Gender & Sexuality Studies

This term is used for the concepts of sexual behavior, sexuality, AND gender. Sex role is used for "gender roles."

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subdivision Sexual behavior under classes of persons and ethnic groups and under names of individual persons; and headings beginning with the word Sexual

Browse topics that begin with "Sex and law."

Narrower Term: Asexuality
Narrower Term: Bisexuality.
Narrower Term: Heterosexuality
Narrower Term: Homosexuality.

Here are entered works on the practice of having more than one spouse. Works on multiple marriage as a criminal offense are entered under Bigamy. Narrower Term: Polyandry

Used for polyamory.

Used for "sex work."

Used for "sex workers."

Kinsey Confidential™ is a sexuality information service designed by The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction™ to meet the sexual health information needs of college-age adults .This site contains articles on a variety of sex information topics as well as podcasts and questions and answers from our weekly newspaper column, Kinsey Confidential.™

Notches was established in order to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about sex and sexualities in the past and in the present. It has a number of regular contributors, who consider the history of sexuality in its broadest sense: the way it is connected to the history of gender, society, politics, economies, and cultures, and the way it informs current issues.

Sexual orientation typically describes people's sexual attractions or desires based on their sex relative to that of a target. Despite its utility, it has been critiqued in part because it fails to account for non-biological gender-related factors, partnered sexualities unrelated to gender or sex, or potential divergences between love and lust. In this article, I propose Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT) as a testable, empirically grounded framework for understanding diverse partnered sexualities, separate from solitary sexualities. I focus on and provide models of two parameters of partnered sexuality-gender/sex and partner number. SCT also delineates individual gender/sex. I discuss a sexual diversity lens as a way to study the particularities and generalities of diverse sexualities without privileging either. I also discuss how sexual identities, orientations, and statuses that are typically seen as misaligned or aligned are more meaningfully conceptualized as branched or co-incident. I map out some existing identities using SCT and detail its applied implications for health and counseling work. I highlight its importance for sexuality in terms of measurement and social neuroendocrinology, and the ways it may be useful for self-knowledge and feminist and queer empowerment and alliance building. I also make a case that SCT changes existing understandings and conceptualizations of sexuality in constructive and generative ways informed by both biology and culture, and that it is a potential starting point for sexual diversity studies and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]