait likkhi – panderer – pandering
Procuring (prostitution)
Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. Examples of procuring include:*trafficking a prostitute into a country for the purpose of soliciting sex...
– pansexual – pansexuality
Pansexuality
Pansexuality refers to the potential for sexual attractions, sexual desire, romantic love, or emotional attraction, towards people of all gender identities and biological sexes...
– panty fetishism – panty liner – panty pad – pantyhose fetishism – para 0 – para 1 – paramesonephric ducts – paranymph
Paranymph
A paranymph is a ceremonial assistant and or the right hand of Lada coach in a ceremony. In ancient Greek weddings the bride and bridegroom were attended by paranymphs, and from this use it has been generalized to refer to attendants of doctoral students, best men and bridesmaids in weddings and...
– paraphilia
Paraphilia
Paraphilia is a biomedical term used to describe sexual arousal to objects, situations, or individuals that are not part of normative stimulation and that may cause distress or serious problems for the paraphiliac or persons associated with him or her...
– paraphiliac – paraphilic adolescentilism – paraphilic gerontalism – paraphilic infantilism – paraphilic juvenilism – paraphimosis
Paraphimosis
Paraphimosis is an uncommon medical condition where the foreskin becomes trapped behind the glans penis, and cannot be reduced...
– parasympathetic nervous system
Parasympathetic nervous system
The parasympathetic nervous system is one of the two main divisions of the autonomic nervous system . The ANS is responsible for regulation of internal organs and glands, which occurs unconsciously...
– paraurethral glands – parovarium – paroöphoron
Paroöphoron
The paroöphoron consists of a few scattered rudimentary tubules, best seen in the child, situated in the broad ligament between the epoöphoron and the uterus. Named for the Welsh anatomist David Johnson who originally described the structure at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.It is a remnant...
– Parsee wedding – Parsi marriage customs – Parsi wedding – parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction found in females, where growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization by a male...
– parthenos
Parthenos
The clippers are a genus of butterflies found in Southeast Asia.-Species:Listed alphabetically.* Parthenos aspila Honrath, 1888* Parthenos sylvia – Clipper* Parthenos tigrina Vollenhoven, 1866...
– partial androgen insensitivity syndrome
Partial androgen insensitivity syndrome
Partial androgen insensitivity syndrome is a condition that results in the partial inability of the cell to respond to androgens. The partial unresponsiveness of the cell to the presence of androgenic hormones impairs the masculinization of male genitalia in the developing fetus, as well as the...
– partialism
Partialism
Partialism refers to a sexual interest with an exclusive focus of a specific part of the body. Partialism is categorized as a paraphilia in the DSM-IV-TR of the American Psychiatric Association...
– partialism (paraphilia) – partible paternity
Partible paternity
Partible paternity is where the nurture of a child is shared by multiple fathers, a form of polyandry.Stephen Beckerman of Penn State University and others have noted it in a number of traditional cultures. He suggests that children in such cultures fare better...
– party and play
Party and play
Party and play , also known as a chemical session, chem session, or simply as partying, is a phenomenon and subculture of recreational drug users who play together sexually, either one-on-one or in groups....
– passivism – pasties
Pasties
Pasties are adhesive coverings applied to cover a woman's nipples and areolae. Though pasties are commonly associated with burlesque and erotic entertainment, they are also at times worn as an undergarment and occasionally as beachwear.Some women wear pasties when wearing a strapless or backless...
- paternity – paternity suit – pathicus – patriarchy
Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which the role of the male as the primary authority figure is central to social organization, and where fathers hold authority over women, children, and property. It implies the institutions of male rule and privilege, and entails female subordination...
– patrilocal residence
Patrilocal residence
In social anthropology, patrilocal residence or patrilocality is a term referring to the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents. The concept of location may extend to a larger area such as a village, town, or clan area...
– pearling
Pearling (body modification)
Pearling or genital beading is a form of body modification, the practice of permanently inserting small beads made of various materials beneath the skin of the genitals—of the labia, or of the shaft or foreskin of the penis...
– pearly penile papules – pecattiphilia
Pecattiphilia
Pecattiphilia is "sexual arousal from performing an act one believes is a sin". This would presumably include, for example, such acts of lust as fornication or sodomy, or also the acting out any of the other seven deadly sins beside lust....
– pedal pumping – pederasty
Pederasty
Pederasty or paederasty is an intimate relationship between an adult and an adolescent boy outside his immediate family. The word pederasty derives from Greek "love of boys", a compound derived from "child, boy" and "lover".Historically, pederasty has existed as a variety of customs and...
– pediophilia – pedophilia
Pedophilia
As a medical diagnosis, pedophilia is defined as a psychiatric disorder in adults or late adolescents typically characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children...
– pedophilia and sexual orientation – peep show
Peep show
A peep show or peepshow is an exhibition of pictures, objects or people viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass. Though historically a peep show was a form of entertainment provided by wandering showmen, nowadays it more commonly refers a presentation of a sex show or pornographic film...
– Peeping Tom
Voyeurism
In clinical psychology, voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activity usually considered to be of a private nature....
– peg boy – pegging
Pegging (sexual practice)
Pegging is a sexual practice in which a woman penetrates a man's anus with a strap-on dildo. The neologism "pegging" was popularized when it became the winning entry in a contest in Dan Savage's Savage Love sex advice column, held after an observation was made that there was no common name for the...
– pelvic exam – pelvic examination
Pelvic examination
A pelvic examination, also pelvic exam, is a physical examination of the female pelvic organs.Broadly, it can be divided into the external examination and internal examination.It is also called "Bimanual Exam" & "Manual Uterine Palpation"....
– pelvic floor
Pelvic floor
The pelvic floor or pelvic diaphragm is composed of muscle fibers of the levator ani, the coccygeus, and associated connective tissue which span the area underneath the pelvis. The pelvic diaphragm is a muscular partition formed by the levatores ani and coccygei, with which may be included the...
– pelvic floor muscles – pelvic inflammatory disease
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Pelvic inflammatory disease is a generic term for inflammation of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and/or ovaries as it progresses to scar formation with adhesions to nearby tissues and organs. This may lead to infections. PID is a vague term and can refer to viral, fungal, parasitic, though most...
– pelvic malignancy – pelvic pain
Pelvic pain
Pelvic pain is a symptom that can affect both women and men. The pelvic pain that persists for a period of 3 months or more to be considered chronic while less than this duration is considered acute. The pain may indicate the existence of poorly-understood conditions that likely represent abnormal...
– penectomy
Penectomy
Penectomy is the surgical removal of the penis for medical or personal reasons.- Medical Reasons for Penectomy :Cancer, for example, sometimes necessitates removal of part or of the penis. The amount of the penis removed depends on the severity of the cancer. Some men have only the tip of their...
– penetration
Sexual penetration
Sexual penetration is a sexual activity that involves the entry into a bodily orifice, such as the vagina, anus or mouth, with a body part or an object....
– penetration phobia – penetration toy – penetrative sexual intercourse – penile anesthesia – penile cancer – penile fracture
Penile fracture
A penile fracture is an injury caused by the rupture of the tunica albuginea, which envelops the corpus cavernosum penis. It is most often caused by a blunt trauma to an erect penis.-Presentation:...
– penile inversion – penile ligation – penile plethysmography – penile suspensory ligament – penis
Penis
The penis is a biological feature of male animals including both vertebrates and invertebrates...
– penis captivus
Penis captivus
Penis captivus describes a supposed event that occurs in rare instances during heterosexual intercourse when the muscles in the vagina clamp down on the penis much more firmly than usual , making it impossible for the penis to withdraw from the vagina...
– penis diameter – penis enlargement
Penis enlargement
Penis enlargement procedures are techniques alleged to make the human penis increase in girth, length, or hardness. Often, in the course of advertising fraudulent products, the distinction between temporary enlargement, i.e...
– penis extension – penis girth – penis gourd – penis length – penis modification – penis panic
Penis panic
Koro is a culture-specific syndrome from Southeast Asia in which the patient has an overpowering belief that his penis is shrinking and will shortly disappear. Also known as shrinking penis, the syndrome is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...
– penis pump – penis reattachment – penis removal
Penis removal
In ancient civilizations, removal of the human penis was sometimes used as a means of demonstrating superiority: armies were sometimes known to sever the penises of their enemies to count the dead, as well as for trophies...
– penis size – penis sleeve – penis substitute – penis transplantation
Penis transplantation
Penis transplantation is a surgical transplant procedure in which a penis is transplanted to a patient. The penis may be an allograft from a human donor, or it may be grown artificially, though the latter is untested in humans...
– penis width – penoclitoris – peodeiktophilia – peptide hormone
Peptide hormone
Peptide hormones are a class of peptides that are secreted into the blood stream and have endocrine functions in living animals.Like other proteins, peptide hormones are synthesized in cells from amino acids according to an mRNA template, which is itself synthesized from a DNA template inside the...
– perceptual image – The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature....
– perimenopause – perimetrium
Perimetrium
The perimetrium is the outer serosa layer of the uterus, equivalent to peritoneum.-External links: - "The Female Pelvis: The uterus" - "Mammal, uterus "...
– perineal massage
Perineal massage
Perineal massage is the practice of massaging a pregnant woman's perineum around the vagina in preparation for childbirth. The intention is to attempt to prevent tearing of the perineum during birth, the need for an episiotomy or an instrument delivery.Randomized clinical trials of perineal...
– perineal raphe
Perineal raphe
The perineal raphe is a visible line or ridge of tissue on the human body that extends from the anus through the perineum.In men, this raphe continues through the midline of the scrotum and upwards through the posterior midline aspect of the penis...
– perineal reflex – perineal urethra
Perineal urethra
A perineal urethra is a human urethral opening that is located on the perineum rather than at the tip of the phallus. Urethral position is an aspect of human sexual dimorphism. A phallic urethra is typical of male anatomy and a perineal urethra is typical of female anatomy...
– perineum
Perineum
In human anatomy, the perineum is a region of the body including the perineal body and surrounding structures...
– period
Menstrual cycle
The menstrual cycle is the scientific term for the physiological changes that can occur in fertile women for the purpose of sexual reproduction. This article focuses on the human menstrual cycle....
– peripheral nervous system
Peripheral nervous system
The peripheral nervous system consists of the nerves and ganglia outside of the brain and spinal cord. The main function of the PNS is to connect the central nervous system to the limbs and organs. Unlike the CNS, the PNS is not protected by the bone of spine and skull, or by the blood–brain...
– peritomy
Peritomy
A peritomy, or peritectomy, is a procedure carried out in eye surgery by ophthalmology, where a strip of the conjunctiva of an eye is removed, usually to correct pannus, where blood vessels begin to grow into the peripheral cornea....
– persistent Müllerian duct syndrome
Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome
Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome refers to the presence of a uterus and sometimes other Müllerian duct derivatives in a male animal...
– persistent sexual arousal syndrome
Persistent sexual arousal syndrome
Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder , originally called Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome and also known as Restless Genital Syndrome or Mempin Syndrome , results in a spontaneous, persistent, and uncontrollable genital arousal, with or without orgasm or genital engorgement, unrelated to any...
– persistent soliciting – personal ad – perversion
Perversion
Perversion is a concept describing those types of human behavior that are a serious deviation from what is considered to be orthodox or normal. Although it can refer to varying forms of deviation, it is most often used to describe sexual behaviors that are seen by an individual as abnormal,...
– pervertible
Pervertible
Pervertible is a term originally coined by David Stein to describe ordinary non-sexual objects, especially everyday household objects, that can be used sexually, particularly in BDSM play such as spanking....
– pessary
Pessary
A pessary is a small plastic or silicone medical device which is inserted into the vagina or rectum and held in place by the pelvic floor musculature. - Therapeutic pessaries :...
– petite mort – petticoat discipline – petticoat punishment – petticoating – petting – Peyronie disease – phallic stage
Phallic stage
In Freudian psychology, the Phallic stage is the third stage of psychosexual development, spanning the ages of three to six years, wherein the infant’s libido centers upon his or her genitalia as the erogenous zone...
– phallic symbol – phallometry – phallophilia – phalloplasty
Phalloplasty
Phalloplasty refers to the construction of a penis or, sometimes, artificial modification of the penis by surgery, often for cosmetic purposes. It is also occasionally used to refer to penis enlargement....
– phallus
Phallus
A phallus is an erect penis, a penis-shaped object such as a dildo, or a mimetic image of an erect penis. Any object that symbolically resembles a penis may also be referred to as a phallus; however, such objects are more often referred to as being phallic...
– phantom pregnancy – phenotypic matching – pheromone
Pheromone
A pheromone is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species. Pheromones are chemicals capable of acting outside the body of the secreting individual to impact the behavior of the receiving individual...
– philanderer – philosophy of sex
Philosophy of sex
Philosophy of sex is the part of applied philosophy studying sex and love. It includes both ethics of phenomena such as prostitution, rape, sexual harassment, sexual identity, the age of consent, and homosexuality, and conceptual analysis of concepts such as "what is sex"? It also includes...
– phimosis
Phimosis
Phimosis , from the Greek phimos ), is a condition where, in men, the foreskin cannot be fully retracted over the glans penis...
– phlebotomy
Venipuncture
In medicine, venepuncture, venopuncture or venipuncture is the process of obtaining intravenous access for the purpose of intravenous therapy or for blood sampling of venous blood. This procedure is performed by medical laboratory scientists, medical practitioners, some EMTs, paramedics,...
– phobias – phobophilia – phone sex
Phone sex
Phone sex is a type of virtual sex that refers to sexually explicit conversation between or other persons via telephone, especially when at least one of the participants masturbates or engages in sexual fantasy...
– Phthirius pubis – phygephilia – phylogeny – physical intimacy
Physical intimacy
Physical intimacy is sensual proximity or touching. It can be enjoyed by itself or be an expression of feelings which people have for one another...
– pick-up artist – pictophilia – picture bride
Picture bride
The term picture bride refers to the practice in the early 20th century of immigrant workers in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States selecting brides from their native countries via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using only photographs and family recommendations of the possible...
– pie throwing – piercings – the Pill – pimp
Pimp
A pimp is an agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings. The pimp may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing a location where she may engage clients...
– pinafore eroticism
Pinafore eroticism
Petticoating, also called pinaforing, is a type of forced feminization that involves dressing a boy in girls' clothing to punish him humiliatingly or to change his behavior. The term also describes the literature, erotic fiction, and roleplaying fantasies involving the practice...
– pinaforing – pinching – pink salon
Pink salon
A ', or ' for short, is a type of brothel in Japan which specialises in oral sex.A pink salon is unusual in that the service is offered in small booths within a large open-plan room. The client is served soft drinks or alcoholic beverages by the "companion" who performs fellatio on him...
– pitching woo – pituitary gland
Pituitary gland
In vertebrate anatomy the pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland about the size of a pea and weighing 0.5 g , in humans. It is a protrusion off the bottom of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, and rests in a small, bony cavity covered by a dural fold...
– pity fuck – placenta
Placenta
The placenta is an organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply. "True" placentas are a defining characteristic of eutherian or "placental" mammals, but are also found in some snakes and...
– placental abruption
Placental abruption
Placental abruption is a complication of pregnancy, wherein the placental lining has separated from the uterus of the mother. It is the most common pathological cause of late pregnancy bleeding. In humans, it refers to the abnormal separation after 20 weeks of gestation and prior to birth...
– Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Federation of America , commonly shortened to Planned Parenthood, is the U.S. affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation and one of its larger members. PPFA is a non-profit organization providing reproductive health and maternal and child health services. The...
– plastic clothing
Plastic clothing
Plastic clothing -- as distinct from clothing made from plastic-based artificial fibers -- has existed almost since the creation of flexible plastics, particularly as a material for waterproof clothing....
– plateau phase – Plato's androgyne – Platonic love
Platonic love
Platonic love is a chaste and strong type of love that is non-sexual.-Amor Platonicus:The term amor platonicus was coined as early as the 15th century by the Florentine scholar Marsilio Ficino. Platonic love in this original sense of the term is examined in Plato's dialogue the Symposium, which has...
– Platonic marriage – Platonic relationship – play (sexology) – play piercing
Play piercing
Play piercing, needle play, or recreational acupuncture is body piercing done for the purpose of enjoying the experience rather than producing a permanent body decoration. Needles, sharpened bones, or other tools used in play piercing are removed from the body when the episode is complete, allowing...
– playsuit (lingerie)
Playsuit (lingerie)
A playsuit is an item of lingerie consisting of an all in one design where the top half, similar to a negligee, is joined to the bottom half, similar to a panty or shorts. The playsuit also exists in mainstream fashion as a type of garment...
– plaçage
Plaçage
Plaçage was a recognized extralegal system in which white French and Spanish and later Creole men entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages with women of African, Indian and white Creole descent. The term comes from the French placer meaning "to place with"...
– plethysmography – plural marriage
Plural marriage
Polygamy was taught by leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than half of the 19th century, and practiced publicly from 1852 to 1890.The Church's practice of polygamy has been highly controversial, both within...
– plushophile
Plushophile
Plushophilia is a paraphilia involving stuffed animals. Plushophiles are sometimes called plushies, although this term can also refer to non-sexual stuffed animal enthusiasts, and to stuffed animals in general....
– plushophilia – PnP
Party and play
Party and play , also known as a chemical session, chem session, or simply as partying, is a phenomenon and subculture of recreational drug users who play together sexually, either one-on-one or in groups....
– podophilia – point of no return
Point of no return
The point of no return is the point beyond which one must continue on his or her current course of action because turning back is physically impossible, prohibitively expensive or dangerous. It is also used when the distance or effort required to get back would be greater than the remainder of the...
– polyamory
Polyamory
Polyamory is the practice, desire, or acceptance of having more than one intimate relationship at a time with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved....
– polyandry
Polyandry
Polyandry refers to a form of marriage in which a woman has two or more husbands at the same time. The form of polyandry in which a woman is married to two or more brothers is known as "fraternal polyandry", and it is believed by many anthropologists to be the most frequently encountered...
– polyandry in Tibet
Polyandry in Tibet
Polyandry is a form of polygamy whereby a woman has several husbands. In Tibet those husbands are often brothers, which is why it is most commonly called "Fraternal Polyandry". Concern over the delicate question of which children are fathered by which brother falls on the wife alone...
– polycystic ovary syndrome
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Polycystic ovary syndrome is one of the most common female endocrine disorders. PCOS is a complex, heterogeneous disorder of uncertain aetiology, but there is strong evidence that it can to a large degree be classified as a genetic disease....
– polyfidelity
Polyfidelity
Polyfidelity is a form of polyamory where all members are considered equal partners and agree to be sexually active only with other members of the group. The term originated in the Kerista Village commune in San Francisco which practiced polyfidelity from 1971 to 1991...
– polygamy
Polygamy
Polygamy is a marriage which includes more than two partners...
– polygynandry
Polygynandry
Polygynandry occurs when two or more males have an exclusive relationship with two or more females. The numbers of males and females need not be equal, and in vertebrate species studied so far, the number of males is usually lower.-In Bonobos:...
– polygyny
Polygyny
Polygyny is a form of marriage in which a man has two or more wives at the same time. In countries where the practice is illegal, the man is referred to as a bigamist or a polygamist...
– polyiterophilia – polymastia
Accessory breast
Accessory breasts, also known as polymastia, supernumerary breasts, or mammae erraticae, is the condition of having an additional breast...
– polymorphous perverse – polymorphous perversity
Polymorphous perversity
Polymorphous perversity is a psychoanalytic term for human ability to gain sexual gratification outside socially normative sexual behaviors. Sigmund Freud used this term to describe the normal sexual disposition of humans from infancy to about age five....
– polythelia – pomosexual – pompoir
Pompoir
Pompoir is a sexual technique in which the woman uses her vaginal muscles to stimulate the man's penis...
– pony boots (fetish footwear) – ponyboy
Human animal roleplay
Animal roleplay may be either a non-sexual or an erotic sexual role-play...
