Chapter 6: Sexualities

• Asexuality


  Someone who does not experience sexual attraction
• Gray-a


  Falling within the grey area
• Demisexual


  Someone who feel sexual attraction to someone after they've formed a strong emotional bond with them
• Celibacy


  Choice to abstain from sexual acts
• Sexual Behaviors

  • Aversion
  • Indifference
  • Positivity
• Romantic Attraction

  • Heteroromantic
  • Biromantic
  • Homoromantic
  • Panromantic
• BDSM (Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission, Sadism & Masochism) 


  Umbrella term used to describe a set of consensual sexual practices that usually involve an eroticised exchange of power and the application or receipt of painful and/or intense sensations
• BDSM places a very strong emphasis on safety and consent during all aspects of the practice
• Perversion


  (according to Stroller) an intention of the individual
• Perversion


  (used to medicalise any sexual activity that was transgressive)
• Sadism


  Tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others
• Masochism


  Tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification in receiving the pain
• Fetishist


  A person whose sexual desire or gratification is strongly linked to a particular object or activity or a part of the body other than sexual organs
• Sadomasochism


  Deriving pleasure, often of a sexual nature, from the infliction of physical or psychological pain on another person or on oneself or both
• Sigmund Freud traced erotic pleasure to infancy characterized infant as a polymorphous pervert
• Sigmund Freud said the enjoyment of sadism resulted from a weak super-ego, enabling the id to be expressed via sexual violence, while masochists suffered from a modification of the inherent death instinct
• Paraphilic disorders


  A set of psychiatric disorders within DSM-5 and ICD-10, the diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization
• Paraphilia


  If there is distress or impairment, one would qualify for diagnosis of paraphilic disorder
• To be diagnosed with a paraphilic disorder, one should meet Criteria A which specifies the qualitative nature of the paraphilia, and Criteria B which details the negative consequences of the paraphilia (distress or impairment)
• Queer Theory positioned heterosexuality as the norm
• Transgressive sex


  Sexual behavior that merely transgresses prevailing social norms
• Coercive Sex


  Involves activities in which one party has not consented
• Sensation Seeking


  Desire to experience novel, varied, and intense sensations coupled with a willingness to take physical, social, legal, and financial risks to engage in such experience
• Bisexual


  An individual who experiences sexual attraction to more than one gender or whose attractions are based on characteristics other than gender
• First-wave Sexology included third gender and inversion theories of bisexuality
• Third sex category


  Sexual inverts, who were female souls trapped in male bodies and male souls trapped in female bodies'
• Bisexuality was seen as a primitive ancestral state in Second-wave sexology
• Pansexual


  Sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people of all genders, or regardless of their sex or gender
• Human sexuality consists of a great variety of practices and identities pursued with differing levels of passion and vigour and which are classed with differing degrees of moral, political, and personal acceptance or opprobrium according to time and place
• Bigamy


  The act of going through marriage while already married to another person
• Monogamy


  Practice of being married to one person at a time
• Polygamy


  Practice of having more than one wife or husband at the same time
• Female Genital Mutilation


  Harmful procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external genitalia, or other injury to the female organs for non-medical reasons
• Ageplay


  Involves an adult identifying as a baby or young child, and is also known as adult baby/diaper lover (ABDL) or infantilism
• Sissification


  An adult male gains sexual gratification from being humiliated by being made to dress and act like a little girl
• Furry


  Refers to those people who have identification with animals, whether for reasons of sexuality or, quite often, for reasons of identity
• Otherkin


  People who identify as mystical creatures
• Fae people


  Identify as fairies, elves
• Sanguinarians


  Identify as vampires
• Babyfur


  People who cross over with ageplay and identify with a young animal