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 health

Impotence

Health care; Sexual health

The inability to have an erection. "Erectile dysfunction" is now the preferred term.

Fisting

Health care; Sexual health

The insertion of fingers or hand into the vagina or anus of a sex partner.

Infertility

Health care; Sexual health

The inability to become pregnant or to cause a pregnancy.

Penetration

Health care; Sexual health

The insertion of an erect penis into a woman's vagina.

Suttee

Health care; Sexual health

The once forced, now illegal but continuing, suicide of Hindu widows by throwing themselves on the funeral pyres of their deceased husbands.

Pre-embryo

Health care; Sexual health

The organism that starts developing at fertilisation when the zygote is formed by the joining of an egg and a sperm. It attaches to the lining of the uterus after about seven days. It continues to ...

Placenta

Health care; Sexual health

The organ formed on the wall of the uterus by the developing embryo that provides oxygen and other nourishment from the woman to her foetus and through which waste products are eliminated from the ...