Critical Introduction - The Meaning of Sexual Health

What is Sexual Health?

Example: Sexual Rights - UN Declaration of Human Rights

It is no coincidence that the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights of 1948 does not mention sexual rights. This omission was already criticized at the time, but since then little has changed.
Even today, no declaration of universal sexual rights could  be passed by the UN general assembly.

This means, by implication, that the largest part of humanity is not allowed to be sexually healthy according to the latest WHO definition. However, this unspoken, if inevitable conclusion is problematic, too. Is it really justified to apply  modern Western criteria of right and wrong  to very different, and often much older, cultures?

The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights had its 50th anniversary in 1998. In 1951, the French-born judge René Guyon, who lived and worked in Thailand, wrote a brochure attacking the UN for their failure to protect sexual rights.