Definition: Either the prospect of sexual interaction produces sufficient fear or anxiety that sexual activity is avoided (sexual aversion) or sexual responses occur normally and orgasm is experienced but there is a lack of appropriate pleasure (lack of sexual enjoyment). | Anhedonia (sexual)

Definition: The patient suffers from uncertainty about his or her gender identity or sexual orientation, which causes anxiety or depression. Most commonly this occurs in adolescents who are not certain whether they are homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual in orientation, or in individuals who, after a period of apparently stable sexual orientation (often within a longstanding relationship), find that their sexual orientation is changing.

Definition: A variety of other patterns of sexual preference and activity, including making obscene telephone calls, rubbing up against people for sexual stimulation in crowded public places, sexual activity with animals, and use of strangulation or anoxia for intensifying sexual excitement. | Frotteurism Necrophilia

Definition: Sexual dysfunction covers the various ways in which an individual is unable to participate in a sexual relationship as he or she would wish. Sexual response is a psychosomatic process and both psychological and somatic processes are usually involved in the causation of sexual dysfunction.

Definition: The wearing of clothes of the opposite sex principally to obtain sexual excitement and to create the appearance of a person of the opposite sex. Fetishistic transvestism is distinguished from transsexual transvestism by its clear association with sexual arousal and the strong desire to remove the clothing once orgasm occurs and sexual arousal declines. It can occur as an earlier phase in the development of transsexualism. | Transvestic fetishism

Definition: Loss of sexual desire is the principal problem and is not secondary to other sexual difficulties, such as erectile failure or dyspareunia. | Frigidity Hypoactive sexual desire disorder

Definition: The wearing of clothes of the opposite sex for part of the individual's existence in order to enjoy the temporary experience of membership of the opposite sex, but without any desire for a more permanent sex change or associated surgical reassignment, and without sexual excitement accompanying the cross-dressing. | Gender identity disorder of adolescence or adulthood, nontranssexual type

Definition: Dyspareunia (or pain during sexual intercourse) occurs in both women and men. It can often be attributed to local pathology and should then properly be categorized under the pathological condition. This category is to be used only if there is no primary nonorganic sexual dysfunction (e.g. vaginismus or vaginal dryness). | Psychogenic dyspareunia

Sexual aversion and lack of sexual enjoyment

Definition: A disorder, usually first manifest during early childhood (and always well before puberty), characterized by a persistent and intense distress about assigned sex, together with a desire to be (or insistence that one is) of the other sex. There is a persistent preoccupation with the dress and activities of the opposite sex and repudiation of the individual's own sex. The diagnosis requires a profound disturbance of the normal gender identity; mere tomboyishness in girls or girlish behaviour in boys is not sufficient. Gender identity disorders in individuals who have reached or are entering puberty should not be classified her ...[+++]e but in F66.-.

Our sexual selves start with erections in the womb or a baby’s vagina lubricating at birth; it moves from the exploration of one’s genitals in that first year, to deliberate self pleasuring during puberty; from gender confusion to gender clarity; from attractions as a child to lustful desire in adolescence; from admonishments about safer sex from home and school, to the realization that we can have some control over our sexual expression; from sexual abuse or sexual assault to healing; from initial intimacy to longer relationships; from the desire for parenting to raising a child; from coupledom to singledom; from sexual maturity to sexual seniority ...[+++]; from ability to reduced ability; or from disability to full sexual expression.

Secondary outcomes included behavioural outcomes such as sexual activity, having two or more sexual partners, having sex with a non-marital partner, last casual sex contact, inconsistent or no condom use, any unprotected sex, sex under the influence of alcohol, and transactional sex.

Although every aspect of sexual health is political, some are just fascinating to discuss: raising sexually healthy children, adolescent sexual health, romantic and sexual relationships, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), gender and orientation issues, late blooming boomers, seniors’ sexual health—all the beautiful and not so beautiful aspects of our sexuality—and who’s in control of it.

The included studies examined at least one of the following outcome measures: initiation of sexual intercourse (or continued abstinence); condom use; the number of sexual partners; the frequency of sexual intercourse; the frequency of unprotected sexual intercourse; and the number of diagnosed cases of STD.