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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.
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Sexual health
polyps
Health care; Sexual health
Small benign growths (tumors) that are common in the uterus and on the cervix or throat.
lymph nodes
Health care; Sexual health
Small, bean-shaped structures found throughout the body. Lymph nodes produce and store infection-fighting cells.
Fordyce spots
Health care; Sexual health
Small, slightly bumpy yellowish or white papules or spots on the inside of the cheeks or lips, or on the glans or shaft of the penis, or the labia of the vulva. They are sebaceous glands and 50 to ...
gender role
Health care; Sexual health
Social norms about behaving as female or male. What one says or does as an expression of one’s sex as female, male, intersex, or genderqueer.
Koro
Health care; Sexual health
Social panic experienced by some men in Africa, China, and Malaysia that is based on the belief that others can use magic to cause one’s sex organs to retract into the body and disappear. The cause ...
gender norms
Health care; Sexual health
Social standards about what is appropriate feminine and masculine behavior.
sexual norms
Health care; Sexual health
Social standards derived from a society’s attitudes, customs, and expectations regarding sex and sexuality. For example, one of the sexual norms in the U. S. is that women and men have only one sex ...
