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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prenuptial agreement

Health care; Sexual health

A contract made by a couple before marriage that spells out the division of property in case of divorce.

fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

Health care; Sexual health

Abnormalities that affect newborn children that are caused by alcohol use by women during pregnancy. They include damage to the brain, heart, and nervous system as well as physical malformation and ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

Health care; Sexual health

(1759–1797) Author of the first feminist manifesto, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. She was also the mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein.

Sylvester Graham

Health care; Sexual health

(1794–1851) American advocate of sexual abstinence, who developed a diet of cold cereals and “Graham” crackers designed to curb sexual desire and eradicate masturbation.

John Harvey Kellogg

Health care; Sexual health

(1852–1943) Inventor of granola and corn flakes to compete with the Graham cracker as a cure for moral degeneracy and sexual passion. In his book, Plain Facts, Kellogg advocated a variety of extreme ...

seropositive

Health care; Sexual health

Test results that show infection is present.

uterine orgasm

Health care; Sexual health

The climax or peak of sexual arousal for women that is brought about by stimulating the vagina without stimulating the clitoris. Also called "vaginal orgasm. "