4th September is World Sexual Health Day instigated by the World Association of Sexual Health (WAS). The theme for this day is “Positive Relationships”.
Building positive relationships with yourself, your partner, your community and health care providers, your friends and family fosters healthy and meaningful connections that ensure your mental and emotional well-being. These in turn will enable you to be confident with your personal sexual health, especially when building dynamic relationships with your body and your chosen sexual partner. Equally, organisations and health care providers that promote sexual health would benefit their patients and clients through better understanding of everyone’s complex cultural and social situation.
Some books the library has in their collection that may be of interest:
Girls and Sex by Peggy Orenstein [Classmark: UTL.W.6]
The author navigates a complicated new world of girls’ sex lives in the modern age of peer pressure through the rise of social media.
Sexuality in the Time of AIDS (Rani K Verma et al) [Classmark: UTL.U.23]
A collection of essays detailing research efforts and intervention programmes of NGOs and individual researchers through understanding the cultural environment of vulnerable street workers.
Sex Without Consent (Shireen Jejeebhoy. et al) [Classmark: UTL.W.03]
Highlights the impact of “the unsupportive – and sometimes abusive or negligent – roles of families, teachers, health care providers and law enforcement agents” arguing for a “radical review and reform of existing programmes designed to prevent this kind of abuse and to support young survivors of sexual trauma in the developing world”. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sex-without-consent-9781848137783/
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