Sexuality During Pregnancy: Desire, Intimacy, and Sexual Health
Sexuality during pregnancy includes changes in desire, intimacy, sexual activity, body image, comfort, relationships, and sexual health throughout pregnancy.
Sexuality during pregnancy includes changes in desire, intimacy, sexual activity, body image, comfort, relationships, and sexual health throughout pregnancy.
A first sexual experience is a person’s first encounter with an activity they consider sexual and may involve questions of consent, readiness, health, and personal meaning.
Relationship literacy is the ability to understand and apply knowledge about communication, consent, trust, boundaries, intimacy, conflict, and healthy relationships.
Pleasure literacy is the ability to understand and communicate about sexual pleasure, arousal, preferences, comfort, consent, and individual sexual differences.
Bystander intervention means taking safe, appropriate action when witnessing possible harassment, coercion, sexual violence, or another harmful situation.
Rape culture describes social attitudes that normalize, excuse, minimize, or trivialize sexual violence while often shifting responsibility toward victims.
Victim blaming shifts responsibility for abuse or sexual violence onto the person harmed instead of focusing on the actions of the person who caused it.
Intimate partner sexual violence includes rape, coercion, unwanted sexual contact, and other nonconsensual sexual acts by a current or former partner.
Sexual violence includes sexual acts, contact, or coercion without freely given consent and can affect people of any gender, age, or relationship status.
Boundary crossing occurs when someone goes beyond another person’s physical, emotional, sexual, digital, or professional limits.