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The Sex Dictionary
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Taboo also tabu, and in Polynesia, tapu, (sacred and forbidden): prohibited
[forbidden] by tradition or social usage or other authority. A taboo generates fear,
shame, and guilt in those who disobey it, thus enabling those in authority to wield power
over those under them.
Tactile: pertaining to the sense of touch.
Talisman: a token or charm that has special power or magic. Something, such
as an amulet or charm, that produces extraordinary effects, as in averting evil or danger
[from Greek, telesma, initiation, incantation].
Teleology: in philosophy, the doctrine that nature or natural processes are
shaped by a purpose and directed toward an end or goal by a driving force or power.
Antonym. mechanism.
Telephonicophilia: a paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in
which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and
contingent on deception and ruse in luring or threatening a telephone respondent, known or
unknown, into listening to, and making personally explicit conversation in the sexuoerotic
vernacular [from telephone + -philia]. Typically, the caller is not dangerous, only a
nuisance. There is no technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition of inviting
and possibly charging for such telephone calls. Synonym telephone scatophilia [from Greek,
skato, dung].
Telephone scatophilia: a paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in
which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and
dependent upon deception and ruse in luring or threatening a telephone respondent, known
or unknown, into listening to, and making personally explicit conversation in the
sexuoerotic vernacular [from telephone + Greek, skatos, dung, + -philia]. Typically, the
caller is not dangerous, only a nuisance. There is no technical term for the reciprocal
paraphilic condition of inviting and possibly charging for such telephone calls. Synonym,
telephonicophilia; see scatology.
Template: a pattern or mold that regulates the shape or appearance of a
construction or idea. temporal lobe: in the brain, the part of each cerebral hemisphere
that is named for its location internal to the temple.
Temporal lobe trauma: injury to the temporal lobe of the brain, of either
external or internal origin, with which is associated an increased risk of temporal lobe
epileptic seizures and, rarely, associated paraphilic attacks.
Territorial marking: in some animals, the marking of the boundary of the
home territory with an odorous substance or pheromone secreted from a specialized,
testosterone-responsive {but females also emitt pheromones!} marking gland, typically near
the chin or rump, or secreted in the urine.
Testicular-feminizing syndrome: see androgen-insensitivity syndrome.
Testis: in the male, one of the two egg-shaped bodies, the sex glands, left
and right, in the scrotum, where sperms are made (in the tubules) and from which the male
sex hormone, testosterone, is secreted (from the Leydig cells). Synonym, testicle.
Testosterone: the biologically most potent of the naturally occurring
androgens, measurable in blood plasma and urine. It is produced chiefly by the testis from
its precursor hormone, progesterone. In females testosterone is the precursor of estrogen
in the ovaries. See also progesterone.
Thalidomide: a sedative and hypnotic drug first marketed in the 1950s before
it was known to cause pregnant women to give birth to babies with either missing limbs
(amelia) or phocomelia (seal-flipper deformity of arms and/or legs).
Threshold: the point, stage, or degree of intensity at which an effect
begins to be produced. The lower the threshold, the sooner and more easily does the effect
begin.
Tomboy: a vernacular term applied to a girl whose developmental
differentiation of gender-identity/role (G-I/R) as stereotypically defined is in variable
degree discordant with the evidence of her genital morphology. See also sissy boy.
Tonsillitis: inflammation of the tonsils. Torquemada, Tomas de: 1420-1498;
Spanish Dominican monk, first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.
Top: sadomasochistic vernacular term for the dominant, controlling, sadistic
partner.
Toucheur: one who has the syndrome of toucheurism.
Toucheurism: a paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which
sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and
contingent on surreptitiously touching a stranger on an erotic part of the body,
particularly the breasts, buttocks, or genital area [from French, toucher, to touch].
There is no technical name for the reciprocal paraphilic condition, namely being
sexuoerotically dependent on being touched by a stranger. See also frotteurism.
Toxin: a poison. It may be produced by a virus, bacteria, plant or animal.
During pregnancy, a toxin may pass through the placenta from the mother to the fetus.
Transexual (adjective, transexual): a person manifesting the phenomenon of
transexualism.