– ponygirl – poppers
Poppers
Poppers is a slang term for various alkyl nitrites inhaled for recreational purposes, particularly isopropyl nitrite and isobutyl nitrite , and now more rarely, butyl nitrite and amyl nitrite...
– popping her cherry – population control
Population control
Human population control is the practice of artificially altering the rate of growth of a human population.Historically, human population control has been implemented by limiting the population's birth rate, usually by government mandate, and has been undertaken as a response to factors including...
– porn star – pornai – pornographic magazine
Pornographic magazine
Pornographic magazines, sometimes known as adult magazines, sex magazines or top-shelf magazines are pornographic magazines that contain content of a sexual nature. Adult magazines are mainly aimed towards men, and in some parts of the world, many men's first sight of a naked woman has been in an...
– pornographic movie
Pornographic movie
Pornographic films are motion pictures with the purpose of promoting sexual arousal in the viewer, often featuring depictions of sexual activity. They are sold and rented out on DVD, shown through Internet and special channels and pay-per-view on cable and satellite, and in adult...
– pornographic novel – pornography
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
– pornography in Europe – pornography in Japan
Pornography in Japan
Pornography in Japan.-Before the 20th century:Shunga or pornographic wood-block pictures were printed with all imaginable situations. These often took the form of a book with sentences to describe verbal utterances of the partners, as well as to offer brief descriptions of a scene...
– pornography in the United States
Pornography in the United States
In the United States, there have been several notable court decisions relating to the definition of pornography and obscenity, personal possession, and its relation to prostitution. The total market value of pornography in the U.S. is estimated between $2-$13 billion per year...
– post-coital tristesse
Post-coital tristesse
Sexual intercourse can sometimes lead to a feeling of melancholy called PCT, or post-coital tristesse . This is more common in men than in women...
– post-natal depression – post-orgasmic pain – post-partum sex taboo – posterior commissure of labia
Posterior commissure of labia
The posterior commisure of the labia majora is the rear joining of the labia majora. It is above the perineum.- See also :* Commissure...
– posthumous marriage
Posthumous marriage
Posthumous marriage is a marriage in which one of the participating members is deceased. It is legal in France and similar forms are practiced in Sudan and China. Since World War I, France has had dozens of requests each year, and hundreds have been accepted....
– postmasturbatory urine – postpartum examination – potency
Virility
Virility refers to any of a wide range of masculine characteristics viewed positively. It is not applicable to women or to negative characteristics. The Oxford English Dictionary says virile is "marked by strength or force." Virility is commonly associated with vigour, health, sturdiness, and...
– pozcum – pre-eclampsia
Pre-eclampsia
Pre-eclampsia or preeclampsia is a medical condition in which hypertension arises in pregnancy in association with significant amounts of protein in the urine....
– pre-ejaculate
Pre-ejaculate
Pre-ejaculate is the clear, colorless, viscous fluid that emits from the urethra of a man's penis when he is sexually aroused. It is similar in composition to semen, but has some significant chemical differences...
– pre-ejaculatory fluid – pre-marital sex – pre-menstrual tension – pre-op transsexual – precocious puberty
Precocious puberty
As a medical term, precocious puberty describes puberty occurring at an unusually early age. In most of these children, the process is normal in every respect except the unusually early age, and simply represents a variation of normal development. In a minority of children, the early development is...
– predicament bondage
Predicament bondage
Predicament bondage is the art of restraining a person by bondage in such a way that there is a limited number of positions in which they can be, each of which are so uncomfortable that they are forced to shift their weight or position. Upon doing so, they place themselves in the other equally...
– prednisone
Prednisone
Prednisone is a synthetic corticosteroid drug that is particularly effective as an immunosuppressant drug. It is used to treat certain inflammatory diseases and some types of cancer, but has significant adverse effects...
– pregnancy
Pregnancy
Pregnancy refers to the fertilization and development of one or more offspring, known as a fetus or embryo, in a woman's uterus. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations, as in the case of twins or triplets...
– pregnancy fetishism
Pregnancy fetishism
Pregnancy fetishism is a term used to describe the contexts in which pregnancy is seen by individuals and cultures as an erotic phenomenon...
– pregnancy over age 50 – Prehn's sign
Prehn's sign
Prehn's sign is a medical diagnostic indicator that was once believed to help determine whether the presenting testicular pain is caused by acute epididymitis or from testicular torsion...
– preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
In medicine and genetics pre-implantation genetic diagnosis refers to procedures that are performed on embryos prior to implantation, sometimes even on oocytes prior to fertilization. PGD is considered another way to prenatal diagnosis...
– premarital intercourse – premature ejaculation
Premature ejaculation
Premature ejaculation is a condition in which a man ejaculates earlier than he or his partner would like him to. Premature ejaculation is also known as rapid ejaculation, rapid climax, premature climax, or early ejaculation....
– premature puberty – premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a severe form of premenstrual syndrome, afflicting 3% to 8% of women. It is a diagnosis associated primarily with the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle...
– premenstrual stress syndrome
Premenstrual stress syndrome
Premenstrual syndrome is a collection of physical and emotional symptoms related to a woman's menstrual cycle...
– prenatal masculinization – prenatal screening – prenatal testing – prenuptial agreement
Prenuptial agreement
A prenuptial agreement, antenuptial agreement, or premarital agreement, commonly abbreviated to prenup or prenupt, is a contract entered into prior to marriage, civil union or any other agreement prior to the main agreement by the people intending to marry or contract with each other...
– prepenetrative orgasm – prepuce – prepuce plasty – preputial plasty – preputial ring – preputial stenosis – preputioplasty
Preputioplasty
Preputioplasty or prepuce plasty, also known as "limited dorsal slit with transverse closure", is a plastic surgical operation on the prepuce or foreskin of the penis, to widen a narrow non-retractile foreskin which cannot comfortably be drawn back off the head of the penis in erection because of a...
– President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography – priapism
Priapism
Priapism is a potentially harmful and painful medical condition in which the erect penis or clitoris does not return to its flaccid state, despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation, within four hours. There are two types of priapism: low-flow and high-flow. Low-flow...
– Priapus
Priapus
In Greek mythology, Priapus or Priapos , was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. Priapus is marked by his absurdly oversized, permanent erection, which gave rise to the medical term priapism...
– primatologist – primigravida – Prince Albert piercing
Prince Albert piercing
For other uses of "Prince Albert", see Prince Albert The Prince Albert is one of the more common male genital piercings...
– prince's wand
Prince's Wand
The prince's wand is a piece of body piercing jewelry. It consists of a hollow tube with a threaded cap at the end. The tube is inserted into the urethra, and a stem is inserted through a Prince Albert piercing and into another threaded hole on the side of the tube. The general shape is similar to...
– Princess Albertina
Princess Albertina
Princess Albertina is a female genital piercing, where a ring enters the urethra and exits through the top of the vagina. Anne Greenblatt describes the Princess Albertina as another "relatively new and experimental piercing." Its name comes from the fact that it is analogous to the male Prince...
– prison rape
Prison rape
Prison rape commonly refers to the rape of inmates in prison by other inmates or prison staff.In 2001, Human Rights Watch estimated that at least 140,000 inmates had been raped while incarcerated. and there is a significant variation in the rates of prison rape by race...
– prison sexuality
Prison sexuality
Prison sexuality deals with sexual relationships between confined individuals or those between a prisoner and a prison employee . Since prisons are separated by gender, most sexual activity is conducted with a same-sex partner, often in contradiction to a person's normal social sexual orientation...
– private dancer
Striptease
A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner...
- proceptive phase
Proceptive phase
In biology and sexology, the proceptive phase is the initial period in a relationship when organisms are "courting" each other, prior to the acceptive phase when copulation occurs...
– procurer – professional dominant – professional dominatrix – professional submissive
Professional submissive
A professional submissive is a person who performs the submissive role in BDSM activities in exchange for money. Most professional submissives do not have sex in exchange for money, and do not regard themselves as prostitutes....
– progesterone
Progesterone
Progesterone also known as P4 is a C-21 steroid hormone involved in the female menstrual cycle, pregnancy and embryogenesis of humans and other species...
– progesterone only pill
Progesterone only pill
Progestogen-Only Pills or Progestin-Only Pills are contraceptive pills that contain only synthetic progestogens and do not contain estrogen...
– progestin
Progestin
A progestin is a synthetic progestogen that has progestinic effects similar to progesterone. The two most common uses of progestins are for hormonal contraception , and to prevent endometrial hyperplasia from unopposed estrogen in hormone replacement therapy...
– progestin-induced hermaphroditism – progestin-induced virilisation
Progestin-induced virilisation
Maternal use of androgens or high doses of certain weakly androgenic synthetic progestogens structurally related to testosterone can masculinize the external genitalia of a female fetus during susceptible times in pregnancy....
– progestogen – prohibited degree of kinship
Prohibited degree of kinship
In law, a prohibited degree of kinship refers to a degree of consanguinity between persons that results in certain actions between them becoming illegal. Two major examples of prohibited degrees are found in incest and nepotism. Incest is a taboo across all cultures worldwide, but which specific...
– prolactin
Prolactin
Prolactin also known as luteotropic hormone is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PRL gene.Prolactin is a peptide hormone discovered by Henry Friesen...
– prolactin-inhibitory factor – promiscuity
Promiscuity
In humans, promiscuity refers to less discriminating casual sex with many sexual partners. The term carries a moral or religious judgement and is viewed in the context of the mainstream social ideal for sexual activity to take place within exclusive committed relationships...
– prophylactic – prostaglandins – prostate
Prostate
The prostate is a compound tubuloalveolar exocrine gland of the male reproductive system in most mammals....
– prostate cancer
Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...
– prostate massage
Prostate massage
Prostate massage is the massage or stimulation of the male prostate gland for sexual stimulation or medical purposes.The prostate takes part in the sexual response cycle, and is essential for ejaculation...
– prostate milking – prostate orgasm – prostate specific antigen
Prostate specific antigen
Prostate-specific antigen also known as gamma-seminoprotein or kallikrein-3 is a glycoprotein that in humans is encoded by the KLK3 gene. KLK3 is a member of the kallikrein-related peptidase family that are secreted by the epithelial cells of the prostate gland...
– prostate-specific antigen – prostatectomy
Prostatectomy
A prostatectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland. Abnormalities of the prostate, such as a tumour, or if the gland itself becomes enlarged for any reason, can restrict the normal flow of urine along the urethra....
– prostatic congestion
Prostatic congestion
Prostatic congestion is a medical condition of the prostate gland that happens when the prostate becomes swollen by excess fluid. The condition often results in a sufferer feeling the urge to urinate frequently....
– prostatic ducts
Prostatic ducts
The prostatic ducts open into the floor of the prostatic portion of the urethra, and are lined by two layers of epithelium, the inner layer consisting of columnar and the outer of small cubical cells....
– prostatic sinus
Prostatic sinus
On either side of the urethral crest is a slightly depressed fossa, the prostatic sinus, the floor of which is perforated by numerous apertures, the orifices of the prostatic ducts from the lateral lobes of the prostate....
– prostatic urethra
Prostatic urethra
The prostatic urethra, the widest and most dilatable part of the urethra canal, is about 3 cm. long.It runs almost vertically through the prostate from its base to its apex, lying nearer its anterior than its posterior surface; the form of the canal is spindle-shaped, being wider in the middle...
– prostatic utricle
Prostatic utricle
The prostatic utricle is a small indentation located in the prostatic urethra, at the apex of the urethral crest, on the seminal colliculus , laterally flanked by openings of the ejaculatory ducts...
– prostatitis
Prostatitis
Prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate gland, in men. A prostatitis diagnosis is assigned at 8% of all urologist and 1% of all primary care physician visits in the United States.-Classification:...
– prosthesis
Prosthesis
In medicine, a prosthesis, prosthetic, or prosthetic limb is an artificial device extension that replaces a missing body part. It is part of the field of biomechatronics, the science of using mechanical devices with human muscle, skeleton, and nervous systems to assist or enhance motor control...
– prosthetic testis – prosthetics – prostitute – prostitute's maid – prostitutes' maid – prostitution
Prostitution
Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...
– prostitution in Africa
Prostitution in Africa
Prostitution in Africa is illegal in most countries. Nevertheless, it is frequently common in practice, driven by the widespread poverty in many sub-Saharan African countries, and is one of the drivers for the prevalence of AIDS in Africa...
– prostitution in ancient Egypt – prostitution in ancient Greece
Prostitution in Ancient Greece
Prostitution was a common aspect of ancient Greece. In the more important cities, and particularly the many ports, it employed a significant number of people and represented a notable part of economic activity...
– prostitution in ancient Rome
Prostitution in ancient Rome
Prostitution in ancient Rome reflects the ambivalent attitudes of Romans toward pleasure and sexuality. Prostitution was legal and licensed. Some large brothels in the 4th century, when Rome was becoming officially Christianized, seem to have been counted as tourist attractions and were possibly...
– prostitution in Asia – prostitution in Australia
Prostitution in Australia
Prostitution in Australia is governed by state and territory laws, which vary considerably; and Federal legislation also has an impact on some aspects of prostitution throughout Australia, and of Australian citizens and residents outside of the country....
– prostitution in Austria
Prostitution in Austria
Prostitution in Austria is legal and regulated. Most prostitutes are migrants, mainly from the former Eastern Bloc countries. According to a recent TAMPEP study, 78% of prostitutes are foreigners.- History :...
– prostitution in Canada
Prostitution in Canada
In Canada, the buying and selling of sexual services are not illegal, but most surrounding activities, such as public communication for the purpose of prostitution, brothels and procuring are outlawed....
– prostitution in China – prostitution in Denmark
Prostitution in Denmark
Prostitution in Denmark is legal, but third party activities such as operating brothels and other forms of procuring are illegal activities.-Legal status:...
– prostitution in Europe
Prostitution in Europe
The legality of prostitution in Europe varies by country. Some countries outlaw the act of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for money, while others allow prostitution itself, but prohibit most forms of procuring .In eight...
– prostitution in Finland – prostitution in France
Prostitution in France
Prostitution in France is not illegal, but several surrounding activities are. These include soliciting, procuring, operating a brothel , living off the avails, and paying for sex with someone under the age of 18.During the Napoleonic era France became the model for the regulatory...
– prostitution in Germany
Prostitution in Germany
Prostitution in Germany is legal, and so are brothels. In 2002, the government changed the law in an effort to improve the legal situation of prostitutes. However, the social stigmatization of prostitutes persists and many prostitutes continue to lead a double life...
– prostitution in Hong Kong
Prostitution in Hong Kong
Prostitution in Hong Kong is itself legal, but organized prostitution is illegal, as there are laws against keeping a vice establishment , causing or procuring another to be a prostitute, living on the prostitution of others, or public solicitation....
– prostitution in Iceland
Prostitution in Iceland
Paying for sex is illegal in Iceland. In April 2009, the Icelandic Parliament passed new legislation that makes paying for sex illegal ....
– prostitution in India
Prostitution in India
In India, prostitution is legal only in metro cities like Mumbai but illegal in other parts of the country., but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, keeping a brothel, pimping and pandering, are outlawed.-History:In ancient India, there was a practice of having...
– prostitution in Italy
Prostitution in Italy
In Italy prostituzione is not illegal, but organized prostitution is prohibited. Brothels became illegal in 1959...
– prostitution in Japan
Prostitution in Japan
Prostitution in Japan has existed throughout the country's history.While the Anti-Prostitution Law of 1956 states that "No person may either do prostitution or become the customer of it," various loopholes, liberal interpretations of the law, and loose enforcement have allowed the sex industry to...
– prostitution in Latin America – prostitution in Medieval Europe – prostitution in Myanmar – prostitution in Nepal
Prostitution in Nepal
Though prostitution in Nepal is illegal, thousands of prostitutes work in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. There are a number of massage parlors in Thamel, a tourist area of Kathmandu, where sex for money is easily available. Girls can be easily picked up from dance bars in Kathmandu...
– prostitution in Nevada
Prostitution in Nevada
Nevada is the only U.S. state to allow some legal prostitution, in the form of regulated brothels. Prostitution outside these licensed brothels is illegal....
– prostitution in New Zealand
Prostitution in New Zealand
Prostitution , brothel keeping, living off the proceeds of someone else's prostitution and street solicitation are legal and regulated in New Zealand...
– prostitution in Rhode Island
Prostitution in Rhode Island
Prostitution in Rhode Island was outlawed in 2009. On November 3, 2009, Governor Donald Carcieri signed into law a bill which makes the buying and selling of sexual services a crime....
– prostitution in Russia
Prostitution in Russia
Prostitution in Russia is illegal, but it is not a serious crime. The maximum punishment for a prostitute is a fine up to 2000 rubles. However, organizing prostitution is punishable by a prison term.-Historical overview:...
– prostitution in Saudi Arabia
Prostitution in Saudi Arabia
Prostitution in Saudi Arabia is strictly illegal. Prostitution is punishable by prison and flogging. Indeed adultery, fornication and sodomy are also crimes that a prostitute, or the client, could be charged with...
– prostitution in South Korea
Prostitution in South Korea
Prostitution in South Korea is illegal, but according to The Korea Women's Development Institute, the sex trade in Korea was estimated to amount to 14 trillion South Korean won in 2007, roughly 1.6 percent of the nation's gross domestic product....
– prostitution in Sweden
Prostitution in Sweden
The laws on prostitution in Sweden make it illegal to buy sexual services, but not to sell them. Pimping, procuring and operating a brothel are also illegal...
– prostitution in Taiwan
Prostitution in Taiwan
Prostitution in Taiwan remains illegal under a 1991 law, but is under active consideration of reform following a Constitutional Court decision that it violated the Constitution.- Japanese colonial rule :...
– prostitution in Thailand
Prostitution in Thailand
Prostitution in Thailand is illegal, although in practice it is tolerated and partly regulated. Prostitution is practised openly throughout the country. Local officials with commercial interests in prostitution often protect the practice. The precise number of prostitutes is difficult to assess;...
– prostitution in the Czech Republic
Prostitution in the Czech Republic
Prostitution in the Czech Republic is not illegal, but organized prostitution is prohibited. The enforcement of these laws, however, can be lax...
– prostitution in the Netherlands
Prostitution in the Netherlands
Prostitution in the Netherlands is legal and regulated. Operating a brothel is also legal. In the last few years, a significant number of brothels and "windows" have been closed because of suspected criminal activity...
– prostitution in the People's Republic of China
Prostitution in the People's Republic of China
Shortly after taking power in 1949, the Communist Party of China embarked upon a series of campaigns that purportedly eradicated prostitution from mainland China by the early 1960s. Since the loosening of government controls over society in the early 1980s, prostitution in mainland China not only...
– prostitution in the Philippines
Prostitution in the Philippines
Human trafficking and the prostitution of children is a significant issue in the Philippines, often controlled by organized crime syndicates.Human Trafficking in the Philippines is a crime against humanity....
– prostitution in the Republic of Ireland
Prostitution in the Republic of Ireland
Prostitution in the Republic of Ireland is, itself, legal, but most activities associated with it are illegal.-History:...
– prostitution in the United Kingdom
Prostitution in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, prostitution itself is not a crime, but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning a brothel, pimping and pandering, are crimes....
– prostitution in the United States
Prostitution in the United States
Prostitution in the United States is illegal except in some small rural communities in Nevada. In the United States, each state has the power to regulate prostitution in that state. Only in parts of Nevada is prostitution legal. In all other states prostitution is usually classified as a...
– proxy marriage
Proxy marriage
A proxy wedding or is a wedding in which the bride or groom is not physically present, usually being represented instead by another person...
– proxy wedding
Proxy wedding
A proxy wedding or is a wedding in which the bride or groom is not physically present, usually being represented instead by another person...
– prudery – pseudocyesis
Pseudocyesis
False pregnancy or hysterical pregnancy, most commonly termed pseudocyesis in humans and pseudopregnancy in other mammals, is the appearance of clinical and/or subclinical signs and symptoms associated with pregnancy when the person or animal is not pregnant. Clinically, false pregnancy is most...
