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The 58 pages that link to Sexual orientation, each with the reason it gives.

• Gender identityCompared with: It concerns attraction, unlike gender identity, which concerns a person’s own gender.

• GenderCompared with: Gender concerns identity and social meaning; orientation concerns attraction.

• Sexual arousalCompared with: Orientation describes patterns of attraction, not a momentary state of excitement.

• Gender expressionCompared with: Expression does not reveal who someone is attracted to.

• Sexual dysfunctionCompared with: Orientation concerns whom someone is attracted to, not whether sexual functioning is impaired.

• IntersexCompared with: Intersex status does not determine whom someone is attracted to.

• Sexual scriptsCompared with: Orientation concerns patterns of attraction, whereas scripts concern expectations for interpreting and enacting situations.

• ParaphiliaCompared with: Orientation concerns whom someone is attracted to; paraphilia concerns the focus or form of sexual interest.

• Paraphilic disorderCompared with: Orientation is not itself a disorder and should not be conflated with paraphilic diagnosis.

• Sex and gender distinctionCompared with: It is often confused with gender, but concerns attraction rather than identity or bodily traits.

• Erogenous zoneCompared with: Anatomical sensitivity does not determine whom someone is attracted to.

• Biological sexCompared with: Attraction is distinct from a person’s biological sex characteristics.

• PedophiliaCompared with: Pedophilia describes an atypical age-directed interest, not an orientation category equivalent to those based on adult partners.

• Sexual stimulationCompared with: Orientation describes patterns of attraction, not a response to a particular stimulus.

• Interpersonal attractionCompared with: Orientation describes patterns across people, not a specific interpersonal bond.

• Foot fetishismCompared with: An interest in feet describes a focus of arousal, not necessarily a person's broader orientation.

• EphebophiliaCompared with: Age-based attraction is not generally treated as an orientation category in standard clinical classifications.

• HebephiliaCompared with: Hebephilia concerns developmental stage, not the gender of those someone is attracted to.

• Hand fetishismCompared with: Hand fetishism describes a focus of erotic interest, not whom someone is attracted to.

• TribadismCompared with: A sexual practice alone does not determine anyone’s orientation.

• ZoophiliaCompared with: Zoophilia is classified differently from orientations describing attraction to consenting people.

• EffeminacyCompared with: Perceived effeminacy does not determine whom someone is attracted to.

• ErotophobiaCompared with: Erotophobia is an attitude toward sexuality, not a pattern of attraction.

• GerontophiliaCompared with: Gerontophilia describes attraction by age, not the same dimension as attraction by gender.

• Sex differences in humansCompared with: It concerns attraction, not biological differences between females and males.