| antisocial personality | Individuals who are impulsive and indifferent to others. They are capable of committing any act or crime, seemingly without guilt or remorse (sociopaths, psychopaths). 484
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| child molestation | Sexual abuse of a child by an adolescent or an adult. 486
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| child sexual abuse | Sexual contact with a prepubescent person. Because children are not considered able to give free consent, these activities are viewed as abusive. 486
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| classical conditioning | Learning via repeated association of one stimulus with another, especially a behavior. 455, 462
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| embedment | The placement or hiding of sexual words or pictures in the background of an advertisement. 462
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| erotica | Writings or other artistic creations that are sexually arousing or sensual. 464
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| gay-bashing | Verbal insults or physical threats and harm aimed at gay men and lesbian women. 478
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| gender-role ideology | A particular society's general beliefs and norms regarding how girls and boys or women and men should be (behaviors, traits, etc.). 288
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| gender stereotyping | The overapplication of simple and rigid beliefs about the traits possessed by girls and women or boys and men. 290, 463
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| hard-core pornography | explicit material designed to sexually arouse that includes graphic close-ups of genitals, ejaculation, degradation, etc. 465
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| heterosexism | Attitudes and behaviors that denigrate and stigmatize nonheterosexual behavior. Some prefer the term homophobia. 478
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| identification | Internalizing the qualities, characteristics, values, etc., of another into one's self-concept or identity. 462
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| incest | Sexual activity between closely related individuals (blood relatives or those related by marriage). 486
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| intrapersonal sexual script | Culture-bound, learned guidelines regarding any aspect of sexual expression. 480
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| misogyny | Hatred of women. 485
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| obscenity | Sexually explicit writings, pictures, etc., that are offensive or repulsive. 464
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| paraphilia | Recurrent, intensely arousing sexual fantasies, urges, or behaviors that involve nonhuman objects, suffering, or nonconsenting others. 304, 444, 486
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| pedophilia | A general erotic preference for children. 447, 486
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| pornography | Sexually explicit writings, pictures, etc., created for the purpose of sexual arousal. 464
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| prurient interest | Excessive or morbid interest in nudity, sexual function, or excretion that well exceeds socially acceptable limits. 464
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| recovered memories | Memories of traumatic events, recalled through hypnosis, regression, or other techniques. 491
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| repression | The pushing of traumatic memories out of awareness and into the unconscious; a controversial concept. 491
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| sexual harassment | sexual coercion that occurs in situations of unequal power. 475
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| social learning theory | a theory emphasizing the learning of social roles, behaviors, etc., via rewards/
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| soft porn | Explicit material designed to sexually arouse, but lacking in graphic close-ups of genitalia, ejaculation, degradation, etc. 465
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| stereotype | a belief that all members of a group possess certain traits, qualities, or characteristics. 463
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