Non-Erotic: Meaning, Intimacy, Touch, and Sexual Context
Non-erotic describes content, touch, intimacy, or situations not intended to create sexual excitement, even when bodies or sexuality are involved.
Desexualize: Meaning, Representation, and Sexual Agency
Desexualize means to reduce, remove, ignore, or deny the sexual meaning, expression, attractiveness, desire, or identity associated with someone or something.
Desexualized: Meaning, Representation, Identity, and Sexual Agency
Desexualized means presented or treated as nonsexual, with sexual meaning, desire, expression, or identity reduced, removed, or ignored.
Exogamy: Outside-Group Marriage, Kinship, and Partner Choice
Exogamy is the practice or expectation of marrying outside a particular clan, lineage, family group, caste, religion, or community.
Love Marriage: Romantic Choice, Family, Compatibility, and Consent
Love marriage is a marriage in which partners primarily choose each other through romantic love, attraction, compatibility, or an existing relationship.
Widowerhood: Grief, Identity, Intimacy, and Life After Loss
Widowerhood is the state or period of life experienced by a man after his spouse dies and may affect grief, identity, companionship, sexuality, and future relationships.
Widowhood: Grief, Identity, Intimacy, and Life After Loss
Widowhood is the state or period of life following a spouse’s death and may affect grief, identity, family life, finances, companionship, and future intimacy.
Endogamy: Within-Group Marriage, Culture, Choice, and Consent
Endogamy is the practice or expectation of marrying within a particular religious, ethnic, caste, cultural, or social group.
Extramarital Relationship: Marriage, Infidelity, and Consent
An extramarital relationship is a romantic, emotional, or sexual connection involving a married person and someone other than their spouse.
Courtship: Romantic Pursuit, Compatibility, Boundaries, and Consent
Courtship is the process through which people develop a romantic connection and consider compatibility, commitment, partnership, or marriage.