Sexually Healthy Men Are Confident and Strong

What is men’s sexual health? How do I get a solid grip on it? How do I determine if I am a sexually healthy man? These are not simple questions with simple answers. Sexual health is a lifelong process, with subtly different dimensions at each stage. For example, sexual health of a boy is part of the lifelong process but is different from that for a teen or young adult and different from a middle years and older adult. However, at each stage of life, common elements characterize sexual health. Here is the description of sexual health from the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO, 1975):

Sexual Health may be defined as a dynamic and harmonious state involving erotic and reproductive experiences and fulfillment, within a broader physical, emotional, interpersonal, social, and spiritual sense of well-being, in a culturally informed, freely and responsibly chosen, and ethical framework; not merely the absence of sexual disorders.

A translation may be helpful. Sexual health is the integration of your psychological, biological, and interpersonal sexual energies in a comfortable, meaningful, and satisfying way. In short, you feel confident and strong about yourself as a sexual man and know that others feel comfortable with you as well. Sex is a physiological, natural function, and sex is part of sexuality. Sexuality is a learned, psychosocial function. Sexuality is an integral part of every man’s personality and is expressed in all that we do. In the broadest sense, sexuality is the psychic energy that finds physical and emotional expression in the desire for contact, warmth, tenderness, eroticism, and love. Th is energy is part of a man’s balanced self-confidence and strength.

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