Non-consensual acts that involve actual penetration are rape rather than sexual assault.

* Non-consensual, forced physical sexual behavior such as rape or sexual assault

Carl Kauffeld has written to me of sexual activity in February 1943 of young born in March 1940.

This can have important consequences when dealing with issues such as consensual sadomasochistic sexual activity, the most notable case being the Operation Spanner case.

Therefore the interpretation of what kinds of sexual activity are acceptable for a layman is not a religious matter as far as Buddhism is concerned.

Buddhist monks and nuns of most traditions are expected to refrain from all sexual activity and take vows of celibacy ; lay people, however, are not expected to refrain from any specific form of sexual activity, and there is no concept of sinfulness attached to sex.

In some cultures breasts play a role in human sexual activity.

They are sensitive to the touch as they have many nerve endings ; and it is common to press or massage them with hands or orally before or during sexual activity.

Signs and symptoms of the depressive phase of bipolar disorder include persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, guilt, anger, isolation, or hopelessness ; disturbances in sleep and appetite ; fatigue and loss of interest in usually enjoyable activities ; problems concentrating ; loneliness, self-loathing, apathy or indifference ; depersonalization ; loss of interest in sexual activity ; shyness or social anxiety ; irritability, chronic pain ( with or without a known cause ); lack of motivation ; and morbid suicidal ideation.

According to the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), risk factors for BV include douching and having new or multiple sex partners, although it is unclear what role sexual activity plays in the development of BV.

Although BV can be associated with sexual activity, there is no clear evidence of sexual transmission.

Sexual abstinence, also known as continence, refers to abstaining from all sexual activity, often for some limited period of time.

Asexuality is considered distinct from abstention from sexual activity and from celibacy, which are behavioral and generally motivated by factors such as an individual's personal or religious beliefs.

Many Pentecostal churches such as the Assemblies of God, as well as Restorationist churches, like Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons, also take the position that homosexual sexual activity is immoral.

Christians who oppose homosexual relationships sometimes contend that same-gender sexual activity is unnatural.

However, wives were usually looked after with care, and bigamous men were expected to ensure that they give their first wife food, clothing, and sexual activity.

In 1974, David Berg introduced a new proselytization method called Flirty Fishing ( or FFing ), which encouraged female members to show God's love by engaging in sexual activity with potential converts.

Many definitions of music implicitly hold that music is a communicative activity which conveys to the listener moods, emotions, thoughts, impressions, or religious, philosophical, sexual, or political concepts or positions.

He seems to have been a part of the members of the covenant, a close-knit, urban community of Christians that had ' covenanted ' themselves to service and refrained from sexual activity.

For example, it may be practiced during pregnancy instead of vaginal sex by couples wishing to engage in intimate sexual activity while avoiding the difficulty of vaginal intercourse during later stages of pregnancy.

Other reasons given for the practice among adolescent girls are peer-group pressure and as their introduction to sexual activity.

Flirting or coquetry is a sexual activity involving verbal or written communication as well as body language by one person to another, suggesting an interest in a deeper relationship with the other person.

* Incest, sexual activity with legal family members ; noticeably seen in The Sagara Family, a hentai computer game.

Attalus took his revenge by inviting Pausanias to dinner, getting him drunk, then subjecting him to sexual assault.

In BDSM activities, even though it is consensual, subjecting a submissive to erotic humiliation can be regarded as sexual objectification.

Law professor John Stinneford has argued that chemical castration, by exerting control over the mind of sex offenders to render them incapable of sexual desire, and subjecting them to the physical changes caused by the female hormones used, is a cruel and unusual punishment.

Trafficking is a term to define the recruiting, harbouring, obtaining and transportation of a person by use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjecting them to involuntary acts, such as acts related to commercial sexual exploitation ( including forced prostitution ) or involuntary labour.

During her three days of captivity the depraved couple videotaped themselves torturing and subjecting the 15 year old to sexual humiliation and degradation while forcing her to drink large amounts of alcohol before murdering her on April 19, 1992.

