Outline of human sexuality

Further information: Index of human sexuality articles

"Outline of sexuality" redirects here. For an outline of non-human animal sexuality, see Outline of animal sexuality.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to human sexuality:

Human sexuality is the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also refer to the way one person is sexually attracted to another person of the opposite sex (heterosexuality), the same sex (homosexuality), or having both tendencies (bisexuality). The lack of sexual attraction is referred to as (asexuality). Human sexuality impacts cultural, political, legal and philosophical aspects of life, as well as it is widely connected to issues of morality, ethics, theology, spirituality, or religion. It is not, however, directly tied to gender.

History of human sexuality

History of human sexuality

• By period
  • Sexuality in ancient Rome
    • Homosexuality in ancient Rome
    • Prostitution in ancient Rome
  • Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine
• By region
  • History of sex in India
• By subject
  • By orientation
    • History of bisexuality
    • History of homosexuality
      • History of lesbianism
  • History of masturbation
  • History of prostitution
  • LGBT history
    • History of same-sex unions
  • Sexual revolution
  • History of erotic depictions
    • Golden Age of Porn
  • Feminist Sex Wars

Types of human sexuality

• By gender
  • Male sexuality
  • Female sexuality
• By age
  • Child sexuality
    • Genital play
    • Playing doctor
  • Adolescent sexuality
  • Sexuality in older age
• By region
  • Adolescent sexuality in the United States
  • Sexuality in India
  • Sexuality in Japan
  • Sexuality in South Korea
  • Sexuality in ancient Rome
  • Sexuality in China
  • Sexuality in the Philippines
  • LGBT rights by country or territory
• Other
  • Animal sexual behaviour

Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation

• Sexual attraction –
  • Heterosexuality – sexually attracted to the opposite sex.
  • Homosexuality – sexually attracted to the same sex.
  • Bisexuality – having both homosexual and heterosexual tendencies.
  • Asexuality – not sexually attracted to either sex.
• Demographics of sexual orientation

Other sex-related identities

• Sexual orientation identity
• Gender identity
  • Transgender
• Sexual identity

Types of sexual activity

Main article: Human sexual activity

• Foreplay
• Non-penetrative sex
  • Exclusive
    • Erotic massage – rubbing all over, with or without oil.
    • "Dry humping" – frottage while clothed. This act is common, although not essential, in the dance style known as "grinding".
    • Footjob – stimulating genitals with the feet.
    • Handjob – stimulating the penis with the hand.
    • Irrumatio –
      • Intercrural sex – (interfemoral sex) type of irrumation, where one partner places a phallic object or penis between the other partner's thighs.
      • Intergluteal sex – when one partner places a phallic object or penis into the other partner's buttock cleavage or gluteal cleft.
      • Mammary intercourse – when one partner rubs a phallic object or penis between the partner's breasts.
    • Stimulation of nipples – stimulating the nipples, usually orally or manually.
    • Sumata – type of stimulation of male genitals popular in Japanese brothels: the woman rubs the man's penis with her hands, thighs and labia majora.
    • Tribadism – vulva-to-vulva rubbing, commonly known by its "scissoring" position.
    • Frot – penis-to-penis rubbing.
  • Non-exclusive
    • Fingering – stimulating the vagina or anus with the fingers.
    • Oral sex – stimulation of the genitalia by the use of mouth, lips, tongue, teeth or throat.
  • Mutual Masturbation – two or more people stimulate themselves or one another sexually, usually with the hands.
    • Autoeroticism
• Penetrative sex
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Foreplay –
  • Anal sex – penetration of one person's anus with another's penis for sexual stimulation.
  • Oral sex –
    • Anilingus – oral stimulation of the anus or perineum.
    • Cunnilingus – oral stimulation of a female's clitoris, vulva, or vagina.
    • Fellatio – oral stimulation of a male's penis.
• Masturbation
  • Fingering –
  • Anal masturbation
  • Fisting – involves inserting a hand into the vagina or rectum.
  • Autoeroticism
    • Sex toys
• Other
  • Facial
  • Group sex
• Vanilla sex
• Kinky sex
  • Sexual roleplay
  • BDSM
    • Bondage and Discipline
    • Dominance and Submission
      • Erotic humiliation
    • Sadism and Masochism
      • Cock-and-ball torture
      • Erotic spanking
    • Bondage positions
    • BDSM equipment
  • Sexual fetishism
• Sexual slang
  • Bareback –
  • Bukkake –
  • Circle jerk –
  • Creampie –
  • Cum shot –
  • Cybersex –
  • Felching –
  • Gang bang –
  • Pompoir –
  • Quickie –
  • Snowballing –
  • Tea bag –
  • Venus Butterfly –
• Sexual arousal
  • Touch
    • Erogenous zone
  • Smell
    • Perfume
    • Cologne
  • Sight
    • Romantic setting
    • Nudity
  • Sound
    • Moaning
    • Dirty talk
  • Related
    • Aphrodisiac –
    • Libido –
    • Sexual fantasy

