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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
Escort
Health care; Sexual health
A volunteer who helps women get safely into a reproductive health centre during anti-choice demonstrations. Also, another word for a sex worker.
Vulva
Health care; Sexual health
A woman's external sex organs, including the clitoris, labia (majora and minora), opening to the vagina (introitus), opening to the urethra, and two Bartholin's glands.
Birth control
Health care; Sexual health
A way for men and women to prevent unintended pregnancy by modifying sexual behaviours or the use of devices, or medications.
Diabetic vulvitis
Health care; Sexual health
A yeast infection caused by contact with urine that has the high sugar content associated with a woman with diabetes.
Stereotype
Health care; Sexual health
A widely accepted but overly simplified judgement or bias regarding a person or group.
Combined hormone contraceptives
Health care; Sexual health
Birth control methods — the pill, the patch, the ring — that contain the hormones oestrogen and progestin.
