| Glossary list of "M" |
| Mammogram |
| X-ray photographs of the breasts that can detect cancerous tumors before they can be felt. |
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| Morning After Pills |
| Emergency hormonal contraception that is taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse. |
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| Marital Rape |
| Coerced sexual intercourse within marriage. |
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| Masculine |
| Characteristics and ways of behaving that a culture associates with being a boy or a man. |
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| Masochism |
| A paraphilia in which sexual arousal becomes dependent on sexual role play or fantasy that includes receiving punishment, discipline, or humiliation. |
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| Masturbation |
| Touching one's own sex organs for pleasure. |
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| Megans Law |
| A Federal and state laws that require police to notify citizens of the presence of convicted pedophiles in their communities. |
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| Menarche |
| The time of a girl's first menstruation. |
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| Meno Pause |
| The time at "midlife" when menstruation stops; a woman's last period; usually occurs between the ages of 45 and 55. "Surgical" menopause, however - which results from removal of the ovaries - may occur earlier. |
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| Menstural Cycle |
| The time from the first day of one period to the first day of the next period; a repeating pattern of fertility and infertility. |
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| Menstural Flow |
| Blood, fluid, and tissue that are passed out of the uterus during the beginning of the menstrual cycle. |
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| Mensturation |
| The flow of blood, fluid, and tissue out of the uterus and through the vagina that usually lasts from three to five day. |
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| Method Effectivenesss |
| The reliability of a contraceptive method itself - when it is always used consistently and correctly. |
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| Milk Ducts |
| The passages in women's breasts through which milk flows from the alveoli to the nipple. |
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| Mini Pills |
| Birth control pills that contain only the hormone progestin. |
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| Molluscum Contagiosum |
| A virus that can be sexually transmitted, causing small, pinkish-white, waxy, round, polyplike growths in the genital area or on the thighs. |
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| Monogamous Relationship |
| A relationship in which both people date or have sex only with one another and no one else. |
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| Multiple Orgasm |
| More than one orgasm occurring within the same sexual encounter. |
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| Mutuality |
| Reciprocating equally with feelings and behavior. |
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| Myths |
| Unfounded or false stories or ideas. |
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