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Part of sexology | | Common classifications | | Bisexuality
Heterosexuality
Homosexuality
Sexual orientation describes the direction of an individuals sexuality, often in relation to their own sex or gender. ...
Sexology is the systematic study of human sexuality. ...
Bisexual redirects here. ...
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The word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings over time. ...
| | Other classifications | | Asexuality
Autosexuality
Kinsey scale
Monosexuality
Pansexuality
Paraphilia
Zoosexuality
Asexuality is a general term or self-designation for people who are disinclined towards sexual behavior and lust. ...
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The Kinsey scale attempts to measure an individuals sexual orientation, from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual), in terms of the biological sex of their former sexual partners. ...
A monosexual is someone who is sexually attracted to one sex (or gender) only, monosexuality being this capacity for attraction or sexual orientation. ...
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In psychology and sexology, paraphilia (in Greek para παÏά = besides and -philia φιλία = love) is a term that describes sexual arousal in response to sexual objects or situations which may interfere with the capacity for reciprocal affectionate sexual activity. ...
Leda and the Swan, a 16th century copy after a lost painting by Michelangelo, 1530 (National Gallery, London) Zoophilia (from the Greek words Zoon = animal and Philia = friendship) is a paraphilia, defined as an affinity or sexual attraction by a human to non-human animals. ...
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Biology and sexual orientation
Choice and sexual orientation
Demographics of sexual orientation
Non-human animal sexuality
Situational sexual behavior
Biology and sexual orientation is the concept in industrialized societies that there is, at least in part, a biological basis for sexual orientation. ...
A small but substantial group of psychotherapeutic professionals, primarily but not entirely a collection of conservative Christians, Jews and Muslims (and in the larger cultural and political debate) view sexual orientation as a choice and something that can be challenged, changed or chosen in adolescence or adulthood in some individuals. ...
// Measurement difficulties Measuring the prevalence of various sexual orientations (e. ...
Animal sexual behavior takes many different forms; even within the same species, researchers have drawn parallels between this and homosexuality, bisexuality, intersexuality and transgender behavior in humans. ...
Situational sexual behavior is sexual behavior of a kind that is different from what is usual for that person (or from what that person normally exhibits) due to a social environment that permits, encourages, or compels those acts. ...
| | edit | Affectional orientation is an alternative term for sexual orientation. Those people who prefer it argue that one's orientation goes far beyond sexuality. To holders of this view, one's orientation is defined by whom one is predisposed to fall in love with, sexual attraction being only a part of a larger dynamic. Sexual orientation describes the direction of an individuals sexuality, often in relation to their own sex or gender. ...
This article is about the issues and phenomena pertaining to human sexual function and behavior. ...
Limerence is a state of mind characterized by intrusive thinking, longing, uncertainty, hope, misperception, fantasies, and passion. ...
The term is also used by those who consider themselves asexual to describe the gender or genders they are romantically attracted to. The terms used for different affectional orientations are typically the same as are used for sexual orientations: homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual. Asexuality is a general term or self-designation for people who are disinclined towards sexual behavior and lust. ...
The word gender describes the state of being male, female, or neither. ...
Sexual orientation describes the direction of an individuals sexuality, often in relation to their own sex or gender. ...
The word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings over time. ...
Bisexual redirects here. ...
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Lately, the aforementioned terms are considered to reduce a whole category of desires and emotions, power and connection, to sex.
There are also those who hold the view that their orientation is defined by who one has affection towards and that their sexual attraction is based on affection for another human being's personal qualities rather than their gender or appearance. Sex and gender playing no part in the attraction. This does not necessarily require either person to fall in love but is still based on a personal affection.
One might now consider the phrase, "conditional sexual attraction" for asexuals, as opposed to "primary sexual attraction" used by all "sexual" people.
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