Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A member of a recognized profession who has training and experience in helping persons with sexual dysfunctions.  

A name for a group of compounds including sex hormones with estrogenic and androgenic properties.  

A highly distorted and standardized view of gender roles.  

The labia minora in the female, which shows a discoloration response in the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle.  

A culture’s fixed beliefs about which jobs, rights, and privileges are appropriate to each sex.  

The process of learning the socially accepted pattern of sex behavior.  

A sense of oneself as masculine or feminine, possessing attributes prescribed by sex role standards, sexual identity.  

The willingness and ability to engage in a variety of activities, perform them at will, and feel good about doing them regardless of how they are sex typed.  

A set of expected gender-specific behaviors.  

A change in the characteristics of an individual from male to female or vice versa. The changing of an individual’s sexual phenotype to that of the opposite sex.