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The Sex Dictionary
The Letter I
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Iatrogenic: generated or induced by the physician; pertaining to physical or
mentyal aliments or disease due to the actions of the physician, as in iatrogenic disease,
the result of exposure to patogens, toxins or injurious treatment or procedures by the
physician, or from alarming or traumatizing diagnosis.
ICSH: interstitial cell stimulating hormone; LH (luteninizing hormone).
Ictal (adjective): pertaining to the period when an epileptic seizure or
seizure-like attack takes place.
Ideation: in mental life, the collective representation of thoughts and
ideas presently recognized, recalled from memory, or projected into the future, singly or
in combination.
Identification: the process of becoming like someone as a sequel to
assimilating or copying that person's activities, behavior, and reactions. The term is
applied especially to the differentiation of G-I/R (gender identity/role). See also
complementation. the process of becoming like someone else secondary to copying and
imitation.
Ideogogic (noun, ideogogy): in sex therapy, treatment that involves
discussion of ideas and the meaning of one's behavior to other people who are affected by
it; see also somesthetic.
Idiographic: specific to the self and unique to one's own biography.
Ideological norm: the standard of what is normal as defined by those who,
even though in a minority, exercise their authority to impose their own ideology and
values on others whom they overpower.
Ideology (adjective ideological): a set of ideas, beliefs, or principles to
which a person or group adheres, lives by, and possibly dies for.
Idiopathic: of unexplained origin, as in the development of a symptom or
syndrome that is apparently spontaneously generated.
Imagery: in mental life, the collective representation of mental images or
depictions of anything either perceived (perceptual imagery) or, if not actually present
as a sensory stimulus, recognized in memory (memory imagery), or in dream, confabulation,
or fantasy (fictive imagery).
Immutable: long-lasting and unchangeable.
Imperative: the converse of adventive, in the sense of being obligatory in
the development of all members of a species; see also adventive.
Impersonator: an actor or person who assumes the personality and plays the
role of being somebody else.
Impetigo: a streptococcal or staphylococcal infection that erodes the skin
and dries to form a yellow-crusted sore.
Impotence: a hypophilic condition or syndrome, of variable etiology, in
which erection of the penis is lacking or defective under normally conducive conditions.
Recurrent premature loss of erection of the penis, or its failure to become erect, during
the acceptive phase of and erotic/sexual episode.
Impregnation: the process of being rendered pregnant by the intromission of
sperm into the uterus and the union of egg and sperm.
Imprimatur: sanction; approval.
Imprinting: developmental learning of a type first brought to scientific
attention in studies of animal behavior by ethologists. Imprinting takes place in a given
species when behavior phyletically programed into the nervous system of that species
requires a matching socioenvironmental stimulus to release it, when the matching must take
place during a critical or sensitive developmental period (not before or after), and when,
having occurred, the resultant behavior pattern is unusually resistant to extinction. In
human beings, native language learning is a manifestation of imprinting. See also critical
period.
Incest: sexual contact customarily or legally forbidden on the criterion of
the close kinship of the two people, variably defined on the basis of genealogical or
totemic descent, or by reason of marriage or adoption [from Latin, incestus, unchaste].
Sexual intercourse between persons to whom it is locally forbidden by law or custom
because of their relatedness as kinsfolk to totemic clanfolk. The degree of relatedness
varies among societies, and the relationship need not be genealogical.
Inclusion paraphilia: one of the paraphilias in which an extraneous element
becomes developmentally incorporated into the lovemap, thus changing it from normophilic
to paraphilic.
Incubus (plural, incubi): an evil spirit or demon that assumes the form of a
male and is supposed to lie upon sleeping people, chiefly women, and to have sexual
intercourse with them; a nightmare. See also succubus.
Indolamine: one of a subgroup of biogenic amines; it functiones as one of
the brain's neurotransmitters. Serotonin is the best know idolamine. See also biogenic
amine; catecholamine; serotonin.
Inertia: in erotic/sexual usage inertia is apathy or lack of responsiveness
or arousal at the proceptive phase. It typically involves also the acceptive phase. It is
experienced subjectively as lack of desire or drive. Antonym, ultraertia.
Infancy: babyhood; the period of development between birth and the beginning
of early childhood between the ages of two and three years.
Infantilism, paraphilic: the paraphilia of impersonating an infant and being
treated as one by the partner--one of the stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilias. Synonym,
autonepiophilia. See also adolescentilism; gerontalism; juvenilism; nepiophilia.
Infatuation: foolish and extravagant passion, especially as applied to a
love affair that does not meet with family or local community or religious approval, and
does not conform to customary criteria of a well arranged marriage. See also limerance.
Inframasculinize: to masculinize insufficiently. Synonym, hypomasculinize.
Antonym, supramasculinize. inguinal: pertaining to the inguen or groin, the region or
crease between the abdomen and the thigh.
Inguinal hernia: a hernia into the inguinal canal, as for example when an
undescended testis protrudes into the canal but fails to reach the scrotum.
Interaxillary: in the armpit, or between the upper arm and lateral chest.
Intercourse: connection or interaction between people. In sexual
intercourse, the connection is usually defined as being between two people. It is
erroneously restricted to putting the penis into the vagina (or anus) or the vagina (or
anus) onto the penis (penovaginal or penoanal intercourse, respectively). The entire
sexual interaction between the partners constitutes sexual intercourse. 2. Connection or
interaction between people. In sexual intercourse, the connection is usually defined as
being between two people. It is erroneously defined as putting the penis into the vagina
(penovaginal intercourse), for the entire sexual interaction between the partners
constitutes sexual intercourse. See also coitus; copulate; mount.
Interfemoral: between the thighs.
Interictal (adjective): pertaining to the interval between epileptic
seizures and seizure-like attacks.
Intermammary: between the breasts.
Intersexuality: an alternative term for hermaphroditism. In past usage, a
genetic etiology was sometimes assumed for intersexuality, and a hormonal etiology for
hermaphroditism, but the distinction is now known to be untenable. See also
hermaphroditism.
Intimacy-aviodancy: a socially dictated constraint on personal disclosure to
specified individuals or groups, or on a specified topic. It affects erotic/sexual
behavior and communication. It may affect anly intimate communication, but not behavior
with one's sexual partner; see also age avoidancy and allosex-aviodancy.
Introceptive: pertaining to a sensory organ that registers information from
within the body. Antonym, exteroceptive.
Intromission: the insertion of one part into another; in sexual intercourse,
the insertion of the penis into the vagina.
Inviolacy: the right to be free from being harmed, harassed, or encroached
upon.
In vitro fertilization: the combining of an egg and a sperm into a fertile
cell (zygote) in a glass dish; used especially when the normal process of fertilization
within the body fails [from Latin, in vitro, in glass].
Irrumatio: actively thrusting of the penis into the mouth; as contrasted to
fellatio, which finds the mouth and tongue actively stimulating the penis through sucking
and licking. See also fellatio; blow-job.
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