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Myths About Sexual Health

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Sexual health can be defined as a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being that is related to sexuality and not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity. Achieving sexual health requires the sexual rights of individuals to be recognized and guaranteed. Among these rights are “the right to comprehensive sexual education” and “the right to information based on scientific knowledge”, suggesting that sexual information should be generated through free and ethical scientific research and appropriately disseminated at all social levels. However, sexology remains a neglected educational discipline in the general population, in particular among physicians, and it is therefore possible that misinformation leads to the proliferation of myths and misconceptions about sexuality.

In this chapter, we describe how ingrained these myths or misconceptions are in our population. In addition, we provide answers and recommendations about sexual health that are based on the best evidence.

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García, I.M.L., de Guevara, N.M.L. (2017). Myths About Sexual Health. In: IsHak, W. (eds) The Textbook of Clinical Sexual Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52539-6_25

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