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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
Sex-negative
Health care; Sexual health
Believing that sex and sexuality are destructive forces in human life.
Night courting
Health care; Sexual health
Bundling, a custom in colonial North America that allowed an unmarried young woman and man to sleep together, usually with a "bundling board" running the length of the bed between them, or with the ...
Primary sex characteristics
Health care; Sexual health
Body organs and reproductive structures and functions, which differ between women and men. The differences include the external and internal sex and reproductive organs. It also includes a woman's ...
Menstrual flow
Health care; Sexual health
Blood, fluid, and tissue that are passed out of the uterus during the beginning of the menstrual cycle. Often called a "period. "
Lactational amenorrhea method (LAM)
Health care; Sexual health
Breastfeeding as birth control for up to six months after childbirth.
Combined oral contraceptives
Health care; Sexual health
Birth control pills that contain the hormones oestrogen and progestin.
Mini-pills
Health care; Sexual health
Birth control pills that contain only the hormone progestin. More correctly called "progestin-only pills. "
