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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paraphilia

Health care; Sexual health

A sex practice that becomes necessary for sexual arousal but is not approved by social norms. Some paraphilias are: : asphyxophilia — A person needs to be strangled up to the point of passing out in ...

feminism

Health care; Sexual health

The belief that women and men have equal economic, political, sexual, and social rights. Also, the movement to secure equal rights for women.

paraphilias

Health care; Sexual health

Impulse disorders (mental illnesses) that are characterized by recurrent and intense sexual fantasies, urges and behaviors. Paraphilias are considered deviant—outside of acceptable patterns of ...

Michel Foucault

Health care; Sexual health

(1926–1984) Foucault was a French philosopher who wrote three volumes on the history of sexuality. He challenged Freud's view that women and men are sexually repressed by their cultures. He ...

Margaret Sanger

Health care; Sexual health

(1883–1966) Founder of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Margaret Sanger began her career as a nurse who fought to legalise birth control in order to prevent women from relying on dangerous, ...

Katharine Bement Davis

Health care; Sexual health

(1860–1945) Completed the first major study on women's sexuality, Factors in the Sex Lives of Twenty-Two Hundred Women, which was published in 1929. She gathered data for more than 10 years about ...

Alfred Kinsey

Health care; Sexual health

(1894–1956) Most influential American sex researcher of the 20th century. His research was unique and groundbreaking. In extensive live interviews, he and his team of researchers took thousands of ...