For Sexual Orientation we have terms and definitions in 5 topics. The topics are Developmental Psychology, Reproductive Infections, Sex, Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Sexual Orientation (Developmental Psychology)

An individual's sexual, emotional, romantic, and affectionate attraction to members of the same sex, the other sex, or both.

Sexual Orientation (Reproductive Infections)

The sex to which a person is physically and emotionally attracted. Heterosexual orientation refers to attraction to members of the opposite sex; homosexual orientation refers to attraction to members of one's own sex; and bisexual orientation refers to attraction to both sexes.

Sexual Orientation (Sex)

According to the traditional perspective, one of two possible self-images an individual may have of himself (normally correlating to one's own sex); and according to more liberal views, one of a multitude of sexual preferences one may adopt during his life time, preferences that are not the outcome of one's biological constraints but rather of one's preference with respect to how to obtain sexual excitation and gratification (e. g.: fetishism, homosexuality, pedophilia, sodomy, coprophilia, pederasty, sadomasochism, transsexualism, etc.); syn. GENDER

Sexual Orientation (Sexual Health)

The term used to describe the gender of the objects of our sexual desires. People who feel sexual desire for members of the other gender are heterosexual, or straight. People who feel sexual desire for people of the same gender are homosexual, or gay. Gay women are called lesbians. People who are attracted to both genders are bisexuals.

Sexual Orientation (Sexually Transmitted Diseases)

Whether people are homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual. A person can not choose their SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Their body chooses it for them before they start to have sex or even before they start going through PUBERTY. SEXUAL ORIENTATION might even be figured out before birth, just like gender.

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