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Dear user:qrc2006: I am one of the contributors to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and Sexuality, and as such, spend a majority of my time on sexology and sexuality articles. You might like to help with that project if you have an interest in the subject.

We also have a portal sexuality that you could help with as it needs updating on a regular basis. The featured article needs to change oaccasionally, as does the Featured Picture and the "Did you know" section.

The problem with what you are attempting with your template is that the field of sexology and sexuality (abbreviated to "sex" in your template) is very, very broad. And that is limiting it to human sexuality, and not including "sex" related topics of other animals.

Look at these to get an idea. Look at Category:Sexology, Category:Human sexuality, List of sexology topics, Category:Sexuality-related lists, category:sex moves, List of sex positions, sex acts, List of BDSM topics, Category:Sex education and of course category:sex.

How your template could represent all of these is hard to imagine. But, give it your best shot. Atom 21:47, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

everything has a hierarchy to it, perhaps the box could just refer to top or mid level hierarchy pages and let those pages be used for directing users to low level details pages. Though a lot of these higher order pages probably would need to be created first. Mathmo Talk 18:55, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possibilities to add

Sexual orientation: Bisexuality, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality

Asexuality, Autosexuality, Intersexuality, Monosexuality, Pansexuality

See template:sexual orientation

DSM-IV Codes#Paraphilias Paraphilia: Exhibitionism, Fetishism, Frotteurism, Sexual Masochism, Pedophilia, Sexual Sadism, Transvestic fetishism, Voyeurism

Apparently Zoophilia (in your list) is no longer a paraphilia according to DSM-IV

Non-DSM Paraphilias might include (*pedophilia: sexual attraction to prepubescent children

Balloon fetishism -- breast fetishism -- foot fetishism (podophilia) -- fur fetishism -- leather fetishism -- lipstick fetishism -- medical fetishism -- panty fetishism -- robot fetishism -- rubber fetishism -- shoe fetishism -- smoking fetishism -- spandex fetishism -- transvestic fetishism (see below)
  • Frotteurism: sexual arousal from the recurrent urge or behavior of touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person
  • Galactophilia: sexual attraction to human milk or lactating women (incorrect term)
  • Gerontophilia: sexual attraction towards the elderly
  • Haematophilia: sexual attraction involving blood (either on a sex partner/attractive person or the liquid itself; not to be confused with haemophilia, a genetic disorder of the blood)
  • Harpaxophilia: sexual arousal from being the victim of a robbery or burglary
  • Hematolagnia: sexual attraction to blood
  • Hybristophilia: sexual arousal to people who have committed crimes, in particular cruel or outrageous crimes
  • Infantilism: sexual pleasure from dressing, acting, or being treated as a baby
  • Klismaphilia: sexual pleasure from enemas
  • Lust murder: sexual arousal through committing murder
  • Macrophilia: sexual attraction to larger people and large things (including larger body organs such as breasts and genitalia)
  • Maiesiophilia: sexual attraction to childbirth or pregnant women
  • Masochism: is the recurrent urge or behavior of wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer
  • Microphilia: sexual attraction to smaller people and things of smaller size
  • Mysophilia: sexual attraction to soiled, dirty, foul or decaying material
  • Necrophilia: sexual attraction to corpses
  • Necrozoophilia: sexual attraction to the corpses or killings of animals (also known as necrobestiality)
  • Nepiophilia: the same as infantophilia sexual attraction to children between the age of 0 - 3 yrs.
  • Pedophilia: sexual attraction to prepubescent children (also spelt paedophilia in some countries)
  • Pictophilia: sexual attraction to pictorial pornography/erotic art
  • Plushophilia: sexual attraction to stuffed toys or people in animal costume, such as theme park characters
  • Pyrophilia: sexual arousal through watching, setting, hearing/talking/fantasizing about fire
  • Retifism: sexual arousal from shoes
  • Sadism: sexual arousal from giving pain
  • Sitophilia: sexual arousal from food
  • Somnophilia: sexual arousal from sleeping or unconscious people
  • Spectrophilia: sexual attraction to ghosts
  • Telephone scatologia: being sexually aroused by making obscene telephone calls
  • Teratophilia: sexual attraction to deformed or monstrous people
  • Toonophilia: love (or sexual arousal) to cartoon characters/situations
  • Transformation fetish: sexual arousal from depictions of transformations of people into objects or other beings
  • Transvestic fetishism: is a sexual attraction towards the clothing of the opposite gender (also known as transvestitism)
  • Trichophilia: love (or sexual arousal) from hair
  • Urolagnia: sexual attraction to urine
  • Vorarephilia: sexual attraction to being eaten by, and/or eating, another person or creature
  • Voyeurism: sexual arousal through watching others having sex (also includes the recurrent urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing or engaging in sexual activities, see peeping tom)
  • Xenophilia: sexual attraction to foreigners (in science fiction, can also mean sexual attraction to aliens)
  • Zoophilia: emotional or sexual attraction to animals
  • Zoosadism: the sexual enjoyment of causing pain and suffering to animals

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[edit] Scope too broad?

It seems to me that this template tries to cover way too much ground on such a wide ranging topic as sex. In such a state, it doesn't appear to provide the comprehensiveness that a navigation template should. The list of articles to the right of the five main groups are all limited to varying degrees. Also, the template for the most part excludes aspects of sex and reproduction for non-human organisms. I think a template such as this could be the start of something very good, so I'd like to propose that it be split into five separate templates, one each to cover the five main groups to the left. Thoughts? Robotman1974 17:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

There is already a template that covers sex positions, so I'm going to take those out of this template. Robotman1974 16:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
However, I think linking to the basic topic of sexual positions would be worthwhile. Subsolar 04:08, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
The whole anatomy section is redundant as (literally) any part of the body will already be covered by a sexual fetish. --Philip Laurence 02:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Yes, but some parts are more clearly or directly sexual than others. Subsolar 04:08, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I think this is again becoming too large, and should be reduced to just the top-level topics, say

  • Acts and positions
  • Ethics
  • History
  • Identity
  • In Society
  • Law
  • Physiology
  • Pornography and erotica
  • Paraphilia and fetishes
  • Relationships
  • Reproduction
  • Sex work and prostitution

Maybe some of those could be split or combined, but could we agree that approximately that many topics would be appropriate? There are hundreds of sex-related topics, we can't have them all there. Subsolar (talk) 01:28, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't see how these new categories would improve the current shorter categorization. "Paraphilias & Fetishes" is fine as a parent category (the content is too vast for a general template such as this). "Pornography and erotica" would mean the elimination of the "Entertainment" section which in turn would eliminate a place for "Sex toys". How many articles exist on "Sex work and prostitution" to warrant a section?... I can't think of any. Also, "Physiology" & "Reproduction" are of similar clinical and scientific ilk to be covered in the same breath... whereas the removal of a health and education section is puzzling. Redblueball (talk) 16:30, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BDSM

I think too much of importance given to this. Changing to "Feelings"(or anything such), and include orgasm, sexual arousal, sexual attraction, BDSM(b&d, s&m) etc. would be fine. (Comment on my sorting by importance are welcome, Foreplay is kept with sexual intercourse, as sexual intercourse includes anal and oral sex also.) Lara_bran 06:44, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Changed BDSM section to see also. Lara_bran 08:04, 17 August 2007 (UTC)