Sexual Health

Summary

The World Health Organization’s working definition of sexual health clearly states that sexual and reproductive health does not only relate to the absence of illness or disease, but rather a positive state of wellbeing. Unfortunately, many sexual health interventions only focus on the risks and potentially negative consequences of sexual activity. Such an approach fails to acknowledge an individual’s sexual rights, as well as their particular desires, relationships, pleasures and agency. This can obscure discussion of the positive realities of sexuality.