Baculum
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| - | :''[[sex]]'' | + | The '''baculum''' (also '''penis bone''', '''penile bone''' or '''''os penis''''') is a [[bone]] found in the [[penis]] of most [[mammal]]s. It is absent in [[Homo (genus)|human]]s although present in our nearest relative the [[chimpanzee]]. |
| - | :"Sex, as we know, is a heat-seeking missile that forever [[diffusion|seeks out]] the [[new media|newest medium]] for its transmission." --(Gerard Van Der Leun, 1993) | + | The bone aids in [[sexual intercourse]]. |
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| - | :"[[Human sexuality]] is, quite apart from [[Christian repression]]s, a highly [[questionable]] phenomenon, and belongs, at least potentially, among the [[extreme]] rather than the ordinary experiences of humanity. Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the [[demon]]ic forces in human [[consciousness]] - pushing us at intervals close to [[taboo]] and [[dangerous]] [[desire]]s, which range from the [[impulse]] to commit sudden arbitrary [[violence]] upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the [[extinction]] of one's consciousness, for [[death]] itself." --[[Susan Sontag]] in the ''[[Pornographic Imagination|The Pornographic Imagination]]'' | + | |
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| - | '''[[Human sexuality]]''' comprises a broad range of behavior and processes, including the [[physiology|physiological]], [[psychology|psychological]], [[social]], [[culture|cultural]], [[politics|political]], [[Philosophy|philosophical]], [[ethics|ethical]], [[morality|moral]], [[theology|theological]], [[law|legal]] and [[spirituality|spiritual]] or [[religion|religious]] aspects of sex and [[human sexual behavior]]. | + | |
| - | ==Sexuality and love== | + | |
| - | [[Human sexuality]], besides ensuring biological [[reproduction]], has important social functions: it creates physical intimacy, bonds, and hierarchies among individuals; may be directed to spiritual transcendence (according to some traditions); and in a [[hedonism|hedonistic]] sense to the enjoyment of activity involving sexual gratification. Sexual desire, or [[libido]], is experienced as a bodily urge, often accompanied by strong emotions such as love, [[ecstasy (emotion)|ecstasy]] and jealousy. The extreme importance of sexuality in the human species can be seen in a number of physical features, among them hidden ovulation, the evolution of external scrotum and penis suggesting sperm competition, the absence of an [[Baculum|os penis]], permanent [[secondary sexual characteristics]], the forming of pair bonds based on sexual attraction as a common social structure and sexual ability in females outside of ovulation. These adaptations indicate that the importance of sexuality in humans is on a par with that found in the [[Bonobo]], and that the complex human sexual behaviour has a long [[evolution]]ary history. | + | |
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| - | Human choices in acting on sexuality are commonly influenced by cultural norms, which vary widely. Restrictions are often determined by religious beliefs or social customs. The pioneering researcher [[Sigmund Freud]] believed that humans are born [[Psychosexual development|polymorphously perverse]], which means that any number of objects could be a source of pleasure. According to Freud, humans then pass through five stages of [[psychosexual development]] (and can fixate on any stage because of various traumas during the process). For [[Alfred Kinsey]], another influential sex researcher, people can fall anywhere along a continuous scale of sexual orientation (with only small minorities fully [[heterosexual]] or [[homosexual]]). Recent studies of neurology and genetics suggest people may be born with a predisposition to one sexual orientation or another. | + | |
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| - | == See also == | + | |
| - | *[[History of human sexuality]] | + | |
| - | *[[Sex]] | + | |
| - | *[[Eroticism]] | + | |
| - | *[[Primal scene]] | + | |
| - | *[[Sexology]] | + | |
| - | *[[Sexually explicit material]] | + | |
| - | *''[[History of Sexuality]]'' by [[Foucault]] | + | |
| - | * [[List of human sexuality topics]] | + | |
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The baculum (also penis bone, penile bone or os penis) is a bone found in the penis of most mammals. It is absent in humans although present in our nearest relative the chimpanzee. The bone aids in sexual intercourse.
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