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Sexual Health eBook Volume2
Chapter 1

Systems that Contribute to Sexual Response and Expression, Mitchell S. Tepper

This chapter will serve as an overall introduction to Sexual Health, volume 2,
Physical Foundations. Although the focus of this volume and chapter is on physical foundations or bodily systems, it is next to impossible to isolate physical sexual response and expression from internal and external psychological, moral, and cultural influences on sexual health. In the following pages I will describe the way I teach about sexual health (sexual health being defined in the broadest context in chapter 1, volume 1) to physicians, physician assistants, psychologists, nurses, other allied health and rehabilitation professionals, and laypersons grappling with the effects of various medical conditions and disabilities.

The groundwork I lay in my teaching to these populations serves as the foundation from which they can learn to treat or deal with bodily level structural or functional impairments that may have an effect on sexual activities (related to tasks and actions by an individual) and participation (involvement in a life situation), taking into consideration the severity of functional impairments and environmental factors. Two models for assessing the multidimensional, interactive, and dynamic impact of chronic conditions and disabilities on sexual health will be presented along with specific suggestions for coping with breaches in the physical foundations of sexual health discussed in chapter 14 of this volume.

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