Clinically, heterosexual acts are considered most common in today's cultures (statistically most likely), but the concept of "normal" and "abnormal" with its connotations of sickness or moral judgment are no longer considered valid by most medical professionals. Some Abrahamic groups maintain that homosexuals as such do not exist and that homosexuality is actually an unnatural choice, illness or addiction. Many of these groups support reparative therapy to cure homosexuality or stricter laws to prevent individuals engaging freely in h ...

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Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - A much wider definition of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Complexities and terminology, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation identity and behavior, Sexual orientation - Classification and boundaries, Sexual orientation - Alternative sexual orientations, Sexual orientation - Demographics of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Causes and malleability of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation and mental health, Sexual orientation - Morality religion and choice, Sexual orientation - History, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation as a construction

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Sexual Energy Massage: The primary practice of Bone Marrow Nei Kung. It involves simultaneous digital massage of one's genitals and meditative breathing. The purpose of Sexual Energy Massage is to release Ching Chi from the genitals for dissemination in the body and absorption by the bones. Ching Chi isa combination of sex hormones and sexual energy that can regenerate bone marrow.

(See also: Sexual Energy Massage, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Main article: Demographics of sexual orientation The multiple aspects of sexual orientation and the boundary-drawing problems already described create methodological challenges for the study of the demographics of sexual orientation. Determining the frequency of various sexual orientations in real-world populations is difficult and controversial. In the oft-cited and oft-criticized Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), by Alfred C. Kinsey et. al., people were asked to ra ...

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Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - A much wider definition of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Complexities and terminology, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation identity and behavior, Sexual orientation - Classification and boundaries, Sexual orientation - Alternative sexual orientations, Sexual orientation - Demographics of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Causes and malleability of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation and mental health, Sexual orientation - Morality religion and choice, Sexual orientation - History, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation as a construction

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The vagina, (from the Latin for "sheath" or "scabbard" ) is the tubular tract leading from the uterus to the exterior of the body in female placental mammals and marsupials, or to the cloaca in female birds, monotremes, and some reptiles. Female insects and other invertebrates also have a vagina, which is the terminal part of the oviduct. Vagina - Human vagina. Vagina - Anatomy. The human vagina is an elastic muscular tube about 4 inches (100 mm) long and 1 inch (25 mm) in diame ...

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• Vagina - Human vagina
• Vagina - Anatomy
• Vagina - Functions of the vagina
• Vagina - Sexual health and hygiene
• Vagina - The vagina and popular culture

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Zoophilia (from the Greek Zoon, "animal", and Philia, "friendship" or "love") is a paraphilia, defined as an affinity or sexual attraction by a human to animals. Such individuals are called zoophiles. The more recent terms zoosexual and zoosexuality also describe the full spectrum of human/animal attraction. A separate term, bestiality (more common in mainstream usage), refers to human/animal sexual activity. To avoid confusion about the meaning of zoophilia — whi ...

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• Zoophilia - Terminology
• Zoophilia - Extent of occurrence
• Zoophilia - Legal status
• Zoophilia - Zoophiles
• Zoophilia - Zoophilia as a lifestyle
• Zoophilia - Non-sexual zoophilia
• Zoophilia - Zoophiles and other groups
• Zoophilia - Perspectives on zoophilia
• Zoophilia - Psychological and research perspectives
• Zoophilia - Religious perspectives
• Zoophilia - Animal studies perspectives
• Zoophilia - Animal rights and welfare concerns
• Zoophilia - Historical and cultural perspectives
• Zoophilia - Health and safety
• Zoophilia - Arguments about zoophilia or zoosexuality
• Zoophilia - Mythology and fantasy literature
• Zoophilia - Media discussion
• Zoophilia - Pornography
• Zoophilia - Social community
• Zoophilia - Zoo Code
• Zoophilia - Other popular references
• Zoophilia - Books articles and documentaries
• Zoophilia - Academic and professional
• Zoophilia - Other books
• Zoophilia - Print and online media
• Zoophilia - Television and radio

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Veganism is abstention from the consumption or use of of animal products and products that have been tested on animals. An animal product in this context refers not only to meat but to any substance derived from an animal. Most vegans avoid the use of all animal products, although some vegans may avoid eating them, but may nevertheless wear clothes made of materials derived from animals, such as l ...

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• Veganism - Definition
• Veganism - Animal products
• Veganism - Motivation
• Veganism - Ethics
• Veganism - Health
• Veganism - Environmental considerations
• Veganism - Sexual and feminist motives
• Veganism - Vegan cuisine
• Veganism - Similar diets and lifestyles
• Veganism - Vegan nutrition
• Veganism - Cultural aspects
• Veganism - Criticism and controversy
• Veganism - Ethical criticism
• Veganism - Health criticism
• Veganism - Notes

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A condom is a device, usually made of latex, that is used during sexual intercourse to reduce the risk of pregnancy and/or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV. Condoms are also often used to keep a sex toy clean, such as a strap-on dildo, both making cleanup easier, and in cases of toys shared between partners, helping provide STD protection. Condoms do not protect against all forms of STDs. They are also known as prophylactics, as well as a number of colloquial or slang terms, such as ru ...

