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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.

Contributors in Sexual health

Sexual health

fertility awareness-based methods (FAMs)

Health care; Sexual health

Ways to prevent or plan pregnancy by predicting ovulation based on understanding a woman’s fertility cycle. These are reversible behavioral methods of birth control that include the calendar method, ...

menopause

Health care; Sexual health

When a woman’s ovaries stop producing hormones because the number of eggs (follicles) is limited. At this time, regular menstrual periods stop.

inhibited or retarded ejaculation

Health care; Sexual health

When ejaculation does not occur.

uterine perforation

Health care; Sexual health

When the wall of the uterus is punctured by a surgical instrument during a procedure or by an intrauterine device during insertion.

menstrual synchrony

Health care; Sexual health

Women having their periods at the same time because they live closely together.

exhibitionists

Health care; Sexual health

Women or men who expose their sex organs to other people without their consent, usually in public places.

voyeurs

Health care; Sexual health

Women or men who only become aroused by secretly watching another person undress or engage in sexual behavior.

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