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Homosexuality
Homosexuality Erotosexual pairing with a partner of the same genital morphology. Its full manifestation includes falling in love (homophilic limerence). Homosexual sexuoerotic behaviors may occur in same sex concentrations (as in prisons) from sexual frustration, or the expression of position in the heirarchy of dominance and power, for example (heterophlic homosexuality).
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Erotosexual
The erotic and the sexual experienced as a unity, with more emphasis on erotic imagery and ideation than sexual behavior. It is possible to be erotic without being sexual in the sense of copulation, fertility, or reproduction. Conversely, it is possible, as in donor insemination, to be sexual without being erotic. see erotic/sexual. the erotic and the sexual experienced as a unity, with more emphasis on erotic imagery than sexual behavior.
Pairing
A method by which subjects are selected so that two subjects with similar characteristics (for example, weight, smoking habits) are assigned to a set, but one receives Treatment A and the other receives Treatment B.
Genital
Having to do with the sex organs.
Love
The personal experience and manifest expression of being attached or bonded to another person. There is sacred and profane love, and affectional and erotic love. The word is also used in the vernacular as a synonym for like.
Homosexual
Characterized by same-sex contact, either as a genital act or as a long-term sexuoerotic status [from Greek, homos, same + sex]. It is analogous to left-handedness in being not pathological in itself, though not conforming to the statistical nor the ideological norm, and not being exempt from other pathology. A homosexual person is able to fall in love with, and become the pairbonded sexuoerotic partner of only a person of the same morphologic sex (homophilic homosexual). Homosexuality is not a paraphilia but a gender transposition, variable in extent and degree. Paraphilias may occur in association with either homosexual or heterosexual pairing.
Sexuoerotic
The sexual and the erotic experienced as a unity, with more emphasis on sexual behavior than erotic imagery.
Sexual
Pertaining to sex or, more particularly, the stimulation, responsiveness, and functions of the sex organs either alone or with one or more partners.
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Homocysteine
A product which is found naturally when a particular amino acid is broken down. It is associated with ageing, folate levels, vitamin B deficiencies and possibly renal dysfunction. Higher concentration of homocysteine in plasma is regarded as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Homocystinuria
Resembles Marfan's syndrome - due to lack of cystanthionine synthase.
Homogeneous
Of the same type, or having the same characteristics.
Homogenize
To make more uniform in quality or consistency.
Homologous
Of similar structure.
Homophilia
The condition in which love, lust, and pairbonding are directed and attached primarily to those of the same sex. A condition of being in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and dependent upon a partner of the same morphologic sex [from Greek, homos, same + -philia]. Homophilia may exist only in ideation and affect or in combination with sexual behavior in some homosexuality.
Homophobia
The condition in which those whose love and lust are attached to others of the same sex are dreaded or feared pathological fear of homosexualism. It is not itself a paraphilia, but may be associated with one, as in homophobic lust murder [from Greek, homos, same + phobos, fear or fright].
Homophylophilia
Homosexuality; homophylophile: noun, a homosexual.
Homosexology
Sexological science as applied to homosexuality and its relationship to heterosexuality and bisexuality.
Homosexual
Characterized by same-sex contact, either as a genital act or as a long-term sexuoerotic status [from Greek, homos, same + sex]. It is analogous to left-handedness in being not pathological in itself, though not conforming to the statistical nor the ideological norm, and not being exempt from other pathology. A homosexual person is able to fall in love with, and become the pairbonded sexuoerotic partner of only a person of the same morphologic sex (homophilic homosexual). Homosexuality is not a paraphilia but a gender transposition, variable in extent and degree. Paraphilias may occur in association with either homosexual or heterosexual pairing.
Homosexualism
Synonym, homosexuality.
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Homophobia
The condition in which those whose love and lust are attached to others of the same sex are dreaded or feared pathological fear of homosexualism. It is not itself a paraphilia, but may be associated with one, as in homophobic lust murder [from Greek, homos, same + phobos, fear or fright].
Homophylophilia
Homosexuality; homophylophile: noun, a homosexual.
Homosexology
Sexological science as applied to homosexuality and its relationship to heterosexuality and bisexuality.
Homosexual
Characterized by same-sex contact, either as a genital act or as a long-term sexuoerotic status [from Greek, homos, same + sex]. It is analogous to left-handedness in being not pathological in itself, though not conforming to the statistical nor the ideological norm, and not being exempt from other pathology. A homosexual person is able to fall in love with, and become the pairbonded sexuoerotic partner of only a person of the same morphologic sex (homophilic homosexual). Homosexuality is not a paraphilia but a gender transposition, variable in extent and degree. Paraphilias may occur in association with either homosexual or heterosexual pairing.
Homosexualism
Synonym, homosexuality.
Homosexuality
Hormonal cyclicity
Regularly recurrent changes in the level of one or more hormones secreted into the bloodstream, for example, the changes in pituitary and ovarian hormones in synchrony with the menstrual cycle in women.
Hormonalize
To change or shape by means of a hormone the outcome of development, for example as masculine or feminine, as manifested somatically or behaviorally.
Hormonodynamics
Hormonal changes that take place in synchrony with changes in other processes manifested within or by a living organism, and that are presumed to have a governing or determining effect.
Humiliation
One of the variable components of sadomasochism.
Huntington's chorea
A chronic and progressive disease of the central nervous system characterized by irregular body movements, disturbance of speech, and gradually increasing mental deterioration. It is hereditary in origin and is transmitted as a genetic dominant.
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