Dictionary Of Sexology v1.0.pdf

Dictionary of Sexology

Compiled by

G. F. Pranzarone, Ph.D., AASECT:CSE

Department of Psychology

Roanoke College

Salem, Virginia 24153

pranzaro@roanoke.edu

The following entries represent the initial version (v. 1.0) of an online dictionary of terms for

phenomena in sexuality, gender, and reproduction. Most all of these terms appear in scientific

and academic reference sources in the areas of psychology, medicine, genetics, sociology,

anthropology and biology. Many of these terms were coined by and first used in the writings

of sexologist and psychoendocrinologist Dr. John Money, Professor emeritus in Medical

Pediatrics of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical School and now head of the Johns Hopkins

University Psychohormonal Research Unit. Consequently, the foundation of the present

sexological glossary/dictionary is taken from the extensive glossaries contained in the

following books by John Money:

John Money (1986). Lovemaps: Clinical Concepts of Sexual/Erotic Health

and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition of Childhood,

Adolescence, and Maturity. Irvington Publishers; ISBN: 0829015892.

John Money and Margaret Lamacz (Contributor) (1989). Vandalized

Lovemaps: Paraphilic Outcome of Seven Cases in Pediatric Sexology.

Prometheus Books; ISBN: 087975513X.

John Money (1990). Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Exotic

Orientation. Oxford University Press (Trade); ISBN: 0195063317.

These words form the basis for a developing standardized language for communication within

the emerging interdisciplinary science of sexology. The empirically based (describing what is)

science of sexology is different from the less than objective perspective of sexosophy (hoping

to find what should be the case based on a philosophical or religious position). See definitions

in the glossary below.

Rationale : The most popular sites on the Internet, and the busiest BBSs, are those which

deal with aspects of sex, sexuality, gender, or reproduction. These four terms include all

aspects of attraction, dating and match-making services, romance, and eroticism, at one end

of the social acceptability spectrum, all the way to the extremes of some of the postings on

the alt.sex usenet and the downloadable sexually explicit graphics. What is missing in all of

this Internet traffic has been a standard language of communication about phenomena in

sexuality, gender, and reproduction that uses terms that are precise, unambiguous, and

judgment free. For example, there is the story of a young woman being examined by a

physician who found her to be pregnant. She asked her patient "When I asked you earlier if

you were 'sexually active' you said 'No.' But I find that you are pregnant. How can this be?"

The patient answered "But Doctor, it's true. I'm not active . I just lie there."

Whether this story is true or not, sexist or not, is beside the point. The point is that we all use

words and terms to describe what for most of us is a difficulty topic of conversation. A brief

browsing of the "sex" sites on the Internet reveals that the same words or terms can be used

with a wide range of meanings and nuances. Nuance is great for romantic poetry but not for a

science of sex, gender and reproduction.

Contents of the Sexological Glossary/Dictionary:

1) Terms describing recognized psychiatric and medical sexological syndromes

2) Terms for genetic and endocrine conditions of sexological significance

3) Terms referring to attraction, love and pairbonding

4) Terms for paraphilia (conditions otherwise known in the vernacular as "kinky

sex")

5) Terms from anthropology describing special populations or situations

Some definitions use terms that themselves may require definition. Please scroll the list to

see if that questioned term is defined. If not, please bring the word to my attention for revision

of, or additions to, the glossary/dictionary. This sexological glossary/dictionary is incomplete. I

request suggestions for corrections and additions. Any inaccuracies are my responsibility.

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abasiophilia : a paraphilia of the eligibilic/stigmatic type in which sexuoerotic

arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and

contingent on the partner being lame, with a limp, or crippled [from Greek,

abasios lameness + -philia]. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is

autoabasiophilia .

abidancy : the proclivity to seek and defend a territory, residence or home-

ground upon which to reside and fulfill the metabolic needs to sustain life;

one of the five universal exigencies of being human.

abuse-dwarfism : retardation of growth in body and mind secondary to child

abuse and neglect.

acault ( pronounced a-chow'): in Burma, the name given to a full-time female

impersonator or gynemimetic. See also berdache ; hijra ; xainth .

acceptive phase : in a sexuoerotic relationship, the second or middle phrase,

following proception and preceding the possibility of conception, in which the

two persons accept one another, and become mutually involved in body

contact, specifically with the genitals in coitus. See also proceptive phase ;

conceptive phase .

acceptivity : the proclivity to accept one another and become mutually

involved in body contact and sexuoerotic activities which can include the

genitals in coitus. See also proceptivity ; conceptivity .

acrotomophilia (or acrotometophilia) : 1. a paraphilia of the

stigmatic/eligibilic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or

attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent on a partner who is

an amputee [from Greek, akron, extremity + tomo, a cutting + -philia; a liking

of an amputated extremity]. An acrotomophile is erotically excited by the

stump(s) of the amputee partner. 2. the condition of being dependent on the

appearance or fantasy of one's partner as an amputee in order to obtain

erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. The reciprocal paraphilic

condition, namely self-amputation, is apotemnophilia .

ACTH : adrenocorticotropic hormone. A pituitary peptide hormone named for

its role in stimulating the release of adrenocortical hormones.

Adam/Eve principle : in embryological development and subsequently, the

principle that nature's primary template is that which differentiates a female,

and that something must be added to induce the differentiation of a male.

