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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sexual addiction

Health care; Sexual health

The condition of needing to have sex so frequently that it interferes with activities of daily living, such as going to work or school or fulfilling other responsibilities.

NuvaRing

Health care; Sexual health

The brand name of a ring that contains hormones and is inserted in the vagina to prevent pregnancy. NuvaRing is a reversible hormonal method of birth control available only by prescription. Also ...

age of consent

Health care; Sexual health

The age at which state law considers a person old enough to decide to have sex with a partner.

viability

Health care; Sexual health

The ability of a fetus to survive outside a woman’s body.

immune system

Health care; Sexual health

The body’s natural defense system against infection or disease; a system of cells that protects the body from bacteria, viruses, toxins and other foreign substances.

Roe v. Wade

Health care; Sexual health

The 1973 U. S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

sadomasochism (S & M)

Health care; Sexual health

The consensual use of domination and/or pain for sexual stimulation in sex play. The “sadist” is the partner who dominates and inflicts pain. The “masochist” is the partner who is dominated and ...