Assortative mating in humans

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Human sexuality

Psychosexual behavior

Affection Assortative mating Autoeroticism Erotomania Extramarital intercourse Human courtship Human mate selection Hypersexuality Lesbian sexual practices Monogamy Paraphilias Pornography Promiscuity Prostitution Romance Seduction Sex addiction Sexual attitudes Sex roles Sexual abstinence Sexual risk taking Virginity

Sexual intercourse

Ejaculation Erection Masturbation Non-penetrative sexual behavior Orgasm Paraphilias Sex organs Sexual arousal Sexual fantasy Sexual satisfaction

Sexual function disturbances

Anorgasmia Dyspareunia Hypoactive sexual disorder Male erectile disorder Female sexual arousal disorder Frigidity Impotence Inhibited sexual desire Premature ejaculation Sexual aversion disorder Sex therapy

Sexuality

Asexuality Bisexuality Heterosexuality Homosexuality Gender identity disorder Lesbianism Male homosexuality Pansexuality Polysexuality Sexual development Sexual orientation Transexualism Transvestism

From a population/evolutionary genetics standpoint, genetic counseling is a strategy of negative assortative mating uniquely found in humans.

See also

• Family resemblance
• Disassortative mating
• Genetics
• Human mate selection
• Phenotypes
• Population genetics
• Sexual selection