| Gender | The state of being male or female.
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| Sexual behavior | Behavior that produces arousal and increases the chance of orgasm.
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| Cultivation | In communications theory, the view that exposure to the mass media makes people think that what they see there represents the mainstream of what really occurs.
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| Agenda setting | In communications theory, the idea that the media define what is important and what is not by which stories they cover.
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| Social learning | In communications theory, the idea that the media provide role models whom we imitate.
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| Ethnocentrism | The tendency to regard one's own ethnic group and culture as superior to others and to believe that its customs and way of life are the standards by which other cultures should be judged.
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| Culture | Traditional ideas and values passed down from generation to generation within a group and transmitted to members of the group by symbols (such as language).
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| Incest taboo | A regulation prohibiting sexual interaction between blood relatives, such as brother and sister or father and daughter.
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| Masturbation | Self-stimulation of the genitals to produce sexual arousal.
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| Latinos | People of Latin American heritage.
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