How Does a Sexual Medicine Specialist Help Me?

Sexual health is essential to your overall health and well-being. Sexual health requires a positive approach to sexual relationships and sexuality. It includes the ability to have safe and pleasurable sexual experiences. The ability of people to have good sexual health and well-being depends on access to quality information about sex and sexuality. This includes knowledge about any risks that can come from unprotected sex, access to sexual health care, and understanding the need for a positive understanding of sexual health.

Sexual health issues are wide-ranging and include relationships, pleasure, sexual orientation, and gender identity. They also encompass the potential negative consequences of infections as sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and other health concerns. This area of health also includes unwanted pregnancies, sexual dysfunction, and intimacy issues.

Sexual health is an approach to sexuality that includes personal awareness, self-acceptance, and accurate knowledge about sex. Sexual health includes the ability to be intimate with another person and to be able to talk about your sexual needs and desires. It also includes the ability to function physically in a way that allows for sexual fulfillment, including the ability to become aroused and to have sexual desire. Sexual health includes the understanding of how to act responsibly to prevent unwanted pregnancies and diseases. Sexual health also involves a sense of self-esteem, competence, personal attractiveness, and proper sexual function. Sexual health includes the ability to have positive sexual relationships with other people.

Sexual health is the combination of physical and mental health since both areas can contribute to sexual dysfunction, disease, and other concerns. Sexual health is more than the absence of disease or unwanted pregnancies. It includes the understanding of how each area plays a part in being completely whole in relationships.

Risky behavior can lead to an increased risk of health and emotional issues. This increases the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancy, or being in a relationship that is damaging emotionally.

High-risk sexual behaviors can include:

• Unprotected intercourse
• Unprotected mouth-to-genital contact
• Multiple sex partners
• Having a partner who has multiple partners or other risk factors
• Unprotected anal sex or having sex with a partner who engages in this
• Having a partner who injects drugs
• Sex work
 
Other factors can include not understanding your own sexuality or not being able to express what your boundaries are. These can lead to engaging in sexual relations that do damage to you emotionally and possibly physically.
 
Health issues can be risk factors, as well. If you are dealing with a hormone imbalance or chronic disease, your sexual health can be affected.

A sexual medicine specialist can help in many ways. If you are struggling with issues around sex, such as arousal, desire, vaginal dryness, pain during intercourse, erectile dysfunction, infections, or reproductive issues, a sexual medicine specialist can help identify the cause and work to correct that.
 
A healthy, intimate relationship can be a very important part of a person’s life. Having sexual health issues that prevent that from working can affect your self-esteem and emotional state. A sexual medicine specialist can help you regain the confidence, comfort, and, in some cases, physical health to have the life you deserve.
 
Call Portsmouth Family Care to find out how we can help you with your sexual health. We serve patients from Portsmouth NH, Newington NH, Durham NH, Madbury NH, Dover NH, Greenland NH, Stratham NH, and Newfields NH.