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 discomfort

Health care; Sexual health

Feelings of sexual inhibition that are not as severe as dysfunctions.

natural family planning

Health care; Sexual health

Fertility awareness-based methods of contraception. (Inaccurately suggests that other methods are “unnatural. ”)

Christine Jorgensen (1927–1989)

Health care; Sexual health

First highly publicized male to female transsexual in the U. S. Jorgensen’s example led to wider acceptance of transgender and transsexual women and men.

chest binding

Health care; Sexual health

Flattening breast tissue in order to create a male-appearing chest. Some FTMs and transmen don’t bind at all due to comfort issues, because they may have small chests, or because they have ...

semen

Health care; Sexual health

Fluid containing sperm that is ejaculated during sexual excitement. Semen is composed of fluid from the seminal vesicles, fluid from the prostate, and sperm from the testes.

spermicide

Health care; Sexual health

Foams, jellies, tablets or suppositories that a woman places in her vagina and up next to the cervix (the opening leading from the vagina to the womb) before sex to prevent pregnancy. Spermicides ...