Sexuality, Gender Identity, and Sexual Disorders

Flashcards covering key vocabulary related to sexuality, gender identity, and sexual disorders.

Sexuality

Encompasses sexual orientation, encompassing heterosexuality, homosexuality (gay/lesbian), bisexuality, pansexuality, and asexuality.

Gender Identity

An individual's internal sense of being male, female, both, or neither, influencing terms like cisgender, transgender, gender dysphoria, gender expression, genderfluid, genderqueer, and nonbinary.

LGBTQIA2+

An inclusive acronym representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and Two-Spirit individuals.

Intersex

Refers to variations in sexual biology that do not fit typical definitions of male or female.

Cisgender

Individuals whose gender identity aligns with their sex assigned at birth.

Gender Dysphoria

Distress experienced when a person's gender identity does not match their sex assigned at birth.

Gender Expression

How an individual outwardly presents their gender, through clothing, behavior, etc.

Genderfluid

Individuals whose gender identity varies over time.

Genderqueer

Individuals whose gender identity falls outside of the traditional male/female binary.

Nonbinary

Umbrella term for gender identities that are not exclusively male or female.

Transgender

Individuals whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

Sexual Dysfunctions

Difficulties experienced during sexual activity, categorized by natal sex (male or female), including delayed ejaculation, erectile disorder, female orgasmic disorder, etc.

Paraphilias

Intense sexual interests outside of the norm. Some examples are Exhibitionistic disorder, Fetishistic disorder, Frotteuristic disorder, Pedophilic disorder, Sexual sadism disorder, Sexual masochism disorder, Transvestic disorder and Voyeuristic disorder.