Colloquial Register: Informal Language in Sexual Communication
Colloquial register is the informal style used in everyday speech and can include slang, euphemisms, idioms, and conversational expressions about sexuality and relationships.
Combined Oral Contraceptive: How the Pill Works and Its Uses
A combined oral contraceptive is a birth-control pill containing estrogen and progestin that mainly prevents pregnancy by suppressing ovulation.
Comet Relationship: An Intermittent but Meaningful Intimate Connection
A comet relationship is an intermittent romantic, sexual, or emotional connection in which partners reconnect meaningfully after long periods apart.
Coming In: LGBTQ+ Self-Recognition and Identity Acceptance
Coming in is an inward LGBTQ+ process of recognizing, exploring, or accepting one’s own sexual orientation or gender identity, often before any public disclosure.
Commercial Sex: Meaning, Consent, Sex Work, and Exploitation
Learn what commercial sex means and how it differs from sex work, transactional sex, prostitution, exploitation, and human trafficking.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Sexual Activity, Profit, and Coercion
Commercial sexual exploitation involves using someone for sexual activity or content for money or another benefit through coercion, trafficking, abuse, or exploitation.
Commiseration: Meaning, Sympathy, Support, and Shared Sorrow
Commiseration is the expression or sharing of sympathy with someone experiencing rejection, disappointment, loss, failure, or another painful situation.
Commitment: Meaning, Loyalty, Relationships, and Consent
Commitment is a continuing decision to devote care, loyalty, effort, or responsibility to a person, relationship, goal, or shared agreement.
Common-Law Marriage: Legal Status, Cohabitation, and Rights
Common-law marriage is a legally recognized marital relationship that may arise without a conventional ceremony when specific local requirements are met.
Communication Accommodation: Access, Consent, and Inclusive Choice
Communication accommodation adjusts how information is shared so people with different communication needs can understand, respond, and participate in decisions.