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11.10: Glossary

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    1. Andropause or late-onset hypogonadism: Significant decline of testosterone levels
    2. Friends with Benefits: Hookups different from the relationships that involve continued mutual exchange
    3. Hookups: Uncommitted sexual encounters
    4. Hot Flash: A surge of adrenaline associated with menopause
    5. Intimate partner violence is often divided into situational couple violence, which is the violence that results when heated conflict escalates, and intimate terrorism, in which one partner consistently uses fear and violence to dominate the other
    6. Menarche: The first menstrual period
    7. Menopause: The end of the menstrual cycle typically diagnosed after 12 months without menstruation
    8. Primary sexual characteristics: Reproductive organs present at birth compromising the external and internal genitalia
    9. Relationship inauthenticity: refers to an incongruence between thoughts/feelings and actions within a relationship
    10. Secondary sexual characteristics: Physical characteristic developing at puberty which distinguishes between the sexes but is not directly involved in reproduction
    11. Sexual debut: First sexual intercourse
    12. Spermarche: First ejaculation of semen

    This page titled 11.10: Glossary is shared under a CC BY 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Susan Rahman with Nathan Bowman, Dahmitra Jackson, Anna Lushtak, Remi Newman, & Prateek Sunder.