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 health

cutting

Health care; Sexual health

Repetitive, self-inflicted cutting of the skin associated with being abused, gender dysphoria, depression, or dysmenorrhea. Some authorities consider it a defense against sexual desire as well as a ...

outing

Health care; Sexual health

Revealing someone else’s sexual orientation, intersex, or transgender status.

subincision

Health care; Sexual health

Ritual cutting along the underside of the penis, which exposes the urethra.

alveoli

Health care; Sexual health

Sacs inside the breast that produce milk.

situational homosexuality

Health care; Sexual health

Same-sex sex play among individuals who are not gay but have no heterosexual alternative — for example, people in same-sex boarding schools, communities, prisons, or summer camps, or same-sex crews ...