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Effeminate (noun, effeminacy): a womanish or sissyish manner and bearing in
a man or boy stigmatized as an unmanly homosexual. ego dystonic: in psychiatry, the term
used to apply to a proclivity, for example, toward homosexuality, in a person who seeks to
repudiate it.
Eidetic: characterized by vividly precise and accurate recall of objects,
events, sounds or other imagery previously perceived.
Ejaculation (verb to ejaculate): expulsion or spurting out, as of the semen
at the time of sexual climax or orgasm.
Elective mutism: failure to speak, or to be able to speak about certain
topics, that is not necessarily permanent but is reversible under changed circumstances.
electrocutophilia; A paraphilia of the sacrificial and expiatory strategem in which
sexuoerotic arousal and orgasm is dependent upon the use of electrical stimulation of the
body to possibly include the nipples and genital-anal tissues. This paraphilia has been
seen to occur more frequently among women than in men and has also resulted in accidental
death. See also autoerotic death.
Electrolysis: for cosmetic reasons, a method of removing hair by inserting a
needle into the hair-growing follicle and killing it with a pulse of electric current.
Eligibility: having the required qualification.
Embryo: the unborn offspring from conception until, in the human species,
the seventh or eighth week of gestation.
Endocrine gland: one of the body's ductless glands from which a hormone is
secreted directly into the bloodstream. See also exocrine.
Endogenous: produced from within.
Endometrium: the lining of the uterus or womb. Structurally, it is a mucous
membrane.
Endorphins (singular, endorphin): the general term to refer to all of the
body's own endogenous morphinelike substances. In chemical structure, they are
neuropeptides. They are active as neurotransmitters and neuromodulators. See also
neuropeptide; neurotransmitter;
Enkephalin; obsolete terms: endomorphins
Endomorphins; singular, endomorphin enkephalin: one of the endorphins, and
the one that predominates in the brain. There are two basic types, methionine and leucine
enkephalin. See also endorphin; endomorphins.
Eonism: the term used by Havelock Ellis for the male cross-dressing
syndromes now known as transvestophilia and transexualism [from Chevalier d'Eon,
1728-1810, French diplomatic and transvestic imposter at the court of Catherine the Great,
in 1755; subsequently exiled to England].
Ephebiatrics: that branch of health care that succeeds pediatrics and serves
that age of adolescence and youth, prior to adulthood.
Ephebophilia (adjective, ephebophilic): a paraphilia of the
eligibilic/stigmatic type distinct from nepiophilia and pedophilia in that the age of the
partner is postpubertal and adolescent [from Greek, ephebos, a postpubertal young person +
-philia] The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which an older
person impersonates an adolescent is paraphilic adolescentilism. Synonym, hebephilia, the
condtition in which an adult is responsive to and dependent on the actuality or imagery of
erotic/sexual activity with an adolescent boy or girl in order to obtain erotic arousal
and facilitate or achieve orgasm. An ephebophiliac may be of either sex. Ephebophilic
activity may be replayed in fantasy dring masturbation or copulation with an older
partner. See also gerontophilia; nepiophilia; pedophilia.
Ephemera (plural, ephemerae): something that is short-lived or of transient
existence.
Epicene: common to both sexes; neither one nor the other.
Epididymitis: inflammation and pain of the epididymis, the coiled tubular
structure immediately adjacent to the testic through which sperms are transported to the
vas deferens and the urethra.
Epistemology: the branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature,
methods, and limits of human knowing.
Eponym (adjective. eponymous): the name of someone so prominently connected
with a time, place, group, or event as to become a figurative or symbolic designation for
it.
Erotic: pertaining to sexual love or, more particularly, to its imagistic
expression in daydream, fantasy, or dream, either autonomously or in response to a
perceptual stimulus, and either alone or with one or more partners. See also sexual.
Erotic apathy: a hypophilic condition or syndrome, variable in etiology, of
defective ability to experience sexuoerotic arousal under normally conducive
circumstances; misnamed lack of sexual desire.
Erotic inertia: a hypophilic condition or syndrome, variable in etiology, of
inability to manifest sexuoerotic initiative or to maintain sexuoerotic activity under
normally conducive circumstances.
Erotic revulsion: a hypophilic condition or syndrome of variable etiology in
which sexuoerotic activity, either in general or with a particular partner, is experienced
as aversive and repulsive.
Erotica: depictions of ideas and images in the literary and visual arts that
have sexual and erotic appeal and, for at least a selected audience, sexual arousal value,
without being condemned as pornographic.
Eroticism (adjective, erotic): the personal experience and manifest
expression of one's genital arousal and functioning as male or female, either alone or
with a partner, and particularly with reference to the ideation, imagery, and sensory
stimuli of arousal [from Greek, eros, love]. Synonym, erotism. See also sexuality.
Erotic self-strangulation (asphyxiophilia): the rare condition in which a
person, usually an adolescent male, is dependent on partial asphyxiation, as by hanging,
or by restaging of it in fantasy, in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or
achieve orgasm. Death may inadvertently result. Some victims have been found
cross-dressed.
