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Key Terms
- Circumcision:
- Removal of the foreskin of the penis.
- Coitus:
- Copulation; heterosexual genital intercourse.
- Date rape:
- Situation in which one person manipulates a social interaction in order to have nonconsensual intercourse with another.
- Dysmenorrhea:
- Painful menstruation.
- Dyspareunia:
- Pain during sexual activity and intercourse.
- Erectile dysfunction:
- Erectile dysfunction; the inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual satisfaction for oneself or one's partner.
- Hermaphroditism:
- Presence of both testicular and ovarian tissue in an infant at birth.
- Impotence:
- Erectile dysfunction; the inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual satisfaction for oneself or one's partner.
- Infertility:
- Inability to conceive a child.
- Infibulation:
- Excision of the clitoris, the labia minora, and the labia majora, or closure of the vagina.
- Intercourse:
- The sexual union of two persons.
- Menstruation:
- Monthly uterine bleeding.
- Orchiectomy:
- Removal of the testicles.
- Orgasm dysfunction:
- The inability of a woman to achieve orgasm.
- Puberty:
- Period in which sexual organs mature and secondary sexual characteristics develop.
- Rape:
- Intercourse in which one person is an unwilling or unconsenting party.
- Sex:
- Term most commonly used to denote biologic male or female status; also, sexual intercourse.
- Sexual abuse:
- Any involvement of a child in an act designed to provide sexual gratification to an adult.
- Sexual dysfunction:
- Undesired, altered sexual function.
- Sexual orientation:
- Preference of a person for one sex or the other.
- Sexuality:
- Dimension of personality, broader than one's capacity for erotic response alone.
- Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs):
- Diseases spread by sexual activity.
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