– pseudohermaphrodite – pseudohermaphroditism
Pseudohermaphroditism
Pseudohermaphroditism, or pseudo-hermaphroditism, is the condition in which an organism is born with secondary sex characteristics or a phenotype that is different from what would be expected on the basis of the gonadal tissue ....
– pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias
Pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias
Pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias refers to a configuration of the external genitalia of an infant. In a sense, this configuration is roughly midway between normal male genitalia and normal female genitalia in structure and appearance...
– psychoendocrinology – psychohormonal – psycholagny
Psycholagny
Psycholagny is a sexual term that refers to the ability to reach or achieve orgasm without any physical stimulation of the genitalia, usually achieved through mental stimulation or fantasy alone. Also referred to as a "psychic orgasm" ....
– psychomotor epilepsy – Psychopathia Sexualis
Psychopathia Sexualis
Psychopathia Sexualis may refer to:* Psychopathia Sexualis, an 1886 book about human sexuality by Richard von Krafft-Ebing* Psychopathia Sexualis , an 1843 moral psychology book about human sexuality by Heinrich Kaan...
– psychopathia transsexualis – psychopathic – psychosexual development
Psychosexual development
In Freudian psychology, psychosexual development is a central element of the psychoanalytic sexual drive theory, that human beings, from birth, possess an instinctual libido that develops in five stages. Each stage — the oral, the anal, the phallic, the latent, and the genital — is characterized...
– psychosexual disorder
Psychosexual disorder
Psychosexual disorder is a term which may simply refer to a sexual problem that is psychological, rather than physiological, in origin.Psychosexual disorder was a term used in Freudian psychology....
– psychosexual inversion – psychosexual stages
Psychosexual development
In Freudian psychology, psychosexual development is a central element of the psychoanalytic sexual drive theory, that human beings, from birth, possess an instinctual libido that develops in five stages. Each stage — the oral, the anal, the phallic, the latent, and the genital — is characterized...
– psychrophilia – PT-141 – pubertal delay – puberty
Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes by which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of reproduction, as initiated by hormonal signals from the brain to the gonads; the ovaries in a girl, the testes in a boy...
– puberty blockers – pubic depilation – pubic dressing – pubic hair
Pubic hair
Pubic hair is hair in the frontal genital area, the crotch, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the legs; these areas form the pubic region....
– pubic lice – pubic piercing
Pubic piercing
A pubic piercing is a genital piercing in the pubic area, on the mons pubis in females, or at the base of the penis in males. It is similar to the Christina piercing. Healing times and pain factors are similar to a Christina, at around 3–4 months...
– pubic shaving – pubic symphysis
Pubic symphysis
The pubic symphysis or symphysis pubis is the midline cartilaginous joint uniting the superior rami of the left and right pubic bones. It is located anterior to the urinary bladder and superior to the external genitalia; for females it is above the vulva and for males it is above the penis...
– public nudity
Public nudity
Public nudity or nude in public refers to nudity not in an entirely private context. It refers to a person appearing nude in a public place or to be seen from a public place. It also includes nudity in a semi-public place, where the general public is free to enter, such as a shopping mall...
– public sex
Public sex
Public sex refers to sexual acts that take place in public or semi-public places, and does not necessarily imply that the sexual activity takes place outdoors. Public places where sex acts can be performed include a car , on a beach, in the woods, as well as in a theatre, bus, street, besides...
– pubococcygeus muscle
Pubococcygeus muscle
The pubococcygeus muscle or PC muscle is a hammock-like muscle, found in both sexes, that stretches from the pubic bone to the coccyx forming the floor of the pelvic cavity and supporting the pelvic organs. It is part of the levator ani group of muscles.-Function:The Pubococcygeus muscle controls...
– pudenda – pudendal cleft – pudendal nerve
Pudendal nerve
The pudendal nerve is a sensory and somatic nerve in the pelvic region which is a large branch of the sacral plexus that innervates the external genitalia of both sexes, as well as sphincters for the bladder and the rectum...
– puerperal psychosis – puerperium – pup-play – purdah
Purdah
Purdah or pardeh is the practice of concealing women from men. According to one definition:This takes two forms: physical segregation of the sexes, and the requirement for women to cover their bodies and conceal their form....
– puritan
Puritan
The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England...
– puritanism – purity ring
Purity ring
Purity rings are worn as a sign of chastity. The practice originated in the United States in the 1990s among Christian-affiliated sexual abstinence groups....
– putative marriage
Putative marriage
A putative marriage is an apparently valid marriage, entered into in good faith on the part of at least one of the partners, but that is legally invalid due to a technical impediment, such as a preexistent marriage on the part of one of the partners. Unlike someone in a common-law, statutory, or...
– PVC fetishism – pygmalionism – pygophilia – pyromania
Pyromania
Pyromania in more extreme circumstances can be an impulse control disorder to deliberately start fires to relieve tension or for gratification or relief. The term pyromania comes from the Greek word πῦρ . Pyromania and pyromaniacs are distinct from arson, the pursuit of personal, monetary or...
– pyrophilia
Pyrophilia
Pyrophilia is a relatively uncommon paraphilia in which the patient derives gratification from fire and fire-starting activity. It is distinguished from pyromania by the gratification being of a sexual nature.-Description:...
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Q
quadoshka – quasi-prostitution – queef – queening – queerQueer
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual minorities that are not heterosexual, heteronormative, or gender-binary. In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBT ...
– queer-bashing – quickening
Quickening
Quickening is the earliest perception of fetal movement by a mother during pregnancy Quickening may also refer to:* Quickening , Final Fantasy XIIs incarnation of "Limit Breaks"...
– quickie
Quickie (sex)
A quickie refers to a brief or spontaneous episode of sexual activity, with the couple finishing it in a very short amount of time.Generally the term presupposes that foreplay is skipped and that at least one of the partners climaxes. A quickie may involve an intercourse or be limited to manual or...
– quim –
R
r-selection – race-oriented pornography – radical feminismRadical feminism
Radical feminism is a current theoretical perspective within feminism that focuses on the theory of patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships based on an assumption that "male supremacy" oppresses women...
– ranch (brothel)
Ranch (brothel)
Ranch is a common name used to describe a brothel, especially in western areas of the United States.-Origin:This usage dates back to the original Chicken Ranch near the town of LaGrange, Texas, an old brothel that is no longer open which accepted chickens as payment during the Great Depression...
– rape
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...
– rape during wartime – rape fantasy
Rape fantasy
A rape fantasy or a ravishment is a sexual fantasy involving imagining or pretending being coerced or coercing another into sexual activity. In sexual role-play it involves acting out roles of coercive sex...
– rape pornography
Rape pornography
Rape pornography is a genre of pornography involving the depiction of rape.There is debate over if this form of pornography encourages men to commit rape. The pairing of sex with violence distinguishes the issue of rape pornography from that of pornography in general...
– rape rack – raphe
Raphe
Raphe has several different meanings in science. Pronounced .In botany and planktology it is commonly used when describing a seam or ridge on diatoms or seeds....
– rapism – raptophilia – reach around – reach-around – reacharound – reading the banns – receptive partner – recovery from sexual assault – rectal examination
Rectal examination
A rectal examination or rectal exam is an internal examination of the rectum such as by a physician or other healthcare professional.-Procedure:...
– rectal foreign body
Rectal foreign body
Rectal foreign bodies are large foreign items found in the rectum that can be assumed to have been inserted through the anus, rather than reaching the rectum via the mouth and gastrointestinal tract...
– rectal foreign object – rectal prolapse
Rectal prolapse
Rectal prolapse normally describes a medical condition wherein the walls of the rectum protrude through the anus and hence become visible outside the body.-Types:There are three chief conditions which come under the title rectal prolapse:...
– rectal sex – recto-vaginal fistula – rectocele
Rectocele
A rectocele results from a tear in the rectovaginal septum . Rectal tissue bulges through this tear and into the vagina as a hernia...
– rectovaginal examination – rectovaginal fistula
Rectovaginal fistula
A rectovaginal fistula is a medical condition where there is a fistula or abnormal connection between the rectum and the vagina. Rectovaginal fistula may be extremely debilitating. If the opening between the rectum and vagina is wide it will allow both flatulence and feces to escape through the...
– rectum
Rectum
The rectum is the final straight portion of the large intestine in some mammals, and the gut in others, terminating in the anus. The human rectum is about 12 cm long...
– red shower – red-light district
Red-light district
A red-light district is a part of an urban area where there is a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, adult theaters, etc...
– reductionism
Reductionism
Reductionism can mean either an approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things or a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can...
– reflex anal dilatation
Reflex anal dilatation
Reflex anal dilatation is the reflexive dilation of the human anus to a diameter greater than two centimeters in response to the parting of the buttocks or anal stimulation, such as brushing with a medical instrument...
– refractory period
Refractory period (sex)
In sexuality, the refractory period is the recovery phase after orgasm during which it is physiologically impossible for an individual to have additional orgasms. Most men are unable to maintain or achieve an erection during this time, and many perceive a psychological feeling of "satiation" and...
– refusal skills
Refusal skills
Refusal skills are a set of skills designed to help children avoid participating in high-risk behaviors. Programs designed to discourage crime, drug use, violence, and/or sexual activity frequently include refusal skills in their curricula to help students resist peer pressure while maintaining...
– registered partnership – regulated prostitution – Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry...
– relationship – relationship counseling
Relationship counseling
Relationship counseling is the process of counseling the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress...
– relationship violence – relics – religion and homosexuality – religion and sexuality
Religion and sexuality
Most world religions have sought to address the moral issues that arise from people's sexuality in society and in human interactions. Each major religion has developed moral codes covering issues of sexuality, morality, ethics etc...
– religious aspects of marriage – religious prostitution
Religious prostitution
Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, or religious prostitution is a practice of worship that includes hieros gamos or sacred marriage performed as a fertility rite and part of sacred sexual ritual.-Ancient Near East:...
– religious views on masturbation
Religious views on masturbation
Among the world's religions, views on masturbation vary widely. Some religions view it as a spiritually detrimental practice, some see it as not spiritually detrimental and others take a situational view...
– religious views on sex – rent boy – reparative therapy
Reparative Therapy
Conversion therapy, sometimes called reparative therapy or reorientation therapy, is one type of sexual orientation change effort that attempts to change the sexual orientation of a person from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual. These types of therapies have been a source of intense...
– reproduction – reproductive biology
Reproductive biology
Reproductive biology is a study mainly involving the reproductive system and sex organs. It is closely related to reproductive endocrinology and infertility. also is miotosis and miosis...
– reproductive health
Reproductive health
Within the framework of the World Health Organization's definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene, addresses the reproductive processes, functions and system...
– reproductive organs – reproductive rights
Reproductive rights
Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health. The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows:...
– reproductive strategy – reproductive system
Reproductive system
The reproductive system or genital system is a system of organs within an organism which work together for the purpose of reproduction. Many non-living substances such as fluids, hormones, and pheromones are also important accessories to the reproductive system. Unlike most organ systems, the sexes...
– reproductive technology
Reproductive technology
Reproductive technology encompasses all current and anticipated uses of technology in human and animal reproduction, including assisted reproductive technology, contraception and others.-Assisted reproductive technology:...
– reproductive tract – reproductive tract obstruction – resolution phase – retained menstruation – retarded ejaculation – rete testis
Rete testis
Rete testis is an anastomosing network of delicate tubules located in the hilum of the testicle that carries sperm from the seminiferous tubules to the vasa efferentia....
– retifism – retrocopulation – retroejaculation – retrograde ejaculation
Retrograde ejaculation
In the human male reproductive system, retrograde ejaculation occurs when semen, which would normally be ejaculated via the urethra, is redirected to the urinary bladder. Normally, the sphincter of the bladder contracts before ejaculation forcing the semen to exit via the urethra, the path of least...
– retroverted uterus
Retroverted uterus
A retroverted uterus is a uterus that is tilted backwards instead of forwards. This is in contrast to the slightly "anteverted" uterus that most women have, which is tipped forward toward the bladder, with the anterior end slightly concave.Between 1 in 3 and 1-in-5 women has a retroverted...
– reverse cowgirl – reverse Prince Albert piercing
Reverse Prince Albert piercing
The Reverse Prince Albert piercing is a form of male genital piercing. The “Reverse Prince Albert piercing” enters through the urethra and exits through a hole pierced in the top of the glans...
– reverse prostitution sting operation – reversible hyposomatotropic dwarfism – RH
Reproductive health
Within the framework of the World Health Organization's definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene, addresses the reproductive processes, functions and system...
– Rh factor
Rhesus blood group system
The Rh blood group system is one of thirty current human blood group systems. Clinically, it is the most important blood group system after ABO. At Present, the Rh blood group system consists of 50 defined blood-group antigens, among which the 5 antigens D, C, c, E, and e are the most important...
– rhabdophilia – Rhythm Method
Rhythm Method
Calendar-based methods are various methods of estimating a woman's likelihood of fertility, based on a record of the length of previous menstrual cycles. Various systems are known as the Knaus–Ogino Method, rhythm method, and Standard Days Method...
– ridged band
Ridged band
The term ridged band is a description of an area/band of wrinkly skin toward the end of the foreskin. The term ridged is used to describe the area instead of the more commonly used term "wrinkled". More particularly it refers to the "transitional area from the external to the internal surface ofthe...
– rim-job – rimming – ring gag – ringbearer – ringing – ritual cleanliness – ritual purification
Ritual purification
Ritual purification is a feature of many religions. The aim of these rituals is to remove specifically defined uncleanliness prior to a particular type of activity, and especially prior to the worship of a deity...
– ritual sex – ritualistic sex act – ritualistic sexual act – ritualistic sexual behavior – roasting (sexual act) – robot fetishism
Robot fetishism
Robot fetishism is a fetishistic attraction to humanoid robots; also to people acting like robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A less common fantasy involves transformation into a robot...
– robotism – Roland Loomis – role-playing
Role-playing
Role-playing refers to the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role...
– Roman marriage – Roman showers – romance
Romantic love
Romance is the pleasurable feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one's love, or one's deep emotional desires to connect with another person....
– romance novel
Romance novel
The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...
– romance scam
Romance scam
A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigned romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining their affection, and then using that goodwill to commit fraud...
– romantic friendship
Romantic friendship
The term romantic friendship refers to both very close but non-sexual relationship and at times physical relationship between friends, often involving a degree of physical closeness beyond that which is common in modern Western societies, and may include for example holding hands, cuddling,...
– romantic love
Romantic love
Romance is the pleasurable feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one's love, or one's deep emotional desires to connect with another person....
– romantic marriage – root of penis
Root of penis
The root of the penis is triradiate in form, consisting of the diverging crura, one on either side, and the median urethral bulb.Each crus is covered by the Ischiocavernosus, while the bulb is surrounded by the Bulbospongiosus....
– rough sex
Rough Sex
Rough Sex is a single by Lords Of Acid, and was released in 1992. Remixes of "Rough Sex" were done by Joey Beltram, and the CD includes "Take Control" as a B-side...
– rough trade
Trade (Homosexual)
Trade is a gay slang term originating from Polari and refers to the casual partner of a gay man or to the genre of such partners...
– round ligament of uterus
Round ligament of uterus
The round ligament of the uterus originates at the uterine horns, in the parametrium. The round ligament leaves the pelvis via the deep inguinal ring, passes through the inguinal canal and continues on to the labia majora where its fibers spread and mix with the tissue of the mons...
– Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is a professional association based in the UK. Its members, including people with and without medical degrees, work in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, that is, pregnancy, childbirth, and female sexual and reproductive health...
– RU-486 – rubber
Rubber
Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...
– rubber clothing – rubber fetishism – rubberism – ruby shower - ruined orgasm –
S
S.W.A.L.K.S.W.A.L.K.
S.W.A.L.K. is an acronym usually seen on a love letter of a courting couple. It stands for "Sealed With A Loving Kiss" and is one of several acronyms that seemingly originated during the 2nd World War. A variant is S.W.A.K., Sealed With A Kiss. One misconception is that SWALK stands for Soldiers...
– S/M – sacred prostitution – Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle...
– sadism
Sadism and masochism
Sadomasochism broadly refers to the receiving of pleasure—often sexual—from acts involving the infliction or reception of pain or humiliation. The name originates from two authors on the subject, Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch...
– sadist – sadomasochism – sadomasochistic sacrifice – safe sex
Safe sex
Safe sex is sexual activity engaged in by people who have taken precautions to protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS. It is also referred to as safer sex or protected sex, while unsafe or unprotected sex is sexual activity engaged in without precautions...
– safe, sane and consensual – safer sex – safeword
Safeword
A safeword is a code word or series of code words that are sometimes used in BDSM for a submissive to unambiguously communicate their physical or emotional state to a dominant , typically when approaching, or crossing, a physical, emotional, or moral boundary...
– saliromania – salirophilia
Salirophilia
Salirophilia is a sexual fetish or paraphilia that involves deriving erotic pleasure from soiling or disheveling the object of one's desire, usually an attractive person. It may involve tearing or damaging their clothing, covering them in mud or filth, or messing their hair or makeup...
– salpingectomy
Salpingectomy
Salpingectomy refers to the surgical removal of a Fallopian tube.-Indications:The procedure was first performed by Lawson Tait in patients with a bleeding ectopic pregnancy; this procedure has since saved the lives of countless women...
– salpingitis
Salpingitis
Salpingitis is an infection and inflammation in the fallopian tubes. It is often used synonymously with Pelvic inflammatory disease , although PID lacks an accurate definition and can refer to several diseases of the female upper genital tract, such as endometritis, oophoritis, myometritis,...
– same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage is marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender. Supporters of legal recognition for same-sex marriage typically refer to such recognition as marriage equality....
– same-sex partnership – sanitary napkin
Sanitary napkin
A sanitary napkin, sanitary towel, sanitary pad, menstrual pad, maxi pad, or pad is an absorbent item worn by a woman while she is menstruating, recovering from vaginal surgery, for lochia , abortion, or any other situation where it is necessary to absorb a flow of blood from a woman's vagina.These...
– sanitary pad – sanitary towel – sanky-panky
Sanky-panky
A Sanky-panky, or Sanky, is a male sex worker, found in the Caribbean. A sanky-panky solicits on beaches and has clients of both sexes or only women. When with men, the sanky-panky assumes an active A Sanky-panky, or Sanky, is a male sex worker, found in the Caribbean. A sanky-panky solicits on...
– sapphic – sapphism – saptha padhi – Sarcoptes scabiei
Sarcoptes scabiei
Sarcoptes scabiei or the itch mite is a parasitic arthropod that burrows into skin and causes scabies. Animals affected include not only human but also wild and domesticated dogs and cats in which it is one cause of mange...
– satan worship – satyr
Satyr
In Greek mythology, satyrs are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus — "satyresses" were a late invention of poets — that roamed the woods and mountains. In myths they are often associated with pipe-playing....
– satyriasis – saucy seaside postcard - sausage party – scabies
Scabies
Scabies , known colloquially as the seven-year itch, is a contagious skin infection that occurs among humans and other animals. It is caused by a tiny and usually not directly visible parasite, the mite Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows under the host's skin, causing intense allergic itching...
– scarfing – scarification
Scarification
Scarifying involves scratching, etching, burning, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification.In the process of body scarification, scars are formed by cutting or branding the skin...
– scat
Coprophilia
Coprophilia , also called scatophilia or scat, is the paraphilia involving sexual pleasure from feces...
– scatology
Scatology
In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of feces.Scatological studies allow one to determine a wide range of biological information about a creature, including its diet , healthiness, and diseases such as tapeworms. The word derives from the Greek σκώρ In medicine and biology,...
– scatophilia – scene (BDSM)
Scene (BDSM)
In BDSM, a scene is the stage or setting where BDSM activity takes place, as well as the activity itself. The place where a BDSM activity takes place is usually called a dungeon. A BDSM activity can but need not involve sexual activity or sexual roleplay. A scene will vary, depending on the wishes...
– scopophilia
Scopophilia
Scopophilia or scoptophilia, from Greek "love of looking", is deriving pleasure from looking. As an expression of sexuality, it refers to sexual pleasure derived from looking at erotic objects: erotic photographs, pornography, naked bodies, etc....
