Sexual health, sexual rights and sexual pleasure: meaningfully engaging the perfect triangle
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Authors
Gruskin, Sofia
Yadav, Vithika
Castellanos-Usigli, Antón
Khizanishvili, Gvantsa
Kismödi, Eszter
Issue Date
2019-04-14
Type
Article
Language
en_US
Keywords
Sexual Pleasure , Sexual Rights , Sexual Health , Human Rights , Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives , Advocacy , Policy , Programming
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Abstract
To improve sexual health, even in this charged political moment, necessitates going beyond biomedical approaches, and requires meaningfully addressing sexual rights and sexual pleasure. A world where positive intersections between sexual health, sexual rights and sexual pleasure are reinforced in law, in programming and in advocacy, can strengthen health, wellbeing and the lived experience of people everywhere. This requires a clear understanding of what interconnection of these concepts means in practice, as well as conceptual, personal and systemic approaches that fully recognise and address the harms inflicted on people’s lives when these interactions are not fully taken into account. Bridging the conceptual and the pragmatic, this paper reviews current definitions, the influences and intersections of these concepts, and suggests where comprehensive attention can lead to stronger policy and programming through informed training and advocacy.
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Citation
Gruskin, S., Yadav, V., Castellanos-Usigli, A., Khizanishvili, G., & Kismödi, E. (2019). Sexual health, sexual rights and sexual pleasure: meaningfully engaging the perfect triangle. Sexual and reproductive health matters, 27(1), 1593787. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2019.1593787
Publisher
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters