Consent and Sexual Health

This past Sunday, David finished off our 5-week teaching series on God, Gender, & Human Sexuality with a sermon about consent, power, and responsibility. You can listen to the teaching here, or watch a video of the service here.

In the teaching, David shared a quote from the World Health Organization that we wanted to highlight.

Here’s the WHO definition on sexual health:

Sexual health is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity. Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. For sexual health to be attained and maintained, the sexual rights of all persons must be respected, protected and fulfilled.

How would our society be different if we sought to promote this kind of sexuality?