Corrective Rape: Sexual Violence Motivated by Anti-LGBTQ+ Prejudice
Corrective rape is sexual violence committed with the claimed purpose of changing, punishing, or suppressing someone’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Sexual Minority Rights: Equality, Privacy, Safety, and Protection
Sexual minority rights protect people from unjust discrimination based on sexual orientation and support equality, privacy, healthcare, safety, relationships, and social participation.
Donor Embryo: Transfer, Genetics, Consent, and Parenthood
A donor embryo is an IVF-created embryo provided for another person’s reproductive use and may allow pregnancy without a genetic link to the intended parent.
Gestational Carrier: IVF, Pregnancy, Rights, and Parenthood
A gestational carrier carries an IVF-created embryo using another person’s egg and is usually not genetically related to the child.
Traditional Surrogacy: Process, Genetics, Law, and Parenthood
Traditional surrogacy uses the surrogate’s own egg, making the person carrying the pregnancy genetically related to the child as well as gestationally connected.
Reciprocal IVF: Process, Roles, Donor Sperm, and Parenthood
Reciprocal IVF allows one partner to provide the eggs while another carries the pregnancy, giving both intended parents a biological role in family building.
Donor Sperm: Use, Screening, Identity, and Family Building
Donor sperm is sperm provided for another person’s reproductive use and may be used in IUI, IVF, donor conception, and diverse family-building arrangements.
Shared Motherhood: Reciprocal IVF, Roles, and Family Building
Shared motherhood uses reciprocal IVF so one partner provides the eggs while another carries the pregnancy, allowing both to participate biologically in family building.
Lithosexual: Meaning, Reciprocation, and Ace Identity
Lithosexual describes someone who experiences sexual attraction without needing it reciprocated or whose attraction may fade when it is returned.
Fraysexual: Meaning, Attraction, and Emotional Closeness
Fraysexual describes someone whose sexual attraction may be strongest toward unfamiliar people and weaken as emotional closeness develops.