Affirming Sexual Freedom as a Fundamental Human Right
Sexual Speech & Expression
Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance firmly believes that human beings possess a fundamental right to develop and express their sexuality.
In addition to the spoken word we consider sexual speech and expression to include the use of print, video, and still image to express sexual desire or identity, and to explore sexual curiosity. We understand this freedom to include the use of such sexual expression to arouse as well as to inform or to provide commentary.
Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance opposes censorship, and irrational governmental policies regarding obscenity and indecency. We are active in the Free Expression Network (FEN) and work closely with the Free Speech Coalition (FSC), and the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP). We have testified before Congress on these issues and conducted a Congressional briefing to address the issue of Freedom of Speech and Sexual Expression. We remain firmly committed to preserving the right to sexual freedom and erotic expression.
“If more people were affirmed in their sexual expression from their very first stirrings of curiosity, it would likely prevent untold amounts of suffering and confusion.”
-Carol Queen, Ph.D., “Sexual Expression and Identity: The Other Face of Diversity,” Our Fundamental Human Right to Sexual Freedom And the State of Sexual Freedom in the United States, 2010 Report.
Key Issues
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Sex Work
Sex work refers to a wide range of activity where sexual interaction is explicitly exchanged for something of value.
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Sexual Speech & Expression
WSFA firmly believes that human beings possess a fundamental right to develop and express their sexuality.
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Sexual Health & Rights
Sexual Health is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well being in relation to sexuality.
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Integration of Sex & Religion
Sexuality and faith are two of the most deeply important and deeply personal aspects of human identity.
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LGBT Rights
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are entitled to the realization of the full spectrum of their human rights.
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Civil Rights
Civil rights are one sub-set of human rights that exist equal to and interdependent with multiple fundamental human rights.
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Reproductive Justice
Grounded in the human rights framework, reproductive justice refers to all of the conditions necessary for all people to enjoy reproductive freedom.
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Sexuality Education
Every human being deserves access to medically accurate and inclusive information about sex and sexuality.
About the Alliance
- Woodhull envisions a world that recognizes sexual freedom as the fundamental human right of all individuals to develop and express their unique sexuality; to be personally autonomous with regard to bodily integrity and expression; and to enjoy sexual dignity, privacy and consensual sexual expression without societal or governmental interference, coercion or stigmatization.
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