Sexual Prejudice in Hong Kong

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Sexual Prejudice in Hong Kong

• Inequality hurts.
• Discrimination harms health.

Mark King Session 6 7 October 2009
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Schedule http//web.hku.hk/sjwinter/CSB/session
s.htm

• Part A Girls becoming female, boys becoming
  male.
• 1. 02/09 Introduction to the course. Sex,
  gender and sexuality SW others
•  Part B Men growing up female, women growing up
  male.
• 2. 09/09    Growing up in the wrong body SW
  guest
• 3 16/09 Growing up transgendered in Asia SW
  guest
• Part C Men loving men. Women loving women.
• 4. 23/09 Homosexuality (I)  Introduction MK
• 5. 30/09 Homosexuality (II) Homophobia and
  discrimination MK HKW
• 6. 07/10 Gay and transgender rights  -  Human
  rights? MK guest
• Part D Breaking the mould? Breaking the law?
• 7. 21/10  Sensual magic, power exchange in
  relationships BS guest
• 8. 28/10  Sex, gender and commerce prostitution,
  phone-sex, BS, guest pornography and
  society
• 9. 04/11 Dressing up transvestism and
  drag BS, with SW
• 10. 11/11 Sex and the disabled BS
• 11. 18/11 From diversity to deviance from
  difference to disorder SW

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Todays topics

• Part A. Intro to Sexual Rights
• Part B. The Rope of Love
• http//hk.myblog.yahoo.com/rope_of_love_rerun
• Guest speaker Mr. Patrick Li Hon Chung
• Guest Actors Winki Lai Leung Tin Chak
• Special Guest Mr. Yankov Wong

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• Video on gay marriage
• Download at
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vrauYr-8vvoA

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Sexuality

• Integral part of the personality of every human
  being.
• Full development depends upon the satisfaction of
  basic human needs such as the desire for contact,
  intimacy, emotional expression, pleasure,
  tenderness and love.
• Sexuality is constructed through the interaction
  between the individual and social structures.
• Full development of sexuality is essential for
  individual, interpersonal, and societal well
  being.

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What are sexual rights?

• Sexual rights are universal human rights based on
  the inherent freedom, dignity, and equality of
  all human beings.
• Since health is a fundamental human right, so
  must sexual health be a basic human right.
• In order to assure that human beings and
  societies develop healthy sexuality, the
  following sexual rights must be recognized,
  promoted, respected, and defended by all
  societies through all means.
• Sexual health is the result of an environment
  that recognizes, respects and exercises these
  sexual rights.

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How to define sexual rights?

• Three main sub-themes
• Practice-based
• rights to various forms of sexual practice in
  personal relationships (e.g. campaigns for sexual
  freedom and safety)
• Identity-based
• through self-definition and the development of
  individual identities (e.g. the right to be
  lesbian and gay female sexual autonomy)
• Relationship-based
• rights within social institutions public
  validation of various forms of sexual relations
  (e.g. interracial and same-sex marriages)

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1. Sexual freedom

• Encompasses the possibility for individuals to
  express their full sexual potential.
• However, this excludes all forms of sexual
  coercion, exploitation and abuse at any time and
  situations in life.

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2. Sexual autonomy, integrity, and safety of the
sexual body

• Involves the ability to make autonomous decisions
  about one's sexual life within a context of one's
  own personal and social ethics.
• It also encompasses control and enjoyment of our
  own bodies free from torture, mutilation and
  violence of any sort.

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3. Sexual privacy

• The right for individual decisions and behaviors
  about intimacy as long as they do not intrude on
  the sexual rights of others.

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4. Sexual equity

• Refers to freedom from all forms of
  discrimination
• sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, race,
  social class, religion, or physical and emotional
  disability.

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5. Sexual pleasure

• Sexual pleasure, including autoeroticism, is a
  source of physical, psychological, intellectual
  and spiritual well being.

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6. Emotional sexual expression

• Sexual expression is more than erotic pleasure or
  sexual acts.
• Individuals have a right to express their
  sexuality through communication, touch, emotional
  expression and love.

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7. Sexually associate freely

• The possibility to
• marry or not
• to divorce
• to establish other types of responsible sexual
  associations.

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8. Free and responsible reproductive choices

• Encompasses the right to decide
• whether or not to have children
• number and spacing of children
• full access to the means of fertility regulation

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9. Sexual information

• Based upon scientific inquiry, this right implies
  that sexual information should be generated
  through the process of unencumbered and yet
  scientifically ethical inquiry.
• Disseminated in appropriate ways at all societal
  levels.

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10. Comprehensive sexuality education

• A lifelong process from birth throughout the life
  cycle and should involve all social institutions.

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11. Sexual health care

• Should be available for prevention and treatment
  of all sexual concerns, problems and disorders.