Performative Sexuality: Expression, Identity, and Social Meaning
Performative sexuality describes how people express and present sexuality through behaviors, communication, identity, and cultural practices.
Simulated Sex: Meaning, Representation, and Consent
Simulated sex refers to sexual activity or representation that imitates sexual behavior without necessarily involving actual sexual acts.
Pornographic Literacy: Understanding Sexual Media Critically
Pornographic literacy is the ability to analyze pornography critically, including its messages, production, consent issues, and influence on sexual expectations.
Peer-Led Outreach: Community Support, Education, and Advocacy
Peer-led outreach uses trained community members to provide information, support, and resources based on shared experiences and understanding.
Sexual Neologism: New Words for Sex, Dating, and Identity
A sexual neologism is a newly created word, expression, label, or meaning used to describe sexuality, dating, attraction, gender, relationships, or sexual culture.
Vulgar Register: Crude, Explicit, and Socially Taboo Language
Vulgar register is a highly informal style containing crude, obscene, explicit, or socially inappropriate expressions, including many terms related to sex and bodies.
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.
Double Entendre: Double Meaning, Sexual Humor, and Wordplay
Double entendre is an expression with two possible meanings, often combining an innocent interpretation with a sexual, suggestive, or humorous one.
Innuendo: Indirect, Suggestive, and Sexual Meaning in Language
Innuendo is an indirect or suggestive expression that implies a meaning without stating it openly, often using ambiguity, humor, tone, or context to suggest something sexual.
Sexual Discourse: Language, Culture, Power, and Sexual Norms
Sexual discourse is the wider system of language, ideas, narratives, and institutions through which societies discuss, define, regulate, and understand sexuality.