Post by Dorothyl on May 11, 2009 16:05:08 GMT -5
Types of Sexual Relationships
1. Monogamy
having a single long-term sexual partner. Here are the different kinds of monogamy:
a. Social monogamy
refers to two persons/creatures who live together, have sex with one another, and cooperate in acquiring basic resources such as food, clothes, and money.
b. Sexual monogamy
refers to two persons/creatures who remain sexually exclusive with one another and have no outside sex partners.
c. Genetic monogamy
refers to two partners that only have offspring with one another.
d. Marital monogamy
refers to marriages of only two people.
e. Serial Monogamy
having a series of monogamous relationships, one after the other
2. Nonmonogamy
a type of interpersonal relationships in which some or all participants have multiple marital, sexual, and/or romantic partners. Here are the different kinds of nonmonogamous relationships:
a. Casual relationship a physical and emotional relationship between two unmarried people who may have a sexual relationship
b. Group marriage (also termed polygynandry), in which several people form a single family unit, with all considered to be married to one another
c. Group sex and orgies involving more than two participants at the same time
d. Infidelity, such as an affair, in which one participant fails to comply with expectations of a relationship.
e. Line families, a form of group marriage intended to outlive its original members by ongoing addition of new spouses
f. Ménage à trois, a sexual (or sometimes domestic) arrangement involving three people
g. Polyamory, in which participants have multiple romantic partners
h. Polyfamilies, similar to group marriage, but some members may not consider themselves married to all other members
i. Polyfidelity, in which participants have multiple partners but restrict sexual activity to within a certain group
j. Polygamy, in which one person in a relationship has multiple partners
k. Polyandry, in which women have multiple husbands
l. Polygyny, in which men have multiple wives
m. Plural marriage, a form of polygyny associated with the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 19th-century and with present-day splinter groups from that faith. It is also associated with an evangelical splinter group which advocates Christian Plural Marriage
n. Open marriage and Open relationships, in which one or both members of a committed couple may become sexually active with other partners
o. Swinging, similar to open relationships, but commonly conducted as an organised social activity
Types of Sexual Deviancies
Paraphilias
-comprises people with a broad range of sexual fetishes
a. Exhibitionism – the recurrent urge or behavior to expose one’s genitals to an unsuspecting person. (Can also be the recurrent urge or behavior to perform sexual acts in a public place, or in view of unsuspecting persons.)
b. Fetishism – the use of inanimate objects to gain sexual excitement. Partialism refers to fetishes specifically involving nonsexual parts of the body. Ex: telephone scatalogia (obscene phone calls), necrophilia (corpses), coprophilia (feces), klismaphilia (enemas), urophilia (urine), emetophilia (vomit).
c. Frotteurism – the recurrent urges of behavior of touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person.
d. Pedophilia – a psychological disorder in which an adult experiences a sexual preference for prepubescent children, or has engaged in child sexual abuse. Pederasty is an erotic relationship between an adolescent boy and an adult man outside his immediate family.
e. Sexual Masochism – the recurrent urge or behavior of wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer for sexual pleasure.
d. Sexual Sadism – the recurrent urge or behavior involving acts in which the pain or humiliation of a person is sexually exciting.
e. Transvestic fetishism – arousal from “clothing associated with members of the opposite sex.”[3][35]
f. Voyeurism – the recurrent urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing or engaging in sexual activities, or activities which may not be sexual in nature at all.
Other labels
Alphamegamia is the term used when you are sexually aroused by people of a different age group.
Chronophilia is a general term, applied to any age-related preference that is outside their own age group.
Ephebophilia is the attraction of older individuals to adolescents.
Hebophilia is the attraction of older individuals to pubescent youths.
Gerontophilia is the attraction of non-elderly individuals to the elderly.
Infantophilia is the attraction of older individuals to small children (ages ranging from 0 to 5).
Paraphilic infantilism is a paraphilia characterized by the desire to wear diapers and be treated as an infant or toddler (a.k.a. adult baby)