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girlchest_green[1].jpg Human Sexuality is, generally speaking, is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. The study of human sexuality encompasses an array of social activities and an abundance of behaviors, actions, and societal topics. Biologically, sexuality can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms, as well as medical concerns about the physiological or even psychological aspects of sexual behaviour.

Sociologically, it can cover the cultural, political, and legal aspects; and philosophically, it can span the moral, ethical, theological, spiritual or religious aspects.

Sexuality varies greatly over time and across cultures. There are different views on sexual ethics and different laws on what sexual behavior is permitted. Sex education programs may promote reproductive health and family planning and try to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Many societies have some forms of erotica or pornography and modern societies have a sex industry with sex workers such as prostitutes.

Paraphilias

Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. © 2007defines paraphilia /para·phil·ia/ (par?ah-fil´e-ah) a psychosexual disorder marked by sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving objects, suffering or humiliation, or children or other nonconsenting partners.

Clinical literature discusses eight major paraphilias individually; according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the activity must be the sole means of sexual gratification for a period of six (6) months, and either cause "clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning" or involve a violation of consent to be diagnosed as a paraphilia.

Exhibitionism: the recurrent urge or behavior to expose one's genitals to an unsuspecting person.
Fetishism: the use of non-sexual or nonliving objects or part of a person's body to gain sexual excitement. Partialism refers to fetishes specifically involving nonsexual parts of the body.
Frotteurism: the recurrent urges or behavior of touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person.
Pedophilia: the sexual attraction to prepubescent or peripubescent children.
Sexual Masochism: the recurrent urge or behavior of wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer.
Sexual Sadism: the recurrent urge or behavior involving acts in which the pain or humiliation of the victim is sexually exciting.
Transvestic fetishism: a sexual attraction towards the clothing of the opposite gender.
Voyeurism: the recurrent urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing or engaging in sexual activities, or may not be sexual in nature at all.
Other rarer paraphilias are grouped together under Other paraphilias not otherwise specified (ICD-9-CM equivalent of "Sexual Disorder NOS") and include telephone scatalogia (obscene phone calls), necrophilia (corpses), partialism (exclusive focus on one part of the body), zoophilia (animals), coprophilia (feces), klismaphilia (enemas), urophilia (urine).

The condition of being characterized and distinguished by sex.
Concern with or interest in sexual activity.
Sexual character or potency.

This category will deal with the aspects of Sexuality that is prevelent in the broad population spectrum and readily recognised and largely accepted by Western society.

Concern with or interest in sexual activity among heterosexual or homosexual partners. The sexual character, condition and preoccupation with the desire to attract and keep a vibrant sexual relationship.

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