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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).
Equanimity
Equanimity is a balanced state of mind, also known as emotional stability, that responds evenly to all experiences. It originates in Buddhist thought and is studied in modern psychology.
Equating (psychometrics)
Equating (psychometrics) is a method for adjusting scores on test forms that differ in difficulty. This enables scores to be used interchangeably as if from the same test.
Erhard Seminars Training
Erhard Seminars Training (est, also EST), founded by Werner Erhard in San Francisco in 1971, was a 60-hour two-weekend large group awareness training whose course, 'getting it,' and corporate successors The Forum and Landmark define it.
Eric Thomas (motivational speaker)
Eric Thomas, aka ET the Hip Hop Preacher, is an American motivational speaker, pastor, and author of The Secret to Success, with a PhD in education administration from Michigan State University; distinct from Eric S. Thomas of Detroit and humorist R. Eric Thomas.
Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm (1900–1980), German-American psychoanalyst and social philosopher of the Frankfurt School, author of Escape from Freedom and The Art of Loving, developed social character theory and socialist humanism.
Erie people
The Erie people were an Iroquoian-speaking Native American confederacy along the southern shore of Lake Erie, in New York and Pennsylvania, defeated by the Iroquois between 1654 and 1656.
Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson (1902-1994), German-born American psychoanalyst trained by Anna Freud, created the eight-stage theory of psychosocial development spanning trust versus mistrust to integrity versus despair, coined the identity crisis, and won a Pulitzer Prize for Gandhi's Truth.
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development: Erik Erikson's eight-stage lifespan theory, first published in Childhood and Society (1950), covering trust vs. mistrust through ego integrity vs. despair, built on Freud's psychosexual stages but extending development into adulthood.
Eritrean refugee migration to Europe
Eritrean refugee migration to Europe is the movement of Eritreans fleeing indefinite national service and political repression, mainly to Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
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.
Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman (1922–1982), Canadian-born American sociologist of the Chicago School tradition, author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma; developer of dramaturgy and the interaction order; 37th ASA president.
Escapism
Escapism: the tendency to evade one's situation through diversion and distraction via media, games, or consumption; introduced in 1950s media research, defined by Katz and Foulkes (1962), and split into self-suppression and self-expansion forms in the dualistic model.
Eshay
Eshay (also adlay, lad) is Australian slang for a young man in an anti-social urban youth subculture marked by Adidas, Nike and Ralph Lauren clothing, pig Latin slang such as 'eshay adlay' and 'eetswa', roots in Sydney's street scene, first evidence in 2002, and mainstream fame via the 2022 Heartbreak High character Ca$h.
Eskimo
Eskimo: an exonym for Arctic Indigenous peoples including the Inuit, Iñupiat, and Yup'ik. From Montagnais ayas̆kimew, 'snowshoe-netter'; rejected by the Inuit Circumpolar Council in 1977, fading in Alaska, offensive in Canada.
Esra Erdoğan
Esra Erdoğan Albayrak (born 1983) is a Turkish sociologist, daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, wife of Berat Albayrak, Berkeley PhD, and leader of education and women's foundations including NUN and the OIC women's council.
Essex man
Essex man: British political stereotype coined by Simon Heffer in the Sunday Telegraph, 1990, for the working-class, home-owning Essex voter who switched to Thatcher's Conservatives; source of Mondeo Man and later archetypes.
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.
Esther Perel
Esther Perel (born 1958, Louvain, Belgium) is a Belgian-American psychotherapist in New York City, author of Mating in Captivity (2006) and The State of Affairs (2017), and host of the podcast Where Should We Begin? since 2017.
Estimates of historical world population
Estimates of historical world population reconstruct human numbers before modern censuses using tax lists, registers, archaeology, and datasets like HYDE, Gapminder, and McEvedy-Jones, anchored from 1950 onward by the UN World Population Prospects.
Estonians
Estonians (eestlased) are a Finnic people of Estonia speaking a Uralic Finnic language; 932,603 lived in Estonia in 2026 (68.5%). Distinguished by Finnic language, medieval conquest history, 1860s national awakening, and Soviet-era deportations.
Eternal September
Eternal September, or the September that never ended, is Usenet slang for the permanent influx of new users after AOL-era commercial access opened in September 1993, and by extension any online community overwhelmed by newcomers.