Did you know that having a full, free and pleasurable sexual life is a right? Yeah! That’s how it is. Learn about the 10 sexual and reproductive rights.
Did you know that having a full, free and pleasurable sexual life is a right? Yeah! This is established through sexual and reproductive rights, which are part of Human Rights and, consequently, are inherent to all people, regardless of their sex, gender identity, skin color, age, sexual orientation, religion, among other factors.
Its purpose is that all human beings can live free of discrimination, risks, threats, coercion and violence in the field of sexuality and reproduction.
What do you think if we point out each of them and see their differences?
Sexual rights: They seek to guarantee the free, informed, healthy and satisfactory exercise of sexuality. They are based on the enjoyment of sexuality and eroticism, without coercion and without any form of violence.
Reproductive rights: They refer to making free decisions without discrimination, about the possibility of procreating or not, regulating fertility and forming a family.
Get to know them, live them and demand their guarantee!
- Life: Men and women have it equally, but in terms of sexual and reproductive rights it refers to the right of women not to die from preventable causes related to pregnancy or childbirth.
- Freedom: power to decide whether or not to have sexual relations, with whom and how often.
- Equality: enjoy equitable relations between the genders.
- Privacy: All people have the right to have their privacy respected. Health service providers are obliged to maintain professional secrecy.
- Freedom of thought: Neither religion, nor the political party, nor culture should limit the person in their way of thinking or acting regarding their sexual and reproductive life.
- Information and education: right to be educated from an early age and to have access to timely information about services and methods for regulating fertility, sexually transmitted diseases and everything related to sexual and reproductive life.
- Get marry: right to choose whether or not to marry, when and with whom. For no reason can someone be forced to marry.
- Have children: Every person, man or woman, must have at their disposal the broadest information and services related to modern, safe and acceptable methods of regulating fertility, including emergency contraception and voluntary termination of pregnancy.
- Political participation: right to associate to promote the recognition and exercise of sexual and reproductive rights.
- Do not torture or abuse: right to a life free of violence. Not be attacked (physically or verbally) by your sexual partner, or by any other person.
Share this information with family, friends or acquaintances, so that they demand compliance with their rights.