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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pedophilia

Health care; Sexual health

A disorder in which a person has fantasies, urges or behaviors that involve sexual activity with a pre-pubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger).

sexual sadism

Health care; Sexual health

A disorder in which a person has persistent fantasies in which sexual excitement results from inflicting psychological or physical suffering (including humiliation and terror) on a sexual partner.

fetishism

Health care; Sexual health

A disorder in which a person has sexual urges and engages in behavior associated with non-living objects.

sexual masochism

Health care; Sexual health

A disorder in which a person uses sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors involving the act (real, not simulated) of being humiliated, beaten or otherwise made to suffer in order to achieve sexual ...

frotteurism

Health care; Sexual health

A disorder in which the focus of a person’s sexual urges is related to touching or rubbing his genitals against the body of a non-consenting, unfamiliar person.

voyeurism

Health care; Sexual health

A disorder that involves achieving sexual arousal by observing an unsuspecting and non-consenting person who is undressing or unclothed, and/or engaged in sexual activity.