What is sexual health?
Sexual health is an important part of your health and wellbeing. Your physical, mental and emotional health can affect and be affected by your sexual health. Protecting yourself from sexually transmissible infections (STI) is an important part of good sexual health.
Having good sexual health includes
- Respect
- Safe, healthy relationships
- Expressing your sexual orientation, sexuality and gender identity
- Being protected from STIs
- Access to information and health care
- Freedom from sexual violence, stigma and negativity