Chapter 9 Flashcards
Sexuality
The complex range of desires, beliefs, and behaviors that are related to erotic physical contact and the cultural arena within which people debate about what kinds of physical desires and behaviors are right, appropriate, and natural.
Heterosexuality
Attraction to and sexual relations between individuals of the opposite sex
Homosexuality
Attraction to and sexual relations between individuals of the same sex
Bisexuality
Attraction to and sexual relations with members of both sexes
Asexuality
A lack of erotic attraction to others
Sexology
Scientific study of sexuality
Sex Tourism
Travel, usually organized through the tourism sector, to facilitate commercial sexual relations between tourists and local residents
Sex work
Labor though which one provides sexual services for money (A survival strategy to get out of poverty in cases)