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- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Libido, etymologically rooted in Old Latin libido (desire, lust) from libere (to be ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- Like hormones, pheromones are endogenous (internally produced) chemical signals secreted by multicellular organisms. Whereas hormones affect ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 02:59, 24 November 2022
- Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist who was publicized in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 06:00, 8 May 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia or pædophilia) is the paraphilia, or ...22 KB (3,151 words) - 07:11, 23 November 2022
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July 2, 1964) was a legislatively and morally courageous, landmark effort within ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 06:13, 14 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Common-law marriage ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- Sinha states, “The Kama Sutra is neither a sex-manual nor, as also commonly believed, a sacred or religious work. It is certainly not a tantric text ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
- Category:Psychologists Kinsey, Alfred Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956), was a professor of entomology and zoology, who ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- Progesterone is a steroid hormone in mammals that is involved in the female menstrual cycle, pregnancy (supporting gestation), and embryogenesis ...17 KB (2,310 words) - 08:47, 28 June 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:François Boucher ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- Estrogens (also oestrogens) are a group of steroid (type of lipid) compounds that function as the primary female sex hormone. Estrogens are named ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 00:20, 19 March 2022
- [http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/japanese-pm-dashes-sex-slaves-hope-of-apology/2007/03/05/1172943356992.html Japanese PM dashes sex slaves ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The black market or underground market is economic activity involving the buying and ...19 KB (2,879 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- The pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland located near the base of vertebrate brain, and that produces secretions that stimulate ...11 KB (1,456 words) - 06:20, 24 November 2022
- Alligator is the common name for large, primarily aquatic reptiles that belong to the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae and order Crocodilia ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 18:37, 21 July 2023
- The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- *Sex-linked recessive Because birds have a ZW sex-determination system, sex-linked recessive ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Sigmund Freud introduced what would later come to be called the "structural ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- A chromosome is an organized structure of DNA and protein that is found in cells, with each chromosome being a very long, continuous, single ...15 KB (2,079 words) - 00:18, 14 January 2023
- A sauna (sɑunɑ) is a room or a smaller house designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions. Most modern saunas have a separate ...15 KB (2,539 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Incest is sexual activity ...23 KB (3,379 words) - 21:59, 4 February 2023
- is concerned by the continuing prevalence of sex-role stereotypes and by the reintroduction of such symbols as a Mothers' Day and a Mothers ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- Category:Public Whitman, Walt [[Image:Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox.jpg|thumb|200px|Walt Whitman]] Walt Whitman (born Walter Whitman) (May ...22 KB (3,515 words) - 22:10, 3 May 2023
- Category:Psychologists Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist who developed Rational Emotive Behavior ...22 KB (3,239 words) - 19:27, 15 March 2024
- Category:Law Category:Politics and social sciences Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something that is lewd or indecent ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Category:Image wanted Group marriage ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 12:30, 24 January 2023
- Testosterone is a steroid hormone that acts in vertebrates to regulate many sexually dimorphic traits and express many fitness related traits ...21 KB (3,056 words) - 15:00, 30 April 2023
- Category:Sociologists Thomas, W. I. William Isaac Thomas (August 13, 1863 – December 5, 1947), was an American sociologist, noted for his pioneering ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- Category:Psychologists Hall, G. Stanley [[Image:G_Stanley_Hall.jpg|thumb|250px|Granville Stanley Hall, c. 1910]] Granville Stanley Hall (February ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Virgil Solis - Tereus Philomela.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Rape of Philomela ...32 KB (4,983 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- illegal (for both parties) to negotiate a sex-for-money deal in a public ... In Australia where sex-work is largely legal, and registration of ...45 KB (6,813 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- function of procreation. Thus, sexual pleasure or sex-oriented entertainment, as well as lack of modesty, are considered immoral. Other religions do not ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- Sexual reproduction is a process of biological reproduction by which organisms create descendants that have a combination of genetic material ...31 KB (4,574 words) - 06:48, 5 October 2022
- php?idd=16838&sec=39&con=58 Belief in sex-mad demon tests nerves.] Retrieved January 22, 2008. El Trauco, according to the traditional ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 19:43, 28 February 2018
