Later-Life Sexuality: Intimacy, Aging, Health, and Sexual Well-Being
Later-life sexuality includes sexual feelings, intimacy, relationships, identity, sexual function, and sexual health during older adulthood.
Later-life sexuality includes sexual feelings, intimacy, relationships, identity, sexual function, and sexual health during older adulthood.
Child sexual development is the age-related process of learning about bodies, gender, privacy, boundaries, relationships, reproduction, and personal safety.
Adolescent sexual development includes the biological, emotional, social, and identity-related changes connected to sexuality during adolescence.
Emerging adulthood is a transitional developmental period when many people explore identity, relationships, sexuality, work, education, and greater independence.
Sexual maturation is the biological process through which the body develops reproductive capacity and secondary sex characteristics, mainly during puberty.
Gender literacy is the ability to understand and communicate about gender identity, expression, roles, stereotypes, diversity, and their relationship to sexuality and society.
Body literacy is the ability to understand, observe, interpret, and communicate about bodily structures, sensations, changes, patterns, and health information.
Puberty education provides age-appropriate information about physical, hormonal, emotional, reproductive, and social changes during puberty.
Menstrual education provides accurate information about periods, menstrual cycles, products, symptoms, hygiene, puberty, fertility, and reproductive health.
Contraceptive literacy is the ability to understand and use reliable information about birth-control methods, effectiveness, side effects, STI protection, and pregnancy prevention.