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Sex roles
Sex roles
Specifically, patterns of behavior and thought that are related to the sex organs and procreation; generally, behavior and thought that is traditionally or stereotypically classified or coded as typical of, or especially suited to, either one sex or the other. Some sex roles are related to procreation, and some are not.
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Sex addiction
Or sex compulsion. See sexual addiction.
Sex adjunctive
Characteristic of male/female differences that are tertiary or subsidiary to sex-derivative, secondary differences, and are only peripherally related to sex-hormonal differences with respect to the division of labor between the sexes.
Sex adventitious
Characteristic of male/female differences that are quaternary or subsidiary to sex-adjunctive, tertiary differences, and are more or less fortuitously a product of cultural history with respect to the division of power between the sexes.
Sex chromatin
A spot that shows up when stained on the nucleus of cells taken from mammalian females, but not males, and is attributed to the inactivated second X chromosome; it is also called the Barr body.
Sex derivative
Characteristic of male/female differences that are secondary or subsidiary to sex-irreducible, primary differences, and are for the most part under the influence of sex hormones.
Sex irreducible
Characteristic of male/female differences that are primary and nontransferable between male and female, namely, male impregnation and female ovulation, menstruation, gestation, and lactation.
Sex pheromones
Pheromones that elicit sexual attraction or mating behavior usually in members of the opposite sex in the same species.
Sex steroid binding protein
A glycoprotein migrating as a beta-globulin. The protein binds testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, and estradiol in the plasma
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Sex derivative
Characteristic of male/female differences that are secondary or subsidiary to sex-irreducible, primary differences, and are for the most part under the influence of sex hormones.
Sex irreducible
Characteristic of male/female differences that are primary and nontransferable between male and female, namely, male impregnation and female ovulation, menstruation, gestation, and lactation.
Sexing-stealing-lying syndrome
A syndrome in which a forbidden or illicit sexual activity coexists with kleptomanic stealing, as in shoplifting, which is not per se erotic, and with confabulatory deception or pseudologia fantastica (fantastic or fictitious logic).
Sexophobia
Dread or fear of the sex organs and of whatever pertains to them
Sexosophy
The body of knowledge that compromises the philosophy, principles, and knowledge that people have about their own personally experienced eroticism and sexuality and that of other people, singly and collectively. It includes values, personal and shared, and it encompasses culturally transmitted value systems. Its subdivisions are historical, regional, ethnic, religious, and developmental or life span.
Sex roles
Sexual
Pertaining to sex or, more particularly, the stimulation, responsiveness, and functions of the sex organs either alone or with one or more partners.
Sexual addiction
Compulsively frequent reiteration of highly ritualized usage of the sex organs, under conditions of extreme specificity. The addiction is not to sex, generically, but to a particular animate or inanimate sexuoerotic stimulus, or type of stimulus, that is incorporated into the ritual activity. The activity itself may or may not qualify as paraphilic. The analogue of sexual addiction to a given stimulus is drinking addiction to alcohol, from which the concept derives.
Sexual drive
The personal and subjective desire or feeling of readiness to have an erotosexual experience. It cannot be measured directly.
Sexuality
The personal experience and manifest expression of one's status as male or female, especially as it relates to the genital organs, pair-bondedness, and reproduction.
Sexually dimorphic nucleus
In the preoptic area or region of the hypothalamus, a group of cells so named because it is smaller in females than males.
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