Search Results for “Safer Sex

Glossary

Sexual Attraction

[ sek-shoo-uhl uh-trak-shuhn ]

Attraction based characterized by the desire to be sexually intimate with other people.

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Sex

[ seks ]

A medical term that refers to genetic, biological, hormonal, and/or physical characteristics (including genitalia) that are used to assign someone as male, female, or intersex at birth. Due to the infinite ways that humans grow and develop, sex is not a binary.

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Sexism

[ sek-siz-uhm ]

A system of prejudice and discrimination on the basis of sex. It often involves the belief that one gender/sex is inferior, less competent, or less valuable than one or more other genders.

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Sexual orientation

[ sek-shoo-uhl awr-ee-uhn-tey-shuhn, ‐en‐ ]

An individual's enduring physical, romantic, emotional, and/or spiritual attraction to members of the same and/or different sex and/or gender.