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变异的性行为
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性权利 1
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如今，许多人要求把自己的性权利作为人权的一部分。在人类历史上这是相对较晚的诉求。甚至，人权的诉求本身就是一个晚近的概念。虽然，在一些较古老的文明里存在着人权诉求的先例，但是直到18世纪为止，普遍的人权运动并没有赢得国际范围的声援。人权运动最富有活力的先驱是“启蒙时代”的欧美作家们。他们的共同目标是建立一个公正的社会，所有社会成员在其中享受平等的权利。美国1776年的《独立宣言》(Declaration of Independence)第一次宣布人人拥有“不可剥夺的生命、自由和追求幸福的权利”。1789年的法国大革命，孕育了《人权与公民权利宣言》(Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen)，这一场革命启迪了其它国家各种各样的社会运动，并且最终于1948年，导致产生了《联合国人权宣言》(United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights)。(欲知详细发展史，请点击此处)
美国《独立宣言》(1776)
这个文件由于主张“不可剥夺的追求幸福的权利”，因为其中暗含着身体愉悦的权利，被一些人权倡导者视为要求性权利的精神与公正的支柱。(插图显示《独立宣言》原文标题和第一自然段中的几行文字。)
The American Declaration of Independence (1776)
This document, by claiming an “unalienable right to the pursuit of
happiness” is seen by some rights advocates as the original inspiration and
justification of the demand for sexual rights, which, among other things, imply a right to physical pleasure.(Our illustration shows the original title and the first few lines of the text.)
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Variations in Sexual Behavior |
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Sexual Rights |
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Today, many people demand sexual rights as part of their human rights. This demand is relatively new in human history. Indeed, the demand for human rights itself is new. While there are precedents in some older civilizations, a universal human rights movement did not gain international momentum until the18th century. Its most vigorous pioneers were European and American authors of the “Age of Enlightenment”. Their common goal was the establishment of a just society in which all members enjoyed equal rights. The American “Declaration of Independence” of 1776 for the first time asserted that everyone possessed certain “unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”. The French Revolution, in 1789, adopted a
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which inspired various social movements in other countries and eventually, in 1948, led to the
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
(For a more detailed history, click
here.)
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