gender and sexual health

Question 1

A group of rare conditions resulting from hormonal errors during fetal development in which internal genitalia differ from external genitalia. Also called intersex disorders.

Answer 1

disorders of sexual development

Question 2

Any procedure involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs, for nonmedical reasons.

Answer 2

female circumsision

Question 3

An individual’s personal, social, and legal status as a male, female, both, or neither. Also called gender identity.

Answer 3

gender

Question 4

Distress associated with psychosocial incongruence between an individual’s assigned gender and the gender with which the individual more clearly identifies.

Answer 4

gender dysphoria

Question 5

The behaviors, dress, appearance, and mannerisms individuals develop to express their gender identity.

Answer 5

gender expression

Question 6

An evolving aspect of identity defined by an individual’s personal, social, and legal status as male or female.

Answer 6

gender identity

Question 7

Condition or state of being that occurs when an individual’s gender expression or experience differs from the gender assigned at birth.

Answer 7

gender incongruence

Question 8

The degree to which an individual’s dress, behavior, and identity do not conform with expected or conventional norms for masculinity and/or femininity.

Answer 8

gender noncomformity

Question 9

(female circumcision) Any procedure involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs, for nonmedical reasons.

Answer 9

genital mutilation

Question 10

The use of oxygen deprivation to enhance sexual arousal and orgasm (also called autoerotic asphyxiation or asphyxiophilia).

Answer 10

hypoxyphilia

Question 11

A group of rare conditions resulting from hormonal errors during fetal development in which internal genitalia differ from external genitalia.

Answer 11

intersex

Question 12

Sexual pleasure or arousal derived from receiving physical or mental abuse or humiliation.

Answer 12

masochism

Question 13

A broad category of online exploitation, including sextortion, the grooming of an individual for illicit sexual purposes.

Answer 13

online enticement

Question 14

An intense and persistent sexual interest other than sexual interest in genital stimulation or preparatory fondling with consenting adult human partners.

Answer 14

paraphilia

Question 15

Sexual activity with a prepubescent child.

Answer 15

pedophilia

Question 16

Sexual arousal associated with causing mental or physical suffering to another person.

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sadism

Question 17

Biological indicators of an individual’s sexuality, including sex chromosomes, hormones, and genitalia; also, sexual intercourse.

Answer 17

sex

Question 18

The manifestation of several psychosexual factors: sexual identity, gender identity, and sexual orientation.

Answer 18

sexuality

Question 19

Persistent or recurring impairment in achieving sexual arousal or orgasm or pain associated with intercourse.

Answer 19

sexual dysfunction

Question 20

The ability to experience sexual pleasure and satisfaction when desired and how the body reacts in different stages of the sexual response cycle.

Answer 20

sexual functioning

Question 21

Physical, mental, and social well-being in relation to sexuality.

Answer 21

sexual health

Question 22

Description that refers to the object of the individual’s sexual attraction.

Answer 22

sexual orientation

Question 23

The cycle of human sexual response, which occurs in a predictable cycle with five distinct phases: desire, excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.

Answer 23

sexual response cycle

Question 24

An individual whose gender identity is different from cultural norms and expectations of the sex assigned at birth.

Answer 24

transgender