SEXUAL DEFINITIONS
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DACRYPHILIA: Arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner
DASYPYGAL: Having hairy buttocks
DEOSCULATE: To kiss affectionately
DEPUSCELATE: To lose one’s virginity
DIGENESIS: Alternately sexual and asexual reproduction
DIGENOUS: Bisexual
DIOESTRUM: The time when a female animal is not in heat
DORAPHILIA: Love of animal skins
DOWCET: A deer’s testicle
DYSTYCHIPHILIA: Deriving pleasure from accidents
Date Rape:Coerced sexual intercourse during a dating relationship.
Delayed Ejaculation:Commonly used term for inhibited orgasm in men.
Depo-Provera®:A progestin that is injected into the buttock or arm every 12 weeks to prevent pregnancy. It is a reversible method of birth control available only by prescription.
Depression:The feeling of great sadness that takes control over one's life.
Desire: A feeling of sexual attraction or arousal. The first stage of the sexual response cycle.
Diaphragm:A soft rubber dome intended to fit securely over the cervix. Used with contraceptive cream or jelly, the diaphragm is a reversible barrier method of birth control available only by prescription.
Diversity:The presence of many different kinds of people, including people of various racial and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, and social classes.
Domestic Partnership:The committed, long-term relationship of two unmarried people who live together.
Dominance and Submission (D and S): Erotic activities that play out fantasies of power and powerlessness.
Dominant Culture: The group that holds political, ideological, and economic power in a diverse society.
Don Juanism: The desire by a man to have sex very frequently with many different partners.
Double Standard: An unequal set of moral standards, rules, or expectations that allows one group to have more privileges than another group within a society. A sexual double standard, for example, usually places more restrictions on women than on men.
Douche: A spray of water or solution of medication into the vagina.
Dyspareunia: Painful intercourse for women that may be caused by hormonal imbalances, especially those that happen after menopause.
Dildo: an artificial penis, usually made of rubber or plastic, for sexual stimulation of the vagina and sometimes the anus
Director: the term used to describe the principal person who runs or otherwise operates a swing club, generally the owner. A person who works for the director and is responsible for party or club operation whether or not for pay, is generally call a manager
Discipline: a sexual fetish in which one partner dominates the other, a willing participant. Often includes physical punishment of the submissive partner, ranges from physical restraint to mild spankings to painful beatings
Discretion: asking those who write or call to exercise caution so that children or others who may open mail or answer phone will not be offended and/or made aware of the swinging activity
Docile: willing to receive bondage and/or discipline (see Submissive)
Domestic Training: submissive obedience to household chores of an intimate and humiliating nature.
Dom: see Dominant
Dominant: the sexual partner in control of the willing submissive partner
Dominant: the person who directs the scene and issues the commands
Dungeon = a room designed and decorated specifically for SM play. Also known as "play room" (Henkin & Holiday)
DAISY CHAIN.............................A GROUP SEX ACTIVITY IN WHICH THERE IS A LINKING OF SEVERAL PEOPLE BY ORAL CONNECTIONS
DARK MEAT...............................A NEGRO AS A SEX OBJECT
DERRIERE..................................THE BUTTOCKS
DICK..............................................THE PENIS
DIDDLE.........................................TO PERFORM MASTURBATION
DINGE QUEEN............................MALE HOMOSEXUAL WHO PERFERS NEGRO SEX PARTNERS
DIRT...............................................SYSLAVE MEMBERS WHO'S CHECKS BOUNCE
DOG................................................AN UNATTRACTIVE PERSON
DOG FASHION.............................SEXUAL POSITION USED BY CANINES
DONG.............................................THE PENIS
DOSE..............................................GONORRHEA OR OTHER VENEREAL DISEASE
DRAG QUEEN...............................MALE WHO DRESSES IN FEMALE CLOTHING
DRIVE IT HOME..........................FORCEFUL INTERCOURSE
DRY FUCK.....................................MOVING AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, CLOTHED TO SIMULATE INTERCOURSE
DYKE.............................................A LESBIAN
Drag: Cross-dressing, assuming both the dress and mannerisms of the opposite gender.
Dyke: Once known as a derogatory term for lesbian, the word dyke was reclaimed by lesbians in the 1970's as slang, and many lesbians now refer to themselves as dykes.
Discipline- The other part of Bondage (B&D) that could also mean punishment or a structured training of a submissive.
Dominance, dominance and submission, D/S, D&S- Used for erotic enhancement, one partner uses consensual empowerment for the other partner. In SM, dominance and submission are the psychological and emotional underpinnings.
Dominant, Dom, Domme, Domina, Dominatrix- The person that in a consensual exchange of power is in charge. If the person is a male is called Dominant or Dom; if is a female is called a Domme, Domina or Dominatrix.
Desire. The normal, natural need felt by husband and wife to have sexual intercourse, especially during foreplay.
Dildo. A penis-shaped rod, often covered with rubber and even containing a variable-speed vibrator
Dreams, erotic. Dreams about sexual activities, sometimes connected with someone other than a spouse.
Depilation: removal of hair. Transsexuals often use electrolysis.
Domination: sexual role playing involving power over another. See also: masochism. Bondage and domination, or BD, B/D.
Dominatrix: the dominating female partner in a sadomasochistic relationship, sometimes a paid professional.
Drag: crossdressing, especially in public or in a performance. Drag queen, drag king.
Dyke: once used to indicate a butch (masculine role) lesbian, but now referring to any lesbian.
Dildo: Any cylindrically shaped object used for sexual stimulation (usually via insertion).
Double Dildo (Double Dong): A double-ended dildo. Can be used by two individuals simultaneously.
Dominance = controlling and directing the scene
dogging = engaging in sex in a car or other observable location while others watch doggystyle = copulation position with male entering from behind, with female (coitus a tergo or coitus posteriori) or receiving male (coitus in ano) on hands and knees
DYAD- A sexualove relationship consisting of two primary partners.
domination:controlling power: control, power, or authority over others or another
D & S = Dominance and Submission, terms which are preferred to use to reference sadomasochistic sexual interaction
date = an event of prostitution, as in: "Hey sailor, looking for a date?"dibble = a close brush with the authorities/police
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