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Midterm 2 Flashcards

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Cisgender

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A person whose self-identified gender conforms to their biological sex

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Transgender

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A person whose self-identified gender does NOT correspond to their biological sex

Variations on the X chromosome can cause transgender expression

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Hermaphrodite

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A person or animal with both male and female sex organs

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Intersexuality

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Person born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the typical definitions of male and female

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Alfred Kinsey

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One of the problems with his studies was the fact that sexual behavior is not indicative of sexual orientation

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Kinsey scale

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Sexual preference scale: 0-6

0=exclusively heterosexual
6=exclusively homosexual
1-5=degrees of bisexuality

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Pansexuality

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Attraction to a person of any sex or gender

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Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

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A system for describing a person’s sexual preference in a more detailed and informative way

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Authoritarian Personality

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Enforce strict obedience to authority (esp. government) at the expense of personal freedom

Often tightly linked to heterosexism

Things like blood and semen bother them

Their leadership rises due to economic dislocation

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Bigamy

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Getting married to someone who is already married to another person

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Bisexual Erasure

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AKA bisexual invisibility

The tendency to ignore, remove, falsify, or reexplain evidence of bisexuality in history, academia, news media and other primary sources

Can also deny that bisexuality exists (extreme)

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Compersion

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Feeling happy for your lover when they are enjoying another relationship

A polyamorous principle

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Ephebophilia

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Adult sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15-19

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Pediphilia

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Sexual feelings toward children

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Heteronormativity

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Belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders with natural roles in life (man & woman)

Assumes that heterosexuality is the only sexual orientation or the only norm

States that sexual and marital relations are only fitting between people of opposite sexes

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Heterosexism

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Discrimination or prejudice by heterosexuals against homosexuals

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Sexual Pluralism

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The view that any sexual behavior is morally permissible so long as it takes place between mutually committed adults

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Rectophobia

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A fear of rectums, rectal pain, or rectal diseases (branches from sodomy)

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Transphobia

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Intense dislike of or prejudice against transsexual or transgender people

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Autoandrophilia

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A person assigned female at birth who is sexually aroused by the thought or image of being a man

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Autogynephilia

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A person assigned male at birth who is sexually aroused by the thought or image of being a woman

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Epidemiology

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The branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health

A lot of “medical treatments” for “curing” homosexuality have spawned from the obsession to cure diseases in a society where too many things are considered a disease without actually being one

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Genital Ulceration

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Sores on the genitalia caused by an STI like syphilis, parasitic infections, or bacterial infections

Primary mode of transmission HIV

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Plethysmograph

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A medical instrument used to measure blood flow to the genitals

Typically used to measure sexual arousal

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Virology

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The branch of science that deals with the study of viruses

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Anal Sex

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Bighorn sheep are known for gay sex, and they only mate with females once a year; about 10% of the population of rams is exclusively gay

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Ambiphilia

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Synonymous with bisexuality– the combination of gynephilia and androphilia

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Androphilia

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Sexual attraction to men or masculinity

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Gynephilia

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Sexual attraction to women or femininity

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Lordosis Behavior

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AKA presenting

A body posture that indicates female receptivity to copulation

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Paraphilia

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Abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities

Sexual arousal towards objects, pain/humiliation, children

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Zoophilia

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AKA beastiality

Sexual desire or activities with animals

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