STD
Abbreviation of a sexually transmitted disease

Surgical Glove
The thin glove for medical treatments used for safe sex that can be purchased at pharmacy of hospital attachment.

Sukatachi(slang)
A butch in skirts, who looks to be a femme (neko) but butch (tachi) in intercourse. Many butches don't like this slang.
Antonym: Zuboneko

Straight
(slang)
Slang used toward heterosexuals in the U.S.
It is used in Japan too but "Nonke" (refer to NA-line) is more popular.

Safe Sex
A highly safe sex to avoid getting venereal diseases by washing used appliances well and putting surgical glove, dental dam and so on when there is a possibility of touching humors.

Sexually Transmitted Disease(STD)
A general term for diseases infectious by sexual intercourse or similar acts, commonly known as venereal diseases. Pathogenic organ of STD would be roughly classified into bacteria, a virus, mycoplasma, Chlamydia, a fungus, an in-the-living-body parasite, and an external parasite.

Sexual Minority
Sexual inclination minority group such as homosexuals, bisexuals, SM lovers.

Separatist
This term comes from an English word "separate" and used against women who support a principle that an ideal world should be independent and constructed by women only with no men involved.

Serivasy
A different type of stoicism, daring not to have sexual action although having desire for it.

Tachi(slang)
So-called a male role in a homosexual relationship classified by the act in sexual intercourse, outlook, mental sex, etc. However its definition is so difficult and varies by individual.
Synonyms: Sukatachi {a tachi in skirts}, Baritachi {very masculine tachi}, Jaritachi {childlike (Jari) tachi}

Transvestite(TV)
Those who do not suffer from the sense of incongruity in his/her physical sex but just want to disguise as an opposite sex. Those who have a transformation wish.

Transsexual(TS)
Those who suffer from the sense of incongruity (sexual identity disorder) in his/her physical sex. Those tend to be more like what people of the opposite sex are, socially and physically.

Transgender
(TG)
(Narrow sense)
TG could be located in the middle of TS and TV. TG do not have a wish to be like an opposite sex physically but want to be treated as one socially.
(Wide sense)
Those who take oneself neither man nor woman, and who want to be both. Sometimes his/her sexual identity varies by occasion or situation. In wide sense, TG contains TV and TS, and is a general term for those who have confusion and feel gap in their gender.

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