Human Sexuality Final Flashcards
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Margaret Sanger
An American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse.
Popularized the term birth control and opened the first birth control clinic in the United States
Vasectomy
A surgical procedure when the Vas Deferens is cut and the man is unable to include sperm in his semen.
Has a 99% chance of a woman not getting pregnant from this procedue.
Fertility
The quality of being capable to produce offspring.
60% of couples become pregnant within 3 months.
50% of all pregnancies are unplanned.
Ovulation
The process that the egg travels down the Fallopian tube where it may be met by a sperm and become fertilized.
Spermicide
A substance that kills sperm, used as a contraceptive
Condom
A thin rubber sheath worn on a man’s penis during sexual intercourse as a contraceptive or as protection against infection.
Diaphragm
A cervical barrier type of birth control.
It is a soft latex or silicone dome with a spring molded into the rim.
The spring creates a seal against the walls of the vagina.
Religion and Contraceptives
SDA view of abortion is that reasons of birth control, gender selection, and convenience are not appropriate.
However, the church does understand situations where the woman has exceptional circumstances such as rape, threats against the woman’s or child’s life. In that case it would ultimately be the woman’s choice after the appropriate consultation.
Other religions don’t allow contraceptives, especially Catholicism.
Depo-Provera
A well-known brand name for medroxyprogesterone acetate, a contraceptive injection for women that contains the hormone progestin.
Depo-Provera is given as an injection once every three months.
Depo-Provera typically suppresses ovulation, keeping your ovaries from releasing an egg. Depo-Provera also thickens cervical mucus to keep sperm from reaching the egg.
IUD
An IUD is a small, T-shaped plastic device that is wrapped in copper or contains hormones.
It is inserted into the uterus by a doctor, and pulled out by the doctor, used to prevent fertilization of the egg by damaging or killing sperm.
Mucus Method
Having sex on these days gives the female partner the highest chance to get pregnant.
Before ovulation, there is a time period where mucus is made in the vagina so that sperm can be carried more easily to the eggs for a higher chance of fertilization.
Rhythm method
Having sex on the days that the female partner generally would not be fertile.
This is opposite of the mucus method and that you want to have sex during the mucus patterns and ovulation in the event of wanting to get pregnant.
Have sex on these days for the highest chance to not get pregnant.
Tubal Sterilization
Surgical procedure that clamps and blocks the Fallopian tubes to prevent eggs from reaching the uterus for fertilization.
Has a 99% chance of the woman not getting pregnant.
Female fertility problems
Increase in fertility is correlated to increase in age of mother.
20% of cases are tied to ovulation problems
Physical or cervical problems
In vitro ferilization
Process by which an egg is fertilized by sperm outside the body.
Artifical Insemination
Ways of introducing a sperm to the vagina by any means other than sexual intercourse so that pregnancy can be achieved.
Medical Abortion
A non-surgical abortion in which abortifaciet pharmaceutical drugs are used to induce abortion.
Preparation is the abortion pill.
Dilation and Evacuation
Dilation (widening) of the cervix and evacuating the contents of the uterus.
Vacuum Aspiration
Uses aspiration to remove contents from the uterus by means of suction.
Therapeutic method procedure after miscarriage.
Late Term Abortions
Abortions that are performed in the later stages of pregnancy.
Are generally more controversial because the fetus is more developed and sometimes viable.
Pro-choice
Advocates the right for women to have the choice whether to have an abortion or not.
Pro-Life
The anti-Abortion movement that tries the ban the choice of an abortion
Fernand Lamaze
A French obstetrician, most famous as the popularizer of psychoprophylaxis, a method of childbirth preparation and pain management that has come to bear his name.
Cesarean section
Also known as a C-section, which is a surgical procedure in which one or more incisions are made through the abdomen and the uterus to deliver one or more babies.