Physiological events

• Sexual stimulation
• Sexual arousal
  • Male
    • Erection
  • Female
    • Clitoral erection
    • Vaginal lubrication
• Orgasm
  • Female ejaculation
  • Male ejaculation
• Insemination
• Pregnancy

Unsorted

• Incest
  • Accidental incest
  • Covert incest
• Mechanics of sex
  • Orgasm control
• Sex magic
• Sexual sublimation

Sexology (science of sex)

• Sexology – scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behavior, and function. The term does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sex, such as political analysis or social criticism.
  • Sexuality in older age
  • Biology and sexual orientation
  • Environment and sexual orientation
  • Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation
  • Handedness and sexual orientation
  • Neuroscience and sexual orientation
  • Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation
  • Sexual orientation change efforts
  • Sexual orientation hypothesis
  • Sexual orientation identity
  • Erotic Plasticity

Sex education

Main articles: Sex education and Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine

• Human reproduction
• Body image
• Sexual maturity
• Safe sex
  • Sexually transmitted disease
  • Birth control
  • Condom
  • Dental dam
• Postorgasmic illness syndrome
• Medicine
  • Reproductive medicine
    • Andrology
    • Gynaecology
    • Urology
  • Sexual medicine
• Sex therapy
  • Sex surrogate
• Sexual dysfunction
  • Erectile dysfunction
  • Hypersexuality
  • Hyposexuality

Philosophy of sex

Main articles: Philosophy of sex and Sexual ethics

• What is the function of sex?
• What is romantic love?
• Is there an essential characteristic that makes an act sexual?
• Are some sexual acts good and others bad? According to what criteria? Alternatively, can consensual sexual acts be immoral, or are they outside the realm of ethics?
• What is the relationship between sex and biological reproduction? Can one exist without the other?
• Are sexual identities rooted in some fundamental ontological difference (such as biology)?
• Is sexuality a function of gender or biological sex?
• Sexual objectification

Culture

Legal aspects

Main article: Sex and the law

• Laws
  • Laws regarding child sexual abuse
    • Laws regarding child pornography
  • Laws regarding rape
  • Laws regarding incest
  • Laws regarding prostitution
• Age of consent
• Criminal transmission of HIV
• Incest
• Obscenity
• Public indecency
• Sexual assault
• Sexual harassment
• Sexual misconduct
• Sexual violence

Sexual assault

Main article: Sexual assault

• Rape –
  • Types
    • Corrective rape
    • Date rape
    • Gang rape
    • Marital rape
    • Serial rape
    • Prison rape
    • Rape by deception
    • War rape
  • Effects and motivations
    • Effects and aftermath of rape
    • Rape trauma syndrome
    • Motivation for rape
    • Sociobiological theories of rape
    • Rape culture
  • Laws
    • Statutory rape
    • Rape shield law
    • False accusation of rape
    • Rape and punishment
    • Rape investigation
    • Rape kit
  • Related
    • History of rape
    • Rape statistics
    • Rape by gender
    • Anti-rape device
    • Rape crisis centers
    • Rape pornography
    • Rape and revenge films
    • Rape fantasy
• Sexual harassment
  • Sexual harassment in education
• Sexual abuse
  • Child sexual abuse
    • Child-on-child sexual abuse
  • Religion and Sexual abuse
    • Catholic sex abuse cases
    • Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country
    • Ecclesiastical response to Catholic sex abuse cases
    • Settlements and bankruptcies in Catholic sex abuse cases
      • Curial response to Catholic sex abuse cases
      • Media coverage of Catholic sex abuse cases
• Sexual violence
  • Sexual violence by intimate partners
  • Factors associated with being a victim of sexual violence

