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Human sexuality
Human Sexuality is the expression of sexual feelings due to genetic predisposition or ones own personal experimentation. Sexuality can be influenced by hormonal changes in the development of the fetus during pregnancy. Sexuality influences social behavior. Human sexuality can also be understood as part of the social life of humans, governed by implied rules of behavior status in quo. Sexual identity can be molded by the social environment to which one is exposed, e.g. an authority figure giving a little boy a toy truck to play with, and a girl a doll. Human physiology makes sexuality possible, but it does not predict sexual behavior in any way.
Sexuality molds the environments in which we live, influencing print, audio and video.
Human sexual choices are usually made using cultural social filters. Some may choose to abstain from sex before marriage because their religious creed goes against such actions. In some Eastern cultures it is acceptable for a man to have many wives, while in Western Culture bigamy or polygamy is frowned upon. This summation is made using the cultural filter.
Topics in human sexuality
- Sexual development
- Sexual orientation
- Sex organs
- Male reproductive physiology:
- Female reproductive physiology:
- Genital modification and mutilation
- Related medical fields
- Sexual behavior
- Safer sex
- Sex education
- Birth control
- Contraception
- Sexually transmitted diseases
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Sexology
- Eroticism
- Paraphilias and fetishes (Some may be considered sex crimes in various jurisdictions)
- S&M
- BDSM
- Erotic spanking
- Bondage
- Swinging
- Artistic depiction of sex
- Religious and cultural views of sexual morality.
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Sex crime
- Rape or sexual assault
- Sexual harassment
- Child sexual abuse or molestation
- Child pornography
- Various paraphilias/fetishes (legality varying by jurisdiction)
- Incest
- Lust murder
- Honor killing (in some jurisdictions and circumstances not a crime)
See also
abortion, age of consent, sexism, gender and sexuality studies, gender paradigm, marriage, flirting