 |  Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America, 4/e Brian Strong,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Barbara Werner Sayad,
California State University, Monterey Bay
Christine DeVault,
Cabrillo College
William Yarber,
Indiana University
Sexuality Over the Life Span
Chapter 6 Glossary| adolescence | The social and psychological state that occurs between the beginning of puberty and acceptance into full adulthood.
| | | | | cohabit | Live together and share sex without marriage.
| | | | | domestic partnership | A legal category granting some rights ordinarily reserved to married couples to committed, cohabiting heterosexual, gay, and lesbian couples.
| | | | | heterosociality | Relationships with the other sex that are based on respect and friendship.
| | | | | homoeroticism | Sexual attraction, desire, or impulses directed toward members of the same sex; homosexuality.
| | | | | homosociality | Relationships in which self-esteem and status are more closely linked to evaluations from people of the same sex than of the other sex.
| | | | | open marriage | A marriage in which both partners agree to allow each other to have openly acknowledged and independent relationships with others, including sexual ones.
| | | | | psychosexual development | Development of the psychological components of sexuality.
| | | | | puberty | The stage of human development when the body becomes capable of reproduction.
| | | | | serial monogamy | A succession of monogamous marriages.
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