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• Condom - Overview
• Condom - Condom failure
• Condom - Proper use
• Condom - Effectiveness of condoms in preventing sexually-transmitted infections STIs
• Condom - Health issues
• Condom - Prevalence of condoms
• Condom - Female condoms
• Condom - French Letter
• Condom - Religious attitudes towards use of condoms
• Condom - Factors Influencing Condom Use
• Condom - Geographic Location
• Condom - Drug Use
• Condom - Anti-Condom Trends
• Condom - Laws and policies restricting condoms
• Condom - Environmental impact
• Condom - Other uses for condoms

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Vulvovaginal health is the health and sanitation of the human female vulva and vagina. Vulvovaginal health - Conditions. Problems affecting this area include: Infection with Candida albicans (candidiasis or "yeast infection") Bacterial vaginosis (BV) associated with the Gardnerella, formerly called "nonspecific vaginitis" Trichomoniasis Vulvodynia Cervical cancer (detected by the Pap smear) Urinary bladder infection, urinary tract infec ...

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• Vulvovaginal health - Conditions
• Vulvovaginal health - Causes
• Vulvovaginal health - Symptoms
• Vulvovaginal health - Maintaining health

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Defined negatively, health is the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. In any organism, health is a form of homeostasis. This is a state of balance, with inputs and outputs of energy and matter in equilibrium (allowing for growth). Health also implies good prospects for continued survival. In sentient creatures such as humans, health is a broader concept. Many definitions of health have been offered from time to time. Webster's Dic ...

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• Health - Notes and references

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People who are left-handed are more dexterous with their left hand than with their right hand: they will probably also use their left hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on. Writing is not as good an indicator of handedness as it might seem, because many people who are left-handed write with their right hand and use their left for everything else. Left-handed - Statistics of left-handedness. Approximately 10% of the population is left-handed. People who can use both hands equally well are ...

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• Left-handed - Statistics of left-handedness
• Left-handed - Causes of left-handedness
• Left-handed - Evolutionary theories
• Left-handed - Biological theories
• Left-handed - Environmental theories
• Left-handed - Social stigma and repression of left-handedness
• Left-handed - Linguistic suggestion
• Left-handed - Daily suppression
• Left-handed - Left-handedness and health
• Left-handed - Left-handedness and intelligence
• Left-handed - Disappearing Left-Handers
• Left-handed - Left-handedness and developmental disorders
• Left-handed - Left-handedness and sexual offences
• Left-handed - Left-sidedness
• Left-handed - In humans
• Left-handed - In animals
• Left-handed - Source

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The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an evangelical Christian denomination based on the teachings of the Bible. The Seventh-day Adventist Church grew out of the prophetic Millerite movement in the United States during the middle part of the 19th century. Commencing with an exploration of the concept of an "investigative judgment", the movement soon developed some distinguishing features such as the belief that Saturday is the Sabbath and a belief that death is an unconscious, nondescript state, until an imminent, global S ...

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• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Origins
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Doctrine
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Sabbath
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Hell and the state of the dead
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Baptism
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Second Coming of Christ
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Spirit of Prophecy
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Creeds
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Practices and customs
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Sabbath activities
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Outreach
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Health diet and sexuality
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Structure polity and institutions
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Structure and polity
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Other institutions
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Membership
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Off-shoots and schismatics
• Seventh-day Adventist Church - Outsider criticisms

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Some examples may help clarify the distinctions between orientation or desire, identity, and behavior: People of any sexual orientation may choose sexual abstinence, suppressing or ignoring any desires they may have. Some people who feel homosexual desire may engage in heterosexual behavior and even heterosexual marriage for a number of reasons, whether cultural or religious beliefs, or through fear of discrimination should they "come out". Some bisexual people have only one sexual or roma ...

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Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - A much wider definition of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Complexities and terminology, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation identity and behavior, Sexual orientation - Classification and boundaries, Sexual orientation - Alternative sexual orientations, Sexual orientation - Demographics of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Causes and malleability of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation and mental health, Sexual orientation - Morality religion and choice, Sexual orientation - History, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation as a construction

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Main articles: Environment, choice, and sexual orientation and Genetics and sexual orientation Considerable debate continues over what biological and/or psychological variables produce sexual orientation in humans, such as genes and the exposure of certain levels of hormones to fetuses. A much smaller dialog remains in progress on whether that orientation is discretionary, largely limited to a minority of Christians and many Muslims with its foundation rooted in theology and old scientific thinking. Freud and many others, particularly in psychoanalytic traditions, speculate that ...

