Understanding Sexual Agency. Implications for Sexual Health Programming

Debates on human agency, especially female and sexual have permeated the social scientific literature health educational practice for multiple decades now. This article provides a review of recent agency debates illustrating how criticisms traditional conceptions (sexual) led to notable diversification concept. A comprehensive, inclusive description is proposed, focusing navigation goals desires in wider structural context, acknowledging many forms may take. We argue there no simple relation between health. Next, we describe implications such an understanding Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) rights (SHR) programming more generally. put forward validation agentic variety, gender transformative approaches, meaningful youth participation, multicomponent strategies as essential building young peoples’ their role agents societal change. also show that these conditions, wherever they been studied, are far from being realized. With this connected recommendations, hope set stage ongoing, well-focused research development area.