Category: S

Those sex acts engaged in by adults that vary from penile-vaginal intercourse. This does not include foreplay or past coital activities related to the total love making, nor does it include homosexual activity.  

As defined by Masters and Johnson, the activities that an individual holds to be acceptable and necessary in a sexual relationship.  

Social rules about sexuality and how it is expressed.  

Frigidity.  

The nonrandom choice of a mate among animals that reproduce sexually, natural selection; sexual reproduction. The choice of the gender of an offspring through methods that increase the likelihood of conceiving either a girl or a boy.  

Teamed behaviors and expectations related to sexual arousal, values, and appropriateness.  

The four stages through which a person passes when responding to sexual stimulation: the excitement phase, the plateau phase, the orgasmic phase, and the resolution phase.  

Sexual capacity as determined by one’s genetic potentials and learned experiences. Teamed experiences are associated with a person’s total psychosocial capacity and emotional makeup. A sequence of physiological changes that occur in men and women during sexual intercourse (or other sexual activities) in four stages over an average of 14 minutes. Arousal, the first stage,…

Most generally, a person exhibiting compulsive, repetitive, and/or bizarre sexual behavior. A legal label that allows for people to be given jail sentences and implies that they are a menace to society.  

A person’s choice of sexual partner by choice of homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality sexual orientation. The sexual orientation one prefers in choosing his or her sex partners.