Sex: Ritual Recovery of Vitality and Life

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Sex: Ritual Recovery of Vitality and Life

Sex: Ritual Recovery of Vitality and Life

Sex is the pure essence of vitality in life. In some it builds marriages, in others it creates families and in all of us sex sustains love. Such is its power that we swing out of our minds into our souls and vice versa many a times. Aren't we obsessed with sex? With its remarkable vitality and vibrancy, we begin to fear it too. Sex is often used to mean "sexual activity", but for technical purposes, in the context of sexuality and sexual health.

The varied expressions of sexuality

Are we aware of the umpteen faces of sexuality? It is expressed in thoughts, desires, beliefs, values, behaviors, roles and relationships. That's not all. Sexuality also includes emotional attachment, eroticism, love, sex, gender and reproduction. Though it travels with us through out of lifetime, many of us do not experience all the faces of sexuality.

What exactly is sexual health?

A positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relations introduces you to sexual health. It is the possibility of having safe and enjoyable sexual experiences. No violence and absolutely no discrimination. The World Health Organization states "Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

To maintain sexual health, sexual rights of all people should be respected, fulfilled and protected. Mental health, violence and chronic illnesses also influence the sexual illnesses of a person.

Sexual Rights

Sexuality, sexual health and rights become satisfying when the three primary elements are balanced perfectly.

World Association for Sexology's Declaration of Sexual Rights

? The right to sexual freedom

? The right to sexual autonomy, sexual integrity, and safety of the sexual body

? The right to sexual privacy

? The right to sexual equity

? The right to sexual pleasure

? The right to emotional sexual expression

? The right to sexually associate freely

? The right to make free and responsible reproductive choices

? The right to sexual information based upon scientific inquiry

? The right to comprehensive sexuality education

? The right to Sexual Health care

Steve Clark, http://www.viagrapunch.com
The author is an amateur writer focusing primarily on health related topics or on the health related research findings.

In The News:

Planned Parenthood wants preschoolers to know mechanics of sexual intercourse - Lifesite

Planned Parenthood wants preschoolers to know mechanics of sexual intercourse
Lifesite
“These are preschoolers. This is the sex education Planned Parenthood wants them to have—is fighting for them to have.” Jim Sedlak followed up with the scientific facts about how early sex education harms children by disturbing their sexual latency ...

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UPDATED:Commentators accuse PEI government of sexualizing children - Journal Pioneer

UPDATED:Commentators accuse PEI government of sexualizing children
Journal Pioneer
CHARLOTTETOWN – Prince Edward Island's new parental guide to childhood sexual behaviour is being decried by some commentators as a “destructive” document that promotes pedophilia. Children's Sexual Behaviors: A Parent's Guide ... In a follow-up ...

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Texas School District Sex Education Compares Non-Virgins To Chewed Gum - Huffington Post

Texas School District Sex Education Compares Non-Virgins To Chewed Gum
Huffington Post
Sexual health advocate Katie Gustainis Vela recently obtained what appears to be an instructional worksheet meant for teachers who lecture on sex ed. Vela tweeted a photo of the worksheet -- which likens people who have premarital sex to pieces of ...

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Quality sex education vital for combatting rape culture - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

Quality sex education vital for combatting rape culture
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
To address this issue, Ms Walker has created a sex education programme called GET A GRIP teenz which aims to assist parents and schools to partner together to talk about sex in a healthy way and address abusive sexual behaviour head on, helping ...

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Katie Fitzpatrick: Quality sex education vital for schools - New Zealand Herald

Katie Fitzpatrick: Quality sex education vital for schools
New Zealand Herald
Again, as Rebecca Kamm noted, sexual assault rates go down as social awareness of these issues goes up. Sexuality classes, as part of health education, are currently given very little curriculum time in secondary and intermediate schools. While it is a ...

PEI guide for parents: 'healthy' for kids to masturbate, touch genitals of ... - Lifesite

PEI guide for parents: 'healthy' for kids to masturbate, touch genitals of ...
Lifesite
The 7-page guide, titled “Children's Sexual Behaviours: A Parent's Guide”, put out by the Provincial Child Sexual Abuse Advisory Committee, provides a standard for what experts consider normal sexual behaviour in children from preschool to grade four.

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