World Sexual Health Day, which falls on Sept. 4, is aimed at educating people about the importance of sexual health. The day was initiated by World Association for Sexual Health (WAS), an international organization that is on a mission to break all stereotypes and taboos surrounding sex and encourage people to talk freely about it.

Every year, the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research, including HRP, joins organizations under WAS to observe the World Sexual Health Day, and conduct round table discussions, conferences and art exhibitions to address the sexual health issues faced by people the world over.

Sex for a human being is as important as eating or breathing and of course, is beyond just a means of making babies. For time immemorial, sex has been viewed as a recreational activity and people pretty much depended on it to feel excellent about themselves. However, studies have shown that the current generation is having less sex than the previous one because of a lack of attention to sexual health, which leads to the loss of sexual appetite in a significant measure.

WHO's efforts to create widespread awareness about sexual awareness achieved a major breakthrough in 1994 when the organization's Reproductive Health Strategy was included in the list of five core aspects of reproductive and sexual health during the International Conference on Population and Development.

Here are a few quotes about sexual health, picked from Good Reads, that will make you value your sexual health a little more.

  • "No amount of talking about sex is going to diminish the mystery of the experience of it. Sex is Sacred, Not Secret."- Christine Laplante
  • "Our sexuality affects everything we do, and everything affects our sexuality. The same is true of our spirituality -- that which is most deeply meaningful to us. We can deny both. But denying them does not mean they are not both alive in every breath and heartbeat of life."- Tina Schermer Sellers
  • "If you are where I was before my process began, you can't imagine the place of victory, the place you can be free from the dominating desire for sexual stimuli. I am here to tell you that there is a place of freedom that you can know--a place where your desire for purity will subdue the lust of the flesh."- Bruce Lengeman
  • "Sexual health is as achievable and reasonable a goal for patients in palliative care and hospice care as pain relief, but few hospice and palliative care professionals include sexual health within their assessment and plan of care. Given that sexuality is a central aspect of being human, sexual health should be part of the assessment and plan for every patient receiving palliative care and hospice care."- Kimberly D. Acquaviva
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