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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sex selection

Health care; Sexual health

The attempt to control the sex of offspring.

intersex

Health care; Sexual health

The condition of being born with external sex organs that are not easily distinguishable as female or male. Also, later in life, the development of secondary sex characteristics that are not easily ...

intimacy

Health care; Sexual health

The closeness and familiarity we feel as we share our private and personal selves with someone else.

female

Health care; Sexual health

The biological sex that provides the egg for sexual reproduction.

A-frame orgasm

Health care; Sexual health

The climax or peak of sexual arousal for women that is caused by stimulating the vagina without stimulating the clitoris.

sex chromosomes

Health care; Sexual health

The cell structures carrying hereditary information that differentiate female from male in humans and other mammals. Females have a pair of X chromosomes. Males have one X chromosome and one Y ...

cremaster reflex

Health care; Sexual health

The automatic response of the cremaster muscle, which elevates both testicles when exposed to cold. In response to thigh stimulation, only the testicle next to the stimulated thigh will be elevated.