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| chronic and dangerous starvation dieting and obsessive exercise |
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| the belief that men must look like Greek gods, with perfect chins, thick hair, rippling muscles and washboard abs |
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| involves binging and purging; eating large quantities and then either vomiting or taking enemas to excrete them |
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| belief that one is too small, insufficiently muscular |
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| a life stage between childhood and adulthood |
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| a group of people who are born within a specific time period and therefore assumed to share both chronological and functional characteristics |
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| distinctive cultural values, pursuits, and pasttimes that are culturally prescribed for each age cohort |
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| differential treatment based on age, usually effecting the elderly rather than the young |
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| a person's age determined by the actual date of birth |
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| a set of observable characteristics and attributes that are used to categorize people into different age cohorts |
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| the sociological study of aging |
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| the average number of years that people are born in a certain year could expect to live |
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| the length of a person's life, which all societies divide into stages, seasons or age groups |
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| middle-aged adults who are caring for dependent children and aging parents at the same time |
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| program begun in 1940 that improved the financial situation of the elderly |
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| people who have no sexual desire for anyone |
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| a sexual identity organized around attraction to both women and men |
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| sexual behavior between people of different genders |
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| sexual desires or behavior with members of one's own gender |
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| when we are discussing sexuality, refers not to one's biological sex, but rather to sexual behavior or sexual conduct - the things people do from which they derive sexual meanings |
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| any behavior that brings sexual pleasure or release |
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| an identity that is organized by the gender of the person(s) to whom we are sexually attracted; may also be called sexual orientation |
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| a set of ideas and practices that answer the basic questions about sex |
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| process through which, over the course of childhood and adolescence, and even through adulthood, our understanding of our culture's sexual scripts begin to cohere into a preference |
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| the identities we construct that are often based on our sexual conduct |
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| a deliberately vague blanket term to describe a sexual encounter which may or may not include sexual intercourse, usually occurring only on one occasion between 2 people who are strangers or brief aquaintances |
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| term used to describe the fact that women's sexuality is becoming increasingly similar to men's |
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| the institutionally based inequality that may derive from homophobia |
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| an attitude, a socially approved dislike of gay men and lesbians, the presumption that they are inferior to straight people |
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| the globalization of prostitution, in which wealthy men are directed to poor women in other countries for sex |
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