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. Jump to: navigation, search Sexual behavior in humans is an instinctive form of physical intimacy. ...

For example, people who travel overseas may not have sex with prostitutes in their home countries, but do so when they visit other countries, where such activities are legal or ignored by authorities. To contrast, for those whose primary sexual identification is pedophilia, visiting foreign countries where sex with minors can be easily practiced is not situational sexual behavior. Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pedophilia (American English), pædophilia/paedophilia (Commonwealth English), is the paraphilia of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to prepubescent children. ...

Other examples are people in prison, the military, or other sex-segregated communities who engage in homosexual behaviors but identify as heterosexual outside those communities. Heterosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love or sexual desire exclusively for members of the opposite sex or gender, contrasted with homosexuality and distinguished from bisexuality and asexuality. ...

It should be noted that many people change their sexual behaviour in different situations. For example, men and women in university may practice bisexuality only in that environment. Experimentation of this sort is more common among adolescents, both male and female. Sexual behavior is a form of physical intimacy that may be directed to reproduction (one possible goal of sexual intercourse) and/or to the enjoyment of activity involving sexual gratification. ... Jump to: navigation, search Bisexuality in human sexual behavior refers to sexual desire for both males and females. ...

The pressure to prove one's heterosexuality can lead to increased sexual behaviour in adolescents. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered teens have half the rate of pregnancy or impregnation as straight teens (Massachusetts 1997 Youth Risk Behavior Survey). Jump to: navigation, search Heterosexuality is the scientific name for sexual attraction and/or sexual behaviour between animals of the opposite characteristic sex. ...

See also

• situational offender
• prison sexuality
• pronoun game — a situational modification of conversational behaviour resulting from social pressures
• sex tourism

In the study of crime, a situational offender is a person who commits crimes only when in an environment which permits or encourages those acts. ... Prison sexuality deals with sexual relationships between confined individuals. ... Jump to: navigation, search Playing the pronoun game is the act of concealing sexual orientation in conversation by not using a gender-specific pronoun for a partner or a lover, which would reveal the sexual orientation of the person speaking. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sex tourism is tourism, partially or fully for the purpose of having sex, often with prostitutes. ...

Source

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Young People and Teenage Pregnancy by Jan Bridget, .rtf format