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To support each person's right to sexual privacy, choice, expression and
fulfillment.
People engage in sex for a variety of reasons, including love,
affection, bonding, procreation, pleasure, conformity, recognition,
power, stress reduction and more.
Sexuality is not just something which we
do, but is rather a core aspect of who we are, for its subtle--and at
times not so subtle--"primary directive" is deftly woven throughout
our very being.
All living entities are genetically
programmed to sexually engage for the survival of the species, a fact
which impacts heavily upon life choices and everyday decisions.
To deny our sexuality is to deny our life.
In this spirit the Aloha Sexual Health &
Happiness Center assists clients toward claiming and celebrating their
sexuality in a life affirming manner which is both respectful of and
personally congruent to each individual's own values and desires.
As we say here in the Hawaiian Islands, mahalo, thank you, for giving
yourself this time to explore our site in your own journey of intimate
self-discovery and enhanced sexual connection.
It is our hope to encourage you to love kindly and give yourself ever
greater permission to happily express and experience your sexuality, as
well as your capacity to love and be loved, in rich and satisfying
fullness.
Aloha!
Click here for "Dr. Michael's Archive"
containing
essays on Sex, Love, and Relationship Happiness
Sexual
Rights are Fundamental
and Universal Human Rights
We
uphold the Basic Sexual Rights as stated by the Institute for Advanced
Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, California.
We do not moralize, criticize or judge. However--sexual abuse, coercion, exploitation, violence and nonconsensual actions
are incompatible with our values.
1.
The freedom of any sexual thought, fantasy or desire.
2. The right
to sexual entertainment, freely available in the market place, including
sexually explicit materials dealing with the full range of sexual behavior.
3. The right
not to be exposed to sexual material or behavior.
4. The right
to sexual self-determination.
5. The right
to seek out and engage in consensual sexual activity.
6. The right
to engage in sexual acts or activities of any kind whatsoever, providing
they do not involve nonconsensual acts, violence, constraint, coercion
or fraud.
7. The right
to be free of persecution, condemnation, discrimination, or societal intervention
in private sexual behavior.
8. The recognition
by society that every person, partnered or un-partnered, has the right
to the pursuit of a satisfying consensual socio-sexual life free from political,
legal or religious interference and that there need to be mechanisms in
society where the opportunities of socio-sexual activities are available
to the following: disabled persons; chronically ill persons; those incarcerated
in prisons, hospitals or institutions; those disadvantaged because of
age, lack of physical attractiveness, or lack of social skills; the poor
and the lonely.
9. The basic
right of all persons who are sexually dysfunctional to have available
nonjudgmental sexual health care.
10. The right
to sexual pleasure.
11.
The right to control conception.
12. The right to comprehensive sexuality education.
13. The right to access accurate and informed sexual
information.
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