- pairs, while the remaining pair is sex-determining. As the complete ... 22 autosomal chromosomes, plus the sex-determining X and Y chromosomes ...21 KB (3,045 words) - 17:02, 18 September 2020
- Category:Public Category:Psychologists Adler, Alfred [[File:AlfredAdler.jpg|thumb|300px|Alfred Adler]] Alfred Adler (February 7, 1870 – May ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 20:46, 1 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Social work Domestic violence (also domestic abuse) is physical, sexual, economic ...31 KB (4,715 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- Eli (Hebrew: עֵלִי, "Ascent") was the high priest at Shiloh and one of the last Israelite judges before the beginning of the rule ...11 KB (1,806 words) - 00:35, 30 December 2021
- Comedy, together with tragedy was one of two principal dramatic forms of ancient Greek theater. Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into ...16 KB (2,442 words) - 19:24, 26 July 2023
- life (during the "critical period" of sex-steroid influence), the hypothalamus is irreversibly masculinized; the adult rat will be incapable ...21 KB (2,814 words) - 13:22, 4 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Gay flag.svg|thumb|right|400px|The Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol ...37 KB (5,369 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (रजनीश चन्द्र मोहन जैन) (December 11, 1931 – January 19, 1990), better known ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 03:34, 1 October 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Edward S. Curtis Collection ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 19:50, 20 May 2023
- A eunuch is a castrated man; the term usually refers to those deliberately castrated in order to perform specific social duties that were once ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- Asceticism describes a life characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures. Those who practice ascetic lifestyles often perceive their practices ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- In Islam, the word Houri (Arabic: حورية, also ḥūr or ḥūrīyah) refers to heavenly angels, splendid beings, Surah Al-Waqiah (56): ...18 KB (2,560 words) - 21:26, 7 January 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:120px-Red_ribbon.png|right|thumb|200px|The red ribbon is a global symbol for solidarity with people living with AIDS as ...36 KB (5,435 words) - 19:47, 16 October 2020
- Capuchin monkey is the common name for the tropical New World monkeys comprising the genus Cebus of the primate family Cebidae, characterized ...13 KB (1,924 words) - 22:10, 25 November 2023
- disapproval that the heavily-publicized sex-role change of tennis player Renée Richards had been characterized as "a frightening instance ...20 KB (2,905 words) - 05:30, 17 December 2022
- A spermatozoon or spermatozoan (pl. spermatozoa), from the ancient Greek σπερμα (seed) and ζων (alive), is more commonly known as a ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 17:43, 14 October 2022
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name is derived from the Latin Liber Leviticus and the Greek (το) Λευιτικόν ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Mead, Margaret Category:Public [[Image:Margaret Mead NYWTS.jpg|thumb|200 px|Margaret ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 03:56, 6 November 2022
- A polygraph (commonly referred to as a lie detector) is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood ...34 KB (5,091 words) - 00:19, 12 April 2023
- Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1406 - August 1, 1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, classical scholar, reformer, and educator. He ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Counterculture is a term used to describe a group whose values and norms of behavior ...27 KB (4,003 words) - 08:31, 10 January 2024
- William Wycherley (c. 1640 – January 1, 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration era. He was born in England, and lived and traveled ...21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
- The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (also called the "European Convention on Human Rights" and ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- Category:Psychologists May, Rollo [[Image:Rollo May USD Alcalá 1977.jpg|thumb|Rollo May]] Rollo May (April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994) was an ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 02:44, 16 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Schilling abuse.jpg|thumb|200 px|Kidnapping (depicted in the background) in Luzerner ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 04:00, 6 October 2022
- Ailred or Ælred or Ailred of Rievaulx, Abbot of Rievaulx (b. Hexham 1110 – d. Rievaulx January 12, 1167), is a Christian saint and historian ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
- In biology, homology is commonly defined as any similarity between structures of organisms in different taxa that derives from similar structures ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 16:13, 25 January 2023
- Category:Public Anthony, Susan B. [[Image:Susan Brownell Anthony - Age 28 - Project Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan B. Anthony ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla, whose devotion is rewarded by miraculous ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- Gonorrhea is a common, highly contagious, sexually transmitted diseases (STD) that is caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 11:56, 24 January 2023
- Lynn Margulis (March 15, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was a biologist and university professor who pioneered important concepts in the fields ...19 KB (2,756 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent writer, poet, lecturer, and women's rights activist. An American abolitionist ...13 KB (2,163 words) - 09:30, 12 May 2024