Transexualism: the condition of crossing over to live full-time in the role
of the other sex, with hormonal and surgical sex reassignment [from Latin, trans, across +
sexual]. The term signifies a method of treatment and rehabilitation rather than a
diagnostic entity. There are different biographical antecedents to sex reassignment, one
of which may be paraphilic transvestism (transvestophilia). Transexualism itself is not a
paraphilia. Behaviorally, the act of living and passing in the role of the opposite sex,
before or after having attined hormonal, surgical, and legal sex reassignment;
psychically, the condition of people who have the conviction that they belong to the
opposite sex and are driven by a compulsion to have the body, appearance, and social
status of the opposite sex. See also gynemimesis; gynemimetophilia; transvestism;
transvestophilia.
Transpositions, gender-identity/role: in G-I/R, the interchange of masculine
and feminine expectancies and stereotypes mentally and in behavior and appearance.
Transsexual: transexual. transvest: to cross dress.
Transvestism: cross-dressing, either as an act or a syndrome
(transvestophilia) of episodic and partial gender transposition. The syndrome of
transvestism is also a paraphilia of the fetishistic/talismanic type in which sexuoerotic
arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and dependent upon
wearing clothing, especially underwear, of the other sex [from Latin, trans, across +
vestis, garment]. The syndrome is believed to occur predominantly in men, and seldom, if
ever, in women . There is no technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition,
namely being sexuoerotically dependent on a cross-dressed partner. (adjective,
transvestic, transvestitic): behaviorally, the act of dressing in the clothes of the
opposite sex; phychically, the condition of feeling compelled to cross-dress, often in
relation to sexual arousal and attainment of orgasm. See also gynemimesis;
gynemimetophila; transexualism; transvestophilia.
Transvestite: a person episodically affected with a compulsion to dress as a
member of the other sex. In men, the compulstion is commonly essential to the maintenance
of erection and achievement of orgasm. It usually is life-long. Rarely, a transvestite may
change into a transexual.
Transvestophilia: a paraphilia of the fetishistic/talismanic type in which
sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and
[dependent upon ]{contingent on} wearing clothing, especially underwear, of the other sex
[from Latin, trans, across + vestis, garment + -philia]. See also transvestism.
Trauma: a wound or injury, whether physical or psychic.
Troilism: a paraphilia of the mercantile/venal type in which sexuoerotic
arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and dependent upon
observing one's partner on hire or loan to a third person while engaging in sexual
activities, including intercourse, with that person [from French, trois, three]. A
threesome or group-sex party does not, per se, constitute a paraphilia. There is no
technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition of being observed by a third party
while on hire or loan. (adjective, troilistic): the condition in which a person is
dependent on being the third member of a sexual partnership, or on fantasying being so, in
order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. Typically, a husband
arranges that his wife has another male partner, so that he can fantasy her in the role of
a whore, without which he cannot become aroused. See also autagonistophilia.
Troopbondage: the tendency to form bonded groupings as in families of
related individuals, or in tribes or social groupings, which increases the likelihood of
individual survival; one of the five universal exegencies of being human.
TSR: an acronym from the words Testosterone Sterilized (female) Rat. A TSR
manifests the persistent estrus syndrome. Lacking ovulatory cycles, she is sterile. The
condition is induced experimentally by injections of testosterone prior to the age of
eleven days. The first five days of life are the most sensitive or critical ones. Smaller
doses are then effective. The effect is life-long.
Turner's syndrome: a condition marked by a chromosomal anomaly in phenotypic
females with the chief pathognomonic symptoms of absence of ovaries (gonadal agenesis or
dysgenesis) and short stature. The basic genetic defect is a missing sex chromosome, so
that the total count is 45,X. There are several variants of this syndrome For example, the
second X may, though present, be partially deleted. In one variant of the so-called
mosaics, some cells of the body are 45,X and some 46,XX. Treatment includes giving female
sex hormone at the age of puberty to induce adult appearance and menses. Girls with
Turner's syndrome are almost invariably sterile. ; a condition marked by a chromosomal
anomaly in phenotypic females with the chief pathognomonic symptoms of absence of ovaries
(gonadal agenesis or dysgenesis) and short stature. The basic genetic defect is a missing
sex chromosome, so that the total count is 45,X. There are several variants of this
syndrome. For example, in some cases, the second X may, though present, be partially
deleted. In others, the so-called mosaics, some cells of the body are 45,X and some 46,XX.
Treatment includes administration of female sex hormone at the age of puberty to induce
adult appearance and menstruation. Girls with Turner's syndrome are almost invariably
sterile.
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