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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Rhythm

Health care; Sexual health

Also called natural family planning, rhythm is a method of birth control that focuses on learning to recognise the days a woman is fertile, and abstaining from sex before and during those days.

Foetal alcohol effects

Health care; Sexual health

Abnormalities caused by alcohol during pregnancy that may not be as severe as those associated with foetal alcohol syndrome.

Fertility cycle

Health care; Sexual health

Also called the menstrual cycle. The monthly recurrence of ovulation, the shedding of the lining of the uterus, and the body's preparation for another ovulation.

Sex-positive

Health care; Sexual health

Accepting sex and sexuality as constructive forces in human life.

Role-play

Health care; Sexual health

Acting out a fantasy with a partner.

Trichomoniasis

Health care; Sexual health

An infection that most often occurs in a woman's vagina. A man also can get the infection in the urethra (the tube that carries urine out of the body), as well as in the prostate. It is caused by a ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV)

Health care; Sexual health

An infection that may be transmitted through sexual or intimate contact or childbirth and that may cause permanent disability, including hearing loss and mental retardation for infants and blindness ...