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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Condyloma

Health care; Sexual health

Growths or bumps on the penis, vagina, vulva (vaginal lips), cervix (the opening between the vagina and womb), rectum or groin. They may look like miniature cauliflower florets and are usually ...

Pubic hair

Health care; Sexual health

Hair that grows around the sex organs of women and men. Pubic hair is a secondary sex characteristic that appears during puberty.

Continuous abstinence

Health care; Sexual health

Going without sex play for long periods of time — months or years.

Procreative sex

Health care; Sexual health

Having vaginal intercourse for the purpose of having a child.

Asexual

Health care; Sexual health

Having no desire for sex play with a partner.

Baron Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Health care; Sexual health

Moralising pioneer in sexology, especially in the study of "deviant" sexual behaviors. In his Psycopathia Sexualis, he described and named sadism and masochism. He also showed that the late-stage ...

Uterine fibroids

Health care; Sexual health

Nodules of smooth muscle cells and fibrous connective tissue that develop within the wall of the uterus (womb). Medically, they are called uterine leiomyomata (singular: leiomyoma).