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Intimacy-aviodancy
Intimacy-aviodancy A socially dictated constraint on personal disclosure to specified individuals or groups, or on a specified topic. It affects erotic/sexual behavior and communication. It may affect only intimate communication, but not behavior with one's sexual partner.
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Erotic/sexual
Simultaneously erotic and sexual. One can be sexual without being erotic, as in donor insemination. Conversely, being erotic does not necessarily mean being sexual, especially in the sense of copulation, fertility or reproduction.
Affect
This word is used to described observable behavior that represents the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion). Common examples of affect are sadness, fear, joy, and anger. The normal range of expressed affect varies considerably between different cultures and even within the same culture. Types of affect include: euthymic, irritable, constricted; blunted; flat; inappropriate, and labile.
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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Intima
The inner layer of the arterial wall. Atherosclerosis originates in the intima.
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Intercourse
Connection or interaction between people. In sexual intercourse, the connection is usually defined as being between two people. It is erroneously restricted to putting the penis into the vagina (or anus) or the vagina (or anus) onto the penis (penovaginal or penoanal intercourse, respectively). The entire sexual interaction between the partners constitutes sexual intercourse. 2. Connection or interaction between people. In sexual intercourse, the connection is usually defined as being between two people. It is erroneously defined as putting the penis into the vagina (penovaginal intercourse), for the entire sexual interaction between the partners constitutes sexual intercourse.
Interfemoral
Between the thighs.
Interictal
Pertaining to the interval between epileptic seizures and seizure-like attacks.
Intermammary
Between the breasts.
Intersexuality
An alternative term for hermaphroditism. In past usage, a genetic etiology was sometimes assumed for intersexuality, and a hormonal etiology for hermaphroditism, but the distinction is now known to be untenable.
Intimacy-aviodancy
Introceptive
Pertaining to a sensory organ that registers information from within the body.
Intromission
The insertion of one part into another; in sexual intercourse, the insertion of the penis into the vagina.
Inviolacy
The right to be free from being harmed, harassed, or encroached upon.
Irrumatio
Actively thrusting of the penis into the mouth; as contrasted to fellatio, which finds the mouth and tongue actively stimulating the penis through sucking and licking.
Ileal
Related to the ileum, the lowest end of the small intestine.
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