Chapter+06


 * **Sexual Orientation: A person's romantic and emotional attraction to another person.**
 * ** In one of the episodes Wayne Rigsby shows that he still has feeling for his co-worker and ex-girlfriend, Grace Van Pelt, who is now engaged to someone else. Rigsby and Van Pelt were forced to break up because they work together and it was against policy, so even though neither of them wanted to separate they had to and they both displayed sexual orientation toward each other during this specific episode. **
 * ** Extramarital Sex: The practice of married people having sex outside of marriage. **
 * ** The character of Madeleine Hightower is married but is found to be having an affair with another police officer. **
 * ** Premarital Sex: Sexual intercourse that occurs before marriage. [[image:2hetero.jpg width="132" height="146" align="right"]] **
 * ** During the romantic relationship between Wayne Rigsby and Grace Van Pelt, premarital sex occurred. **


 * __Heterosexuality__: sexual attraction to someone of the other sex
 * In more than one episode Wayne Rigsby and Grace Van Pelt show their attraction to each other by being together in a romantic way.


 * __Secondary Sex Characteristics__: bodily development, apart from the genitals, that distinguishes biologically mature females and males
 * The men and women in The Mentalist are very different from each other and are easily distinguishable. Patrick, Wayne, and Kimball have more muscular bodies and deeper voices than Grace and Teresa who have higher voices.


 * __Prostitution__: the selling of sexual services
 * In an episode Agents Rigsby and Van Pelt must talk to a prostitute in order to get more information on the disappearance of a lawyer.

 