'Sexual Pleasure is a Human Right'

[LemonSwan]

Hi everyone,

Browsing the net quickly during a cuppa to make sure the sky hasn't fallen in and I stumbled on this... an article about the contraceptive pill dubiously titled: ‘Sexual pleasure is a human right’: 60 years of the pill and how it changed the world'

This just grinds my gears considering all the Incel narrative of 'sex is a human right' and the shooting earlier this year.

Surely it should have been 'Contraception is a human right'.

I will be honest I have no time right now to actually read the article (which seems like it may be a feminist article besides the title), and have woken up on the wrong side of the bed - but the headline alone has made me want to smash the laptop shut. Thought I would share.

metro.co.uk/2021/09/25/in-focus-60-years-of-the-pill-and-how-it-changed-the-world-15191039/

The international declaration of Human rights, is a very important document. It's about the standards/ aims for people everywhere to be treated by the state etc.

Things like not being tortured, enslaved and so on.

www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

Rights are a human concept and this document has been widely ratified.

I agree that eg there is no natural law which prevents children being raped. Humans have decided in general that's not very good and so have written stuff like that down and agreed the list as a good start to reduce suffering.