2019/01/01 by Sofia Gruskin, Vithika Yadav, Antón Castellanos-Usigli +2 · 1 citation
Health Professions · Social Sciences · Psychology · #Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health #Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/26410397.2019.1593787
openalex publication_date 2019/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
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.