sexuality

• sexuality health

  is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well being in relation to sexuality
• scope

  sexual well being to sexual ill-being
• sex assigned at birth

  wether one is male or female based on external anatomy
• gender identity

  how one views one gender to be female, male, or neither
• sexual orientation

  how one view oneself in terms of being emotionally, romantically or affectionately attracted to others
• sexual behavior 


  how one responds to sexual impulses and desires
• sexual normal response

  motivation, arousal, genital congestion, orgasm and resolution
• motivation

  desire to engage in sexual activity
• arousal

  sexual excitement "turned on or off"
• genital congestion

  reflexive response to arousal
• orgasm

  pleasurable sensation producing rapid contractions
• resolution

  sense of well being, muscular relaxation
• lifespan process (newborn)

  care of genetalia, health promotion, circumcision
• lifespan process (childhood)

  self care of genetalia, gender identity
• pre-adolescence

  promo of sexual health and prevention of STIS
• lifespan process (adulthood)

  reproduction, infertility, menopause, prevention of STI
• life span process geriatric

  maintain sexual functioning if able to
• assessment (PLISSIT)

  Permission, Limited Information, Specific Suggestions, Intensive Therapy
• assessment (5P's)

  partners, practices, protection, past history, prevention of pregancy
• risk factors

  adolescents, newly partnered, multiple sexual partners, sexual minorities, intellectual or developmental disabilities, use of drugs/alcohol, pre-existinc conditions
• primary prevention

  health promotion, condom use, health education, STI and pregnancy prevention
• secondary prevention

  routine STI testing, cervical cancer screening, intimate violence screening, pregnancy testing, PREP and PEP
• tertiary intervention

  pharmacotherapy, surgical procedures, infertility treatment
• menopause

  12 months without menses, average 52 years