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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pro-choice

Health care; Sexual health

The belief that women have the right to make their own decisions about whether or when to have a child.

vaginal 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 "uterine orgasm. "

Eisenstadt v. Baird

Health care; Sexual health

The 1972 U. S. Supreme Court decision that protects the right of unmarried people to use birth control.

sexual conflict

Health care; Sexual health

The clash between sex drive and sexual inhibition.

sex addiction

Health care; Sexual health

The compulsive search for having very frequent sex that interferes with activities of daily life, such as work, school, and spending time with family and friends.

varicocele

Health care; Sexual health

An enlargement of one or more of the veins that carry blood away from the testis. It can reduce blood flow and increase the temperature of the testicle, thereby causing infertility. Similar to ...