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性行为的基本类型
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异性性交 |
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异性生殖器性交 |
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性交合的宗教意义
佛教的“双修”菩萨
中国清朝
(1644-1911)
蒙中国古代性文化博物馆惠允(江苏吴江市同里镇)
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Spiritual significance
of coitus.
Erotic Buddha figure,
China, Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911 A.D.).
Courtesy China Sex Museum, Tongli |
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生殖器性交（genital
Intercourse）在此被定义为涉及两个人的性器官之间的性接触。
性器官是人体最为敏感的性敏感区，并且对于绝大多数的男女来说，生殖器性交因而是他们特别喜爱的性交方式。从解剖结构上看，阴茎与阴道容易结合在一起。的确，纵贯人类的绝大部分历史时期，生殖器性交是使人类新的生命孕育成为可能的男女身体仅有的交接（join自拉丁语：copulatio）方式。（现今，女性也可以通过人工授精的方式怀孕。）
在西方犹太教与基督教共有的文化里，性在传统上与生殖的目的被系在了一起。因而，长久以来，阴茎与阴道的交接曾经被宣告是性交的唯一自然（正常）方式。只要性伴有意要为性交合做准备，手刺激和口刺激有时会被允许。但是，如果没有这种意图，这样的性交方式会被认为是罪恶的。更有甚者，在大多数西方国家里，这种罪过也作为犯罪而受到惩罚，而且在19世纪，精神病学家把这种非生殖器的性交变成了精神疾病。
尽管如此，随着时间的推移，越来越多的精神病学家就性行为的目的开始反省这种无异议的、得到普遍认同的社会约定俗成的定规，鉴于此，人们现在把自娱或手交以及口交接纳为健康行为和医疗措施。依照对人的性的这种认识水平，只要非生殖器的性交使参与的性伴感到满足，诸如此类的性交从来都不会必定引起任何人的担忧。当然，有一切可能的理由相信，生殖器性交决不会成为不受欢迎的性行为方式。过去，对于大多数人来说，生殖器性交始终是做爱的首选模式，并且在将来仍将如此。
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Basic Types of Sexual Behavior |
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2. Heterosexual Intercourse |
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Genital Intercourse |
Genital intercourse is here defined as involving sexual contact between the sex organs of two persons.
The sex organs are the most sensitive erogenous zones of the human body, and for the great majority of men and women genital contact is therefore the favorite form of sexual intercourse. Furthermore, anatomically penis and vagina are easily joined together. Indeed, throughout most of human history it was only this joining (lat. copulatio) of the male and female bodies that made the conception of new human life possible. (Today, a woman may also conceive by means of artificial insemination.)
In the Western Judeo-Christian culture, sex has traditionally been tied to the purpose of procreation. Thus, for a very long time the union of penis and vagina was declared to be the only natural form of sexual intercourse. Manual and oral stimulation was sometimes permitted, as long as the partners intended it to lead up to coitus. Without this intention, however, such sexual contact was considered sinful. Moreover, in most Western countries the sin was also punished as a crime, and, the 19th century, psychiatrists turned it into a mental illness.
Still, in the course of time, a growing number of psychiatrists began to examine the unquestioned general assumptions about the purpose of sexual behavior, and, as a result, now accept masturbation and oral intercourse as healthy and therapeutic. According to this view of human sexuality, noncoital sex as such need never cause anybody's concern as long as it satisfies the partners involved. There is, of course, every reason to believe that genital intercourse wil! never become unpopular. In the past, it has always been the preferred form of lovemaking for most people, and it will certainly remain so in the future. |
