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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Grafenburg spot (G spot)

Health care; Sexual health

An area of tissue, located about one-third of the way along the upper wall of the vagina. Stimulation of the G-spot leads to intense sexual arousal and orgasm in some women, and is also associated ...

diethylstilbestrol (DES)

Health care; Sexual health

An artificial hormone used to prevent miscarriage from 1945 to 1970. It caused reproductive disorders and cancers in one out of 700–7,000 children of the women who wanted to protect them.

stoma

Health care; Sexual health

An artificial opening of the intestine made in the abdomen to allow wastes to be released.

menstrual extraction

Health care; Sexual health

An early form of abortion in which gentle suction is used to remove the lining of the uterus and pre-embryo or embryo within two or three weeks of fertilization. (Outdated. )

bulimia

Health care; Sexual health

An eating disorder in which binge eating is followed by purging with laxatives or self-induced vomiting.

anorexia

Health care; Sexual health

An eating disorder often caused by poor body image in which people, usually women, don’t eat or eat very little to remain or become thin.

vibrator

Health care; Sexual health

An electrically powered sex toy, often in the shape of a penis, that applies vibrations to sex organs or other erogenous zones for sexual stimulation. Developed by doctors to cure hysteria. See ...