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: 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.

sexually transmitted infection [ STI | sexually transmitted disease | venereal disease ]

sexually transmitted infection | STI | sexually transmitted disease | STD | venereal disease

sexual violence victim advocate | victim care worker | counsellor, sexual violence | sexual violence counsellor

sexual predator | sex predator

sex reassignment surgery [ SRS | sex reassignment operation | gender confirmation surgery | sexual reassignment surgery | gender reassignment surgery | sex change operation | sex change surgery ]

Unwanted Sexual Attention and Sexual Harassment: Results of a Survey of Canadians [ Unwanted Sexual Attention and Sexual Harassment ]

sexual objectification | objectification

144. Strongly condemns the use of sexual violence against women and girls as a tactic of war, including crimes such as mass rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, gender‑based forms of persecution including female genital mutilation, trafficking, sex tourism, early and forced marriage, honour killings and all other forms of sexual violence of comparable gravity; remains particularly concerned, in this connection, at the situation in the Great Lakes region of Africa and in Syria, for example; expresses its support for the work of UN Women, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and the UN ...[+++] Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict; welcomes the fact that in 2014 the Sakharov Prize was awarded to Dr Denis Mukwege for his outstanding fight to protect girls and women who have become victims of sexual violence during armed conflicts;

F. whereas in the online environment sexual exploitation may take various forms, with young people being persuaded, or forced, to send or post sexually explicit images of themselves, to take part in sexual activities via a webcam or smartphone, or to have sexual conversations by text or online, meaning that abusers and cyber predators can threaten to send images, videos or copies of conversations to the young person’s friends and family unless they take part in further sexual activity; whereas images and/or videos may continue to be shared long after the sexual abuse has stopped and remain freely available for anyone to view online, th ...[+++]us maintaining a constant risk of the victims beings re-victimised and stigmatised;

F. whereas in the online environment sexual exploitation may take various forms, with young people being persuaded, or forced, to send or post sexually explicit images of themselves, to take part in sexual activities via a webcam or smartphone, or to have sexual conversations by text or online, meaning that abusers and cyber predators can threaten to send images, videos or copies of conversations to the young person’s friends and family unless they take part in further sexual activity; whereas images and/or videos may continue to be shared long after the sexual abuse has stopped and remain freely available for anyone to view online, thu ...[+++]s maintaining a constant risk of the victims beings re-victimised and stigmatised;

64. Recalls that sexual violence or sexual control over women, such as rape, including marital rape, female genital mutilation (FGM), sexual abuse, incest, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment and forced early/child marriage, have a damaging long-term impact on women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health, as well as on their self-esteem and empowerment; calls on the Member States to address the need to protect women and girls from these abuses, and provide services to victims, with the support of educational programmes at both national and community level, and to focus on measures to do so which incorporate severe penalties for ...[+++]perpetrators of abuse, including the criminalisation of sexual coercion;