– scoptolagnia – scoptophilia – scratching (sexology) – Screw magazine
Screw magazine
Screw is a weekly pornographic magazine published in the United States aimed at heterosexual men. It was first published in 1968 by Al Goldstein and was printed weekly in tabloid form...
– scrotal inflation
Scrotal inflation
Scrotal inflation, or scrotal infusion, is a sexual practice in which fluid is injected into the scrotum in order to make it balloon in size...
– scrotal infusion – scrotal piercing – scrotal stretching – scrotum
Scrotum
In some male mammals the scrotum is a dual-chambered protuberance of skin and muscle containing the testicles and divided by a septum. It is an extension of the perineum, and is located between the penis and anus. In humans and some other mammals, the base of the scrotum becomes covered with curly...
– scuba fetishism – second skin – secondary sex characteristic
Secondary sex characteristic
Secondary sex characteristics are features that distinguish the two sexes of a species, but that are not directly part of the reproductive system. They are believed to be the product of sexual selection for traits which give an individual an advantage over its rivals in courtship and aggressive...
– secondary virginity – secret vice
Masturbation
Masturbation refers to sexual stimulation of a person's own genitals, usually to the point of orgasm. The stimulation can be performed manually, by use of objects or tools, or by some combination of these methods. Masturbation is a common form of autoeroticism...
– secular law – seduction
Seduction
In social science, seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person to engage. The word seduction stems from Latin and means literally "to lead astray". As a result, the term may have a positive or negative connotation...
– see-through clothing – self-abuse – self-bondage
Self-bondage
Self-bondage refers to the use of restraints on oneself for sexual pleasure. It is a form of sexual bondage which can be practiced alone.Self-bondage is characterized by experimentation and ingenuity, and can be riskier than conventional bondage...
– self-isolation – semen
Semen
Semen is an organic fluid, also known as seminal fluid, that may contain spermatozoa. It is secreted by the gonads and other sexual organs of male or hermaphroditic animals and can fertilize female ova...
– semen allergy – semen swapping – semen-loss anxiety – semen-loss syndrome – semeniferous tubules – seminal colliculus
Seminal colliculus
The seminal colliculus , or verumontanum, of the prostatic urethra is a landmark near the entrance of the seminal vesicles. Verumontanum is translated from Latin to mean 'mountain ridge', a reference to the distinctive median elevation of urothelium that characterizes the landmark on magnified...
– seminal plasma – seminal plasma hypersensitivity – seminal vesicle
Seminal vesicle
The seminal vesicles or vesicular glands are a pair of simple tubular glands posteroinferior to the urinary bladder of male mammals...
– seminiferous tubules
Seminiferous tubules
Seminiferous tubules are located in the testes, and are the specific location of meiosis, and the subsequent creation of gametes, namely spermatozoa....
– sensate focus – sensate focus exercises – sensate focusing
Sensate focusing
Sensate focus or sensate focusing is a term usually associated with a set of specific sexual exercises for couples or for individuals. The term was introduced by Masters and Johnson, and was aimed at increasing personal and interpersonal awareness of self and the other's needs...
– sensation play (BDSM)
Sensation play (BDSM)
Erotic sensation play is a class of activities meant to impart physical sensations upon a partner, as opposed to mental forms of erotic play such as power exchange or sexual roleplaying....
– sensory compensation – sensory deprivation
Sensory deprivation
Sensory deprivation or perceptual isolation is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses. Simple devices such as blindfolds or hoods and earmuffs can cut off sight and hearing respectively, while more complex devices can also cut off the sense of smell, touch,...
– sensory enhancement – sensory overload
Sensory overload
Sensory overload , related to Cognitive load in general, is a condition where one or more of the senses are strained and it becomes difficult to focus on the task at hand...
– sensuality – separatist feminism
Separatist feminism
Separatist feminism is a form of radical feminism that holds that opposition to patriarchy is best done through focusing exclusively on women and girls...
– septa of testis
Septa of testis
Each lobule of the testis is contained in one of the intervals between the fibrous septa which extend between the mediastinum testis and the tunica albuginea, and consists of from one to three, or more, minute convoluted tubes, the tubuli seminiferi....
– septum of the penis
Septum of the penis
The corpora cavernosa penis are surrounded by a strong fibrous envelope consisting of superficial and deep fibers. The superficial fibers are longitudinal in direction, and form a single tube which encloses both corpora; the deep fibers are arranged circularly around each corpus, and form by their...
– seraglio
Seraglio
A seraglio or serail is the sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in a Turkish household. The word comes from an Italian variant of Turkish saray, from Persian sarai , meaning palace, or the enclosed courts for the wives and concubines of the harem of a house or palace...
– serendipitous – serial killing – serial monogamy – seronegative – seropositive – serosorting
Serosorting
Serosorting is the practice of using HIV status as a decision-making point in choosing sexual behavior. Frequently the term is used to describe the behavior of a person who chooses a sexual partner assumed to be of the same HIV serostatus for the purpose of engaging in unprotected sex with the...
– serotonin
Serotonin
Serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine is a monoamine neurotransmitter. Biochemically derived from tryptophan, serotonin is primarily found in the gastrointestinal tract, platelets, and in the central nervous system of animals including humans...
– serous tumor – Sertoli cell
Sertoli cell
A Sertoli cell is a 'nurse' cell of the testes that is part of a seminiferous tubule.It is activated by follicle-stimulating hormone and has FSH-receptor on its membranes.-Functions:...
– Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor – service-oriented – session wrestler
Session wrestler
Session wrestlers, also known as "private wrestlers", wrestle an opponent as a service, for money, in a private setting. Typically, the service provider is a professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, or bodybuilder...
– seven-year itch – sex
Sex
In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety . Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents...
– sex act – sex addict – sex addiction – sex adjunctive – sex adventitious – sex aid – sex allergy – sex assignment
Sex assignment
Sex assignment refers to the assigning of the biological sex at the birth of a baby. In the majority of births, a relative, midwife, or physician inspects the genitalia when the baby is delivered, sees ordinary male or female genitalia, and declares, "it's a girl" or "it's a boy" without the...
– sex boutique – sex change
Sex change
Sex change is a term often used for gender reassignment therapy, that is, all medical procedures transgendered people can have, or specifically to sexual reassignment surgery, which usually refers to genitalia surgery only...
– sex chromatin – sex client – sex club
Sex club
Sex clubs are either groups that organize sex related activities or an establishment where patrons can engage in sex acts with other patrons. A sex club differs from a brothel in that, while sex club patrons typically pay a fee to enter the club, they have sex with other patrons rather than with...
– sex coaching – sex compulsion – sex cord-stromal tumor – sex crime – sex derivative – sex diet
Sex diet
A sex diet is a lifestyle which maximizes the health benefits of regular sex. It is not technically a diet in the sense of a food-based regimen, but colloqually one in the sense of a system meant to improve health....
– sex doll
Sex doll
A sex doll is a type of sex toy in the size and shape of a sexual partner for aid in masturbation....
– sex drive
Libido
Libido refers to a person's sex drive or desire for sexual activity. The desire for sex is an aspect of a person's sexuality, but varies enormously from one person to another, and it also varies depending on circumstances at a particular time. A person who has extremely frequent or a suddenly...
– sex education
Sex education
Sex education refers to formal programs of instruction on a wide range of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, reproductive health, emotional relations, reproductive rights and responsibilities, abstinence, contraception, and...
– sex flush – sex game – sex hormone – sex hormone binding globulin
Sex hormone binding globulin
Sex hormone-binding globulin or sex steroid-binding globulin is a glycoprotein that binds to sex hormones, to be specific, testosterone and estradiol...
– sex hotel – sex hotline – sex industry
Sex industry
The sex industry consists of businesses which either directly or indirectly provide sex-related products and services or adult entertainment...
- sex in space
Sex in space
Sex in space refers to sexual activity in the weightlessness and/or extreme environments of outer space. Usually only human sexual activity is considered...
– sex irreducible – sex machine
Fucking machine
A sex machine, also known as a fucking machine, is a mechanical device used to simulate human sexual intercourse. It is a more sophisticated version of the vibrator. These devices may be associated with, but are not limited to, BDSM play....
– sex magic
Sex magic
Sex magic is a term for various types of sexual activity used in magical, ritualistic or otherwise religious and spiritual pursuits. One practice of sex magic is using the energy of sexual arousal or orgasm with visualization of a desired result...
– sex magick – sex manual
Sex manual
Sex manuals are books which explain how to perform sexual intercourse and other sexual practices. They often also feature advice on birth control, and sometimes safe sex, as well as advice on sexual relationships.-Early sex manuals:...
– sex museum
Sex museum
A sex museum is a museum that displays erotic art, historical sexual aids, and documents on the history of erotica. They were popular in Europe at the end of the 1960s and during the 1970s, the era of the sexual revolution....
– sex nexus – sex object – sex of rearing – sex offender
Sex offender
A sex offender is a person who has committed a sex crime. What constitutes a sex crime differs by culture and by legal jurisdiction. Most jurisdictions compile their laws into sections such as traffic, assault, sexual, etc. The majority of convicted sex offenders have convictions for crimes of a...
– sex parties – sex position – sex reassignment – sex reassignment surgery
Sex reassignment surgery
Sex reassignment surgery is a term for the surgical procedures by which a person's physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble...
– sex reassignment surgery female-to-male
Sex reassignment surgery female-to-male
Sex reassignment surgery from female to male includes a variety of surgical procedures for transsexual men that alter female anatomical traits to provide physical traits more appropriate to the trans man's male identity and functioning....
– sex reassignment surgery male-to-female
Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female
Sex reassignment surgery from male to female involves reshaping the male genitals into a form with the appearance of and, as far as possible, the function of female genitalia. Prior to any surgeries, trans women usually undergo hormone replacement therapy and facial hair removal...
– sex restaurant – sex ring – sex role – sex scandal
Sex scandal
A sex scandal is a scandal involving allegations or information about possibly-immoral sexual activities being made public. Sex scandals are often associated with movie stars, politicians, famous athletes or others in the public eye, and become scandals largely because of the prominence of the...
– sex shop
Sex shop
A sex shop, erotic shop is a shop that sells products related to adult sexual or erotic entertainment, such as sex toys, lingerie, clothing, pornography, and other related products...
– sex show
Sex show
A sex show is a form of live performance that features one or more performers engaging in some form of sexual activity on stage for the entertainment or sexual gratification of spectators. Performers are paid either by the spectators or by the organisers of the show. A performance would involve an...
– sex steroid
Sex steroid
Sex steroids, also known as gonadal steroids, are steroid hormones that interact with vertebrate androgen or estrogen receptors. Their effects are mediated by slow genomic mechanisms through nuclear receptors as well as by fast nongenomic mechanisms through membrane-associated receptors and...
– sex strike
Sex strike
A sex strike is a strike, a method of non-violent resistance in which one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partner to achieve certain goals...
– sex surrogate – sex symbol
Sex symbol
A sex symbol is a celebrity of either gender, typically an actor, musician, supermodel, teen idol, or sports star, noted for their sex appeal. The term was first used in the mid 1950s in relation to the popularity of certain Hollywood stars, especially Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte...
– sex tape – sex therapist – sex therapy
Sex therapy
Sex therapy is the treatment of sexual dysfunction, such as non-consummation, premature ejaculation , erectile dysfunction, low libido, unwanted sexual fetishes, sexual addiction, painful sex, or a lack of sexual confidence, assisting people who are recovering from sexual assault, problems commonly...
– sex tourism
Sex tourism
Sex tourism is travel to engage in sexual activity with prostitutes.The World Tourism Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, defines sex tourism as "trips organized from within the tourism sector, or from outside this sector but using its structures and networks, with the primary...
– sex toy
Sex toy
A sex toy is an object or device that is primarily used to facilitate human sexual pleasure. The most popular sex toys are designed to resemble human genitals and may be vibrating or non-vibrating...
– sex traffic
Sex Traffic
Sex Traffic is a British-Canadian two-part television drama directed by David Yates, written by Abi Morgan and produced by Veronica Castillo and Derek Wax...
– sex trafficking – sex urge – sex with your ex – sex worker
Sex worker
A sex worker is a person who works in the sex industry. The term is usually used in reference to those in the sex industry that actually provide such sexual services, as opposed to management and staff of such industries...
– sex-contact magazine – sex-determining system – sex-hormone therapy – sex-positive
Sex-positive
The sex-positive movement is an ideology which promotes and embraces open sexuality with few limits. Sex positivity is "an attitude towards human sexuality that regards all consensual sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and pleasurable, and encourages sexual pleasure and experimentation...
– sex-positive feminism
Sex-positive feminism
Sex-positive feminism, also known as pro-sex feminism, sex-radical feminism, or sexually liberal feminism is a movement that began in the early 1980s...
– Sexaholics Anonymous
Sexaholics Anonymous
Sexaholics Anonymous is one of several twelve-step programs for hypersexuality based on the original Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. SA takes its place among various 12-step groups that seek recovery from sexual addiction: Sex Addicts Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Sexual...
– sexercise – sexism
Sexism
Sexism, also known as gender discrimination or sex discrimination, is the application of the belief or attitude that there are characteristics implicit to one's gender that indirectly affect one's abilities in unrelated areas...
– sexless marriage
Sexless marriage
A sexless marriage is a marriage in which little or no sex occurs between the two partners. The US National Health and Social Life Survey in 1994 found that 2 percent of the married respondents reported no sexual intimacy in the past year...
– Sexmuseum – sexological education – sexologist – sexology
Sexology
Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behavior, and function. The term does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sex, such as political analysis or social criticism....
– sexosophy – sexploitation
Sexploitation
Sexploitation, or "sex-exploitation", describes a class of independently produced, low-budget feature films generally associated with the 1960s and serving largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films...
– sexsomnia -sexting
Sexting
Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photographs, primarily between mobile phones. The term was first popularized in early 21st century, and is a portmanteau of sex and texting, where the latter is meant in the wide sense of sending a text possibly with...
– sexual aberration – sexual abstinence
Sexual abstinence
Sexual abstinence is the practice of refraining from some or all aspects of sexual activity for medical, psychological, legal, social, philosophical or religious reasons.Common reasons for practicing sexual abstinence include:*poor health - medical celibacy...
– sexual abuse
Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When that force is immediate, of short duration, or infrequent, it is called sexual assault. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser or molester...
– sexual acronyms – sexual act – sexual activities – sexual addiction
Sexual addiction
Sexual addiction is a popular model to explain hypersexuality—sexual urges, behaviors, or thoughts that appear extreme in frequency or feel out of one's control...
– sexual anatomy – sexual anomalies – sexual arousal
Sexual arousal
Sexual arousal, or sexual excitement, is the arousal of sexual desire, during or in anticipation of sexual activity. Things that precipitate human sexual arousal are called erotic stimuli, or colloquially known as turn-ons. There are many potential stimuli, both physical or mental, which can cause...
– sexual assault
Sexual assault
Sexual assault is an assault of a sexual nature on another person, or any sexual act committed without consent. Although sexual assaults most frequently are by a man on a woman, it may involve any combination of two or more men, women and children....
– sexual attraction
Sexual attraction
Sexual attractiveness or sex appeal refers to an individual's ability to attract the sexual or erotic interest of another person, and is a factor in sexual selection or mate choice. The attraction can be to the physical or other qualities or traits of a person, or to such qualities in the context...
– sexual availability – Sexual Behavior in the Human Female – Sexual Behavior in the Human Male – sexual bondage
Bondage (BDSM)
Bondage is the use of restraints for the sexual pleasure of the parties involved. It may be used in its own right, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage, or as part of sexual activity or BDSM activity.- Private bondage :...
– sexual characteristics – sexual child abuse – sexual compulsion – Sexual Compulsives Anonymous
Sexual Compulsives Anonymous
Sexual Compulsives Anonymous is an organization that describes itself as providing a twelve-step program for recovery from what it terms sexual compulsion. SCA's founding is attributed variously to 1982 in New York City and to 1973 in Los Angeles...
– sexual confidence – sexual congress – sexual continence – sexual desire – sexual development – sexual deviancy-- sexual deviant – sexual deviation – sexual differentiation
Sexual differentiation
Sexual differentiation is the process of development of the differences between males and females from an undifferentiated zygote...
– sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species. Examples of such differences include differences in morphology, ornamentation, and behavior.-Examples:-Ornamentation / coloration:...
– sexual dissatisfaction – sexual drive – sexual dysfunction
Sexual dysfunction
Sexual dysfunction or sexual malfunction refers to a difficulty experienced by an individual or a couple during any stage of a normal sexual activity, including desire, arousal or orgasm....
– sexual equality – sexual ethics
Sexual ethics
Sexual ethics refers to those aspects of ethics that deal with issues arising from all aspects of sexuality and human sexual behavior...
– sexual ethnology – sexual exploitation
Sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian response
The sexual exploitation and abuse of beneficiaries by humanitarian workers first came to public attention with the release of a report in February 2002 of a joint assessment mission looking into the issue...
– sexual fantasy
Sexual fantasy
A sexual fantasy, also called an erotic fantasy, is a fantasy or pattern of thoughts with the effect of creating or enhancing sexual feelings; in short, it is "almost any mental imagery that is sexually arousing or erotic to [an] individual"...
– sexual fetish – sexual fetishism
Sexual fetishism
Sexual fetishism, or erotic fetishism, is the sexual arousal a person receives from a physical object, or from a specific situation. The object or situation of interest is called the fetish, the person a fetishist who has a fetish for that object/situation. Sexual fetishism may be regarded, e.g...
– sexual fetishist – sexual fidelity – sexual flush – Sexual Freedom Coalition
Sexual Freedom Coalition
The Sexual Freedom Coalition is a pro-sex campaign organization and political pressure group based in the United Kingdom that challenges the laws which take away the sexual freedoms of consenting adults and also challenges the media and official bodies that show disrespect for sex.The Sexual...
– sexual frequency – sexual frustration
Sexual frustration
Sexual frustration describes the condition in which a human or animal is in a state of agitation, depression, stress, loneliness or anxiety due to prolonged virginity, sexual inactivity and/or sexual dissatisfaction that leads him or her to want more sex or better sex, or a state in which he or she...
– sexual game – sexual harassment
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment, is intimidation, bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. In some contexts or circumstances, sexual harassment is illegal. It includes a range of behavior from seemingly mild transgressions and...
– sexual health – sexual health clinic
Sexual health clinic
Sexual health clinics specialize in the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections.Sexual health clinics provide only some reproductive health services...
– sexual history – sexual inadequacy – sexual identity
Sexual identity
Sexual identity is a term that, like sex, has two distinctively different meanings. One describes an identity roughly based on sexual orientation, the other an identity based on sexual characteristics, which is not socially based but based on biology, a concept related to, but different from,...
– sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...
– sexual intimacy
Sexual intimacy
The term "sex" is often loosely used to mean one of a number of possible degrees of sexual intimacy between humans.-Stages of Intimacy:Zoologist Desmond Morris has established a Normative progression of general stages in pair-formation leading to sexual intimacy:# Eye to body# Eye to eye# Voice to...
– sexual inversion
Sexual inversion (sexology)
Sexual inversion is a term used by sexologists, primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century, to refer to homosexuality. Sexual inversion was believed to be an inborn reversal of gender traits: male inverts were, to a greater or lesser degree, inclined to traditionally female pursuits and...
– sexual jealousy
Sexual jealousy
Sexual jealousy is a special form of jealousy in sexual relationships, present in animals that reproduce through internal fertilization, and is based on suspected or imminent sexual infidelity. It is founded on the instinct of keeping genes in the gene pool and expecting sexual partners to care for...
– sexual liberation – sexual lubricant – sexual malfunction – sexual maturation – sexual maturity
Sexual maturity
Sexual maturity is the age or stage when an organism can reproduce. It is sometimes considered synonymous with adulthood, though the two are distinct...
– sexual medicine
Sexual medicine
Sexual medicine is a medical specialty that deals with sexual health. At times heavily influenced by current local views on morality, with heavy cultural overlay, in broad terms this specialty is concerned with diagnosing, assessing and treating all aspects which relate to sexuality.Issues can be...
