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Andropause or late-onset hypogonadism
: Significant decline of testosterone levels
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Friends with Benefits
: Hookups different from the relationships that involve continued mutual exchange
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Hookups
: Uncommitted sexual encounters
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Hot Flash
: A surge of adrenaline associated with menopause
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Intimate partner violence
is often divided into
situational couple violence
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which is the violence that results when heated conflict escalates
, and
intimate terrorism
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in which one partner consistently uses fear and violence to dominate the other
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Menarche
: The first menstrual period
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Menopause
: The end of the menstrual cycle typically diagnosed after 12 months without menstruation
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Primary sexual characteristics
: Reproductive organs present at birth compromising the external and internal genitalia
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Relationship inauthenticity
: refers to an incongruence between thoughts/feelings and actions within a relationship
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Secondary sexual characteristics
: Physical characteristic developing at puberty which distinguishes between the sexes but is not directly involved in reproduction
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Sexual debut:
First sexual intercourse
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Spermarche
: First ejaculation of semen