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"Healthy Sexual Expression

Healthily expressing your sexuality should leave you feeling empowered and confident in yourself, your body, relationships, and your choices.

There are many characteristics of a person with a healthy sexual expression that you can strive towards in your daily life.

People with healthy sexualities exhibit the following characteristics:

• Feel in control of your body, your urges, and your sexual expression
• Communicate and interact with people of all genders in appropriate, healthy, and non-sexual ways
• Actively listen and respect other people’s boundaries and understand that you deserve to be heard and have yours respected as well
• Avoid any sort of exploitative relationships
• Cultivate a nurturing and healthy relationship with yourself while still accepting help from others.
• Develop an understanding of media on your thoughts, beliefs, values, and feelings towards relationships and sexuality.
• Decide for yourself what is “right” and feel comfortable and safe acting on these values.

Understanding of Your Sexual Rights

You, just like every other person on this planet, have sexual rights. It is your responsibility to understand them and set your boundaries.

As a person, you have the right to:

• Consent or withdraw consent at any time during an encounter with another person, sexually or otherwise
• Feel safe negotiating and discussing all the aspects of a sexual encounter with your partner before engaging with them
• Expect non-threatening and positive responses from others about your boundaries and expectations
• Experience pleasure in whatever way that manifests for you

Healthy vs. Unhealthy Sexuality: Understanding the Difference

You are probably running a mental checklist of all these aspects of you or a loved one who may exhibit a sense of healthy sexuality. Understanding what unhealthy sexuality looks like is just as crucial as understanding healthy sexuality as you’ll be able to spot warning signs.

Signs of Unhealthy Sexuality:

• Sexual activities are secretive, deceitful, exploitative, or hurtful
• Physical intimacy is devoid of communication
• If sex feels like an uncontrollable energy or an obligation
• Benefits of sex only affect one person
• Sex feels shameful, or like you are giving your power away to someone else
• Your sexual life requires you to lead a double life to experience the pleasure you want."

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