Kink-Aware Professional: Competent, Non-Stigmatizing Kink Support
A kink-aware professional understands BDSM, kink, consent, and related community terminology and provides services without automatically pathologizing consensual sexual diversity.
A kink-aware professional understands BDSM, kink, consent, and related community terminology and provides services without automatically pathologizing consensual sexual diversity.
Risk-aware consent means agreeing to an activity with a reasonable understanding of its important risks, limits, possible consequences, and available safety measures.
Clinical register is the formal, precise, and neutral style of language used in healthcare to describe anatomy, symptoms, sexual health, behavior, and medical conditions.
Person-centered terminology uses accurate, respectful language that recognizes a person as more than a diagnosis, disability, sexual behavior, gender characteristic, or health condition.
Sexual health advocacy promotes accurate information, respectful healthcare, prevention, treatment, confidentiality, and equal access to services that support sexual well-being.
Sexual rights advocacy promotes bodily autonomy, consent, privacy, equality, sexual health, accurate information, and protection from discrimination, coercion, and sexual violence.
The safe sex movement promotes practical ways to reduce STI, HIV, and unintended pregnancy risks through barriers, testing, contraception, vaccination, education, and informed choices.
Intersex activism advocates for bodily autonomy, informed consent, respectful healthcare, privacy, equality, and protection from unnecessary nonconsensual medical interventions.
Virginity testing is an unreliable practice that attempts to determine sexual history through genital examination, despite no physical test being able to prove virginity.
The right to sexual health supports fair access to information, healthcare, consent, privacy, prevention, treatment, and sexual well-being without discrimination.