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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

core gender identity

Health care; Sexual health

See “gender identity. ”

artificial insemination

Health care; Sexual health

See preferred term, “donor insemination. ”

leiomyomata

Health care; Sexual health

See uterine fibroids.

self-esteem

Health care; Sexual health

Self-respect; feeling worthwhile.

masturbation

Health care; Sexual health

Self-stimulation of the genitals to achieve sexual arousal and pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm (sexual climax).

autoerotic asphyxiation

Health care; Sexual health

Self-strangulation for sexual arousal. It is very dangerous. Hundreds of young people, mostly men, die of autoerotic asphyxiation every year.

social stigma

Health care; Sexual health

Severe disapproval for behavior that is not within cultural norms.

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