# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions Bisexual; Coition; Coitise; Gender Paraphilia; Psychosexuality; Sex; Sexism; Sexist Sexual; Sexual Imprinting; Sexualise; Sodomise/ Sodomitical Soixante-neuf; Transsexual; Tribadism Uranism; Urning; Vulvouterine; Vulvovaginal Bisexual: bisexual (adj.): 1. of both sexes; 2. combining male and female organs in one individual; 3. sexually responsive to both sexes; (n.): 4. an animal or plant that has the reproductive organs of both sexes; 5. a person sexually responsive to both sexes; (adv.): bisexually; (n.): bisexuality, bisexualism. [*1815-25*]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). Coitise: coitise (tr.v.; coitises, *coitising*, coitised): to sexually penetrate; [e.g.]: “‘Will you all allow me to coitise you?’ Now, traditionally, the man is viewed as the coitiser and the woman as the coitised one, and this asymmetrical formulation of the coital nexus is not determined by the structure of English”. (page 272⁽*⁾, “Journal of the Hillside Hospital”, Vol. 8, 1959). [etymology: from Latin coitus, ‘copulation’ +‎ -ise, verb-forming suffix denoting behaviour or activities]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). ⁽*⁾ [https://books.google.com/?id=7TgMAQAAIAAJ&q=coitize]. Coitus/Coition: coitus or coition (n.): (zoology) *technical terms for sexual intercourse*; (adj.): coital; (adv.): coitally. [emphasis added]. [1705-15: from Latin coitus, ‘to copulate[‡]’; from coīre, ‘to meet’, from co-, ‘jointly’ + īre, ‘to go’, ‘come’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). coitus & coition (n.): *the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman*; the man’s penis is inserted into the woman’s vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur. [emphasis added]. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). [‡]copulate (intr.v. copulated, copulating, copulates): 1. to engage in *sexual intercourse in which the penis is inserted into the vagina*; 2. (used of animals) to transfer male reproductive cells from one individual to another, usually into an internal organ or cavity, such as a cloaca; (adj.): coupled; joined; (n.): copulation; (adj.): copulatory. [emphasis added]. [Latin cōpulāre, cōpulāt-, ‘to join together’, from cōpula, ‘link’, ‘bond’, ‘connection’; from co-, ‘together’ + apere, ‘to fasten’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). Gender: • gender (n.): 1. (a.) a set of grammatical categories applied to nouns, shown by the form of the noun itself or the choice of words which modify, replace, or refer to it, often correlated in part with sex or animateness, as in the choice of ‘he’ to replace ‘the man’, of ‘she’ to replace ‘the woman’, or ‘it’ to replace ‘the table’, but sometimes based on arbitrary assignment without regard to the referent of the noun, as in Frenchle livre (masculine), ‘the book’ or German das Mädchen (neuter) ‘the girl’; (b.) one of the categories in such a set, as masculine, feminine, neuter, or common; (c.) membership of a word or grammatical form in such a category; 2. sex; [e.g.]: “the feminine gender”; 3. (archaic). kind, sort, or class; (adj.): genderless; (usage): *the use of gender in the sense “sex” is over 600 years old*; although some people feel that ‘gender’ should be reserved for grammatical category only, the “sex” sense of ‘gender’ is now extremely common; the word ‘sex’ itself is becoming increasingly rare except when referring to copulation. [1300-50; from Middle French gen(d)re from Latin gener-, singular of genus, ‘kind,’ ‘sort’; cf.genus; viz.: Latin: ‘race’, ‘stock’, ‘kind’, ‘gender’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • gender (n.): 1. a set of grammatical categories applied to nouns (...); 2. (a.) sex; [e.g.]: “the feminine gender”; (b.) the societal or behavioural aspects of sexual identity; [e.g.]: “gender studies”; 3. (archaic). kind, sort, or class; (adj.): genderless; (usage): the use of gender in the sense “sex” is over 600 years old; although some people feel that gender should be reserved for grammatical category only, the “sex” sense of gender is now extremely common; sex itself is becoming increasingly rare except when referring to copulation. [1300-50; from Middle French gen(d)re from Latin gener-, singular of genus, ‘kind,’ ‘sort’; cf. genus; viz.: Latin: ‘race’, ‘stock’, ‘kind’, ‘gender’] ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • gender (n.): sex; [e.g.]: “Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). Paraphilia: paraphilia (n.): a pattern of recurring sexually arousing mental imagery or behaviour that involves unusual and especially socially unacceptable sexual practices as sadism, masochism, fetishism, or paedophilia; (adj. & n.): paraphiliac, paraphilic. [origin and etymology: *first known use: 1925*; New Latin; from para-, ‘abnormal or defective’ (e.g., paranoia). + -philia, from Greek philos, ‘loving’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Psychosexuality: • psychosexuality (n.): the mental representation⁽⁰¹⁾ of sexual activities. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). ⁽⁰¹⁾mental representation (n.): a presentation to the mind⁽⁰²⁾ in the form of an idea or image. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). ⁽⁰²⁾mentalism (n.): a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind’s awareness. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • psychosexuality (n.): the mental representation⁽*⁾ of sexual activities; (synonyms): internal representation, mental image (=‘an iconic mental representation’). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). ⁽*⁾mental representation (n.): a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). Sex: • sex (n.): 1. gender differences between the sexes; 2. facts of life, sexuality, reproduction; (informal): the birds and the bees; [e.g.]: “I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old; I now endure but two calls a week and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs, and think of England”. (Alice Marion (née Harbord); Lady Hillingdon; 1857-1940). ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • sex (n.): 1. either of two divisions, male and female, into which most organisms are grouped; sex is usually determined by anatomy, the makeup of the chromosomes, and the type and amount of hormones produced; 2. sexual intercourse; (adj.): sexual; (usage note): some people maintain that the word sex should be reserved for reference to the biological aspects of being male or female, or to sexual activity, and that the word gender should be used only to refer to socio-cultural roles (...elided...); in some situations this distinction avoids ambiguity, as in gender research, which is clear in a way that sex research is not; the distinction can be problematic, however; linguistically, there isn’t any real difference between gender bias and sex bias, and it may seem contrived to insist that sex is incorrect in this instance. [Middle English from Latin sexus; cf. secāre, ‘to divide’]. ~ (American Heritage Student Science Dictionary). Sexism: sexism (n.): 1. attitudes or behaviour based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles; 2. discrimination or prejudice based on a person’s sex, esp. discrimination against women. [1965-70]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). Sexist: sexist (adj.): 1. pertaining to, involving, or fostering sexism; [e.g.]: “sexist advertising”; (n.): 2. a person with sexist attitudes or behaviour. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). Sexual: sexual (adj.): 1. of or pertaining to sex; 2. occurring between or involving the sexes; [e.g.]: “sexual relations”; 3. having sexual organs, or reproducing by processes involving both sexes; (adv.): sexually. [1645-55; from Late Latin sexuālis = Latin sexu[s], ‘sex’ + -ālis, from Latin -āle (sing.), nominalised neuter of -ālis, ‘-al’, a suffix with the general sense “of the kind of”, pertaining to, *having the form or character of that named by the stem*, occurring in loanwords from Latin; [e.g.]: “autumnal”; “natural”; “pastoral”, and productive in English on the Latin model, usu. with bases of Latin origin; [e.g.]: “accidental”; “seasonal”; “tribal”]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). Sexual Imprinting: sexual imprinting: the development of a preference for a sexual partner which occurs during a sensitive or critical period. ~ (American Psychological Association Dictionary). [https://dictionary.apa.org/sexual-imprinting]. Sexualise: • sexualise (tr.v.; sexualised, sexualising): to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics; (n.): sexualisation. [1830-40]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • sexualise (v.): make sexual; attribute sex or a sex role to.~ (Oxford English Dictionary). Sodomise: sodomise (tr.v.): derived from the English noun sodomy; [from Middle English (1250-1300) sodomie, from Old French Sodome, ‘Sodom’, from Latin Sodoma, from Greek, from Hebrew sədōm]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Sodomitical: sodomitical (adj.) superceded by modern day homosexual; [from Middle English from Middle French from Late Latin Sodomīta from the Greek Sodomitēs]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). Soixante-Neuf: soixante-neuf: sexual activity between two people involving mutual oral stimulation of the genitals; a position enabling this. (Oxford Dictionary). Transsexual: transsexual (n.): 1. a person who strongly desires to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex; 2. a person who has undergone surgical and hormonal treatment for this purpose; (adj.): 3. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of transsexuals; (n.): transsexualism, transsexuality. [*1955-60*; trans- + sexual, orig. in transsexualism, 1953]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). Tribadism: “...sexual relationships between women are described as ‘Lesbian Loves’ by William King in “The Toast” in 1732, where he explains “she loved Women in the same Manner as Men love them; *she was a Tribad*”; in the 1736 edition of King’s book such women are called ‘Tribades⁽*⁾ or Lesbians’...“. [emphasis added]. ~ (from ”The ‘Sodomite’ and the ‘Lesbian’“ in ”A Critique of Social Constructionism and Post-Modern Queer Theory“ by Prof. Rictor Norton; 12 July 2002, updated 19 June 2008). [http://rictornorton.co.uk/social22.htm]. ⁽*⁾tribadism, tribady (n.): a sexual activity between women which imitates heterosexual intercourse; (adj.): tribadic; (n.): *tribade*. [emphasis added]. ~ (Ologies & Isms Dictionary). “In English texts, tribade is recorded as early as 1601, in Ben Jonson’s “Praeludium” (Poem X in ‘The Forest’), to as late as the mid-nineteenth century; it was the most common lesbian term in European texts, through the proliferation of classical literature, anatomies, midwiferies, sexual advice manuals, and pornography. (...). More often, however, European writers the term, instead euphemistically invoking ‘unnatural vice’, ‘lewd behaviour’, ‘crimes against nature’, ‘using an instrument’, and ‘taking the part of a man’. (...). By the twentieth century, tribade had been supplanted by the terms sapphist, lesbian, invert, and homosexual, as tribade had become too archaic to use...”. ~ (2017 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribadism]. Uranism: • uranism (n.; pl. uranisms): a homosexual condition especially when involving physically normal males. [origin and etymology: German uranismus, from Urania, the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite; from Greek Ourania, from feminine of ouranios, ‘heavenly’ + German -ismus, ‘-ism’]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • uranism (n.): a rare word for (esp. male) homosexuality. [C20: from German Uranismus, from Greek ouranios ‘heavenly’, i.e. ‘spiritual’; cf. Uranian (sense 5); viz.: of or relating to the Muse Urania]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). Urning: urning (n.): a rare word for (esp. a male) homosexual. [C20: from German, from Urania (Aphrodite); cf. uranism]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). Vulvouterine: vulvouterine (adj.): pertaining to the vulva and uterus. ~ (Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary). Vulvovaginal: vulvovaginal (adj.): relating to the external female genitals. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). 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