Today is our topic of discussion Sex and Health.
Sex and Health
SEX AND HEALTH
The word sex denotes whether a person is male or female or the sex difference, but it is used for sexuality. Sexuality is the quality or state of being sexual. Sexuality is not merely the difference in sex. It is an emotion expressing human nature or character.
Definition of Sexual Health
Sex is an essential part of person’s health. WHO has defined as “Sexual health is an integration of the somatic, emotional, intellectual and social aspects of sexual being, in ways that positively enrich and enhance the personality, communication and love”
Components of Sexuality
- Biological: Biological component of all those structural and physiological aspects are included which determine the sex of the baby in the womb
- Gender identity: It is an internal sensation which makes one feels, of being a man or women. It also influenced by social, cultural and psychological factors
- Gender role: It a behavior, which expresses the feeling of being a man or woman, sexual behavior sexual relationship.
Characteristics of Sexual Health
- Maintains balance between lifestyle and sexual behavior
- Keeps healthy and comfortable attitude towards different types of sexual behavior
- Accepts the responsibility of sexual pleasure and reproduction
- Suitable behavior with reference to biological sex, gender identity and gender behavior
- Capable of physical and psychosexual responses.
Importance of Sexual Health
- Adequate and appropriate knowledge is essential for healthy practices in sexuality
- It helps to adopt and modify suitable behavior with reference to biological sex, gender identity and gender behavior
- It helps to understand and get conscious about one’s own sexual feeling and qualities
- It helps to keep the health in comfortable attitude towards different types of sexual behavior
- It helps to develop effective interpersonal relations with both sexes
- It protects and prevents the occurrence of sexually transmitted diseases.
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