Erotic/sexual: simultaneously erotic and sexual. One can be sexual without
being erotic, as in donor insemination. Conversely, being erotic does not necessarily mean
being sexual, expecially in the sense of copulation, fertility or reproduction. See also
eroticism, sexuality; synonym, erotosexual.
Erotography: graphic or written material of an erotic nature, not
stigmatized as pornography. See also pornography. explicit erotic writings and pictures.
Erotomania: morbid exaggeration of, or preoccupation with sexuoerotic
imagery and activity [from Greek, eros, love + -mania, madness]. See also
Cherambault-Kandinsky syndrome.
Erotophonophilia: a paraphilia of the sacrificial/expiatory type in which
sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and
contingent on stage-managing and carrying out the murder of an unsuspecting sexual partner
[from Greek, eros, love + phonein, to murder + -philia]. The erotophonophile's orgasm
coincides with the expiration of the partner. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is
autassassinophilia. Synonym, lust murder.
Erotosexual: the erotic and the sexual experienced as a unity, with more
emphasis on erotic imagery and ideation than sexual behavior. It is possible to be erotic
without being sexual in the sense of copulation, fertility, or reproduction. Conversely,
it is possible, as in donor insemination, to be sexual without being erotic. see
erotic/sexual. the erotic and the sexual experienced as a unity, with more emphasis on
erotic imagery than sexual behavior. See also erotic; sexual; sexuoerotic.
Estradiol: the most biologically potent of the naturally occurring
estrogens. It is produced chiefly by the ovary and in small amount by the testis.
Commercially, it is prepared in various compounds, such as estradiol benzoate and ethinyl
estradiol.
Estrogen: female sex hormone, produced chiefly by the ovary, but also in a
small amount by the adrenal cortex and the testis, and named for its role in lower animals
inducing heat or estrus in the female [from Greek, olstros, gadfly; from Latin, oestrus,
vehement desire, that which drives one mad. From Latin, oestrus, gadfly; Greek, oistos,
vehement desire, that which drives one mad.]. In biochemical structure, there are several
different but related steroid hormones that qualify as estrogens, some more closely
chemically related than others, and some more biologically potent. They differ in
biological strength and effectiveness. See also estrus; progesterone
Estrus (adjective, estrous): phenomenon of being sexually receptive, or in
heat, as manifested at the ovulatory phase of the sexual cycle of the female, especially
in subprimate species. The phenomenon of being sexually recptive, or in heat, as found in
the sexual cycle of some species. A condition or syndrome of persistent estrus can be
produced in some animals (for example, the rat) by hormonal injection of the newborn,
notably with androgen; see also TSR.
Ethnography (adjective, ethnographic): the branch of anthropology that
studies the artifacts, customs, and life-styles of ethnic groups and tribes with different
cultural histories.
Etiology: the theory of the factors in the genesis, origin, or cause of a
disorder or disease.
Eugenics: the science that deals with breeding to improve the heredity of a
species or racial stock.
Eunuchoid (noun, eunuch): having the developmental sexual characteristics
and appearance resembling those of a person who, like a castrate, has failed to mature
pubertally.
Eve principle: in fetal life the differentiation of a female always occurs
in the absence of fetal testicular secretions (MIS and testosterone), regardless of
chromosomal sex. If in the differentiation of a female testosterone is added,
differentiation thenceforth proceeds as male. See also Adam principle.
Excitement phase: the first of the four sexual phases delineated by Masters
and Johnson. See also plateau, orgasmic, and resolution phases.
Exemplar: a person who becomes a pattern or model for oneself.
Exhibitionism: (noun, exhibitionist) a paraphilia of the
solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment
of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on evoking surprise, dismay, shock, or panic
from a stranger by illicitly exhibiting an erotic part of the body, including the genitals
[from Latin, exhibere, to exhibit]. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is voyeurism, also
known as being a "Peeping Tom." See also peodeiktophilia. The condition of being
responsive to, or dependent on the surprise, debasement, shock, or outcry of a stranger
(usually female), unexpectedly exposed to the sight of the penis, in order to obtain one's
erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. The actual event may be replayed in a
masturbation or coital fantasy.
Exigency theory: in psychology, the theory that, regardless of its
determinants, human responsivity is contingent upon five universal exigencies of
existence: Pairbondedness; Troopbondedness; Ycleptance, Abidance; and Foredoomance.
Exocrine: pertaining to a gland with a duct through which its secretion, for
example, tears or saliva, passes. See also endocrine gland.
Exogenous: produced from without.
Exorcise: to expel or drive off an evil spirit with a special ritual; to
deliver a person from being possessed by a demon.
Exorcist syndrome: a sexual condition of repeatedly assaulting,
stigmatizing, or punishing people who manifest symptoms or behavior that threaten to occur
in oneself.
Expiation: atonement; penance.
Exteroceptive: pertaining to a sensory organ that registers information from
outside the body. Antonym, interoceptive.
Extravasate: to seep through the skin, like drops of perspiration, or more
acurately as plasma seeps through from the underlying capilaries to form droplets of
lubrication on the adjoining vaginal mucosa.
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