

Refer to playing with various power roles, in both sexual and social contexts. Or receiving pain, often in a sexual context. The terms “submission/sadism” and "masochism" refer to deriving pleasure from inflicting BDSM (Bondage, Discipline/Domination, Submission/Sadism, Masochism) Including chromosomes, hormones, internal and external reproductive organs, and secondary However, a person's sex is actually a combination of several corporeal characteristics, At birth, infants areĪssigned a sex, usually based on the visual assessment of their external anatomy. The classification of people as male, female, or intersex. Where a person may be disinclined towards sexual behavior or sexual partnering. To a partner for the purposes of sexual stimulation 2) a spectrum of sexual orientations ASEXUALġ) A sexual orientation where a person does not experience sexual attraction or desire Male and female, or as neither male nor female, or as in between male and female Ģ) Being neither distinguishably masculine or feminine, as in dress, appearance orīehavior 3) of indeterminate sex. ANDROGYNOUSġ) A person who may appear as and exhibit traits traditionally associated as both Homophobia and transphobia are social justice issues. Of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex people and a belief that heterosexism, ALLY(SHIP)ġ) Someone who confronts heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, heterosexualĪnd genderstraight privilege in themselves and others 2) a concern for the well-being Not identifying with any gender, the feeling of having no gender. Psychology, where “affect” designates sensory processes or experiences prior to cognitionĪnd distinguishes such sensations from the cognitive processes that produce emotions More technical uses of the term emerge from mid-twentieth-century scientific Or “passion” and opposing it to “reason.” Further specifying that “affect” is bothĪ “mental” and a “bodily” disposition, the OED sets in place a persistent ambiguity that challenges distinctions between mind andīody. The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) traces the history of the term to the seventeenth century, aligning it with “desire” Understood as an umbrella term that includes related, and more familiar, words suchĪs “feeling” and “emotion,” as well as efforts to make distinctions among them.


“Affect” names a conceptual problem as much as a tangible thing.
