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ReviewSexual and reproductive health matters2019

Sexual health, sexual rights and sexual pleasure: meaningfully engaging the perfect triangle.

Sofia Gruskin, Vithika Yadav, Antón Castellanos-Usigli, Gvantsa Khizanishvili, Eszter Kismödi

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Review in Sexual and reproductive health matters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Least Equal When Most Teachable: The Biodevelopmental Learning Opportunities and Outcomes Model of Gender Differences in Sexuality.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2026
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  10. [International findings on sex education: a 15-year review (English version)].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2026
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  11. Advancing Professional Education in Clinical Sexology: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Professional Education in Clinical Sexology.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2026
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  16. Too Little Too Late: Perceptions of Sexual Health Education in Spain.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2025
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  17. The Meaning of Sexual Well-being Among LGBTQ+ People in the Netherlands Using the Framework of Mitchell et al.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2025
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  18. How to Define Sexual Health? A Qualitative Analysis of People's Perceptions.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sofia GruskinChair of the Global Advisory Board for Sexual Health & Wellbeing; Director of the Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, Program on Global Health and Human Rights , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , CA , USA .ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2418-011X
Vithika YadavMember of the Global Advisory Board for Sexual Health & Wellbeing ; Head of Love Matters India , Delhi , India.
Antón Castellanos-UsigliMember of the Global Advisory Board for Sexual Health & Wellbeing ; Director of Prevention Programs at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center , Brooklyn , NY , USA.
Gvantsa KhizanishviliMember of the Global Advisory Board for Sexual Health & Wellbeing ; World Contraception Day Ambassador for Eastern Europe and Central Asia , Tbilisi , Georgia.
Eszter KismödiMember of the Global Advisory Board for Sexual Health & Wellbeing; Chief Executive, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters , Geneva , Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To improve sexual health, even in this charged political moment, necessitates going beyond biomedical approaches, and requires meaningfully addressing sexual rights and sexual pleasure. A world where positive intersections between sexual health, sexual rights and sexual pleasure are reinforced in law, in programming and in advocacy, can strengthen health, wellbeing and the lived experience of people everywhere. This requires a clear understanding of what interconnection of these concepts means in practice, as well as conceptual, personal and systemic approaches that fully recognise and address the harms inflicted on people's lives when these interactions are not fully taken into account. Bridging the conceptual and the pragmatic, this paper reviews current definitions, the influences and intersections of these concepts, and suggests where comprehensive attention can lead to stronger policy and programming through informed training and advocacy.

Indexed as

Human RightsSexual HealthEducation, MedicalHumansPleasurePoliticsReproductive HealthSexual BehaviorSexualitySexual Partnersadvocacyhuman rightsmulti-disciplinary perspectivespolicyprogrammingsexual healthsexual pleasuresexual rights

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PMID31533569
PMCPMC7887957

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