Religious aspects

Sexuality

Main article: Religion and sexuality

• Buddhism
• Christianity and sexuality
  • Catholicism
    • Sex, gender and the Roman Catholic Church
    • Catholic sex abuse cases
      • Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country
      • Ecclesiastical response to Catholic sex abuse cases
      • Settlements and bankruptcies in Catholic sex abuse cases
      • Curial response to Catholic sex abuse cases
      • Media coverage of Catholic sex abuse cases
  • Sexuality in Christian demonology
• Islam
• Judaism
• Taoism and sexuality

Sexual orientation

Main articles: LGBT and religion topics, Homosexuality and religion, and Transgenderism and religion

• Christianity
• Buddhism
• Islam
• Haitian Vodou
• Hare Krishna movement
• Scientology
• Sikhism
• Unitarian Universalism
• Zoroastrianism

Psychological aspects

• Psychosexual development
• Sexual attraction
• Sexual fantasy
• Libido
• Lust

Economic aspects

Main article: Sex industry

• Adult video game
• Sex tourism
  • Female sex tourism
  • Child sex tourism
• Erotica
• Pornography
• Prostitution
• Sex museum
• Sex shop
• Sex toy
  • Vibrator
  • Sex doll
• Strip club

Human sexuality organizations

• American Institute of Bisexuality
• Arse Elektronika
• BDSM organizations
• Fuck for Forest
• Human Awareness Institute
• OneTaste
• Sex Addicts Anonymous
• Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
• Sexaholics Anonymous
• Sexual Compulsives Anonymous
• Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health
• Survivors of Incest Anonymous

Literature

• Manga, Genre: Hentai
  • List of hentai authors
• Novels about ephebophilia
• Non-fiction books about prostitution
• Pornographic books
• Pornographic magazines
• Pornographic subgenres
• Sex manuals

Encyclopedias about sex

• Encyclopedia of Motherhood
• Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices
• International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
• Queers in History

People

• Prostitutes and courtesans

See also

Main article: Outline of relationships

• Animal sexual behaviour
• Glossary of BDSM
• Index of human sexuality articles
• Index of BDSM articles
• List of anarchist pornographic projects and models

• Sexuality in Star Trek
• Sexuality in music videos
• Sexual slang
• African-American culture and sexual orientation
• Ego-dystonic sexual orientation
• Sexual orientation and gender identity at the United Nations
• Sexual orientation and medicine
• Sexual orientation and military service
  • Sexual orientation and the Canadian military
  • Sexual orientation and the United States military
  • Sexual orientation and the military of the Netherlands
  • Sexual orientation and the military of the United Kingdom
• Sociosexual orientation
• Coitus reservatus
• Eroto-comatose lucidity
• Emergency contraceptive availability by country
• Unsimulated sex in film
• Family planning
• Marriage
• Paraphilia
• Polyamory
• Promiscuity
• Romance (love)
• Sexual abstinence
• Sexual addiction
• Sexual attraction
• Sexual capital
• Sexual ethics
• Sexual inhibition
• Sexual objectification
• Sexual slavery

External links

• American Sexuality Magazine
• Glossario di sessuologia clinica – Glossary of clinical sexology
• History of Surveys of Sexual Behavior from Encyclopedia of Behavioral Statistics
• International Encyclopedia of Sexuality full text
• Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. Volume I. World Reference Atlas [full text]
• National Sexuality Resource Center
• Durex Global Sex Survey 2005 at data360.org
• POPLINE is a searchable database of the world's reproductive health literature.
• The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality at the Kinsey Institute
• The Sexuality and Rights Institute
• The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality
• MRI Video of Human Copulation