Sexuality and Sexual Health Flashcards
What defines healthy sex?
Healthy sex is voluntary, wanted, pleasurable, and noncoercive, providing benefits like better cardiovascular health, extended life span, improved happiness, stronger immunity, and healthier relationships.
Why should sexual health be considered an essential component of healthcare?
Patients have the right to nonjudgmental, open, and direct communication, counseling, and therapy regarding their sexual health and concerns.
What is sexuality?
A wide range of practices and behaviors, including fantasy, self-stimulation, noncoital pleasuring, enthusiastic consent, and communication about needs and desires.
What is sexual health?
The appreciation that satisfying, consensual sexual activity contributes to overall well-being.
What are sexual rights?
Rights include freedom from coercion, access to healthcare, respect for bodily integrity, the ability to choose partners, consensual sexual activity, and the pursuit of safe and pleasurable sexual experiences.
What is celibacy?
A conscious choice to abstain from sexual activity.
What is serial monogamy?
A pattern of conducting one monogamous relationship followed by another.
What is consensual nonmonogamy (polyamory)?
Engaging in sexual activity with multiple concurrent partners, with consent from all parties.
What are the two principal physiologic responses to sexual stimulation?
Vasocongestion and muscle tension.
What is sexual self-knowledge?
The ability to understand one’s own arousal, recognize desire, and preferences, including the coherence between physical signs and subjective experiences of arousal.
How does Basson’s model differ from the traditional female sexual response cycle?
It suggests women are not primarily motivated by physical urges but by emotional and relational factors, making the cycle less linear.
What is sexual agency?
The concept that individuals have control over their sexuality, including the right to make choices and initiate sexual encounters.
What benefits come from strong pelvic muscles?
Reduced urinary incontinence, prevention of pelvic organ prolapse, improved sexual health, and enhanced pleasure.
How can pelvic muscles be strengthened?
Through Kegel exercises and biofeedback.
How can pregnancy and postpartum affect sexual function?
Each trimester can bring changes in sexual function, and relationships often shift after childbirth.