– sexual misconduct
Sexual misconduct
Sexual misconduct is misconduct of a sexual nature. The term may be used to condemn an act, but in some jurisdictions it has also a legal meaning....
– sexual morality – sexual mores – sexual network
Sexual network
A sexual network is a social network that is defined by the sexual relationships within a set of individuals.-Studies and discoveries:Like other forms of social networks, sexual networks can be formally studied using the mathematics of graph theory and network theory.Recent epidemiological studies ...
– sexual norm
Sexual norm
A sexual norm can refer to a personal or a social norm. Most cultures have social norms regarding sexuality, and define normal sexuality to consist only of certain legal sex acts between individuals who meet specific criteria of age, consanguinity , race/ethnicity A sexual norm can refer to a...
– sexual orientation
Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation describes a pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither, and the genders that accompany them. By the convention of organized researchers, these attractions are subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality,...
– Sexual orientation and Wicca – Sexual orientation change efforts
Sexual orientation change efforts
Sexual orientation change efforts are methods that aim to eliminate a same-sex sexual orientation. They may include behavioral techniques, cognitive behavioral techniques , psychoanalytic techniques, medical approaches, religious and spiritual approaches.The longstanding consensus of the...
– Sexual Identity Therapy
Sexual Identity Therapy
Sexual Identity Therapy is a framework to "aid mental health practitioners in helping people arrive at a healthy and personally acceptable resolution of sexual identity and value conflicts." It was invented by Warren Throckmorton and Mark Yarhouse, professors at small conservative evangelical...
– sexual outlet – sexual partner
Sexual partner
Sexual partners are people who engage in sexual activity together. The sexual partners can be of any gender or sexual orientation. The sexual partners may be in a committed relationship, either on an exclusive basis or not, or engage in the sexual activity on a casual basis...
– sexual perversion – sexual perversity – sexual politics
Sexual Politics
Sexual Politics is a classic feminist text written by Kate Millett, said to be "the first book of academic feminist literary criticism", and "one of the first feminist books of this decade to raise nationwide male ire"....
– sexual predator
Sexual predator
The term sexual predator is used pejoratively to describe a person seen as obtaining or trying to obtain sexual contact with another person in a metaphorically "predatory" manner. Analogous to how a predator hunts down its prey, so the sexual predator is thought to "hunt" for his or her sex partners...
– sexual problem – sexual prop – sexual prowess – sexual reassignment surgery – sexual rehearsal play – sexual revolution
Sexual revolution
The sexual revolution was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the Western world from the 1960s into the 1980s...
– sexual ritual
Sexual ritual
Sexual rituals fall into two categories: culture-created, and natural behaviour, the human animal having developed sex rituals from evolutionary instincts for reproduction, which are then integrated into society, and elaborated to include aspects such as marriage rites, dances, etc...
– sexual roleplaying
Sexual roleplaying
Sexual roleplay is an erotic form of roleplay: it is a sexual behavior where two or more people act out roles in a sexual fantasy. How seriously this is taken depends on the people involved, and the scenario may be anywhere from simple and makeshift to detailed and elaborate, complete with...
– sexual sadism – sexual script
Sexual script
A sexual script is defined as what leads up to sexual encounters in which are learned interactions. The concept was first introduced by sociologists John H...
– sexual slang
Sexual slang
Sexual slang is a set of linguistic terms and phrases used to refer to sexual organs, processes, and activities; they are generally considered colloquial rather than formal or medical, and some may be seen as impolite or improper....
– sexual slavery
Sexual slavery
Sexual slavery is when unwilling people are coerced into slavery for sexual exploitation. The incidence of sexual slavery by country has been studied and tabulated by UNESCO, with the cooperation of various international agencies...
– sexual stimulation
Sexual stimulation
Sexual stimulation is any stimulus that leads to, enhances and maintains sexual arousal, and may lead to ejaculation and/or orgasm...
– sexual surrogate
Sexual surrogate
A sexual surrogate is a member of a sex therapy team who engages in intimate physical relations or sex with a patient in order to achieve a therapeutic goal. The practice was introduced by Masters and Johnson with their work on Human Sexual Inadequacy in 1970.Most surrogates are women, a few are...
– sexual tension
Sexual tension
Sexual tension is a social phenomenon that occurs when two people interact and one or both feel sexual desire, but the consummation is postponed or never happens....
– sexual trophy – sexual violence
Sexual violence
Sexual violence occurs throughout the world, although in most countries there has been little research conducted on the problem. Due to the private nature of sexual violence, estimating the extent of the problem is difficult...
– sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
– sexuality education – sexuality in older age
Sexuality in older age
Sexual drive can be considerable at any age and for either gender. While the human body has some limits on the maximum age for reproduction, sexual activity can be performed or experienced well into the later years of life.-Increasing Physical Limitations:...
– Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States is a lobbying organization and advocacy group dedicated to sex and sexuality education, sexual health, and sexual rights...
– obsessive-compulsive disorder and sexuality – sexually active – sexually dimorphic nucleus
Sexually dimorphic nucleus
Sexually dimorphic nucleus is a cluster of cells located in the preoptic area of hypothalamus of the brain that is believed to be related to sexual behavior in animals. The volume of SDN is significantly larger in males than in females, caused mainly by greater cell number and larger cell size,...
– sexually transmissible disease – sexually transmitted disease
Sexually transmitted disease
Sexually transmitted disease , also known as a sexually transmitted infection or venereal disease , is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of human sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex...
– sexually violent predator
Sexually violent predator
In the United States, sexually violent predator laws permit states or the federal government to confine someone already in custody, after the sentence has been completed, if the person has a "mental abnormality" or personality disorder and who is likely to engage in sexual offenses if released...
– sexuoerotic – sexuoerotic body image fixation – sexuoeroticism – shaving (sexology) – shemale
Shemale
Shemale is a term used in sex work to describe trans women with male genitalia and augmented female breasts from breast augmentation and/or use of hormones...
– shidduch
Shidduch
The Shidduch is a system of matchmaking in which Jewish singles are introduced to one another in Orthodox Jewish communities for the purpose of marriage....
– shim-pua marriage
Shim-pua marriage
Tongyangxi , also known as Shim-pua marriage in Taiwanese , was a tradition of arranged marriage dating back to pre-modern China, in which a poor family would sell a child, a pre-adolescent daughter to a richer family as a servant or a caretaker. In exchange, the girl would be married into the...
– shocker (hand gesture)
Shocker (hand gesture)
The shocker, also known colloquially as "two in the pink, one in the stink" or "two in the goo, one in the poo" is a hand gesture with a sexual connotation. The ring finger and thumb are curled or bent down while the other fingers are extended. The index and middle fingers are kept together and...
– shoe dangling – shoe fetishism
Shoe fetishism
Shoe fetishism is the attribution of attractive sexual qualities to shoes or other footwear as a matter of sexual preference, psychosexual disorder, and an alternative or complement to a relationship with a partner. It has also been known as retifism, after Nicolas-Edme Rétif , called Rétif de la...
– shotacon
Shotacon
, sometimes shortened to , is a Japanese slang portmanteau of the phrase and describes an attraction to young boys, or an individual with such an attraction. Outside Japan, the term is used less often with this meaning. It refers to a genre of manga and anime wherein pre-pubescent or pubescent...
– shotgun wedding – showers (sexology) – shunga
Shunga
' is a Japanese term for erotic art. Most shunga are a type of ukiyo-e, usually executed in woodblock print format. While rare, there are extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate the Ukiyo-e movement...
– shyness
Shyness
In humans, shyness is a social psychology term used to describe the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness experienced when a person is in proximity to, approaching, or being approached by other people, especially in new situations or with unfamiliar people...
– side entry missionary position – siderodromophilia – SIECUS – sigheh – significant other
Significant other
Significant other is colloquially used as a gender-blind term for a person's partner in an intimate relationship without disclosing or presuming anything about marital status, relationship status, or sexual orientation, as it is vague enough to avoid offense by using a term that an individual...
– Volkmar Sigusch
Volkmar Sigusch
Volkmar Sigusch is a German sexologist, physician and sociologist. He was from 1973 to 2006 director of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft [Institute for Sexual Science] at the clinic of the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main....
– sildenafil citrate – Silver Ring Thing
Silver Ring Thing
Silver Ring Thing is a virginity pledge program which encourages teens and young adults to remain celibate until marriage. It is based in the United States and was until 2005 funded by the U.S. federal government...
– Sin City (description)
Sin City (description)
Sin City is an urban area that caters to various vices, perhaps the most well known example being the Las Vegas metropolitan area, USA...
– sindoor
Sindoor
Sindoor is a traditional red or orange-red colored cosmetic powder from the Indian subcontinent, usually worn by married women along the parting of their hair. Usage of sindoor denotes that a woman is married in many Hindu communities, and ceasing to wear it usually implies widowhood...
– single
Single (relationship)
In legal definitions for interpersonal status, a single person is someone who is not in a relationship or is "unmarried". If a marriage is annulled, however, or it is found to have been void ab initio , and assuming the person was not married previously, that individual is single, rather than...
– single mother – single parent
Single parent
Single parent is a term that is mostly used to suggest that one parent has most of the day to day responsibilities in the raising of the child or children, which would categorize them as the dominant caregiver...
– single status affidavit – singles bar
Singles Bar
Singles Bar is a 1983 studio album from Swedish country and pop singer Kikki Danielsson. On the album charts, "Singles Bar" as best finished 13th in Norway and 35th in Sweden.In July 2009 the album was digitally released to iTunes.-Side A:-Side B:...
– sinus
Sinus
- Anatomy :In anatomy, where a sinus is a sac or cavity in any organ or tissue:*Sinus , description of the general term*Paranasal sinuses, air cavities in the cranial bones, especially those near the nose, including:...
– sissy
Sissy
Sissy is a pejorative term for a boy or man who violates or does not meet the traditional male gender role. Generally, sissy implies a lack of the courage and stoicism which are thought important to the male role...
– sissy boy – sitophilia – situational child molester – situational sexual behaviour – sixty-nine – size queen – Skene's ducts
Skene's ducts
The Skene's ducts are a pair of ducts leading from the Skene's glands to the surface of the vulva, to the left and right of the urethral opening.Like the Skene's glands, they are named after Alexander Skene....
– Skene's gland
Skene's gland
In human anatomy , the Skene's glands are glands located on the anterior wall of the vagina, around the lower end of the urethra. They drain into the urethra and near the urethral opening and may be near or a part of the G-Spot...
– Skene's glands – Skoptzy
Skoptzy
The Skoptsy were a secret sect in imperial Russia. The Skoptsy are best known for practicing castration of men and the mastectomy of women in accordance with their teachings against sexual lust. The movement originated as an offshoot of the sect known as the "People of God" and was first noted...
– slap and tickle - slapper – slapping (BDSM)
Erotic spanking
Erotic spanking is the act of spanking another person for the sexual arousal or gratification of either or both parties...
– slave (BDSM) – sleep sex
Sleep sex
Sleep sex, or sexsomnia, is a condition in which a person will do sexual acts while still asleep, acts such as masturbation, fondling themselves or others, having sex with another person and in more extreme cases sexual assault and rape....
– sleeping princess syndrome – sleeping together – sleepsex – sling – sloppy seconds
Sloppy Seconds
Sloppy Seconds is a Ramones-influenced punk band from Indianapolis, Indiana that started in the mid-1980s. They gained notoriety in the underground "punk" scene with songs like "Come Back, Traci" , "I Don't Want to be a Homosexual", "Jani is a Nazi", "I Want 'em Dead" and "So Fucked up".The bands...
– slut
Slut
Slut or slattern is a pejorative term applied to an individual who is considered to have loose sexual morals or who is sexually promiscuous...
– smegma
Smegma
Smegma is a combination of exfoliated epithelial cells, transudated skin oils, and moisture. It occurs in both female and male mammalian genitalia.-Human smegma:Both females and males produce smegma...
– smoking fetishism
Smoking fetishism
Smoking fetishism is a sexual fetish based on the sight or image of a person smoking. For many, the fetish appears to have had its roots in early childhood. It is classically conditioned and shaped by many variables. These could include seeing the smoker as a stereotypically sweet, innocent...
– smotherbox – snapping pussy – snowballing
Snowballing (sexual practice)
Snowballing or snowdropping is the human sexual practice in which one person takes another person's semen into his or her mouth and then passes it back to the mouth of the other, usually through kissing.The term was originally used only by homosexuals...
– soapland
Soapland
A ' is a Japanglish and indicates a paradise for men in Japanese. It is said, since in Japan prostitution is officially prohibited by the government, that it is a type of brothel in Japan where male clients can engage in sexual activity with female prostitutes, although officially the clubs do...
– social distancing – social host liability
Social host liability
Social host liability is created by a statute or case law that imposes liability on social hosts as a result of their serving alcohol to adults or minors...
- social vice – Society for Human Sexuality – Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality , formed in 1957, is a non-profit, professional membership organization that says it is "the oldest professional society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality." It reports to have more than 1,000 members and has a quarterly...
– sociobiological theories of rape
Sociobiological theories of rape
Sociobiological theories of rape are theories that explore to what degree, if any, evolutionary adaptations influence the psychology of rapists. Such theories are highly controversial, as traditional theories typically do not consider rape to be a behavioral adaptation. Some object to such theories...
– sodomy
Sodomy
Sodomy is an anal or other copulation-like act, especially between male persons or between a man and animal, and one who practices sodomy is a "sodomite"...
– sodomy law
Sodomy law
A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as crimes. The precise sexual acts meant by the term sodomy are rarely spelled out in the law, but are typically understood by courts to include any sexual act deemed unnatural. It also has a range of similar euphemisms...
– soft butch
Soft butch
A soft butch or stem is a woman who exhibits some stereotypical butch and lesbian traits without fitting the masculine stereotype associated with butch lesbians. These traits may or may not include short hair, clothing that was designed for men, and masculine mannerisms and behaviors...
– soft chancre – softcore pornography – soggy biscuit
Soggy biscuit
Soggy biscuit, sometimes also called The Biscuit Game, Sticky Biscuit, Cookies and Cream, Limp Biscuit or Ookie Cookie is a male masturbation game which originated from the United Kingdom in which the participants stand around a biscuit masturbating until ejaculating on to it; the last person to...
– soiree - soixante-neuf – solicitation
Solicitation
Literally, solicitation means: 'urgently asking'. It is the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal. In criminal law, it most commonly refers to either the act of offering goods or services, or the act of attempting to purchase such goods or services...
– soliciting – solitary vice – sologamy
Sologamy
Sologamy is the practice of self-marriage. This occurs when a religious ceremony takes place, creating a new union between a person's physical body and his/her spirit. Sologamy commonly takes place in African tribal societies, such as the Hutu and Por'Quatzi tribes...
– solosexuality – somatic
Somatic
The term somatic means 'of the body',, relating to the body. In medicine, somatic illness is bodily, not mental, illness. The term is often used in biology to refer to the cells of the body in contrast to the germ line cells which usually give rise to the gametes...
– somatotropin – somesthetic – somnophilia
Somnophilia
Somnophilia is a paraphilia in which sexual arousal or orgasm are stimulated by intruding on and awakening a sleeping person with erotic caresses, but not with force or violence...
– sororal polygyny – sororate marriage
Sororate marriage
Sororate marriage is a type of marriage in which a husband engages in marriage or sexual relations with the sister of his wife, usually after the death of his wife, or once his wife has proven infertile....
– sounding
Urethral sounding
Sounding or urethral sounding is the medical use of probes called sounds to increase the inner diameter of the urethra and to locate obstructions in it...
– spandex fetishism
Spandex fetishism
Spandex fetishism is a fetishistic attraction to people wearing stretch fabrics. Spandex garments are often worn by swimmers, dancers, rowers, contortionists and circus performers, and spandex fetishists may incorporate fantasies about these activities into their fetish.One reason why spandex and...
– spanking
Erotic spanking
Erotic spanking is the act of spanking another person for the sexual arousal or gratification of either or both parties...
– Spartan pederasty – spay
Neutering
Neutering, from the Latin neuter , is the removal of an animal's reproductive organ, either all of it or a considerably large part. The process is often used in reference to males whereas spaying is often reserved for females. Colloquially, both terms are often referred to as fixing...
– spectrophilia
Spectrophilia
Spectrophilia is the sexual attraction to ghosts or the arousal from images in mirrors, also the phenomenon of sexual encounters between ghosts and humans.-Spectrophilia as a fetish:...
– speculum
Speculum (medical)
A speculum is a medical tool for investigating body cavities, with a form dependent on the body cavity for which it is designed. In old texts, the speculum may also be referred to as a diopter or dioptra...
– speed dating
Speed dating
Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking process or dating system whose purpose is to encourage people to meet a large number of new people. Its origins are credited to Rabbi Yaacov Deyo of Aish HaTorah, originally as a way to help Jewish singles meet and marry. "SpeedDating", as a single word, is...
– sperm
Sperm
The term sperm is derived from the Greek word sperma and refers to the male reproductive cells. In the types of sexual reproduction known as anisogamy and oogamy, there is a marked difference in the size of the gametes with the smaller one being termed the "male" or sperm cell...
– sperm bank
Sperm bank
A sperm bank, semen bank or cryobank is a facility that collects and stores human sperm mainly from sperm donors, primarily for the purpose of achieving pregnancies through third party reproduction, notably by artificial insemination...
– sperm competition
Sperm competition
Sperm competition is a term used to refer to the competitive process between spermatozoa of two different males to fertilize an egg of a lone female. Competition occurs whenever females engage in promiscuous mating to increase their chances in producing more viable offspring...
– sperm count – sperm donation
Sperm donation
Sperm donation is the provision by a man, , of his sperm, with the intention that it be used to impregnate a woman who is not usually the man's sexual partner, in order to produce a child....
– sperm donor – sperm motility
Sperm motility
Sperm motility describes the ability of sperm to move properly towards an egg. This can also be thought of as the 'quality' of the sperm, which is a factor in successful pregnancies, as opposed to the 'quantity'. Sperm which do not properly 'swim', will not reach the egg in order to fertilize it...
– sperm sample – spermatic cord
Spermatic cord
The spermatic cord is the name given to the cord-like structure in males formed by the ductus deferens and surrounding tissue that run from the abdomen down to each testicle.-Contents of spermatic cord:...
– spermatic duct – spermatid
Spermatid
The spermatid is the haploid male gametid that results from division of secondary spermatocytes. As a result of meiosis, each spermatid contains only half of the genetic material present in the original primary spermatocyte....
– spermatidogenesis
Spermatidogenesis
Spermatidogenesis is the creation of spermatids from secondary spermatocytes during spermatogenesis.Secondary spermatocytes produced earlier rapidly enter meiosis II and divide to produce haploid spermatids....
– spermatocele
Spermatocele
Spermatocele is a retention cyst of a tubule of the rete testis or the head of the epididymis distended with barely watery fluid that contains spermatozoa. Spermatoceles are the most common cystic condition encountered within the scrotum. They vary in size from several millimeters to many...
– spermatocyte
Spermatocyte
A spermatocyte is a male gametocyte, derived from a spermatogonium, which is in the developmental stage of spermatogenesis during which meiosis occurs. It is located in the seminiferous tubules of the testis.-Spermatogenesis:...
– spermatocytogenesis
Spermatocytogenesis
Spermatocytogenesis is the male form of gametocytogenesis and involves stem cells dividing to replace themselves and to produce a population of cells destined to become mature sperm....
– spermatogenesis
Spermatogenesis
Spermatogenesis is the process by which male primary germ cells undergo division, and produce a number of cells termed spermatogonia, from which the primary spermatocytes are derived. Each primary spermatocyte divides into two secondary spermatocytes, and each secondary spermatocyte into two...
– spermatogonium
Spermatogonium
A spermatogonium is an intermediary male gametogonium in the production of spermatozoa.There are three subtypes:...
– spermatophobia – spermatophore
Spermatophore
A spermatophore or sperm ampulla is a capsule or mass created by males of various animal species, containing spermatozoa and transferred in entirety to the female's ovipore during copulation...
