sexuality

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.

   “Sexuality, then, is related to both biological sex and gender, and simultaneously is quite distinct from them. […] We employ sexuality to refer to all kinds of sexual relations, including sexual activities, eroticism, sexual identities, sexual meanings, and sexual politics.”

2. isim Sexual activity; concern with, or interest in, sexual activity.

   “Listening to teenage girls on the telephone discuss for an hour who held whose hand at a party underscores the universal adolescent fascination with burgeoning sexuality.”

3. isim Sexual potency.

   “As his sexual activity is aggressive, so he is interested in display and in manifestation of his sexuality, if not directly, then in contest against other men. And the whole of his life manifests his inner need to take initiative.”

4. isim Sexual orientation.

   “[T]his prospective gay adoptive father chose not to disclose his sexuality to the caseworker who interviewed him at his home, rather than admit that he was a gay man, in order to avoid being told he could not adopt.”

5. isim Sexual identity, gender.