Sexuality and Aging: Desire, Intimacy, Health, and Older Adulthood
Sexuality and aging describes how sexual feelings, intimacy, relationships, identity, sexual function, and sexual health may continue or change across older adulthood.
Sexuality and aging describes how sexual feelings, intimacy, relationships, identity, sexual function, and sexual health may continue or change across older adulthood.
Midlife sexuality includes sexual feelings, relationships, intimacy, identity, and sexual-health changes during the middle years of adulthood.
Emerging adulthood is a transitional developmental period when many people explore identity, relationships, sexuality, work, education, and greater independence.
An incubation period is the time between acquiring an infection and developing symptoms, and it differs from the window period used for test detection.
An asymptomatic infection is present without noticeable symptoms and may still be transmissible, making STI testing and screening important.
Scabies is a contagious skin infestation caused by microscopic mites that produce intense itching and can spread through prolonged skin-to-skin or sexual contact.
Pubic lice are tiny parasitic insects that live mainly in pubic hair, cause itching, and commonly spread through close physical or sexual contact.
Sexual decision-making is the process of considering desire, boundaries, information, values, risks, and consequences before making sexual choices.
Pleasure-centered sex education teaches about desire, arousal, intimacy, communication, and positive sexual well-being alongside health and risk prevention.
The pelvis is the lower bony and muscular region that supports the spine, protects pelvic organs, and contributes to movement, reproduction, and sexual function.