The Quest for Sexual Health Audiobook Libro.fm

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Since the 1970s health professionals researchers governments advocacy groups and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something called sexual health Under this expansive banner a wide array of programs have been launched organizations founded initiatives funded products soldand yet no book before this one asks What does it mean to be sexually healthy

Conjoining sexual with health changes both terms it alters how we conceive of sexuality and transforms what it means to be healthy prompting new expectations of what medicine can provide Yet the ideal of achieving sexual health remains elusive and openended and the benefits and costs of promoting it are unevenly distributed across genders races and sexual identities Rather than a thing apart sexual health is intertwined with nearly every conceivable topical debatefrom sexual dysfunction to sexual violence from reproductive freedom to the practicalities of sexual contact in a pandemic In this book Steven Epstein analyzes the rise proliferation uptake and sprawling consequences of sexual health activities offering critical tools to assess those consequences expand capacities for collective decision making and identify pathways that promote social justice