– spermatorrhea
Spermatorrhea
Spermatorrhea is a condition of excessive, accidental ejaculation.It is a recognized disorder in Traditional Chinese Medicine, in which certain patterns of involuntary ejaculation reflect problems with kidney qi....
– spermatozoa – spermatozoon
Spermatozoon
A spermatozoon is a motile sperm cell, or moving form of the haploid cell that is the male gamete. A spermatozoon joins an ovum to form a zygote...
– spermicide
Spermicide
Spermicide is a contraceptive substance that eradicates sperm, inserted vaginally prior to intercourse to prevent pregnancy. As a contraceptive, spermicide may be used alone. However, the pregnancy rate experienced by couples using only spermicide is higher than that of couples using other methods...
– spermiogenesis
Spermiogenesis
Spermiogenesis is the final stage of spermatogenesis, which sees the maturation of spermatids into mature, motile spermatozoa. The spermatid is more or less circular cell containing a nucleus Golgi apparatus, centriole and mitochondria...
– sphincter
Sphincter
A sphincter is an anatomical structure, or a circular muscle, that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice and which relaxes as required by normal physiological functioning...
– spinnbarkeit
Spinnbarkeit
Spinnbarkeit , also known as fibrosity, is a biomedical rheology term which refers to the stringy or stretchy property found to varying degrees in mucus, saliva, albumen and similar viscoelastic fluids...
– spinster
Spinster
A spinster, or old maid, is an older, childless woman who has never been married.For a woman to be identified as a spinster, age is critical...
– spin the bottle
Spin the bottle
Spin the Bottle is a party game in which several players sit/stand/kneel in a circle. One player spins a bottle and must kiss the person to whom the bottle points, who then spins the bottle in turn...
- spiritual marriage
Spiritual marriage
Spiritual marriage comes from the idea of "love without sex." It is a practice in which a man and a woman live intimately without engaging in any sexual activities...
– spiritual wifery
Spiritual wifery
Spiritual wifery is a term first used in America by the Immortalists in and near the Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and Massachusetts in the 1740s...
– spit roast (sex) – spitting fetishism – splanchnic nerves
Splanchnic nerves
The splanchnic nerves are paired nerves that contribute to the innervation of the viscera, carrying fibers of the autonomic nervous system as well as sensory fibers from the organs...
– splash conception
Splash conception
During heterosexual anal sex, splash conception occurs when semen containing sperm migrates from the anus, across the perineum, to the labia, and subsequently into the vagina, causing the fertilization of an ovum followed by conception or pregnancy...
– split beaver – splitting
Splitting (psychology)
Splitting may mean two things: splitting of the mind, and splitting of mental concepts . The latter is thinking purely in extremes Splitting (also called all-or-nothing thinking in cognitive distortion) may mean two things: splitting of the mind, and splitting of mental concepts (or black and...
– sploshing – spoiled orgasm – spongy urethra
Spongy urethra
The spongy urethra is the longest part of the male urethra, and is contained in the corpus spongiosum urethraeæ....
– spoons position – spousal abuse – spreadeagle
Spreadeagle (position)
The spread eagle is the position in which a person has his or her arms outstretched and legs apart, figuratively resembling an eagle with wings spread. It is a style that appears commonly in nature and geometry. In human style it is represented by the letter "X".A spreadeagle is a common position...
– squashing of the deckchair position – squeeze technique – stag party – stalking
Stalking
Stalking is a term commonly used to refer to unwanted and obsessive attention by an individual or group to another person. Stalking behaviors are related to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person and/or monitoring them via the internet...
– standing sex position – stapling (sexology) – statutory rape
Statutory rape
The phrase statutory rape is a term used in some legal jurisdictions to describe sexual activities where one participant is below the age required to legally consent to the behavior...
– STD
Sexually transmitted disease
Sexually transmitted disease , also known as a sexually transmitted infection or venereal disease , is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of human sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex...
– STD clinic – STD testing – steatopygia
Steatopygia
Steatopygia is a high degree of fat accumulation in and around the buttocks. The deposit of fat is not confined to the gluteal regions, but extends to the outside and front of the thighs, forming a thick layer reaching sometimes to the knee.- History :...
– stem pessary – stereocilia (epididymis)
Stereocilia (epididymis)
The stereocilia of the epididymis are structures which aid in absorption. They are long cytoplasmic projections but have no motility.Unlike the stereocilia of the ear, those in the epididymis are more like long microvilli that cover the open surface of the epididymis...
– sterility
Infertility
Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to conception. Infertility may also refer to the state of a woman who is unable to carry a pregnancy to full term...
– human sterilization (surgical procedure) – steroid hormones – STI – stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilia
Stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilia
Stigmatic-eligibilic paraphilias are desires whose objects "become eligible" to be desired because of, rather than despite, a stigma which they bear...
– stigmatophilia – stimulus-response theory – Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm syndrome
In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them...
– stocking fetishism – Stonewall riots
Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City...
– stop and go exercises – stop-start technique – Marie Stopes
Marie Stopes
Marie Carmichael Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of birth control...
– Story of O
Story of O
Story of O is an erotic novel published in 1954 about love, dominance and submission by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage.Desclos did not reveal herself as the author for forty years after the initial publication...
– strangling (sexology) – strangulation – strap-on dildo
Strap-on dildo
A strap-on dildo is a dildo designed to be worn, usually with a harness, during sexual activity. Harnesses and dildos are made in a wide variety of styles, with variations in how the harness fits the wearer, how the dildo attaches to the harness, as well as various features intended to facilitate...
– Street Offences Act 1959 – street prostitution
Street prostitution
Street prostitution is a form of prostitution in which a sex worker solicits customers from a public place, most commonly a street, while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street, but also other public places such as parks, beaches, etc. The street prostitute is often dressed in a...
– streetwalker – stretching (sexology) – string bondage – strip poker
Strip poker
Strip poker is a party game and a variation of the traditional poker where players remove clothing when they lose a round. Any form of poker can be adapted to a strip form; however, it is usually played with simple variants with few betting rounds, like five card draw...
– strip pub – strip search
Strip search
A strip search is the stripping of a person to check for weapons or other contraband.-Legality of strip searches:...
– stripping
Striptease
A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner...
– stripping fetishism – striptease
Striptease
A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner...
– stroma of ovary
Stroma of ovary
The stroma of the ovary is a peculiar soft tissue, abundantly supplied with blood vessels, consisting for the most part of spindle-shaped cells with a small amount of ordinary connective tissue....
– stuffing (fetish) – stuffing (sexology) – subbing – subcutaneous tissue of penis
Subcutaneous tissue of penis
The subcutaneous tissue of penis is continuous above with the fascia of Scarpa, and below with the dartos tunic of the scrotum and the fascia of Colles.It is sometimes just called the "dartos layer"....
– subfertility – subincision
Subincision
Penile subincision is a form of body modification consisting of a urethrotomy, in which the underside of the penis is incised and the urethra slit open lengthwise, from the urethral opening toward the base...
– sublimation
Sublimation (psychology)
In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defence mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are consciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behaviour, possibly converting the initial impulse in the long term...
– subliminal tape – submission – submission (BDSM) – submissive (BDSM) – subpersonality
Subpersonality
A subpersonality is, in transpersonal psychology, a personality mode that kicks in to allow a person to cope with certain types of psychosocial situations...
– succubus
Succubus
In folklore traced back to medieval legend, a succubus is a female demon appearing in dreams who takes the form of a human woman in order to seduce men, usually through sexual intercourse. The male counterpart is the incubus...
– sugar daddy – supernumerary nipple
Supernumerary nipple
A supernumerary nipple is an additional nipple occurring in mammals, including humans...
– support group
Support group
In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic...
– surface epithelial-stromal tumor
Surface epithelial-stromal tumor
Surface epithelial-stromal tumors are a class of ovarian neoplasms that may be benign or malignant. Neoplasms in this group are thought to be derived from the ovarian surface epithelium or from ectopic endometrial or Fallopian tube tissue. This group of tumors accounts for the majority of all...
– surgical fetishism – surrendered wife
Surrendered wife
The Surrendered Wives movement is inspired by a book, The Surrendered Wife by Laura Doyle. Its supporters suggest that women should relinquish what Doyle deems to be inappropriate control of their husbands and focus on their own happiness in order to bring romance back to their relationship.-...
– surrogate mother – suspension
Suspension bondage
Suspension bondage is a form of sexual bondage where a bound person is hung from one or more overhead suspension points. Suspension bondage is considered to carry a higher risk than other forms of sexual bondage.- Stimulation :...
– suspensory ligament of the ovary
Suspensory ligament of the ovary
The suspensory ligament of the ovary, also infundibulopelvic ligament , is a fold of peritoneum that extends out from the ovary to the wall of the pelvis....
– suspensory ligament of the penis
Suspensory ligament of the penis
In males, the suspensory ligament of the penis is attached to the pubic symphysis, which holds the penis close to the pubic bone and supports it when erect....
– suttee – suturing (sexology) – swara
Swara (custom)
Swara is a child marriage custom in tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. This custom is tied to blood feuds among the different tribes and clans where the young girls are forcibly married to the members of different clans in order to resolve the feuds...
– swayamvara
Swayamvara
Swayamvara , in ancient India, was a practice of choosing a husband, from among a list of suitors, by a girl of marriageable age. Swayam in Sanskrit means self and vara means choice or desire ....
– sweetheart
Term of endearment
A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address and/or describe a person, animal or inanimate object for which the speaker feels love or affection...
– sweetheart scam – swimsuit fetishism – swing (sexology) – swing club – swinger
Swinging
Swinging or partner swapping is a non-monogamous behavior, in which both partners in a committed relationship agree, as a couple, for both partners to engage in sexual activities with other couples as a recreational or social activity...
– swinging
Swinging
Swinging or partner swapping is a non-monogamous behavior, in which both partners in a committed relationship agree, as a couple, for both partners to engage in sexual activities with other couples as a recreational or social activity...
– swinging both ways – swish
Swish (slang)
Swish is a slang term usually used derogatorily for effeminate behaviour and interests , emphasized and sanctioned in pre-Stonewall gay male communities. This behaviour is also described as being nelly. Wentworth and Flexner define swish as a noun meaning "a male homosexual, esp...
– switch (BDSM)
Switch (BDSM)
In BDSM, a switch is someone who participates in BDSM activities sometimes as a top and other times as a bottom or sometimes as a dominant and other times as a submissive. Partners may switch roles based on mood, desire, or to allow each partner to experience their preferred activity...
– switch (sexuality) – sworn virgin
Sworn virgin
A sworn virgin is a person who decides to live in the manner of the opposite sex while adamantly refusing ever to have sexual relations with another. The term itself can be misleading — "swearing" virginity can be a public or private act, and it does not even have to be a conscious decision...
– Swyer syndrome
Swyer syndrome
Swyer syndrome, or XY gonadal dysgenesis, is a type of hypogonadism in a person whose karyotype is 46,XY. The person is externally female with streak gonads, and left untreated, will not experience puberty...
– Sybian
Sybian
A Sybian , or Sybian saddle, is a masturbation device designed for use by females, developed by dance instructor Dave Lampert in the 1980s. It consists of a saddle-like seat containing an electric motor connected to a rod that protrudes from a hole in the center. Various attachments can be added...
– sympathetic nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system
The sympathetic nervous system is one of the three parts of the autonomic nervous system, along with the enteric and parasympathetic systems. Its general action is to mobilize the body's nervous system fight-or-flight response...
– symphorophilia
Symphorophilia
Symphorophilia is a paraphilia in which sexual arousal hinges on staging and watching a disaster such as a fire or traffic accidents.-In popular culture:...
– symphysis pubis dysfunction
Symphysis pubis dysfunction
Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction is most commonly associated with pregnancy and childbirth. It is a condition that causes excessive movement of the pubic symphysis, either anterior or lateral, as well as associated pain, possibly because of a misalignment of the pelvis. SPD is a dysfunction that is...
– symptothermal method – synechial membrane
Synechial membrane
The synechial membrane is the preputial adhesions .- External links :***...
– syphilis
Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. The primary route of transmission is through sexual contact; however, it may also be transmitted from mother to fetus during pregnancy or at birth, resulting in congenital syphilis...
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T
T-girl – tabooTaboo
A taboo is a strong social prohibition relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and or forbidden based on moral judgment, religious beliefs and or scientific consensus. Breaking the taboo is usually considered objectionable or abhorrent by society...
– taboo breaking – talisman
Amulet
An amulet, similar to a talisman , is any object intended to bring good luck or protection to its owner.Potential amulets include gems, especially engraved gems, statues, coins, drawings, pendants, rings, plants and animals; even words said in certain occasions—for example: vade retro satana—, to...
– talking dirty – Tamakeri
Tamakeri
Tamakeri is a sexual fetish and sub-genre in which a female kicks, knees, punches, grabs or twists a man's testicles. This act is shown in some Japanese horror films, such as Busted Balls....
– Tamil marriage customs – tampon
Tampon
A tampon is a mass of cotton or rayon or a mixture of the two inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb bodilyfluid. The most common type in daily use is designed to be inserted into the vagina during menstruation to absorb the flow of menstrual fluid...
– Tanner stage
Tanner stage
The Tanner scale is a scale of physical development in children, adolescents and adults. The scale defines physical measurements of development based on external primary and secondary sex characteristics, such as the size of the breasts, genitalia, and development of pubic hair, and was first...
– Tantra
Tantra
Tantra , anglicised tantricism or tantrism or tantram, is the name scholars give to an inter-religious spiritual movement that arose in medieval India, expressed in scriptures ....
– Tantric massage – tantric sex – Taoist sexual practices
Taoist sexual practices
Taoist sexual practices , literally "the bedroom arts", are the way some Taoists practiced sex. These practices were also known as "Joining Energy" or "The Joining of the Essences"...
– taphephilia – tart card
Tart card
Tart cards are cards placed in phone booths to advertise the services of call girls. They are most common in London but can be found elsewhere in the United Kingdom. They are typically placed in phone booths by professional "carders", who tour the phone booths, replacing cards which have been...
– tattooing – tea room – teabagging
Teabagging
To tea bag is a slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth of a sexual partner or onto the face or head of another person. The practice resembles dipping a tea bag into a cup of tea when it is done in a repeated in-and-out motion...
– tearoom – teasing (sexology) – technical virginity – teenage fatherhood – teenage pregnancy
Teenage pregnancy
Teenage pregnancy is a pregnancy of a female under the age of 20 when the pregnancy ends. It generally refers to a female who is unmarried and usually refers to an unplanned pregnancy...
– teledildonics
Teledildonics
Teledildonics are electronic sex toys that can be controlled by a computer to reach orgasm. Promoters of these devices have claimed since the 1980s they are the "next big thing" in cybersex technology...
– telegony
Telegony
The Telegony is a lost ancient Greek epic poem about Telegonus, son of Odysseus by Circe. His name is indicative of his birth on Aeaea, far from Odysseus' home of Ithaca. It was part of the Epic Cycle of poems that recounted the myths not only of the Trojan War but also of the events that led up...
– teleiophilia – telekura
Telekura
', an abbreviation for , are telephone-based dating services originating in Japan.In the original incarnation of the telephone club, popular in the mid-1990s, a male client would pay a fee to enter a booth with a phone. The phone would then ring with calls from women or girls willing to go on a...
– telephone scatologia – telephone scatophilia – telephone sex – telephonicophilia – tellak – temple prostitute – temporal lobe trauma – temporary marriage – teratophilia – termination of pregnancy – territorial marking – terror play – testes – testicle
Testicle
The testicle is the male gonad in animals. Like the ovaries to which they are homologous, testes are components of both the reproductive system and the endocrine system...
– testicular cancer
Testicular cancer
Testicular cancer is cancer that develops in the testicles, a part of the male reproductive system.In the United States, between 7,500 and 8,000 diagnoses of testicular cancer are made each year. In the UK, approximately 2,000 men are diagnosed each year. Over his lifetime, a man's risk of...
– testicular feminization – testicular torsion
Testicular torsion
Testicular torsion is when the spermatic cord to a testicle twists, cutting off the blood supply. The most common symptom is acute testicular pain and the most common underlying cause is a congenital malformation known as a "bell-clapper deformity". The diagnosis is often made clinically but if it...
– testicular-feminizing syndrome – testis – testosterone
Testosterone
Testosterone is a steroid hormone from the androgen group and is found in mammals, reptiles, birds, and other vertebrates. In mammals, testosterone is primarily secreted in the testes of males and the ovaries of females, although small amounts are also secreted by the adrenal glands...
– text picture - thalpotentiginy
Thalpotentiginy
Thalpotentiginy is a psychological term applied to sexual arousal from heat or even warm weather. It is derived from the Greek thalpos meaning "warmth" and the Latin tentigo meaning "lust, or passion."...
– theca externa
Theca externa
The theca externa is the outer layers of the theca folliculi. They contain smooth muscle and abundant collagen. During ovulation, the surge in luteinizing hormone increases cAMP which increases progesterone and PGF2α production. The PGF2α induces the contraction of the smooth muscle cells of the...
– theca folliculi – theca interna
Theca interna
Theca interna cells express receptors for luteinizing hormone to produce androstenedione, which via a few steps, gives the granulosa the precursor for estrogen manufacturing....
– thecoma
Thecoma
Thecomas or theca cell tumors are benign ovarian neoplasms composed only of theca cells. Histogenetically they are classified as sex cord-stromal tumours....
– thelarche
Thelarche
Thelarche is the onset of secondary breast development, usually occurring at the beginning of puberty in girls. Its etymology is from Greek θηλή [tʰelḗ], “nipple” and ἀρχή [arkʰḗ], “beginning, onset”. Thelarche is usually noticed as a firm, tender lump directly under the centre of the nipple...
– third sex – third-sexer – thong underwear – three letters and six etiquettes – three-legged bloomers – threesome
Threesome
A threesome is a group of three engaged in the same activity. In relation to a sexual activity a threesome refer to the activity involving three people of any gender or sexual orientation...
– threshold
Threshold
-Film and television:* Threshold * Threshold , an adaptation of the 1958 science fiction film It! The Terror from Beyond Space* Threshold , an American science fiction drama series...
– thrush (infection) – tickling
Tickling
Tickling is the act of touching a part of the body so as to cause involuntary twitching movements and/or laughter. The word evolved from the Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly. The idiom tickled pink means to be pleased or delighted.In 1897, psychologists G...
– tie and tease
Tie and tease
Tie and tease refers to the BDSM sexual activity that involves tying up a partner and bringing him or her to a heightened state of sexual arousal but controlling whether and when to allow them to orgasm, which might or might not be decided in advance...
– tightlacing
Tightlacing
Tightlacing is the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset to achieve extreme modifications to the figure and posture and experience the sensations of a very tight corset. Those who practice tightlacing are called tightlacers...
– tit wank – titty fuck
Mammary intercourse
Mammary intercourse describes a sex act, performed as foreplay or as non-penetrative sex, that involves the stimulation of the male penis by the female breasts. Commonly, this sex act involves the man placing his penis in the woman's cleavage and thrusting between her breasts, while the breasts are...
– tomboy
Tomboy
A tomboy is a girl who exhibits characteristics or behaviors considered typical of the gender role of a boy, including the wearing of typically masculine-oriented clothes and engaging in games and activities that are often physical in nature, and which are considered in many cultures to be the...
– tongzhi (sexuality) – top (BDSM)
Top (BDSM)
In BDSM, a top or dominant is the partner in a BDSM relationship or in a BDSM scene who takes the active or controlling role over that of the bottom or submissive partner....
– top (sex) – topping – torture (sexology) – tossed salad – total enclosure fetishism – toucherism – tourniquet
Tourniquet
An emergency tourniquet is a tightly tied band applied around a body part sometimes used in an attempt to stop severe traumatic bleeding. Tourniquets are also used during venipuncture and other medical procedures. Severe bleeding means the loss of more than 1,000 ml of blood. This flow of blood...