In contrast, opponents, particularly of infant circumcision, often question its effectiveness in preventing disease, and object to subjecting newborn boys, without their consent, to a procedure they consider to have debatable benefits, significant risks and a potentially negative impact on general health and later sexual enjoyment.

A ghola's memories are restored by subjecting the ghola to an intense personal trauma, specific to each individual ; Yueh's great fear of having his memories restored itself is the trigger to unlock them as Sheeana pretends to begin the process using sexual imprinting.

Sexual slavery is the slavery of unwilling people who are coerced into that condition for sexual exploitation.

While physicians of the period acknowledged that the disorder stemmed from sexual dissatisfaction, they seemed unaware of or unwilling to admit the sexual purposes of the devices used to treat it.

Obligatory infidelity is based on fear that refraining from someone's sexual advances will result in rejection, and being unwilling to handle such rejection, resulting in surrender to them.

However, Malik did acknowledge the possibility that pregnancy can result from an unwilling sexual act.

One element of pon farr in fan fiction that is typified by " The Ring of Soshern " is that Spock is unwilling to engage in sexual intercourse even when in the full throes of pon farr.

Absent is the factor of commercialization with the attendant evils commonly attached to the retailing of sexual pleasures ; absent the elements of force or of involvement of minors which might constitute compulsion of unwilling participants or of those too young to make an informed choice, and absent too intrusion on the sensibilities of members of the public, many of whom would be offended by being exposed to the intimacies of others.

However, early cases tried in India mainly involved forced fellatio with unwilling male children and one unusual case of sexual intercourse with the nostril of a buffalo.

A person who feels neither romantic nor sexual attraction is known as an aromantic asexual.

Some people show a sexual interest in female breasts distinct from that of the person, which may be regarded as a breast fetish.

* direct physical contact – touching an infected person, including sexual contact

A transvestic fetishist is a person ( typically a heterosexual male ) who cross-dresses as part of a sexual fetish.

" The act prohibited any homosexual or bisexual person from disclosing his or her sexual orientation or from speaking about any homosexual relationships, including marriages or other familial attributes, while serving in the United States armed forces.

Any kind of sexual contact with bodily fluids of a person infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, poses a risk of infection.

In most cultures, it is socially disapproved for a person to make explicitly sexual advances, but indirect or suggestive advances ( i. e., flirting ) may at times be considered acceptable.

The person flirting will send out signals of sexual availability to another, and expects to see the interest returned in order to continue flirting.

The APA currently officially states that " some people believe that sexual orientation is innate and fixed ; however, sexual orientation develops across a person ’ s lifetime ", a radical reversal from the recent past, when non-normative sexuality was considered a deviancy or mental ailment treatable through institutionalization or other radical means.

Hate speech is, outside the law, communication that vilifies a person or a group on the basis of color, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, or other characteristic.

France prohibits by its penal code and by its press laws public and private communication which is defamatory or insulting, or which incites discrimination, hatred, or violence against a person or a group of persons on account of place of origin, ethnicity or lack thereof, nationality, race, specific religion, sex, sexual orientation, or handicap.

Anyone who in a ridiculing, slanderous, insulting, threatening or any other manner publicly assaults a person or a group of people on the basis of their nationality, skin colour, race, religion or sexual orientation, shall be fined or jailed for up to 2 years.

The statutes forbid communication which is hateful, threatening, abusive, or insulting and which targets a person on account of skin colour, race, disability, nationality ( including citizenship ), ethnic or national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.

Sexual activity normally results in sexual arousal and physiological changes in the aroused person, some of which are pronounced while others are more subtle.

For example, sexual activity with a person below some age of consent and sexual assault in general are criminal offenses in most jurisdictions.

It can be divided into acts which involve one person, such as masturbation, or two, or more, people, such as sexual intercourse, oral sex, or mutual masturbation.

When this involves having sex with, or performing certain actual sexual acts for another person in exchange for money or something of value, it is called prostitution.

Laws regulating the minimum age at which a person can consent to have sex ( age of consent ) are frequently the subject of debate, as is adolescent sexual behavior in general.

The laws of each jurisdiction set the minimum age at which a young person is allowed to engage in sexual activity.