allosex-avoidancy

(thing) by Eraser_ Sat Sep 09 2000 at 6:24:28
allosex-avoidancy: a socially dictated constraint on personal disclosure to members of the other, but not one's own, sex. It affects both behavior (as in locker-room nudity, for example) and communication, as in sexual joking. See also age-avoidancy and intimacy-avoidancy.

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