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Declaration of Sexual Rights

Drafted by the World Association for Sexual Health and endorsed by the World Health Organization, the declaration includes these sexual rights:

The right to sexual freedom — allows us to express our full sexual potential, but excludes all forms of sexual coercion, exploitation, and abuse.

The right to sexual autonomy, sexual integrity, and safety of the sexual body — safeguards making autonomous decisions about our own sexual lives within the context of our own personal and social ethics. It also ensures our control and enjoyment of our own bodies, free from torture, mutilation, and violence of any sort.

The right to sexual privacy — protects our right to our individual decisions and behaviours about intimacy, as long as they do not intrude on the sexual rights of others.

The right to sexual equity — preserves our freedom from all forms of discrimination, regardless of age, class, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, physical and emotional characteristics or disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.

The right to sexual pleasure — recognises that sexual pleasure, partnered or unpartnered, is a source of intellectual, physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being.

The right to emotional sexual expression — recognises that sexual expression is not limited to erotic pleasure or sexual acts, but includes communication, emotional expression, gender expression, love, and touch.

The right to sexually associate freely — allows us to marry or not, to divorce, and to choose and establish other responsible sexual associations.

The right to make free and responsible reproductive choices — protects our right to decide whether and when to have a child, including the number and spacing of children, and the right to full and voluntary access to the means of fertility regulation.

The right to science-based sexual information — protects sexual information that is generated through the process of unencumbered, scientific, and ethical inquiry, and that is disseminated in appropriate ways at all societal levels.

The right to comprehensive sexuality education — acknowledges that learning about our sexuality is a lifelong process that begins at birth and that should involve all social institutions.

The right to sexual health care — acknowledges that sexual health care, including gender-confirming surgery, should be available to all people for prevention and treatment of all sexual concerns, problems, and disorders.

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