Sexual Health - a synopsis

              

Sexual health, both a taboo as well a need, is complex as it involves bodily functions mixed with emotion and psyche. It is equally contributed by dynamics of people and self- awareness. Dealing with complex human minds and maintaining a mental- physical-sexual hygiene is the challenge faced by many of health providers. The matters are worse when a need- based health seeking is not available for a stigmatised feeling as sexual health.

Gender variability

    Structure is the main difference which categorise as various genders in most species. But humans have a perceived component, which gives a feeling of themselves as a particular category. Acceptance of these gender categories and understanding the specific needs is the approach required for a better compatibility among the human population. Maintaining the structural component have an equal weightage as keeping the emotional hygiene.

Health seeking   

    The awareness of a need such as reaching out for support should come from within. Men generally approach for help more than women. One of the reasons for this is a less social concern and more support groups which identify with them. Informal consultations are used more for solving the concerns. Those who have exaggerated needs are considered a social and familial threat. These outliers of the society need more care than the rest of the population who are adapted to the societal norms and consensus.

Availability of support   

    A sexual health clinic which caters to the needs of the population maybe mocked at, as the concept is crude in the minds of the population. Wider understanding of the people with their geographies and context helps in establishing support groups. A taboo to talk and think about and lack of a place to consult for seeking the right suggestion is the issue faced in this section of health.

     Most of the sexual concerns are either glorified or considered insignificant and mythicized such that the problem is not encountered accurately. On the other hand, when facts are addressed, the approach becomes crude and is stamped as the raw form of understanding and solving the concerns.

Exaggeration and suppression of normality       

      When sexual part of health is taken into consideration, there is a hue and cry regarding the need for concentrating on which should be neglected. The whistle blower among the group gets cornered and suppression of a normal need becomes the routine. People go in search for like-mindedness and similarities for the betterment of themselves as well as the differing population. The extremes such as dominant and suppressed thinkers become personified as ‘out of normal’

Role of technology

     Digital health is the upcoming way forward for the solutions of health problems. Addressing the sexual concerns remotely maybe acceptable both to the health provider as well as the one who is concerned. Usually breaking all the barriers is the way for providing quality care. Opposing to that, keeping a barrier while dealing with sexual health is the best way to maintain emotional hygiene and integrity on both sides. By use of technological approach, this much needed barrier is in place for a smooth management of the issues.

 

Sexual health as an inclusive component to other health concerns and a non-exaggeration of matters with simple, practical and executable methods to approach as well as management is the key to deal with this normality with complexity.