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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Eunuch

Health care; Sexual health

A man whose testicles, and less often, penis, have been removed.

Ovarian cyst

Health care; Sexual health

A sac filled with fluid or a semisolid material that forms on or within one of the ovaries, the small organs in the pelvis that make female hormones and hold egg cells.

Monogamy

Health care; Sexual health

A relationship in which both people date or have sex only with one another and no one else. There are several kinds of monogamous relationships: : emotional monogamy — The relationship of couples ...

Parental consent

Health care; Sexual health

A requirement that one or both parents give permission for a minor child to receive medical attention or to enter into a legal contract. Many states have mandatory parental consent laws regarding ...

Tantric sex

Health care; Sexual health

A ritualised form of sex play based in Hindu and Buddhist traditions that is performed by gradually increasing spiritual concentration and sexual stimuli until a full, mind-body orgasm is reached.