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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Quickening

Health care; Sexual health

The time when a woman first notices the foetus moving in her uterus. (Outdated. )

Thelarche

Health care; Sexual health

The time when a girl's breasts begin to develop.

Primogeniture

Health care; Sexual health

The tradition in which the eldest, "legitimate," surviving son is the only heir of his father.

Spermarche

Health care; Sexual health

The time when sperm is first produced by the testes of a boy.

Introitus

Health care; Sexual health

The tissue of the inner vulva that frames the opening to the vagina.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Health care; Sexual health

The virus that causes AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). HIV weakens a person's ability to fight infections and cancer. People with HIV are said to have AIDS when the virus makes them very ...

Pearly pink papules / pearly penile papules

Health care; Sexual health

Tiny bumps that ring the edge of the head of the penis in 1 out of 3 men. Flesh-colored or a little lighter, they are shaped like smooth little domes. Although they may be sensitive to touch, they ...