SEXUAL DEFINITIONS
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CALLIPYGIAN: Having shapely buttocks
CANOPHILIA: Turned on by dogs
CATAGELOPHILIA: Love of being ridiculed
CATAMENIA: Menstruation
CATAMITE: A boy used in homosexual relations
CHASMOPHILIA: Attraction to nooks, crannies, crevices, and chasms
CHEIMAPHILIA: Deriving pleasure from cold or winter
CHREMATISTOPHILIA: Arousal from being charged for sex or robbed
CHRYSOPHILIA: Arousal from gold or golden objects
CLAUSTROPHILIA: Love of being confined in small places
COMMASCULATION: Homosexuality between men
CONCUPISCENCE: Excessive sexual desire
CONTRECTATION: The love play preceding sexual intercourse
CONVERTITE: A reformed prostitute
COPROLOGY: The study of pornography
COPROPHEMIA: Obscene language
COPROPHILIA: A fancier of feces
CRATOLAGNIA: Arousal from strength
CRUROPHILIA: Sexual arousal from legs
CYPRIAN: Lecherous
CYPRIDOPHOBIA: Fear of getting venereal disease
CYPRIPAREUNIA: Sexual intercourse with a prostitute
Calendar Method:
A method for predicting fertility for women with regular menstrual cycles to attempt to predict their fertility by charting their menstrual cycles on a calendar.
Candida:
A type of yeast and the most common cause of vaginitis.
Celibacy:
Not having sex play.
Censorship:
The official suppression of information or expression.
Cerebral Cortex:
The area of the brain associated with higher functions, including learning and perception.
Cervical Cap:
A firm rubber cap intended to fit securely on the cervix. Used with contraceptive jelly, the cervical cap is a barrier method of birth control that is reversible and available only by prescription.
Cervical Mucus Method:
A method for predicting a woman's fertility by observing changes in her cervical mucus.
Cervix:
The narrow lower part of the uterus (womb), with an opening connecting the uterus to the vagina.
Chancroid:
A sexually transmitted bacterium that causes open genital sores.
Chastity Belts:
A variety of devices designed to prevent women, men, or children from having sex. Used from medieval to modern times, these devices were also supposed to preserve morality. Some were meant to ensure fidelity in women in the absence of their husbands. Others were designed to prevent masturbation and nocturnal emissions in men and boys.
Chemical Castration:
The use of Depo-Provera to decrease sexual desire and arousal.
Child Abuse:
Sexual assault against a child by an older person.
Child Pornography:
Images of children designed to be sexually arousing.
Chlamydia:
A common sexually transmitted organism that can cause sterility in women and men.
Circumcision:
An operation to remove the foreskin of the penis. See also Female Circumcision.
Climacteric:
The time of change that leads to menopause. The physiological midlife changes for women and men.
Climax:
An orgasm or to have orgasm.
Clinician:
A qualified health care professional, such as a doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant.
Clitoral Hood:
A small flap of skin that covers and protects the clitoris.
Clitoris:
The female sex organ that is very sensitive to the touch‹located between the labia at the top of the vulva.
Cohabitation:
Living together in a sexual relationship.
Colposcope:
A viewing instrument with a bright light and magnifying lens that is used to examine the vagina and cervix.
Combined Oral Contraceptives:
Birth control pills that contain the hormones estrogen and progestin.
Coming Out:
The process of accepting and being open about one's sexual orientation.
Companionate Love:
Affection and deep emotional attachment that may be erotic.
Comstock Act:
An 1873 law that made it a federal crime to use the U.S. mail to distribute anything considered "obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecently filthy, or vile," including information about contraception, abortion, and sexual health.
Conception:
The moment when the pre-embryo attaches to the lining of the uterus and pregnancy begins; term also used to describe the fertilization of the egg.
Condom:
A sheath of thin rubber, plastic, or animal tissue that is worn on the penis during sexual intercourse. It is an over-the-counter, reversible barrier method of birth control, and it also provides protection against the most serious sexually transmitted infections.
Continuous Abstinence:
Having no sex play for long periods of time (months or years).
Contraception:
The prevention of pregnancy; birth control.
Contraceptive Creams and Jellies:
Substances containing spermicide, which immobilizes sperm, preventing it from joining with the egg; used with diaphragms or cervical caps. These are over-the-counter, reversible barrier methods of birth control.
Contraceptive Film:
Inserted deep into the vagina, a square of tissue that melts into a thick liquid and blocks the entrance to the uterus with a spermicide to immobilize sperm, preventing it from joining with an egg; an over-the-counter, reversible barrier method of birth control. Most effective when used with a condom.
