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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birth control

Health care; Sexual health

A way for men and women to prevent unintended pregnancy by modifying sexual behaviors or the use of devices, or medications.

nocturnal emission

Health care; Sexual health

A wet dream; sexual arousal and ejaculation while sleeping, which most often occurs among young men during adolescence or older men who are sexually abstinent.

leukorrhea

Health care; Sexual health

A white, yellow, or greenish, sticky vaginal discharge that is normal during adolescence, pregnancy, and other times when a woman’s hormone levels are changing.

stereotype

Health care; Sexual health

A widely accepted but overly simplified judgment or bias regarding a person or group.

merkin

Health care; Sexual health

A wig for the genitals, used from the 16th to the 18th centuries by people who had lost their pubic hair due to small pox or scarlet fever. Now used to describe decorative patches worn over the ...

dominatrix

Health care; Sexual health

A woman sex partner who takes the dominating role in sex play that involves bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, or sadism and masochism. Some sex workers specialize in this role.

vulva

Health care; Sexual health

A woman’s external sex organs, including the clitoris, labia (majora and minora), opening to the vagina (introitus), opening to the urethra, and two Bartholin’s glands.