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 disorder

Health care; Sexual health

A psychological or physical dysfunction that affects fertility or sexual anatomy, behavior, or health.

Skinning vulvectomy

Health care; Sexual health

A procedure to remove only the skin of the vulva that contains cancer.

Antibody

Health care; Sexual health

A protein developed by the immune system in response to a toxin introduced into the body.

Merkin

Health care; Sexual health

A wig for the genitals, used from the 16th to the 18th centuries by people who had lost their pubic hair due to small pox or scarlet fever. Now used to describe decorative patches worn over the ...

Nocturnal emission

Health care; Sexual health

A wet dream; sexual arousal and ejaculation while sleeping, which most often occurs among young men during adolescence or older men who are sexually abstinent.

Dominatrix

Health care; Sexual health

A woman sex partner who takes the dominating role in sex play that involves bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, or sadism and masochism. Some sex workers specialise in this role.

Leukorrhea

Health care; Sexual health

A white, yellow, or greenish, sticky vaginal discharge that is normal during adolescence, pregnancy, and other times when a woman's hormone levels are changing.