Sexual health and sexual health care is an ancient and fashionable topic, but there are different understandings and standards of what sexual health is and how to realize it in different times and societies, and there is no scientific and authoritative explanation so far. Our medical scientists, psychologists and sociologists are still immature in their understanding of sexual problems.
The World Health Organization believes that with the improvement of human culture and living standards, the impact of human sexuality on personal health will be far more profound and important than previously recognized. Ignorance or misunderstanding of sex will greatly affect people's quality of life.
Sexual health refers to the sum of physical, emotional, intellectual, belief, behavior and social health of people with sexual desire, which is manifested in positive and sound personality, rich and mature interpersonal communication, frank and faithful love and husband-wife relationship. It includes the following three aspects:
(1) Ability to enjoy sexual behavior and control reproductive behavior according to social morality and personal morality.
(2) Eliminate the negative psychological factors such as fear, shame, guilt, false belief and so on, which inhibit the reaction and damage the relationship.
(3) There are no organic obstacles, various reproductive system diseases and physical defects that hinder sexual behavior and reproductive function.
In fact, sexual health includes three contents, namely reproductive health, sexual psychological health and sexual physical health.
Sexual health care is how to achieve sexual health, which is not only related to fertility and birth control, but also related to medical care to prevent sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS, and it is also a guarantee for the continuous improvement of quality of life. The problem of sexual health care runs through people's life, with different emphasis and content at different ages.
Childhood: how do parents view children's sexual behavior of playing with reproductive organs, how to answer various sexual questions raised by children, and the appropriateness and taboos of parents' intimacy in front of children.
Adolescence: children's curiosity about sex organs, competition of sex organs, sex games (such as doctors and nurses, playing house, etc. ), imitate the adult behavior seen by parents or movies and TV screens.
Adolescence: masturbation, all kinds of sexual confusion or anxiety caused by physical development, sexual attempts between peers, phobia, loneliness, boredom, physical discomfort, mood swings, daydreaming.
Unmarried adulthood: sexual needs, difficulty in finding a partner, inferiority complex, sense of loss, lovelorn or lost, sexual anxiety, love without a home, willingness to contact the opposite sex and fear of pregnancy, acting as a third party.
Married adulthood: sexual problems in marriage, difficulties in marriage adaptation, hymen problems, emotional alienation, divorce, extramarital affairs, unwarranted jealousy and suspicion, sexual dysfunction in middle age, indifference in old age, etc.
In a word, sexual health is an indispensable part of human health, which can never be ignored. To achieve sexual health, we must attach importance to sexual health care, and sex education is the basis of sexual health care, especially to strengthen parents' early sex education for their children (mainly to set a correct example and image), starting with dolls; Give play to the positive role of schools in fulfilling sex education (this will play a role that parents can't play); All these will have a good influence on adolescent children, thus ensuring their lifelong happiness and sexual health. Of course, people can't ignore targeted sex education for people at other different stages of life.
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