Contraceptive Foam:
Inserted deep into the vagina, a substance that blocks the entrance to the uterus with bubbles and contains a spermicide to immobilize sperm, preventing it from joining with an egg; an over-the-counter, reversible barrier method of birth control. Most effective when used with a condom.
Contraceptive Suppository Capsule:
Inserted deep into the vagina, a solid that melts into a fluid liquid to immobilize sperm, preventing it from joining with an egg; an over-the-counter, reversible barrier method of birth control. Most effective when used with a condom.
Corporal Punishment:
A form of discipline that inflicts pain on one's body.
Corpus Cavernosa:
Two strips of tissue that lie on each side of the urethra in the penis. During sexual excitement, they fill with blood to create an erection.
Corpus Spongiosum:
The tissue that surrounds the urethra inside the penis and is responsible, like the corpus cavernosa, for an erection; also the type of tissue that forms the glans of the clitoris and the penis.
Cowper's Glands:
The glands beneath the prostate gland that are attached to the urethra. They produce a substance that makes seminal fluid sticky.
Cremaster Reflex:
An automatic response to stimulation (for example, cold temperature or touching the inside of the thigh) in which the cremaster muscle pulls the scrotum and testes closer to the body.
Cross-Dressers:
Women and men who like to occasionally wear various articles of clothing associated with the other gender for the fun of it (not for sexual excitement).
Cryptorchidism:
The condition in which one or both of the testicles do not descend from the lower abdomen before puberty.
Cultural Norm:
An activity, belief, or value that is shared by members of a particular culture. Deviation from cultural norms often invites scorn, ridicule, punishment, or banishment.
Culture:
The shared beliefs, values, heritage, customs, norms, art, food, language, and rituals of a community.
Cystitis:
An infection of the bladder.
Cytomegalovirus:
An infection that may be transmitted through sexual or intimate contact that may cause permanent disability, including hearing loss and mental retardation for infants and blindness and mental disorders for adults
Can Entertain: willing to invite others to their home for swinging
Can Travel: prefer not to have you at our house (usually due to kids at home)
Caning: a spanking fetish employing a light cane usually bamboo or light wood
Cheating: sexual activity with others without spouse's knowledge and consent
Clean: hygienic; free of sexually transmitted diseases
Closed Door: see Closed Swinging
Closed Swinging: intercouple sex between couples in different rooms
Closet Swinger: a person who hides the he/she is a swinger.
Couple in swinging: a man and a woman. may be married, living together (cohabitating), committed (on going relationship) or a single couple dating for swinging purposes;
Cpl: couple
Culture: euphemism for fetish, arts. See English Culture, Greek Culture,
Crossdresser: enjoys wearing clothes of opposite sex
Cunnilingus: stimulation of the vagina and clitoris by the mouth especially the tongue and lips and sometimes the teeth (see French Culture)
CO WIFE, CO HUSBAND- Terms used to describe one's other partners in a group marriage.
CLAN- An extended family, including secondary and tertiary relationships, who regard themselves as a clan.
CELLULAR FAMILY- A multi adult family whose structure allows new partners to be added to the family with mutual consent.
CORPORATE MARRIAGE- A group marriage that is legally structured and registered as a corporate entity, whether a DBA, Partnership, Trust, Corporation or other legal form
CONDOM COMMITMENT- An agreement among all the members of any open sexual love relationship group that all partners be tested for sexually transmitted diseases, and that condoms be used with any lovers outside of the group.
CLOSED/EXCLUSIVE RELATIONSHIP- A sexual love relationship in which the partners have agreed to have no other lovers outside of the relationship.
CAMP..........................................BEHAVE IN AN EFFEMINATE MANNER
CAN..............................................THE BUTTOCKS
CASTRATION.............................RENDER THE TESTICLES INOPERABLE BY SURGERY
CHANGE YOUR LUCK.............TO ENGAGE IN A GAY SEX FOR THE FIRST TIME
CHASTE.......................................TO ENGAGE IN ORDINARY SEXUAL ACTIVITIES
CHEAT.........................................TO BE UNFAITHBUL TO ONE'S SEX PARTNER
CHEEKS.......................................FLESHY PORTIONS OF BUTTOCKS
CHERRY......................................ONE WHO IS STILL A VIRGIN
CHICKEN.....................................A YOUNG, ATTRACTIVE MALE
CIRCUMCISION........................SURGICAL REMOVAL OF THE FORESKIN
CLAP............................................GONORRHEA OR OTHER VENERAL DESEASE
CLIMAX.......................................TO ACHIEVE THE HIGH POINT OF SEX ACTIVITY.