Adam principle : In fetal life, the differentiation of a male requires that

something be added, in particular Müllerian duct Inhibiting Substance

( MIS) and testosterone. Partial or complete differentiation otherwise takes

place, regardless of chromosomal sex. See also Eve principle.

addiction : a state or condition of existence characterized by habitually

engaging in a highly specific and routine activity reiteratively and

compulsively, irrespective of aversive or deadly consequences; the addiction

is not to the activity, but to the object, substance, or person toward which the

activity is directed. See also sexual addiction.

adolescence : the period of developmental maturation between puberty and

young adulthood, equated in the vernacular predominantly with teenage.

adolescent gynecomastia : in about 15 percent of boys at puberty, the

growth of glandular tissue and enlargement of the breasts in response to the

hormones of puberty. Typically the enlargement is minimal and self-

correcting, but in rare cases resembles that of a girl and requires corrective

plastic surgery (mastectomy). The etiology, though obscure, is attributed

either to an atypical utilization of the low level of estrogen normally produced

by the testicles of the male, or to an atypical resistance to the counteracting

effect of testosterone.

adolescentilism , paraphilic : the paraphilia of impersonating an adolescent

and being treated as one by the partner. One of the stigmatic/eligibilic

paraphilias. See also ephebophilia ; gerontalism ; infantilism ; juvenilism .

adrenal cortex : the outer three layers of the adrenal gland, as contrasted

with the innermost part, the medulla. The cortex produces steroidal

hormones, among them the glucocorticoid cortisol, and nonpotent sex

hormones. See also adrenal gland ; cortex .

adrenal gland : an endocrine gland located immediately above the kidney. It

consists of two portions: a cortex and a medulla. The cortex produces and

secretes steroidal hormones, among them cortisol (a glucocorticoid), and

weakly active sex hormones. The medulla produces epinephrine and

norepinephrine (adrenaline and noradrenaline), catecholamines augmenting

sympathetic nervous system arousal.

adrenocortex ( adjective , adrenocortical ): see adrenal cortex .

adrenocortical hormone : one of the hormones, for example cortisol,

secreted not from the internal medulla but from the external cortex of the

bilateral adrenocortical glands.

adrenogenital syndrome : see CVAH , for congenital virilizing adrenal

hyperplasia, and CAH , for congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

adulthood : the period of maturity that follows adolescence. There is no fixed

age for the onset of young adulthood, except that legally it is for most

purposes set at twenty-one years of age. In the United States by an act of

Congress childhood officially ends at the 18th birthday (Public Law 98-292,

The Child Protection Act of 1984).

adventive : adventitious, or happening in one's life history in a unique way

and not according to a universal system; see also imperative .

aegis : auspices, patronage, or sponsorship.

agalmatophilia : a fictional paraphilia, not yet observed as a syndrome, in

which the sexuoerotic stimulus is a nude statue or model of a human being

[from Greek, agalma, image + -philia]. Synonyms , statuophilia ;

Pygmalionism . See also pictophilia .

age-aviodancy : a socially dictated constraint on personal disclosure to

people of a different age group than oneself. It affects erotic/sexual behavior

and communication. See also allosex-avoidancy and intimacy-avoidancy .

agenesis ( adjective , agenetic ): partial or complete failure of an organ or part

of the body to form or develop.

agonistic : in opposition or opposed to; in pharmacology, a drug that

competes with a naturally occurring substance at cell receptors.

AIDS : acquired immune deficiency syndrome, caused by a retrovirus (HIV-I,

human immunodeficiency virus) infection, and formerly almost always lethal.

No cure has been discovered as of this writing, but many HIV positive

individuals can delay the onset of, or reverse the progression into, AIDS by

careful attention to diet, exercise, stress reduction and appropriate

medication.

allosex-aviodancy : a socially dictated constraint on personal disclosure to

members of the other, but not one's own, sex. It affects both behavior (as in

locker-room nudity, for example) and communication, as in sexual joking.

See also age-aviodancy and intimacy-aviodancy .

allure : enticement; attractivity; seductiveness; as in proceptive phase

behaviors.

Alzheimer's disease : cumulative degeneration of mental function in

adulthood, associated with cortical atrophy characterized by degeneration of

brain cells into tangled spindles, and terminated by total dementia and death.

ambiguous : having more than one possible meaning; equivocal.

ambiguous genitalia : a birth defect of the sex organs in which, from their

embryonically undifferentiated state, they have failed to become fully

differentiated as either male or female, but are unfinished. At birth the baby's

sex cannot be declared on the basis of visual inspection. Diagnostically, the

term is hermaphroditism or intersexuality. Embryologically, it is not possible

to develop a complete penis and scrotum together with a complete vagina

and vulva.

ambisexuality ( adjective , ambisexual ): having characteristics shared by

both sexes [from Greek, ambi , both + sex]--in human beings, for example,

nipples; pubic hair; birth-defective genitalia that look hermaphroditically

ambiguous or intersexed; or mating behavior shared by both sexes.

ambitypic : as applied to sexual dimorphism of the genitalia, brain, or

behavior, differentiation of both female and male anlagen together during an

initial phase, after which only one anlage, female or male, continues to

develop and the other does not, as in the case of the Müllerian (female) and

Wolffian (male) embryonic ducts. Antonym , unitypic .

ambivalent : going both ways or leaning in both directions at once, especially

with respect to loyalty or allegiance to a person or idea.

amelotasis : the condition of being an amelotatist; the condition of having an

erotic inclination toward the stump of an extremity missing either congenitally

or as a result of amputation; see also acrotomophilia ; apotemnophilia .

amelotatist : one who is attracted to amputees [from Greek, an-, not + melos ,

limbs + tasis. irresistibly drawn toward]. Synonym , apotemnophile .

amenorrhea : absence or failure of the menstrual periods.

amphoteric : partly one and partly the other [from Greek, amphoteros , both].

amygdala : a part of the brain situated in the temporal lobe. It belongs to the

"old brain" or limbic system. The amygdala seems to be involved in memory

and the elaboration and expression of erotosexuality and aggression.

anabolic : having the effect of building tissue, especially muscle tissue.

anachronism : a historical error, placing a person, thing, or event either

before its time or after it has become outdated.

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