Sexual human rights are essential for our well-being and happiness. They include the right to live freely, without fear of discrimination or violence, while expressing your sexual identity and orientation.
The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS) outlined a list of Basic Sexual Rights, which they believed were fundamental human rights. According to their catalog, these rights included:
The freedom of any sexual thought, fantasy, or desire.
The right to sexual entertainment, freely available in the marketplace, including sexually explicit materials dealing with the full range of sexual behavior.
The right not to be exposed to sexual material or behavior.
The right to sexual self-determination.
The right to seek out and engage in consensual sexual activity.
The right to engage in sexual acts or activities of any kind whatsoever, providing they do not involve nonconsensual acts, violence, constraint, coercion or fraud.
The right to be free of persecution, condemnation, discrimination, or societal intervention in private sexual behavior.
The recognition by society that every person, partnered or unpartnered, has the right to pursue a satisfying consensual sociosexual life free from political, legal or religious interference.
The basic right of all persons who are sexually dysfunctional to have available nonjudgmental sexual health care.
The right to control conception.