CLIT.............................................THE CLITORIS
CLITORIS...................................STRUCTURE OF THE FEMALE GENITALIA
CLOSET QUEEN........................A MALE HOMOSEXUAL WHO HIDES HIS DESIRES FOR MEN
COCK............................................THE PENIS (IN SOUTHERN SECTION OF USA REFERS TO FEMALE VIGINA)
COCKSUCKER............................ONE WHO PERFORMS ORAL INTERCOURSE ON THE PENIS
COITUS.........................................SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
COITUS IN ANO..........................ANAL INTERCOURSE
COITUS INTERRUPTUS............WITHDRAWL OF THE PENIS PRIOR TO EJACULATION
COLD............................................UNRESPONSIVE TO SEXUAL RELATIONS
COME...........................................TO ACHIEVE SEXUAL ORGASM
CONDOM.....................................RUBBER SHEATH WORN ON THE PENIS
CONTINENCE.............................TO REFRAIN FROM SEXUAL ACTIVITY
CORNHOLE.................................ANAL INTERCOURSE
CORONA......................................RIM OF FLESH WHICH FORMS THE BASE OF THE HEAD OF PENIS
CRABS..........................................LICE WHICH INFECT THE PUBIC AREA OF THE BODY
CROTCH......................................JUNCTURE OF THE THIGHS WITH THE BODY; THE GENITALS AREA
CRUISE.........................................THE HUNT FOR A SEX PARTNER
CUNDRUM...................................A RUBBER SHEATH WORN ON THE PENIS
CUM...............................................SEMEN
CUNT.............................................THE VAGINA
Closet: The confining state of being secretive about one's homosexuality.
Colors Historically Associated With Homosexuality:
Green: United States, 1930's to 1950's.
Red: United States, late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Pink: Nazi Germany.
Scarlet: Imperial Rome.
Violet: Imperial Rome.
Blue: present-day Russia.
Lavender: throughout history and in present-day United States.
Rainbow: present-day United States.
Come out: To acknowledge one's homosexuality, either to oneself or to others; most often a public declaration of being lesbian or gay.
Commitment Ceremony: Any ritual, religious or secular, for honoring the union of lesbian or gay male couples.
Cross-dressing: The practice of dressing in clothes traditionally assigned to the opposite gender; also called transvestitism or drag.
Caning- The use of a cane on a bottom.
Cat or cat o' nine tails- Originally it was a whip used by the British Navy. Actually it is referred to all whips which are multi-thonged.
Code word(s)- Word or words that are used in personal ads to unnotice sexual proclivities mostly unacceptable in society. Ex: French or Greek culture, clean, discipline, strict, leather, etc.
Consensual- An agreement made by parties for certain type of behavior or activities. When the consent is informed and there is a reasonable knowledge of possible risks is called true consent.
Clitoris: A small erectile organ situated toward the front or top part of the vulva (vaginal exterior). During sexual arousal, the smooth muscles within the clitoris relax and the arterial wall dilates, increasing blood flow. A woman's difficulty or inability to achieve blood flow to the clitoris is a symptom of female sexual arousal disorder.
Contraindications: A symptom or condition that makes a particular treatment or therapy inadvisable.
CTD: A clitoral therapy device, such as the Eros™ Therapy.
Chaste sex. Sexual intercourse between husband and wife after marriage
Clitoris. A small erectile organ located in the forward area of the wife's vulva. Stimulation of the clitoris during foreplay and sexual intercourse can enhance the wife chances of an orgasm.
Conception. The point at which the husband's sperm unites with the wife's egg, causing life to begin.
Condom. A thin balloon-type device which is worn over the husband's erect penis during sexual intercourse to prevent conception. The ejaculated sperm is caught by the condom so it does not enter the vagina and make it's way to the wife's egg. Persons engaging in illicit sex also use condoms to prevent sexually-transmitted diseases such as AIDS.
Contraceptive. Any device, product, or process which prevents conception.
Cunnilingus. Stimulation of the wife's genital area, especially the clitoris, with the husband's lips and tongue. During foreplay. continued cunnilingus is likely to cause the wife to experience an orgasm. Among lesbian women, cunnilingus is a primary sexual activity.
cunnilingus
Definitions: oral stimulation of woman's genitals: sexual stimulation of a woman's genitals using the tongue and lips
cunt
Definitions: 1. a highly offensive term for a woman's genitals
C&B or CBT = cock and ball torture; intense stimulation of the male genitals more
often associated with pain, bondage, endurance, etc.
