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sexuality

vr.tr.sexuality · ACT.ACT

Let an agent explain human sexuality as a broad topic in a factual health and scholarly register, relay dimensions, research and history with attribution, describe sexual health and consent, and route personal questions to clinicians or counsellors without explicit content.

Thing Registry Activities and processes

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain human sexuality as a broad topic in a factual health and scholarly register, relay dimensions, research and history with attribution, describe sexual health and consent, and route personal questions to clinicians or counsellors without explicit content.

The way people experience and express themselves as sexual beings, encompassing sexual behaviour, attraction, orientation, identity, relationships and reproduction, shaped by biology, psychology, culture and history, and studied in sexology, medicine, psychology and the humanities, with historical dimensions such as sexuality in the classical era and ancient Greek eros, nineteenth-century Western Europe, and cultural representations such as sexuality in science fiction; clinical concepts such as satyriasis belong to the history of sexual medicine, and sexual health and consent are central to contemporary understanding.

What it is for: Not applicable; a dimension of human life.

It can be explain dimensions; relay research and history; describe sexual health and consent; route personal questions.

Distinguishing features

Biological and cultural

Diverse orientations and identities

Health and consent framework

Historically variable

What it looks like

Not applicable.

How it is recognised

Human sexual experience and expression

Behaviour, orientation, identity, relationships; historical and cultural sexuality; sexual health

Explicit content is outside scope; gender identity is a distinct concept; reproduction is one aspect

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms, as sexual behaviour

behavior

is studied in - and related disciplines

sexology

includes - as a dimension

sexual orientation

is framed by - in public health

sexual health

In practice

Families and kinds

sexual behaviour

sexual orientation and identity

sexual health and reproduction

sexuality across the lifespan

historical sexuality such as the classical era, ancient Greek eros and nineteenth-century Western Europe

sexuality in culture and media such as science fiction

historical clinical concepts such as satyriasis and hypersexuality

Identifiers

MeSH D012723 sexuality

Standards and regulation

WHO definitions of sexual health

Laws on consent, age of consent and sexual offences

Sex education curricula

Anti-discrimination laws on sexual orientation

Failure modes and hazards

Producing explicit content

Disrespecting orientations, cultures or religious views

Presenting contested research as settled

Agents giving personal medical advice

Also called

satyriasissexuality in the classical erasexuality in Western Europe in the 19th centurysexual behaviorAncient Greek erossexuality in Star TrekDon Juanismhomosexual behaviormating strategyheterosexual behavior

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What sexuality is.

Attribution.

Definition

Definition and dimensions.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is human sexuality, and what dimensions of behaviour, orientation, identity and relationship does it include, as WHO and scholars describe? definition
  2. Is the question a health, scholarly or educational question, or a request for explicit content the model does not provide? boundary

Development

Across the lifespan.

Development

Development.

  1. How does sexuality develop and change across the lifespan, in general terms? provenance
  2. Is the question age-appropriate for the user context? boundary
Health Sexual health.

Clinical.

Sexual health

Sexual health.

Sexual health

Sexual health.

  1. What does sexual health cover, from consent and contraception to infection prevention and wellbeing? provenance
  2. Is the user asking about their own health, which needs a clinician? boundary

Clinical

Clinical concepts.

Clinical

Clinical.

  1. How have clinical concepts such as satyriasis and hypersexuality been understood and revised, with attribution? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
History History and culture.

Attribution.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How do historians describe sexuality in the classical era, ancient Greek eros and nineteenth-century Western Europe, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation scholarly and neutral? boundary

Culture

Culture and media.

Culture

Culture.

  1. How is sexuality represented in literature, film and science fiction such as Star Trek, as critics describe? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Research and society.

Context.

Research

Research.

Research

Research.

  1. How do sexology, psychology and biology study sexuality, from Kinsey to current research? provenance
  2. Which entry fits sexology? action

Society

Law and education.

Society

Society.

  1. How do laws on consent and sex education frameworks shape sexuality in society, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Which entry fits sex education? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should sexual orientation and sexual health be the primary linked entries?
  • How should scholarly and health sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming historical periods, a clinical term and a media topic; should they be split off?