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Adam4Adam
Adam4Adam (A4A) is a free gay, bisexual, and straight-curious men's dating site and app founded in 2003 by A4A Network Inc of Canada, with 10 million claimed members, detailed profiles, Health Specialist outreach profiles, and a pre-Grindr web-era competitor.
Address format by country and area
Address format by country and area: how postal address elements and their order differ worldwide, governed by UPU standards S42 and S53, with around 130 postcode countries, over 200 formats, and national rules such as the USPS uppercase country-line requirement.
Adivasi (आदिवासी)
Adivasi (आदिवासी), Hindi for "original inhabitant", is the term for India's indigenous tribal communities, coined politically in the 1930s; distinct from the constitutional category Scheduled Tribe, about 8.6% of India's population.
Adnan (عدنان)
Adnan (عدنان), ancestor of the Adnanite Arabs, the northern Arabized branch descended from Ishmael; father of Ma'add, stop-point of Muhammad's recorded pedigree, and rival head of the Qahtanite southern lineage.
Adolescent sexuality
Adolescent sexuality covers sexual development, behavior, and health at ages 10-19: prevalence of early initiation and activity by sex and region, correlates, comprehensive sexuality education evidence, and policy trends.
Adolescent sexuality in the United States
Adolescent sexuality in the United States covers teen sexual behavior, contraception, STIs, and teen births, and the abstinence-only versus comprehensive sex education debate; 32% of high school students reported ever having sex in 2023.
Adoption
Adoption is the legal, permanent transfer of parental rights for a child to non-birth parents, via domestic, foster-care, intercountry, or known-child routes; governed by the Hague Adoption Convention, with open adoption now standard and intercountry numbers falling sharply.
Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale
The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) is a questionnaire developed for WHO surveys that screens adults for ADHD symptoms, serving as a first-stage screen rather than a diagnostic tool.
Adult Attachment Interview
The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) is a semi-structured interview, introduced by Mary Main and colleagues in 1985, that classifies adults' attachment states of mind from discourse coherence.
Adult FriendFinder
Adult FriendFinder (AFF, AdultFriendFinder.com) is an adult dating and social networking site launched in 1996 by Andrew Conru under FriendFinder Networks, using free browsing with paid Gold messaging, known for its scale and its 2016 breach of 339 million accounts.
Adult human female
"Adult human female" is a phrase employed as a definition of "woman": that a woman is an adult human female, and that female is the sex producing eggs (ova).
Adultery
Adultery, also called infidelity or extramarital sex, is voluntary intercourse by a married person with someone other than the spouse. Historically criminalized, now decriminalized in much of the world but still a crime in several countries and some US states.
Adverse childhood experiences
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events before age 18, including abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction. Defined by the CDC-Kaiser ACE Study (1995–1997), scored 0–10, with graded dose-response links to adult disease; 63.9% of US adults report at least one.
Advocacy
Advocacy refers to efforts by individuals or groups to shape decision-making in political, economic, and social institutions. It includes lobbying, campaigning, public education, and litigation, and differs from activism and lobbying in scope.
Aegosexuality
Aegosexuality, originally termed autochorissexualism (identity-less sexuality) by Anthony Bogaert in 2012, is an asexuality-spectrum microlabel marked by a disconnect between self and sexual arousal; fantasies exclude the self, and the community replaced Bogaert's paraphilia framing with the term aegosexual.
Aeta people
The Aeta people are indigenous Negrito groups of the Philippines, living in the mountainous interior of Luzon. They were severely displaced by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
Afar people
The Afar are a Cushitic-speaking pastoralist people of northeastern Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti, about two million strong, organized in clans under Maada customary law and historic sultanates, facing drought and agro-pastoral transition.
Affair
Affair, also called infidelity, cheating, or non-consensual non-monogamy: hidden romantic or sexual involvement outside a committed relationship, defined by deception and lack of consent, a leading cause of divorce.
Affect (psychology)
Affect (psychology): the experienced feeling tone of mental states, spanning valence (pleasantness) and arousal. Umbrella term over emotion and mood; measured via PANAS and circumplex scales in affective science.
Affect misattribution procedure
The affect misattribution procedure (AMP) is a widely used implicit measure of attitudes, in which reactions to a visible prime are misattributed to a neutral stimulus.
Affective memory
Affective memory is the remembering of past emotional experience, a term from Stanislavsky's actor training and from cognitive psychology, where emotion shapes how memories form and are recalled.
Affinity group
Affinity group: people linked by a common purpose, identity, or interest. Covers activist cells of 5-20 people from Spanish anarchism and 1970s anti-nuclear action, and workplace employee resource groups born from 1960s race-based caucuses, plus legal and research uses.
Affordable housing
Affordable housing is housing costing occupants no more than 30 percent of income, per HUD's benchmark. Covers cost burden categories, LIHTC, vouchers, public housing history, zoning effects, and the 2026 ROAD to Housing Act.
Afghan Qizilbash
Afghan Qizilbash (Qızılbaş) are a Shi'a Muslim ethnic group of Afghanistan, descended from Turkoman-Persian garrison troops settled in Kabul by Nader Shah in 1738; they served the Durrani rulers and are one of the 14 ethnic groups in the 2004 constitution.
African American–Korean American relations
African American–Korean American relations cover Black–Korean merchant-customer tensions, the 1991 Latasha Harlins killing, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Black-Korean Alliance, model-minority dynamics, and later coalition and cultural developments.
African Americans
African Americans: Americans with origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa, also called Black Americans. Defined by slavery, emancipation, the 1915–1970 Great Migration of 6.5 million, and civil rights; one in ten Black U.S. residents are immigrants.
African diaspora
The African diaspora is the dispersal of people of African origin outside the continent, formed chiefly by the 16th-19th century trans-Atlantic slave trade; major populations live in the Americas and Caribbean, and the African Union engages it as its sixth region.
African Pygmies
African Pygmies: Congo Basin hunter-gatherer peoples (Baka, Aka, Mbuti, Efe, Twa), separated from Bantu farmers over 60,000 years ago, convergently short-statured, speaking borrowed farmer languages, and facing land dispossession and discrimination.
African-American family structure
African-American family structure, also called Black American family structure, describes the household and kinship arrangements of Black families in the United States, which changed markedly after 1960.
African-American LGBTQ community
African-American LGBTQ community: Black Americans identifying as LGBTQ or same-gender-loving. Known for Harlem Renaissance queer artists, Bayard Rustin, 1970s groups like the Association of Black Gays, and intersectional stigma research.