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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

Transition

Health care; Sexual health

In sexuality, the process of changing from one sex to the other, with or without medical intervention. For most, transition is a gradual set of changes over time. It may be difficult to determine ...

Dressing ring

Health care; Sexual health

In Victorian times, a ring of metal put through the glans of the penis. It attached to a hook inside the leg of a man's trousers to keep the penis in place so it wouldn't bunch up and interfere ...

Metoidioplasty

Health care; Sexual health

In genital reconstruction surgery, the process of freeing up the enlarged clitoris from connective tissue to serve as a penis (the clitoris is typically elongated and changes somewhat from ...

Two-spirited

Health care; Sexual health

In some Native American cultures, refers to people who have the spirits of both women and men. See "berdache" and "transgender. "

Berdache

Health care; Sexual health

In some Native American cultures, a person who is both feminine and masculine. See "transgender" and "two-spirited. "

Phalloplasty

Health care; Sexual health

In genital reconstruction surgery, the construction of a penis from the person's own genital tissue.

Infatuation

Health care; Sexual health

Impulsive, usually short-lived, emotional, and erotic attachment to another person.

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