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Environmental justice
Environmental justice: fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in environmental law and policy. Born in the 1982 Warren County, NC PCB protests; codified in US Executive Order 12898 (1994); now a global research and policy field.
Environmental movement
The environmental movement, also called the ecology movement, is a network of individuals, groups, and organizations seeking to protect the natural environment through policy and behavior change.
Environmental racism
Environmental racism: disproportionate exposure of racialized communities to pollution and hazards via siting, housing, and enforcement disparities. Key cases: Cancer Alley, Warren County, Aamjiwnaang; landmark 1987 UCC report; EO 12898.
Ephebophilia
Ephebophilia: adult sexual attraction to postpubescent adolescents, typically ages 15-19; a chronophilia category between hebephilia and teleiophilia, not a DSM-5 or ICD-11 diagnosis.
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), drafted by Alice Paul and introduced in Congress in 1923, is a proposed U.S. constitutional amendment barring sex-based denial of equality of rights; passed by Congress in 1972, it reached only 35 ratifications by its 1982 deadline, and its status remains disputed.
Equality Act (United States)
Equality Act (United States): proposed federal law amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Fair Housing Act, and related statutes to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity; first introduced 1974, passed the House 2019 and 2021, never enacted.
Equality Act 2010
Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), UK statute consolidating anti-discrimination law around nine protected characteristics; Royal Assent 8 April 2010, main commencement 1 October 2010, enforced by the EHRC, interpreted in For Women Scotland (2025).
Erogenous zone
Erogenous zone: body area producing sexual arousal when touched. Also called erotogenic zone (Freud, 1905). Mapping studies show whole-body sensitivity with hotspots at genitals, breasts, and anus, similar distributions in men and women, and a self-partner "Erogenous Mirror".
Erotic humiliation
Erotic humiliation, also called humiliation kink or degradation play, is a consensual BDSM practice using shame, embarrassment, or diminished status for arousal, distinguished from abuse by explicit consent, negotiation, safewords, and aftercare.
Erotic hypnosis
Erotic hypnosis, also called hypnofetishism, is a kink practice gaining erotic pleasure from hypnosis, mind control, or hypnotic suggestion; distinct from clinical sex hypnotherapy; studied mainly through Hughes's 83-participant 2023 dissertation and a 20,000-member FetLife community.
Erotic lactation
Erotic lactation is sexual arousal connected to lactation, usually via adult nursing by a partner. Key facts: prolactin and oxytocin physiology, conditioned let-down reflex, relactation and galactagogues, adult milk safety limits.
Erotic massage
Erotic massage, also called sensual or sexual massage, is consensual touch in a sexual context, practiced privately between partners or commercially, and legally distinguished from licensed therapeutic massage.
Erotic photography
Erotic photography: camera images intended to inspire sexual feelings, distinguished from pornography and the academic nude by a contested spectrum. Began with 1839 daguerreotypes in Paris, censored from 1850, mass-market from Playboy 1953; modern law centers on consent and AI deepfakes.
Erotic spanking
Erotic spanking, also called flagellation play or impact play, is consensual striking of the buttocks for sexual arousal. Surveys report roughly 17-32% lifetime US prevalence; it appears in ancient erotic texts and Victorian erotica.
Ervil LeBaron
Ervil Morrell LeBaron (1925–1981), called the Mormon Manson, founded the polygamist Church of the Lamb of God, ordered murders including brother Joel and Rulon Allred, died in prison, and left a hit list that drove later killings.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams
Essie Mae Washington-Williams was an American retired schoolteacher who publicly identified herself as the mixed-race daughter of South Carolina senator James Strom Thurmond in 2003.
Ethel Kennedy
Ethel Skakel Kennedy (1928-2024), American human rights activist, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, mother of 11 children, founder of RFK Human Rights, and 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Ethiopian World Federation
The Ethiopian World Federation (EWF) is a Pan-African organization founded in New York City in 1937 at Emperor Haile Selassie's request to unite Black support for Ethiopia.
Eugene Allen
Eugene Allen (1919–2010) was a White House butler and maître d' for 34 years, serving eight presidents from Truman to Reagan. His life inspired Lee Daniels' The Butler, whose Cecil Gaines family is largely fictional.
Eugenics
Eugenics, also called racial hygiene, is the discredited theory of improving humans through selective breeding. Coined by Galton in 1883; drove US sterilization laws and Nazi forced sterilization programs.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009), sister of President John F. Kennedy and wife of Sargent Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in 1968 after starting Camp Shriver in 1962, and received the 1984 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Evangelos Zappas
Evangelos Zappas (Ευάγγελος Ζάππας), also written Evangelis Zappas, was a Greek merchant and philanthropist who financed the first Olympic revivals in Athens from 1859 and endowed the Zappeion exhibition hall.
Evelyn Einstein
Evelyn Einstein (1941-2011), adopted daughter of Hans Albert and granddaughter by adoption of Albert Einstein; anthropologist, HUAC protester, litigant in the $15 million family correspondence trust suit, and critic of the Hebrew University's Einstein merchandising.
Exhibitionistic disorder
Exhibitionistic disorder (ICD-11 6D30; DSM-5 302.4) is a paraphilic disorder marked by recurrent intense arousal from exposing genitals to unsuspecting, nonconsenting people, causing distress, impairment, or harm.
Exogamy
Exogamy is the rule or custom of marrying outside a defined group (clan, lineage, village, caste, or language group), contrasted with endogamy. Key facts: alliance theory, Tylor's 1889 cross-cultural study, and variable genetic effects.
Extended family
Extended family: kin beyond the nuclear family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins), also called multigenerational households when three or more generations co-reside. Distinguished from nuclear families by vertical and lateral extension, census definitions, and prevalence in the US and Canada.
Extramarital sex
Extramarital sex, also known as extramarital relations or infidelity, is sexual activity by a married person with someone other than their spouse, without that spouse's consent.
Facebook Dating
Facebook Dating is Meta's free, opt-in dating service inside the Facebook app, announced at F8 in 2018, launched in Colombia then the US in 2019, known for Secret Crush, a separate dating profile, and 2025 AI features.
Facial (sexual act)
Facial, a sexual act of ejaculating onto a partner's face (also called facial ejaculation or cum shot), is common in heterosexual pornography (30% of DVD scenes) and reported by 32.3% of US women surveyed, with oral-sex STI risks and consent requirements.
Fag hag
Fag hag (also fruit fly, queen bee) is US gay male slang, recorded from 1972, for a straight woman who socially associates with gay men; traditionally derogatory, stereotyped in media, and partly reclaimed by figures like Margaret Cho.