– toxic shock syndrome
Toxic shock syndrome
Toxic shock syndrome is a potentially fatal illness caused by a bacterial toxin. Different bacterial toxins may cause toxic shock syndrome, depending on the situation. The causative bacteria include Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes...
– tracheal shave – traditional marriage
Opponents of same-sex marriage in the United States
Opponents of same-sex marriage in the United States include organizations and individuals who seek to prevent or reverse the legalization of same-sex marriage...
– trampling
Trampling
Trampling refers to the BDSM sexual activity that involves being trampled underfoot by another person or persons. Trampling is common enough to support a sub-genre of trampling pornography....
– tranny
Transgender
Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....
– tranny chaser – transactional sex
Transactional sex
Transactional sexual relationships are sexual relationships where the giving of gifts or services is an important factor. Transactional sex relationships are distinct from other kinds of prostitution, in that the transactional sex provides only a portion of the income of the person providing the sex...
– transactional sexual relationship – transexualism – transgender
Transgender
Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....
– transition nuclear protein
Transition nuclear protein
Transition nuclear proteins are proteins that are involved in the packaging of sperm nuclear DNA during spermiogenesis. They take the place of histones associated with the sperm DNA, and are subsequently themselves replaced by protamines.-See also:...
– transitioning (transgender)
Transitioning (transgender)
Transitioning is the process of changing one's gender presentation to accord with one's internal sense of one's gender - the idea of what it means to be a man or woman...
– transman – transscrotal piercing
Transscrotal piercing
A transscrotal piercing is a body piercing that travels through the scrotum from front to back, or from side to side.- Procedure :This male genital piercing is an extremely advanced procedure, and is not done using a needle...
– transsexual – transsexualism
Transsexualism
Transsexualism is an individual's identification with a gender inconsistent or not culturally associated with their biological sex. Simply put, it defines a person whose biological birth sex conflicts with their psychological gender...
– transurethral needle ablation of the prostate
Transurethral needle ablation of the prostate
Transurethral needle ablation is a technique that uses low energy radio frequency energy delivered through two needles to ablate excess prostate tissue. It can be done with a local anesthetic on an outpatient basis...
– transurethral resection of the prostate
Transurethral resection of the prostate
Transurethral resection of the prostate is a urological operation. It is used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia . As the name indicates, it is performed by visualising the prostate through the urethra and removing tissue by electrocautery or sharp dissection...
– transvestic fetishism
Transvestic fetishism
Transvestic fetishism is having a sexual or erotic interest in cross-dressing. It differs from cross-dressing for entertainment or other purposes that do not involve sexual arousal and is categorized as a paraphilia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association...
– transvestism
Transvestism
Transvestism is the practice of cross-dressing, which is wearing clothing traditionally associated with the opposite sex. Transvestite refers to a person who cross-dresses; however, the word often has additional connotations. -History:Although the word transvestism was coined as late as the 1910s,...
– transvestite
Transvestism
Transvestism is the practice of cross-dressing, which is wearing clothing traditionally associated with the opposite sex. Transvestite refers to a person who cross-dresses; however, the word often has additional connotations. -History:Although the word transvestism was coined as late as the 1910s,...
– transvestitism – transvestophilia – transwoman – traumatic masturbatory syndrome – Treponema pallidum
Treponema pallidum
Treponema pallidum is a species of spirochaete bacterium with subspecies that cause treponemal diseases such as syphilis, bejel, pinta and yaws. The treponemes have a cytoplasmic and outer membrane...
– trial marriage – trial separation
Trial separation
A trial separation is an informal splitting of a couple. Unlike legal separation, this is purely a personal arrangement and does not require legal proceedings...
– triangle piercing
Triangle piercing
A triangle piercing is one of several forms of female genital piercing. The piercing passes from side to side, beneath the base of the clitoral hood tissue where it meets the inner labia and under the clitoris. In addition to serving as adornment, it increases the intensity of sexual stimulation,...
– triangular theory of love
Triangular theory of love
The triangular theory of love is a theory of love developed by psychologist Robert Sternberg. In the context of interpersonal relationships, 'the three components of love, according to the triangular theory, are an intimacy component, a passion component, and a decision/commitment...
– tribadism
Tribadism
Tribadism or tribbing, commonly known by its scissoring position, is a form of non-penetrative sex in which a woman rubs her vulva against her partner's body for sexual stimulation. This may involve female-to-female genital contact or a female rubbing her vulva against her partner's thigh, stomach,...
– Trichomonas vaginalis
Trichomonas vaginalis
Trichomonas vaginalis is an anaerobic, flagellated protozoan, a form of microorganism. The parasitic microorganism is the causative agent of trichomoniasis, and is the most common pathogenic protozoan infection of humans in industrialized countries. Infection rates between men and women are the...
– Trichomoniasis
Trichomoniasis
Trichomoniasis, sometimes referred to as "trich", is a common cause of vaginitis. It is a sexually transmitted disease, and is caused by the single-celled protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis producing mechanical stress on host cells and then ingesting cell fragments after cell death...
– trichophilia
Trichophilia
Trichophilia, hair partialism, or hair fetishism is a paraphilia in which one becomes sexually aroused by, or is extremely fond of, human hair; commonly head hair....
– triple cock cage – triple cock ring – triple penetration – triple-X syndrome – tripsolagnia – troilism
Troilism
Troilism refers to the erotic interest in watching one’s romantic partner engage in sexual behavior with a third party, sometimes while hidden. A common example is a husband watching his wife have intercourse with another man. This scenario is part of the swinger lifestyle, and varies depending...
– Trokosi
Ritual servitude
Ritual servitude is a practice in Ghana, Togo, and Benin where traditional religious shrines take human beings, usually young virgin girls, in payment for services or in religious atonement for alleged misdeeds of a family member—almost always a female...
– trophy wife
Trophy wife
Trophy wife is an expression used to describe a wife, usually young and attractive, who is regarded as a status symbol for the husband, who is often older and affluent.-History:The term's etymological origins are disputed...
– troubadour
Troubadour
A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....
– true hermaphroditism
True hermaphroditism
True hermaphroditism is a medical term for an intersex condition in which an individual is born with ovarian and testicular tissue.There may be an ovary on one side and a testis on the other, but more commonly one or both gonads is an ovotestis containing both types of tissue.It is rare—so...
– True Love Waits
True Love Waits
True Love Waits is an international Christian group that promotes sexual abstinence outside of marriage for teenagers and college students. TLW was created in April, 1993 by the Southern Baptists, and is sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources...
– tubal ligation
Tubal ligation
Tubal ligation or tubectomy is a surgical procedure for sterilization in which a woman's fallopian tubes are clamped and blocked, or severed and sealed, either method of which prevents eggs from reaching the uterus for fertilization...
– tubal reversal
Tubal reversal
Tubal reversal, also called tubal sterilization reversal or tubal ligation reversal, is a surgical procedure that attempts to restore fertility to women after a tubal ligation...
– tubal sterilization – tubuli seminiferi recti
Tubuli seminiferi recti
The tubuli seminiferi recti is a structure in the testicle connecting the convoluted region of the seminiferous tubule to the rete testis, although the tubuli recti has a different appearance distinguishing it from these two structures.They enter the fibrous tissue of the mediastinum,...
– TUNA
Tuna
Tuna is a salt water fish from the family Scombridae, mostly in the genus Thunnus. Tuna are fast swimmers, and some species are capable of speeds of . Unlike most fish, which have white flesh, the muscle tissue of tuna ranges from pink to dark red. The red coloration derives from myoglobin, an...
– tunica albuginea – tunica albuginea (ovaries)
Tunica albuginea (ovaries)
On the surface of the ovary this tissue is much condensed, and forms a layer, the tunica albuginea, composed of short connective-tissue fibers, with fusiform cells between them.-External links:...
– tunica albuginea (penis)
Tunica albuginea (penis)
The tunica albuginea is the fibrous envelope of the corpora cavernosa penis. It consists of approximately 5% elastin, an extensible tissue that is primarily made up of the amino acids glycine, valine, alanine, and proline...
– tunica albuginea (testicles)
Tunica albuginea (testicles)
The Tunica Albuginea is the fibrous covering of the testis.It is a dense blue-white membrane, composed of bundles of white fibrous tissue which interlace in every direction....
– tunica vaginalis
Tunica vaginalis
The tunica vaginalis is the serous covering of the testis.It is a pouch of serous membrane, derived from the processus vaginalis of the peritoneum, which in the fetus preceded the descent of the testis from the abdomen into the scrotum....
– tunica vasculosa testis
Tunica vasculosa testis
The tunica vasculosa is the vascular layer of the testis, consisting of a plexus of bloodvessels, held together by delicate areolar tissue.It clothes the inner surface of the tunica albuginea and the different septa in the interior of the gland, and therefore forms an internal investment to all the...
– tunnel of love
Tunnel of love
Tunnel of love may refer to:* Tunnel of love , an amusement park boat ride* The Tunnel of Love, a 1958 film starring Doris Day* The Tunnel of Love, a 1954 novel by Peter De Vries...
– Tuppy Owens
Tuppy Owens
Tuppy Owens is a British sex therapist, consultant, campaigner, and writer.Tuppy Owens was born in Cambridge. She gained a degree in zoology from Exeter University, and then worked in ecology in Africa and Trinidad during three years...
– turn-off – turn-on
Turn-On
Turn-On is an American sketch comedy series that aired on ABC in February 1969. Only one episode was shown and the show is considered one of the most infamous flops in TV history....
– Turner's syndrome – TURPS
Turps
Turps may refer to several things, primarily paint solvents:* Turpentine, or wood turpentine, the organic solvent derived from tree resin; it is a traditional solvent used by painters...
– twins
TWINS
Two Wide-Angle Imaging Neutral-Atom Spectrometers are a pair of NASA instruments aboard two United States National Reconnaissance Office satellites in Molniya orbits. TWINS was designed to provide stereo images of the Earth's ring current. The first instrument, TWINS-1, was launched aboard USA-184...
– two type theory of transsexuality – two-spirit
Two-Spirit
Two-Spirit People , is an English term that emerged in 1990 out of the third annual inter-tribal Native American/First Nations gay/lesbian American conference in Winnipeg. It describes Indigenous North Americans who fulfill one of many mixed gender roles found traditionally among many Native...
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Ufficiali di Notte – umchwashoUmchwasho
Umchwasho is a traditional chastity rite in Swaziland. While the rite is active, unmarried women are not allowed to have sexual relations and must wear a traditional set of tassels. The tassels are usually made of wool and are worn around the neck like a scarf. Girls aged 18 and under must wear...
– undescended testicle – undinism – uniform fetish – unintended pregnancy
Unintended pregnancy
Unintended pregnancies are those in which conception was not intended by the female sexual partner. Worldwide, 38% of pregnancies were unintended in 1999 . Unintended pregnancies are the primary cause of induced abortion, resulting in about 42 million induced abortions per year...
– unitypic – Universal Declaration of Sexual Rights – unnatural act
Unnatural act
Unnatural act is the term, once common in legal parlance, for certain sex acts, including anal sex, oral sex, other non-procreative sexual practices, incest, or procreative sexual acts in the wrong position or without procreative intent....
– unnatural sex – unprotected sex – unrequited love
Unrequited love
Unrequited love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such, even though reciprocation is usually deeply desired. The beloved may or may not be aware of the admirer's deep affections...
– unusual sex acts – uranism – Ureaplasma urealyticum
Ureaplasma urealyticum
Ureaplasma urealyticum is a bacterium belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. Its type strain is T960.-Clinical significance:U. urealyticum is part of the normal genital flora of both men and women...
– ureter
Ureter
In human anatomy, the ureters are muscular tubes that propel urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder. In the adult, the ureters are usually long and ~3-4 mm in diameter....
– urethra
Urethra
In anatomy, the urethra is a tube that connects the urinary bladder to the genitals for the removal of fluids out of the body. In males, the urethra travels through the penis, and carries semen as well as urine...
– Urethral intercourse
Urethral intercourse
Urethral intercourse refers to the penetration of the female urethra by an object such as a penis or finger. It is not to be confused with urethral sounding, the act of inserting a specialized medical tool into the urethra as a form of sexual or fetishistic activity.The untrained insertion of...
- urethral catheterization – urethral crest
Urethral crest
The urethal crest is an anatomical feature present in the urinary system of both males and females.In males, the urethral crest is known as the crista urethralis masculinae, or the crista phallica,...
– urethral foreign body insertion – urethral self-instrumentation – urethral sounding
Urethral sounding
Sounding or urethral sounding is the medical use of probes called sounds to increase the inner diameter of the urethra and to locate obstructions in it...
– urethral sponge
Urethral sponge
The urethral sponge is a spongy cushion of tissue, found in the lower genital area of women, that sits against both the pubic bone and vaginal wall, and surrounds the urethra.-Functions:...
– urethral stricture
Urethral stricture
A urethral stricture is a narrowing of the urethra caused by injury or disease such as urinary tract infections or other forms of urethritis.-Signs and symptoms:...
– urethralism
Urethralism
Urethralism is sexual activity that involves sexual stimulation of the urethra. This may include paraphiliac activities such as the use of urethral sounding and urethral catheterization for sexual purposes....
– urethroplasty
Urethroplasty
A urethroplasty is an operation for the repair of an injury or a defect in the walls of the urethra. Commonly, this involves removal and end-to-end anastomosis for shorter strictures or grafting using buccal mucosa for longer ones....
– urethrorectal fistula – urethrotome – urethrotomy
Urethrotomy
A urethrotomy is an operation which involves incision of the urethra, especially for relief of a stricture. It is most often performed in the outpatient setting, with the patient being discharged from the hospital or surgery center within six hours from the procedure's inception.Urethrotomy is a...
– 'urfi marriage
Nikah urfi
Nikah 'urfi is a kind of Muslim marriage. It is similar to the Nikah ceremony. An 'urfi marriage is a marriage without an official contract. Couples repeat the words, "We got married" and pledge commitment before God. Usually a paper, stating that the two are married, is written and two witnesses...
– urfi marriage – urinary fistula – urinary incontinence
Urinary incontinence
Urinary incontinence is any involuntary leakage of urine. It is a common and distressing problem, which may have a profound impact on quality of life. Urinary incontinence almost always results from an underlying treatable medical condition but is under-reported to medical practitioners...
– urinary tract infection
Urinary tract infection
A urinary tract infection is a bacterial infection that affects any part of the urinary tract. Symptoms include frequent feeling and/or need to urinate, pain during urination, and cloudy urine. The main causal agent is Escherichia coli...
– urine
Urine
Urine is a typically sterile liquid by-product of the body that is secreted by the kidneys through a process called urination and excreted through the urethra. Cellular metabolism generates numerous by-products, many rich in nitrogen, that require elimination from the bloodstream...
– urningism – urogenital – urogenital diaphragm
Urogenital diaphragm
Older texts have asserted the existence of an urogenital diaphragm, also called the triangular ligament, which was described as a layer of the pelvis that separates the deep perineal sac from the upper pelvis, lying between the inferior fascia of the urogenital diaphragm and superior fascia of the...
– urogenital folds – urogenital sinus
Urogenital sinus
The definitive urogenital sinus is a part of the human body only present in the development of the urinary and reproductive organs...
– urolagnia
Urolagnia
Urolagnia is a paraphilia in which sexual excitement is associated with the sight or thought of urine or urination. The term has origins in the Greek Language .Those who enjoy urolagnia may enjoy urinating on another person or persons, or being urinated upon...
– urology
Urology
Urology is the medical and surgical specialty that focuses on the urinary tracts of males and females, and on the reproductive system of males. Medical professionals specializing in the field of urology are called urologists and are trained to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with urological...
– urophilia – urtication – usus marriage – uterine cancer
Uterine cancer
The term uterine cancer may refer to any of several different types of cancer which occur in the uterus, namely:*Uterine sarcomas: sarcomas of the myometrium, or muscular layer of the uterus, are most commonly leiomyosarcomas.*Endometrial cancer:...
– uterine horns
Uterine horns
The uterine horns are the points where the uterus and the fallopian tubes meet. They are one of the points of attachment for the round ligament of uterus ....
– uterine orgasm – uterus
Uterus
The uterus or womb is a major female hormone-responsive reproductive sex organ of most mammals including humans. One end, the cervix, opens into the vagina, while the other is connected to one or both fallopian tubes, depending on the species...
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vacrack – vacuum bedVacuum bed
A vacuum bed is a device sometimes used in BDSM play.A person is placed in a latex envelope spanned by a frame and a suction pump or floor vacuum removes most of the air in the envelope...
– vagina
Vagina
The vagina is a fibromuscular tubular tract leading from the uterus to the exterior of the body in female placental mammals and marsupials, or to the cloaca in female birds, monotremes, and some reptiles. Female insects and other invertebrates also have a vagina, which is the terminal part of the...
– vagina dentata
Vagina dentata
Vagina dentata is Latin for toothed vagina. Various cultures have folk tales about women with toothed vaginas, frequently told as cautionary tales warning of the dangers of sex with strange women and to discourage the act of rape....
– vagina envy – vagina masculina – The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the Off Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at AFRICA in 1996. Ensler originally starred in the production which was produced by David Stone, Nina Essman, Dan Markley, The Araca Group, Willa Shalit, Mike Skipper...
– vaginal atresia
Vaginal atresia
Vaginal Atresia is a birth defect or congenital abnormality of the female genitourinary system that manifests itself in the absence of a vagina , or a deformed and nonfunctional vagina ....
– vaginal barbell – vaginal bleeding
Vaginal bleeding
Vaginal bleeding refers to bleeding in females that is either a physiologic response during the non-conceptional menstrual cycle or caused by hormonal or organic problems of the reproductive system. Vaginal bleeding may occur at any age, but always needs investigation when encountered in female...
– vaginal candidiasis – vaginal contraction
Vaginal contraction
Vaginal contraction is a contraction of the pelvic muscles surrounding the vagina, which are most commonly associated with sexual intercourse and orgasm...
– vaginal deodorant
Vaginal deodorant
Vaginal deodorant is a hygiene product designed to take away the smell of the vagina. They are commonly found in sprays, suppositories and wipes.-External links:*...
– vaginal dilation – vaginal dilator – vaginal dryness – vaginal examination – vaginal flatulence
Vaginal flatulence
Vaginal flatulence is an emission or expulsion of air from the vagina that may occur during or after sexual intercourse or during other sexual acts, stretching or exercise. The sound is somewhat comparable to flatulence from the anus but does not involve waste gases and thus often has no specific...
– vaginal grip – vaginal fornix
Vaginal fornix
The fornices of the vagina are the deepest portions of the vagina, extending into the recesses created by the vaginal portion of cervix. The word 'fornix' is Latin for 'arch'....
– vaginal lubrication
Vaginal lubrication
Vaginal lubrication is a lubricating fluid that is naturally produced in a woman's vagina. Vaginal lubrication or moistness is present at all times, but production increases significantly during a woman's sexual arousal in anticipation of sexual intercourse...
– vaginal mucus
Vaginal mucus
Vaginal mucus is a natural substance occurring within the vagina, particularly the cervix, that maintains a certain level of moisture at all times....
– vaginal orgasm – vaginal orifice
Vaginal orifice
The vaginal orifice is a median slit below and behind the opening of the urethra; its size varies inversely with that of the hymen.-External links: - "The Female Perineum: The Vulva"...
– vaginal photoplethysmography – vaginal prolapse
Vaginal prolapse
Female genital prolapse is characterized by a portion of the vaginal canal protruding from the opening of the vagina...
– vaginal ring
Vaginal ring
Vaginal rings are polymeric drug delivery devices designed to provide controlled release of drugs for intravaginal administration over extended periods of time. The ring is inserted into the vagina and provides contraception protection...
– vaginal secretion – vaginal sex – vaginal tightening
Vaginal tightening
Vaginal tightening involves several methods that are each effective in their own way.* Kegel Exercise* Vaginoplasty - a vagina reconstruction surgery.* Vaginal tightening creams or gels...
– vaginismus
Vaginismus
Vaginismus, sometimes anglicized vaginism, is the German name for a condition which affects a woman's ability to engage in any form of vaginal penetration, including sexual intercourse, insertion of tampons and/or menstrual cups, and the penetration involved in gynecological examinations...
