Sex – biological category that distinguishes between

female and male

Primary sex characteristics- shows up as the sex organs

involved with reproductive processes and which
develop in utero

Secondary sex charact- develop at puberty and are not

directly involved in reproduction, things like pubic hair,
enlarged breast or facial hair

Gender – set of social and psychological characteristics

that a society considers proper for its males and females

Gender identity – refers to a persons internal, deeply

held sense of their gender

Sexuality – shorthand for everything related to sexual

behavior; sexual acts, desire, arousal, entire experience
that is deemed sexual

Heterosex – attracted to people of other gender

Homo- attracted to the same gender

Asexual- don’t experience sexual attraction

Sexual scripts – cultural prescriptions that dictate when,

where, how, with whom of sex, what that sex means
when it happens

Norms – standard of acceptable behavior