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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Midwife

Health care; Sexual health

A person trained to assist a woman during childbirth.

Vaginoplasty

Health care; Sexual health

A procedure in which the bulk of the penis tissue is removed, but the outer skin is reshaped, turned "inside out" and inserted into the body to form a vagina. This procedure is done during male to ...

Simple vulvectomy

Health care; Sexual health

A procedure that removes the entire vulva but no lymph nodes.

Zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT)

Health care; Sexual health

A procedure in which the egg and sperm are taken out of the woman's and man's bodies, joined in the laboratory, and then put into one of her fallopian tubes.

Laparotomy

Health care; Sexual health

A procedure of tubal sterilisation that involves major surgery, requiring a two- to five-inch abdominal incision through which the fallopian tubes are located and blocked.

Aspiration abortion

Health care; Sexual health

A procedure that ends pregnancy by emptying the uterus with the gentle suction of a manual syringe or with machine-operated suction. Also called "in-clinic abortion. "