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Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - A much wider definition of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Complexities and terminology, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation identity and behavior, Sexual orientation - Classification and boundaries, Sexual orientation - Alternative sexual orientations, Sexual orientation - Demographics of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Causes and malleability of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation and mental health, Sexual orientation - Morality religion and choice, Sexual orientation - History, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation as a construction

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Because sexual orientation is complex and multi-dimensional, some academics and researchers (especially in Queer studies) have argued that sexual orientation is a completely historical and social construction. In 1976 the historian Michel Foucault argued that homosexuality as a concept did not exist as such in the 18th century; that people instead spoke of "sodomy" (which involved specific sexual acts regardless of the sex of the actors) as a cri ...

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Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - A much wider definition of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Complexities and terminology, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation identity and behavior, Sexual orientation - Classification and boundaries, Sexual orientation - Alternative sexual orientations, Sexual orientation - Demographics of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Causes and malleability of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation and mental health, Sexual orientation - Morality religion and choice, Sexual orientation - History, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation as a construction

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Typically a person may be identified as primarily Heterosexual (the focus is primarily people of the opposite sex/gender), Homosexual (people of the same sex/gender), Bisexual (potentially both or either sexes/gender), or Asexual (no sexual attraction for either sex/gender). There is sometimes an overlap of opinion as to whether a person is straight/bisexual or gay/bisexual because such a person is technically bisexual (sexually and romantically attracted to both sexes/genders), but also fits a looser, un-official definition of homosexual (gay/lesbian) or st ...

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Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - A much wider definition of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Complexities and terminology, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation identity and behavior, Sexual orientation - Classification and boundaries, Sexual orientation - Alternative sexual orientations, Sexual orientation - Demographics of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Causes and malleability of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation and mental health, Sexual orientation - Morality religion and choice, Sexual orientation - History, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation as a construction

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Some people (often labeled "bisexuals") label themselves pansexual, in that they are attracted to people who don't fit in a clearly definable sex/gender (e.g., transgender and/or intersex people). Still other people use varied terms to describe their sexual orientations, including: fluid (especially when they don't want to restrict their sexual orientation with a more-specific label), homoflexible (for people who consider themselves predominantly homosexual but occasionally open to opposite-sex attraction), heteroflex ...

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Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - A much wider definition of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Complexities and terminology, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation identity and behavior, Sexual orientation - Classification and boundaries, Sexual orientation - Alternative sexual orientations, Sexual orientation - Demographics of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Causes and malleability of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation and mental health, Sexual orientation - Morality religion and choice, Sexual orientation - History, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation as a construction

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Ongoing debate about the morality of same-sex relations often references beliefs about whether sexual orientation is a choice or a fixed attribute. There are several different views on the subject, the major ones of which are: Sexual orientation is a preference, like any other lifestyle choice. People can be influenced in this choice, as in any other, by their peers, by media exposure, and by society in general, but the responsibility for making the choice is personal. (This view is frequently, though not always, accompan ...

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Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - A much wider definition of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Complexities and terminology, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation identity and behavior, Sexual orientation - Classification and boundaries, Sexual orientation - Alternative sexual orientations, Sexual orientation - Demographics of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Causes and malleability of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation and mental health, Sexual orientation - Morality religion and choice, Sexual orientation - History, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation as a construction

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There is a common boundary-drawing problem (or controversy, at least) when considering how to divide a population between "heterosexual", "bisexual", and "homosexual" by behavior or by orientation. The largest disagreement is probably over which criterion - identity, desire, or behavior - is most important. With regard to identity, common controversial topics of procedure include whether someone should be categorized as "bisexual" by behavior if they have any sexual contact with members of more than one gender, and further, whe ...

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Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - A much wider definition of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Complexities and terminology, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation identity and behavior, Sexual orientation - Classification and boundaries, Sexual orientation - Alternative sexual orientations, Sexual orientation - Demographics of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Causes and malleability of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation and mental health, Sexual orientation - Morality religion and choice, Sexual orientation - History, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation as a construction

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Main articles: History of sexuality, Anthropological classification of homosexuality Anthropologists identify the following forms of homosexuality: Age-structured - The partners are of different ages. Gender-structured - Each partner plays a different gender role. Egalitarian - The partners are of equal age (or age is of no relevance in the partnership structure) and both play the same socially-accepted sex ...

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Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - A much wider definition of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Complexities and terminology, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation identity and behavior, Sexual orientation - Classification and boundaries, Sexual orientation - Alternative sexual orientations, Sexual orientation - Demographics of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Causes and malleability of sexual orientation, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation and mental health, Sexual orientation - Morality religion and choice, Sexual orientation - History, Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation as a construction

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Lesser Kan & Li (Sexual Alchemy): Form of meditation whose theory posits chi, core energy channels, higher energy bodies, and internal male and female sexual energies (which are mixable in self-intercourse).

(See also: Lesser Kan & Li, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)