Caning = Use of a cane, a flexible rod. Very intense and leaves more pronounced marks.
Collar = band of leather, metal, cloth, etc. encircling the neck; signifies a bottom role
Consensual = based on mutual agreement; not coerced; one of the three cornerstones
of social SM play: Safe, Sane & Consensual
cross-gendered: Being inclined to adopt or exhibit behavioural characteristics of the opposite sex and to lack clear identification with one's own sex
Chester or bugger = child molester
C P = Corporal Punishment, a type of B&D/sadomasochistic sexual interaction
curvies = female secondary sex characteristics, particularly referencing the rounded outlines of waist, breasts, and buttocks
cleft = (1)area between labia majora, (2)cleavage between breasts, (3)cleavage
between male or female buttocks
crack = [1] vagina or [2] buttock cleavage (or, of course, [3] rock cocaine)
clitoris: clit, button or love button, chovis, dealybob, man in the boat, tongue candy (as object of cunnilingus), where the action is, female dick or little dick
lallies = legs, particularly attractive legs labia: lips, pussy lips, lady lips, pantie-lips, cunt-lips, honey lips vaginal secretions: quim, lubri-cunt, honey, hot honey or golden honey, pussy dew or cunt dew, wet, being wet, wet & wild, lovin’-juice, cunt juice, sluice labia minora and vestibule/vagina: clam, shell, gash, slit, slot or love-slot, the pink, crack, cleft, pussy, hole, chovis
copulation: shag, fuck, drill, screw, bang, bonk, ball, servicing, lovin’, humping, pumping, diddling, spooning, tupping, sleep with, make whoopie, make love, make it, do it, go at it, get it on, get laid, get some, get the little man wet, get the dick wet, wet the Willie, put the weiner in the bun, make a meat sandwich, dip the stick, party or party-on-down, makin’ bacon (implies overweight status of one or both partners), to dick-dip or dick diving, boffing, roll in the hay, mattress polo, coffee table or pool table lumbago, fusion & fission, slamming (refers primarily to an act of physical performance without love/heart involvment), getting in/into the pink or getting the pink, performing the wifely duty, poking or pickle-poking, get oil changed
cranking = (1)copulating or (2)using amphetamines
condom: jocky johnnie, glove, protection, rubber, safety, sheik, trojan, raincoat, party hat, sleeve French letter or French safes
circumcised penis: bald or baldie (because the glans is exposed when an uncircumcised penis becomes erect, thus "bald" can refer to an erection as well)
COMPERSION- Warm happy feelings experienced when noticing ones loved ones enjoying loving relationships with others.The opposite of jealousy.
corona: The 'crown,' a ridge of flesh demarcating where the head of the penis and the shaft join.
corpa cavernosa: The corpora cavernosa are the two spongy bodies of erectile tissue on either side of the penis which become engorged with blood from arteries in the penis, thus causing erection.
cowper's glands: The Cowper's glands secrete a small amount of pre-ejaculate fluid prior to orgasm. This fluid neutralizes the acidity within the urethra itself.
cohabiting sexual partner: a sexual partner living in the same house with somebody
Camp: an affectation usually done in humor which might involve a satirical or sarcastic depiction of the opposite sex.
CD: crossdresser, crossdressing.
Cherry: represents the Virgin Goddess, also used in the title of the book Cherry Single, which can be read on this web site (I'm shameless).
Closeted: hiding one's sexuality or gender predilection from others or the public. Closet case.
Come out: to tell others about one's hidden sexual or gender orientation. May involve only closest friends, or family members and employer.
Crossdresser: a person who occasionally dresses in the clothing of the opposite sex for sexual or emotional pleasure, or both. The most commonly-used term, having replaced transvestite. May be male or female, hetero- or homosexual, bi- or solosexual, and may partially or wholly cross-dress.
clergy = [derogatory] persons considered to have sexual hang-ups
Cock Ring: A strap of leather, rubber or metal that is placed around the base of the penis (and sometimes, testicles) to promote firmer erections and for decoration.
Clitoral Stimulator: A vibrator that is designed to be worn against the body using straps.
concha (Spanish) = collective name for female external genitalia, especially labia minora and vagina (which at times somewhat resemble a shell/concha)
crotchless knicks crotchless panties = underwear with cutouts exposing the genitalia
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