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Masturbation is a form of autoeroticism in which a person sexually stimulates their own genitals for sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to...

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a conceptualization of the needs (or goals) that motivate human behaviour, which was proposed in 1943 by the American psychologist...

Adultery is generally defined as extramarital sex that is or was considered objectionable on social, religious and moral grounds, and which often resulted...

Sexual stimulation is anything that leads to sexual arousal or orgasm. This thing can be physical or of other senses, and is known as a stimulus. Sexual...

A refugee, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is a person "forced to flee their own country and seek safety in another...

An "honor killing", also called a shame killing, refers to murder that is committed by members of the victim's family or intimate partner with the motivation...

Cultural appropriation is an adoption of an element or elements of culture or identity by members of another culture or identity in a manner perceived...

The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with...

The Kyrgyz people are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia. They primarily reside in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, and Pakistan....

Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical. The American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and...

Ableism (/ˈeɪbəlɪzəm/; also known as ablism, disablism [in British English], anapirophobia, anapirism, and disability discrimination) is discrimination...

The Elaine massacre occurred on September 30 – October 2, 1919, at Hoop Spur in the vicinity of Elaine in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, where African...

Black nationalism is a nationalist movement which seeks representation for Black people as a distinct national identity, especially in racialized, colonial...

Sex assignment or gender assignment is the discernment of an infant's sex, typically made at birth based on an examination of the newborn's external genitalia...

Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were forbidden...

A political movement is a collective attempt by a group of people to change government policy or social values. Political movements are usually in opposition...

Contemporary slavery, also sometimes known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to slavery that continues to exist in the 21st century. Estimates of...

Work or labor (labour in British English) refers to the intentional activities individuals engage in to meet their own needs and potentially wants, as...

On Reddit, a social news site, some communities (known as subreddits or subs) are centred around explicit, violent, propagandist, or hateful material....

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or more broadly, by the politics of feminism. It uses the principles and...