– vaginitis
Vaginitis
Vaginitis is an inflammation of the vagina. It can result in discharge, itching and pain, and is often associated with an irritation or infection of the vulva. It is usually due to infection. The three main kinds of vaginitis are bacterial vaginosis , vaginal candidiasis, and trichomoniasis. A...
– vaginoplasty
Vaginoplasty
thumb|right|300px|Vaginoplasty: the pre-operative aspect , and the post-operative aspect of a [[Labiaplasty|labial reduction]].Vaginoplasty is a reconstructive plastic surgery procedure for correcting the defects and deformities of the vaginal canal and its mucous membrane, and of vulvo-vaginal...
– vampirism – Theodor Hendrik van de Velde – vandalized lovemap – vani
Vani (custom)
Vani is a child marriage custom in tribal areas of Pakistan. Besides tribal areas, it is widely followed in Punjab in Pakistan. This custom is tied to blood feuds among the different tribes and clans where the young girls are forcibly married to the members of different clans in order to resolve...
– varicocele
Varicocele
Varicocele , also known as varicoscele or varicose seal, is an abnormal enlargement of the vein that is in the scrotum draining the testicles. The testicular blood vessels originate in the abdomen and course down through the inguinal canal as part of the spermatic cord on their way to the testis...
– varicocelectomy – vas deferens
Vas deferens
The vas deferens , also called ductus deferens, , is part of the male anatomy of many vertebrates; they transport sperm from the epididymis in anticipation of ejaculation....
– vasectomy
Vasectomy
Vasectomy is a surgical procedure for male sterilization and/or permanent birth control. During the procedure, the vasa deferentia of a man are severed, and then tied/sealed in a manner such to prevent sperm from entering into the seminal stream...
– vasopressin
Vasopressin
Arginine vasopressin , also known as vasopressin, argipressin or antidiuretic hormone , is a neurohypophysial hormone found in most mammals, including humans. Vasopressin is a peptide hormone that controls the reabsorption of molecules in the tubules of the kidneys by affecting the tissue's...
– Vatasyana – VCH
Clitoral hood piercing
A clitoral hood piercing is a female genital piercing through the clitoral hood surrounding the clitoris. There are two main types of hood piercing, the vertical clitoral hood piercing and the horizontal clitoral hood piercing. As the name indicates, the difference is in the direction the piercing...
– VD
Sexually transmitted disease
Sexually transmitted disease , also known as a sexually transmitted infection or venereal disease , is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of human sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex...
– VD clinic – veil
Veil
A veil is an article of clothing, worn almost exclusively by women, that is intended to cover some part of the head or face.One view is that as a religious item, it is intended to show honor to an object or space...
– vena amoris
Vena amoris
Vena amoris is a Latin name meaning, literally, "vein of love". Traditional belief established that this vein ran directly from the heart to the fourth finger of the left hand. This theory has been cited in western cultures as one of the reasons the engagement ring and/or wedding ring was placed...
– venereal disease – venereology
Venereology
Venereology is a studio album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It was the first of five Merzbow albums released by the American heavy metal label Relapse Records, under their Release Entertainment imprint, and as such was responsible for bringing Merzbow's work to a much wider audience in...
– Venus (goddess) – Venus in Furs
Venus in Furs
Venus in Furs is a novella by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the best known of his works. The novel was part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain. Venus in Furs was part of Love, the first volume of the series...
– vertical clitoral hood piercing – vertigo
Vertigo (medical)
Vertigo is a type of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary. The symptoms are due to a dysfunction of the vestibular system in the inner ear...
– vesiculae seminales – vestibular bulbs
Vestibular bulbs
The vestibular bulbs, also known as the clitoral bulbs, are aggregations of erectile tissue that are an internal part of the clitoris. They can also be found throughout the vestibule: next to the clitoral body, clitoral crura, urethra, urethral sponge, and vagina.They are to the left and right of...
– vestibular glands – viability
Viability
Viable or viability is the ability of a thing to maintain itself or recover its potentialities.Viable or viability may also refer to:...
– Viagra – vibrator – vicarphilia – victimless crime – Victorianism
Victorianism
Victorianism is the name given to the attitudes, art, and culture of the later two-thirds of the 19th century. This usage is strong within social history and the study of literature, less so in philosophy. Many disciplines do not use the term, but instead prefer Victorian Era, or simply "Late 19th...
– vincilagnia – violent pornography
Violent Pornography
"Violent Pornography" is a promo single by System of a Down. It's the 7th track on the album Mezmerize.-External links:*...
– Violet wand
Violet wand
Violet wands are modern electrical sexual or kink stimulation toys. They are used for the application of low current, high voltage , high-frequency, electricity to the body...
– virgin – virginity
Virginity
Virginity refers to the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. There are cultural and religious traditions which place special value and significance on this state, especially in the case of unmarried females, associated with notions of personal purity, honor and worth...
– virginity pledge
Virginity pledge
Virginity pledges are commitments made by teenagers and young adults to refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage.They are most common in the United States, especially among Catholic and Evangelical Christian denominations....
– virginity test
Virginity test
A virginity test is the practice and process of determining whether a female is a virgin, ie., whether she has engaged in sexual intercourse. The test involves an inspection of a female's hymen, on the assumption that her hymen can only be torn as a result of sexual intercourse.Virginity testing is...
– virginity testing – virility
Virility
Virility refers to any of a wide range of masculine characteristics viewed positively. It is not applicable to women or to negative characteristics. The Oxford English Dictionary says virile is "marked by strength or force." Virility is commonly associated with vigour, health, sturdiness, and...
– virilization
Virilization
In biology and medicine, virilization refers to the biological development of sex differences, changes that make a male body different from a female body. Most of the changes of virilization are produced by androgens...
– visual markers of marital status
Visual markers of marital status
Visual markers of marital status, as well as social status, may include Clothing, hairstyle, accessories, jewelry, tattoos and other bodily adornments. Visual markers of marital status are particularly important because they indicate that a person should not be approached for flirtation, courtship...
– visualization
Mental image
A mental image is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some object, event, or scene, but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses...
– void marriage
Void marriage
A void marriage is a type of marriage which is on its face unlawful under the laws of the jurisdiction where it is entered, or potentially where the persons who contracted the marriage normally reside. Such a marriage is void, meaning legally it has no effect, if the marriage violates certain...
– voidable marriage
Voidable marriage
A voidable marriage is a type of marriage which can be canceled at the option of one of the parties. The marriage is valid but is subject to cancellation if contested in court by one of the parties to the marriage...
– voiding cystourethrogram
Voiding cystourethrogram
In urology, a voiding cystourethrogram , also micturating cystourethrogram , is a technique for watching a person's urethra and urinary bladder while the person urinates . The technique consists of catheterizing the person in order to fill the bladder with a radiocontrast agent, typically cystografin...
– voluntary sterilization – vomeronasal organ
Vomeronasal organ
The vomeronasal organ , or Jacobson's organ, is an auxiliary olfactory sense organ that is found in many animals. It was discovered by Frederik Ruysch and later by Ludwig Jacobson in 1813....
– vomit
Emetophilia
Emetophilia is a paraphilia in which an individual is aroused by vomiting or observing others vomit. Emetophiles put emetophilia into practice by actually vomiting, especially on a partner...
– vorarephilia
Vorarephilia
Vorarephilia is a sexual fetish and paraphilia where arousal occurs from the idea of being eaten, eating another, observing this process, or by the general process of eating. The fantasy most frequently involves the victim being swallowed alive, and may or may not include digestion...
– voyeur – voyeurism
Voyeurism
In clinical psychology, voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activity usually considered to be of a private nature....
– vulva
Vulva
The vulva consists of the external genital organs of the female mammal. This article deals with the vulva of the human being, although the structures are similar for other mammals....
– vulval anesthesia – vulval vestibule
Vulval vestibule
The Vulval vestibule is a part of the vulva between the labia minora into which the urethral opening and the vaginal opening open...
– vulvectomy
Vulvectomy
Vulvectomy refers to a gynecological procedure in which the vulva is partly or completely removed. Usually performed as a last resort in certain cases of cancer, vulvar dysplasia, Human Papilloma Virus or FGM/C...
– vulvodynia
Vulvodynia
Vulvodynia is a chronic pain syndrome that affects the vulvar area and occurs without an identifiable cause or visible pathology categorized in the ICD-9 group 625—specifically ICD-9 625.7, which is for pain and other disorders of the female genital organs...
– vulvovaginal disorders – vulvovaginal health
Vulvovaginal health
Vulvovaginal health is the health and sanitation of the human female vulva and vagina.-Conditions:Problems affecting this area include:*Infection with Candida albicans...
– vulvovaginitis – Vātsyāyana
Vatsyayana
Vātsyāyana is the name of a Hindu philosopher in the Vedic tradition who is believed to have lived during time of the Gupta Empire in India...
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walimaWalima
Walima or Valima , or the marriage banquet, is the second of the two traditional parts of an Islamic wedding. The walima is performed after the nikah, or marriage ceremony. The word walima is derived from awlam, meaning to gather or assemble. It designates a feast in Arabic...
– walimah – wanking – waria – Wassermann test
Wassermann test
The Wassermann test or Wassermann reaction is an antibody test for syphilis, named after the bacteriologist August Paul von Wassermann, based on complement-fixation.-Method:...
– watersports (sexual practice)
Urolagnia
Urolagnia is a paraphilia in which sexual excitement is associated with the sight or thought of urine or urination. The term has origins in the Greek Language .Those who enjoy urolagnia may enjoy urinating on another person or persons, or being urinated upon...
– watta satta
Watta satta
Watta satta is a tribal custom in Pakistan of exchanging brides between two families. At the time of marriage, both families trade brides. That is, both families must have a daughter and a son and be willing to betroth them to a daughter and son of the other family...
– wax play
Wax play
Wax play is a form of sensual play involving warm or hot wax usually dripped from candles or ladled onto a person's naked skin. Wax play may be combined with other BDSM or sexual activity....
– waxing
Waxing
Waxing is a method of semi-permanent hair removal which removes the hair from the root. New hair will not grow back in the previously waxed area for two to eight weeks, although some people will start to see regrowth in only a week. Almost any area of the body can be waxed, including eyebrows,...
– wedding
Wedding
A wedding is the ceremony in which two people are united in marriage or a similar institution. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes...
– wedding anniversary
Wedding anniversary
-Official recognition:In the Commonwealth realms, one can receive a message from the monarch for 60th, 65th, and 70th wedding anniversaries, and any wedding anniversary after that...
– wedding band – wedding cake
Wedding cake
A wedding cake is the traditional cake served to the guests at a wedding reception after a wedding. In modern Western culture, it is usually a large cake, multi-layered or tiered, and heavily decorated with icing, usually over a layer of marzipan or fondant...
– wedding breakfast
Wedding breakfast
A wedding breakfast is a dinner given to the bride, bridegroom and guests at the wedding reception that follows a wedding in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia and some other English-speaking countries...
- wedding customs – wedding dance – wedding dress
Wedding dress
A wedding dress or wedding gown is the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony. Color, style and ceremonial importance of the gown can depend on the religion and culture of the wedding participants.- Western culture :...
– wedding feast – wedding gift – wedding invitation
Wedding invitation
A wedding invitation is a letter asking the recipient to attend a wedding. It is typically written in formal, third-person language and mailed five to eight weeks before the wedding date....
– wedding Mass – wedding music
Wedding music
Wedding music applies music played at wedding celebrations, including the ceremony and any festivities before or after the event. The music can be performed live by musicians and/or vocalists or use pre-recorded songs, depending on the format of the event, traditions associated with the...
– wedding reception
Wedding reception
A wedding reception is a party held after the completion of a marriage ceremony. It is held usually as hospitality for those who have attended the wedding, hence the name reception: the couple receives society, in the form of family and friends, for the first time as a married couple. Hosts...
– wedding ring
Wedding ring
A wedding ring or wedding band is a metal ring indicating the wearer is married. Depending on the local culture, it is worn on the base of the right or the left ring finger. The custom of wearing such a ring has spread widely beyond its origin in Europe...
– wedding sari
Wedding sari
A wedding sari is the traditional wedding dress of Indian women. The sari is traditionally red, with golden embroidery. In Kerala the saris are traditionally white/cream with gold embroidery....
– wedding song
Wedding music
Wedding music applies music played at wedding celebrations, including the ceremony and any festivities before or after the event. The music can be performed live by musicians and/or vocalists or use pre-recorded songs, depending on the format of the event, traditions associated with the...
– wedding superstitions – wedding trends – wedding trip – wedding vows – weekend wedding – weight gain fetishism – weight training (BDSM) – Westermarck effect
Westermarck effect
The Westermarck effect, or reverse sexual imprinting, is a hypothetical psychological effect through which people who live in close domestic proximity during the first few years of their lives become desensitized to later sexual attraction. This phenomenon was first hypothesized by Finnish...
– Edward Westermarck – Western blot
Western blot
The western blot is a widely used analytical technique used to detect specific proteins in the given sample of tissue homogenate or extract. It uses gel electrophoresis to separate native proteins by 3-D structure or denatured proteins by the length of the polypeptide...
– Western marriage customs – Ruth Westheimer
Ruth Westheimer
Ruth Westheimer is an American sex therapist, media personality, and author. Best known as Dr. Ruth, the New York Times described her as a "Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a kind of cultural icon in the 1980s...
– wet and messy fetishism
Wet and messy fetishism
Wet and messy fetish , is a form of sexual fetishism whereby a person becomes aroused when substances are deliberately and generously applied to the naked skin, predominantly the face, or to the clothes people are wearing...
– wet dream – wet sari scene
Wet sari scene
Wet sari scenes are an on-screen cliché in Hindi Cinema films, in which clothed actresses are depicted in wet saris that cling to their bodies. This functions as a proxy for nudity in mainstream Indian cinema, where nudity is taboo....
– wetlook
Wetlook
Wetlook is the enjoyment of a person or people wearing wet clothing. It can also refer to the act of getting wet while wearing clothes, and having fun either in doing so or in watching others do it...
– whipping
Flagellation
Flagellation or flogging is the act of methodically beating or whipping the human body. Specialised implements for it include rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails and the sjambok...
– white slavery – white tantrism
White tantrism
White Tantrism is a form of sexual alchemy which involves a man and a woman making sexual contact then transmuting their sexual energies whilst remaining still throughout the act and withdrawing without orgasm...
– white wedding
White wedding
A white wedding is a traditional formal or semi-formal wedding originating in Europe.The term originates from the white color of the wedding dress, which first became popular with Victorian era elites, after Queen Victoria wore a white lace dress at her wedding; however, the term now also...
– whore – whore house – widow
Widow
A widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed widowhood or occasionally viduity. The adjective form is widowed...
– widow's weeds – widower – widowhood – wife swapping – wife-capture – Williams Committee – witch's milk – withdrawal method
Withdrawal Method
Originally titled "Vagina Dentata", Withdrawal Method is the second album recorded by Die Monster Die, an alternative rock group consisting of Alice Cohen , Evan Player , Kenny Sanders , Shawn Tracy , Jane Scarpantoni , and Joe McGinty ."Withdrawal Method" was published in 1994 under the Roadrunner...
– wobbly H – Wolffian duct
Wolffian duct
The mesonephric duct is a paired organ found in mammals including humans during embryogenesis....
– woman battering – woman trafficking – womanizer – womanizing – womb – womb envy
Womb envy
In Feminist psychology the terms womb envy and vagina envy denote the unexpressed anxiety that some men feel in natural envy of the biological functions of women — emotions which impel their social subordination of women, and to drive themselves to succeed in perpetuating their names via material...
– women's liberation – women who have sex with women
Women who have sex with women
Women who have sex with women is a term used to identify women who engage in sexual activities with other women, whether or not they identify themselves as lesbian or bisexual...
– wooer – wooing – World Association for Sexual Health – workplace sexual harassment – world's oldest profession – worship (BDSM) – wrestling (sexology) – WSW
Women who have sex with women
Women who have sex with women is a term used to identify women who engage in sexual activities with other women, whether or not they identify themselves as lesbian or bisexual...
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X
X chromosomeX chromosome
The X chromosome is one of the two sex-determining chromosomes in many animal species, including mammals and is common in both males and females. It is a part of the XY sex-determination system and X0 sex-determination system...
– X-linked recessive
X-linked recessive
X-linked recessive inheritance is a mode of inheritance in which a mutation in a gene on the X chromosome causes the phenotype to be expressed in males and in females who are homozygous for the gene mutation X-linked recessive inheritance is a mode of inheritance in which a mutation in a gene on...
– xanith – xenophilia – xenophily
Xenophily
Xenophily or xenophilia means an affection for unknown objects or peoples. It is the opposite of xenophobia or xenophoby. The word is a synthesis from the Greek "xenos" and "philia" .-In fiction:...
– XO syndrome – XXX syndrome – XXY syndrome – XYY syndrome
XYY syndrome
XYY syndrome is an aneuploidy of the sex chromosomes in which a human male receives an extra Y-chromosome, giving a total of 47 chromosomes instead of the more usual 46. This produces a 47,XYY karyotype...
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Y
Y chromosomeY chromosome
The Y chromosome is one of the two sex-determining chromosomes in most mammals, including humans. In mammals, it contains the gene SRY, which triggers testis development if present. The human Y chromosome is composed of about 60 million base pairs...
– yeast infection – yiff – yogic marriage
Yogic marriage
Yogic marriage is a tradition of Hindu marriage done within Shavite sadhakas and sadhvis, to enable them to get positive energy from yajnas and homas. Though a sexual relation is not excluded in this form of marriage, it is consummated only in exceptional circumstances...
– yohimbine
Yohimbine
Yohimbine is an alkaloid with stimulant and aphrodisiac effects found naturally in Pausinystalia yohimbe . It is also found naturally in Rauwolfia serpentina , Alchornea floribunda , along with several other active alkaloids...
– yolk sac tumor – yoni
Yoni
Yoni is the Sanskrit word for the vagina. Its counterpart is the lingam as interpreted by some, the phallus.It is also the divine passage, womb or sacred temple...
– yoni worship – yonic – yoshiwara
Yoshiwara
Yoshiwara was a famous Akasen district in Edo, present-day Tōkyō, Japan.In the early 17th century, there was widespread male and female prostitution throughout the cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka. To counter this, an order of Tokugawa Hidetada of the Tokugawa shogunate restricted prostitution to...
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Z
zawag al-'urfi – zelophilia – zentaiZentai
Zentai is a term for skin-tight garments that cover the entire body. The word is a contraction of zenshin taitsu...
– ZIFT – zina – zipless fuck – zona pellucida
Zona pellucida
The zona pellucida is a glycoprotein membrane surrounding the plasma membrane of an oocyte. It is a vital constitutive part of the latter, external but of essential importance to it...
– zooerasty – zoolagnia – zoophilia
Zoophilia
Zoophilia, from the Greek ζῷον and φιλία is the practice of sex between humans and non-human animals , or a preference or fixation on such practice...
– zoophilia and health
Zoophilia and health
See: Zoophilia.Sexual contact with animals is associated with several significant health risks. Areas of possible concern are infection, physical injury and allergic reaction.-Zoonoses acquired via sexual contact:...
– zoosadism
Zoosadism
Zoosadism is a term coined by Ernest Borneman referring to pleasure derived from cruelty to animals. Zoosadism is part of the Macdonald triad, a set of three behaviors that are a precursor to sociopathic behavior.-Research:...
– Zoroastrian marriage customs – Zoroastrian wedding
Zoroastrian wedding
Zoroastrian weddings are a religious ceremony in Zoroastrianism in which two individuals, a man and a woman are united. In Zoroastrianism, marriage within the community is encouraged, and is greatly favored in religious texts.-Age:...
– zygote
Zygote
A zygote , or zygocyte, is the initial cell formed when two gamete cells are joined by means of sexual reproduction. In multicellular organisms, it is the earliest developmental stage of the embryo...
– zygote intra-fallopian transfer –