- Cushing's syndrome, or hypercortisolism, is an endocrine disorder caused by the presence of excessive levels of cortisol in the body. ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- Ichneumonidae is a diverse family of wasps, typically characterized by a parasitic component to the life cycle, antennae with 16 or more segments ...15 KB (1,966 words) - 13:28, 4 February 2023
- Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist, activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:01, 29 September 2023
- /2019/mar/30/diana-rigg-becoming-a-sex-symbol-overnight-shocked-me- Diana Rigg: 'Becoming a sex symbol overnight shocked me'] The Guardian ...38 KB (5,401 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- In Roman Catholicism, the Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, are a list of the worst vices that cut a person ...16 KB (2,583 words) - 10:07, 26 January 2023
- Germaine Greer (January 29, 1939 - ) is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist, and scholar of early modern English literature, widely ...21 KB (3,238 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., and sometimes referred to as MLK Day) is an American federal holiday ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 08:36, 10 March 2023
- Poison dart frog (also poison arrow frog, dart frog, or poison frog) is the common name for any of the very small, diurnal frogs of the Dendrobatidae ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 02:10, 10 April 2023
- Category:Psychologists Eysenck, Hans Hans Jürgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916 - September 4, 1997) was an eminent psychologist, most remembered for ...24 KB (3,439 words) - 15:38, 14 May 2024
- Category:Law Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences [[File:-The Blackmail.png|thumb|250px|The harasser threatens the victim]] ...29 KB (4,311 words) - 10:14, 26 January 2023
- In zoology, a turkey is any of the large birds comprising the subfamily Meleagridinae of Phasianidae, a family of birds that consists of the ...15 KB (2,323 words) - 18:52, 6 November 2022
- The Acts of Thomas is is one of the New Testament apocrypha, describing the adventures and martyrdom of the Apostle Thomas, whom it portrays ...27 KB (4,575 words) - 05:44, 15 June 2023
- The Anglican Communion is a world-wide affiliation of Anglican Churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 18:08, 27 July 2023
- Seahorse is the common name for any of the small, marine, upright-swimming fish comprising the genus Hippocampus of the family Syngnathidae, ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- Ermine is the common name for a small, northern weasel, Mustela erminea, characterized by a short, black-tipped tail, a long body with short ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:45, 6 September 2023
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian women's organization in the United States and ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 23:22, 17 May 2023
- Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets and critics of the nineteenth century ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- Genome is one complete set of hereditary information that characterizes an organism, as encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). That ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 15:43, 11 February 2023
- Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 – June 26, 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and editor whose journals, The English Review and ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[File:Phi Beta Kappa Key.png|thumb|300px|Keychain of Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919) was an American pioneer in the areas of feminism, abolitionism, prohibition and ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 16:01, 7 November 2022
- later study by DeMeo subjected Reich's sex-economic theory to cross-cultural ... * The function of the orgasm: sex-economic problems of biological ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 20:11, 17 November 2023
- In Norse mythology, Njord or Njordr (Old Norse Njörðr) is one of the Vanir (the gods of prosperity and fertility), and is seen as the god of ...22 KB (3,533 words) - 02:30, 16 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group category:geography [[Image:Trobriand.png|right|350px|thumb|Trobriand ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- the envelope on what was acceptable in terms of sex-appeal and will be forever remembered for her striptease in Gilda considered by some the most ...30 KB (4,610 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Category:Public ...42 KB (6,335 words) - 06:13, 15 June 2023
- Hockey is a sport that is not only one of the major sports in the United States, but also extremely popular throughout the world. Hockey can ...19 KB (3,188 words) - 13:06, 1 February 2024
- Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, born Eugene Louis Vidal, (October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was a prolific liberal American author, playwright, essayist ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Defense mechanisms are psychological mechanisms aimed at reducing anxiety. They were ...32 KB (4,936 words) - 09:11, 28 January 2024
- Broadly defined, wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is not a bee or ant. This includes more than 20,000 known ...19 KB (2,999 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- Pitcairn, and another six now living abroad, with sex-related offenses, including rape. On October 25, 2004, six men were convicted, including Steve Christian ...17 KB (2,562 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding discrimination from multiple sources. It identifies advantages and disadvantages ...43 KB (5,848 words) - 10:41, 6 March 2024
- Category:Image wanted Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was an influential Los Angeles poet and novelist. Bukowski's ...22 KB (3,383 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
