Sexual health

Sexual health

Enjoying emotional, physical, and social well-being in regard to one’s sexuality, including free and responsible sexual expression that enriches one’s personal and social life and fulfills one’s sexual rights. Disorders in sexual health can impact a person’s physical and emotional health, as well as his or her relationships and self-image.

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pill, the

Health care; Sexual health

A common expression for oral hormonal contraception.

chlamydia

Health care; Sexual health

A common, sexually transmitted germ that can cause can infect genital organs leading to sterility. It can also cause arthritis in women and men.

retarded ejaculation

Health care; Sexual health

A commonly used term for a man’s inability to have an orgasm.

Cushing syndrome

Health care; Sexual health

A condition associated with pituitary gland problems.

threatened miscarriage

Health care; Sexual health

A condition in which a woman bleeds, with or without mild cramps, but the cervix hasn’t begun to open. Half of threatened miscarriages end in pregnancy loss. In the other half, the bleeding stops, ...

pregnancy

Health care; Sexual health

A condition in which a woman carries a developing offspring in her uterus. It begins with the implantation of the pre-embryo and progresses through the embryonic and fetal stages until birth, unless ...