What are the characteristics of a sexually healthy person?
You will see specific attributes in a person that tell you that such a person is sexually healthy. The essential characteristics of a sexually healthy individual include:
- Can talk comfortably about sexual health with health professionals, partners, friends, family, and loved ones.
- Can make decisions about sexual health that align with their identities, goals, values, and beliefs.
- Accept refusals of sex without any feeling of hostility or feeling personally insulted.
- Has the skills and motivation to disclose a present infection, if there’s any, to their sex partners.
- Can be sexually intimate without being physical (for example, talking about sexual feelings, verbally expressing attraction, and doing things that awaken desire in their partner).
- Enjoy sexual feelings without necessarily acting upon the emotions inappropriately.