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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

Tubal pregnancy

Health care; Sexual health

A life-threatening pregnancy that develops outside the uterus, often in a fallopian tube.

Hysteroscope

Health care; Sexual health

A long, thin tool that lets a health care provider see inside a woman's uterus.

Penis

Health care; Sexual health

A man's reproductive and sex organ that is formed of three columns of spongy tissue — two corpora cavernosa and the corpus spongiosum. The spongy tissue fills with blood during sexual excitement, a ...

Prostate

Health care; Sexual health

A male sex gland located below the bladder and in front of the rectum. About the size of walnut, the prostate makes a milky fluid that joins with sperm during ejaculation (when sperm and other ...

Serial monogamy

Health care; Sexual health

A lifestyle in which a person has only one partner at a time, but more than one in the course of a lifetime.

Ectopic pregnancy

Health care; Sexual health

A life-threatening pregnancy that develops outside the uterus, often in a fallopian tube.

Gigolo

Health care; Sexual health

A male sex worker who provides social and/or sexual companionship for women.

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