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Sexual partners are people who engage insexual activity together. The sexual partners may be in acommitted relationship, either on an exclusive basis or not, or engage in the sexual activity on acasual basis. They may be onintimate terms (in which case they are often referred to as "lovers") oranonymous,[1] as in the case of sex with a stranger, aone-night stand, or aprostitute. A person can be another person's sexual partner even if the sexual activity is illegal, socially taboo, or otherwisein breach of a trust or commitment. A person may haveonly one or more than one sexual partner at any one time, either aspolyamory,polygamy or in contravention of convention.
As such, the termsexual partner can be applied to bothconsenting andnon-consenting sexual relationships.
A sexual partner may or may not have equal power during a sexual activity; such sexual "roles" (which can sometimes be determined bypersonality type but can also be determined by a conscious choice by the individual to "assume" a particular "role") typically fall under variousdominance and submission categories.
Generally, a sexual partner is one with whom one engages in a sexual activity on a regular or ongoing basis.
Anex-sexual partner is a person with whom the other partner does not intend to engage in any further sexual activity, while a prospective sexual partner is one with whom the person has not previously engaged in any sexual activity, but desires to do so.
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