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Nipple clamp
Nipple clamp: a pressure device placed on the nipple or areola for consensual erotic and BDSM sensation play. Types include adjustable screw, clover, magnetic, weighted, and suction clamps; removal is more intense than application.
Nisei (二世)
Nisei (二世), "second generation": American-born children of Japanese Issei immigrants. About 33,000 served in WWII, in the 100th/442nd and Military Intelligence Service, while over 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated.
Nísia Floresta
Nísia Floresta was the pseudonym of Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto (1810–1885), a Brazilian educator, poet, travel writer, and feminist generally identified as the pioneer of feminism in Brazil.
Nivkh people
The Nivkh, formerly known as the Gilyaks, are an indigenous people of the Russian Far East who live along the lower Amur River and on Sakhalin Island, speaking the language isolate Nivkh.
Nobility
Nobility: a hereditary legal status above commoners, distinct from aristocracy (the leading noble families). Covers origins, European consolidation 1300–1750, ministeriales, Chinese aristocracy's fall, and modern peerages.
Noblesse oblige
Noblesse oblige, French for "nobility obliges", is a phrase for the moral duty of the high-born or privileged to act honorably and generously; attested in English by 1837, often ironic in British usage.
Nocebo
Nocebo, or the nocebo effect, is the evil twin of the placebo effect: adverse symptoms arising from negative expectations, verbal suggestion, and conditioning rather than drug action. Coined by W P Kennedy in 1961; medium overall effect size g=0.522.
NOH8 Campaign
NOH8 Campaign, a photographic silent protest founded by Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley in 2008 against California Proposition 8; duct-taped mouths, NOH8 cheek paint, 56,000+ portraits, 501(c)(3).
Non-apology apology
Non-apology apology (nonapology): a statement in the form of an apology that acknowledges no responsibility or regret. Covers its etymology, rhetorical devices like "if anyone was offended," and why politicians and corporations use it.
Non-binary gender
Non-binary gender (nonbinary): umbrella term for gender identities outside or between male and female, covering both, fluid, or no gender identities. Covers terminology, prevalence (about 20% of trans people; 5% of US young adults), ICD-11 changes, health, and legal recognition status.
Non-Hispanic whites
Non-Hispanic whites: U.S. residents reporting White race and non-Hispanic origin, 191.7 million (57.8%) in the 2020 census, the largest group, declining in both count and share; also called White alone non-Hispanic.
Non-monogamy
Non-monogamy (ethical or consensual non-monogamy, CNM) covers polyamory, open relationships, swinging, and polyfidelity: multi-partner arrangements by explicit consent. Research finds satisfaction roughly equal to monogamy, with rising US interest and partial legal recognition.
Non-penetrative sex
Non-penetrative sex, or outercourse, is sexual activity without penetration of vagina, anus, or mouth. Covers definitions, practices, pregnancy and STI risks, risk-reduction guidance, and therapeutic uses.
Nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization, also known as a not-for-profit, is an organization whose surplus earnings cannot be distributed to owners or members; examples range from charities to universities.
Nonresistance
Nonresistance is a pacifist stance refusing all force to resist evil, rooted in Christian teaching and the peace churches. Distinct from nonviolent resistance and pacifism broadly, it is now studied alongside civil resistance success-rate debates.
Nonverbal communication
Nonverbal communication (NVC), also called body language, is meaning transmission without words via face, voice, gesture, touch, and space; studied through encoding, decoding accuracy (r ≈ .32), and the disputed Mehrabian conjecture.
Nonviolence
Nonviolence, or civil resistance, is waging social and political conflict without physical violence, via protest, noncooperation, and intervention; Gene Sharp catalogued 198 methods, and Chenoweth and Stephan found nonviolent campaigns about twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.
Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent Communication (NVC), or Compassionate Communication, is Marshall Rosenberg's four-part method of observation, feeling, need, and request, taught worldwide by CNVC's 1,051 certified trainers in 68 countries as of 2025.
Nonviolent resistance
Nonviolent resistance: struggle against oppression without physical violence, using strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and satyagraha as developed by Gandhi; Chenoweth and Stephan's NAVCO data show nonviolent campaigns succeed about twice as often as violent ones.
Noof Al Maadeed
Noof Al Maadeed (نوف المعاضيد), Qatari women's rights defender who fled to the UK in 2019, campaigned against male guardianship, returned to Qatar in 2021, and has not spoken publicly since March 2023.
Norby Walters
Norby Walters, American music booking agent who with Lloyd Bloom ran World Sports & Entertainment, secretly signing college football players; convicted of racketeering and mail fraud in 1989, reversed on appeal in 1990.
Nordic race
Nordic race: a discredited historical racial category describing tall, blond, long-skulled northern Europeans as a superior race; central to Nordicism, eugenics, and Nazi racial ideology, and rejected as pseudoscience by interwar Scandinavian anthropologists.
Nordicism
Nordicism: racial ideology holding a superior, endangered Nordic race; key works by Gobineau, Chamberlain, and Madison Grant; linked to eugenics, the 1924 US Immigration Act, Nazism, and modern white nationalism. Distinct from pan-nationalist Nordism.
Norm activation model
The norm activation model is a social-psychological model, proposed by Shalom Schwartz in the late 1960s, explaining prosocial and pro-environmental behavior through activated personal norms, feelings of moral obligation.
Normalization of antisemitism
Normalization of antisemitism: the process by which hostility toward Jews becomes accepted in mainstream discourse, distinct from 'normalization of the Jews' (Jewish emancipation). Documented via ADL, EU, and US National Strategy data on online hate, campuses, and political rhetoric.
Norman Swan
Norman Swan (Norman Swirsky, born 1953, Glasgow) is a Scottish-born Australian physician-broadcaster who created ABC Radio National's Health Report, exposed the McBride research fraud, and co-hosted Coronacast during COVID-19.
Normative ethics
Normative ethics, also called moral theory, is the branch of philosophy asking what to do and how to be. Its three main approaches are consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, with contractualism, care ethics, and hybrid theories alongside.
North American Man/Boy Love Association
North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), US pedophile advocacy group founded in Boston in 1978 after the Revere sex scandal; advocates adult sexual behavior with male children, opposes age-of-consent laws, widely reviled and largely defunct.
North Germanic peoples
North Germanic peoples are the Scandinavian and Icelandic peoples speaking the North Germanic branch of Germanic: Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Faroese. Covers Proto-Norse to Old Norse origins, Viking Age identity, kingdom formation, and modern languages with about 20 million speakers.
North Korean defectors
North Korean defectors (북한이탈주민) are people who flee North Korea, mostly via China, to resettle chiefly in South Korea: about 34,600 arrivals since the Korean War, peaking at 2,914 in 2009, supported by Hanawon and Hana Centers.