Prinsexx -> How do you Id? (8/27/2009 8:35:28 AM)
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(With apologies to Wiki and Wipi and IC): Gender identity is the gender(s), or lack thereof, a person self-identifies as. The gender identities one may choose from include: male, female, both, somewhere in between (third gender), or neither. Gender identity was originally a medical term used to explain sex reassignment surgery to the public and is a term is also found in psychology, whereas in sociology, gender studies and feminism gender is still inclined to refer to gender role or erotic preference. It is suggested that gender identity is affected by genetic, prenatal hormonal, postnatal, social, and post-pubertal hormonal determinants. Biological factors include the influence of hormones, in particular testosterone and gene regulation in brain cells. Social factors are primarily based on the family as gender identity is thought to be formed by the third year of life. It is now thought that the innate gender identity, although powerfully influenced by the sex of the genitalia and the gender assigned during rearing, is not determined by these factors. Self concept or self identity may be informed by how a person understands how others perceive them. Gender identity does not refer to the placing of a person into one of the categories male or female; but without including the concept of interaction with society at large the term has no meaning. People who identify as transsexual may strongly desire that other people consider them to belong to a particular gender and often are simply trying to modify their bodies and behaviors to match how they feel inside, which may not have anything to do with being either male, female, a man, or a woman. Sexual orientation is a pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, both genders, neither gender, or another gender One may orientate as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, meterosexual, queer or straight. BDSM roles for simplicity and convenience are classified as: People who are "in charge" or causing sensation are referred to as tops and the person on the other end is called a bottom. Many people enjoy being both and are said to be switches. Furthermore, tops in a D/s context are called doms and bottoms in D/s are subs. Not all tops are doms, and not all bottoms are subs. Likewise, tops in a M/s context are called Masters and their bottoms are slaves. Although a lot of doms and subs enjoy using the terms "Master" or "slave", not all tops are doms not all doms are Masters, and just as not all bottoms are subs not all subs are slaves. Not only are not all bottoms subs but a bottom is not necessarily submissive. At one end of the continuum is a submissive who enjoys taking orders from a dominant but does not receive any physical stimulation. At the other is a bottom who enjoys the intense physical and psychological stimulation but does not submit to the person delivering them. Sorry forgot status: Single, partnered, collared, owned, divorced, separated...? OK: How do you Id? Do you Id differently in different contexts? Do you feel it necessary to have to state gender…on a work application, CV, on a profile on Face Book, Collarme? Alt.com? and so on? Why do you feel it necessary or unnecessary?
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