Unravelling the psychological aspects of attitudes towards women’s sexual health: An evidence-based review

Abstract

The sexuality issue of humans is one of the unresolved issues and the subject of fierce taboos and disputes across the years. It is one of the important and complex field of study and subject to a big part of political and societal pressure. Leading entities like the World Health Organization and the organisations related to sexual health in the world have considered well-being and sexual health as human rights and one of the important universal goals to pursue in order to boost the quality of life associated with health. According to the World Health Organisation issues like HIV and other sexually transmitted conditions, violence against women, sexual dysfunction, unintended pregnancies, and risky abortions comes under the sexual and reproductive health which disregarding inequality and discrimination among gender across culture and different Societies. The current article focuses on the different psychological dimensions of sexual health and how sex education and sexual health differ in terms of attitude across different cultures from Western perspective to South Asian countries like India, Pakistan, etc. A total of 25 studies were included, following the preferred reporting item for systematic review. The research papers included in this review are both qualitative and quantitative. Researcher used different search strategies and search engine for research paper like Google scholar, PubMed etc. In this study, for reviewing different studies researcher used the PRISMA model 2020. Different inclusion and exclusion criteria were used by research, like the inclusion of papers which were published only in the English language and published after 1990. The findings of these studies show that human sexual health includes valuable aspects associated with close companionship, pleasure, voluntary sexual intimation, and functioning of sexuality. Sexual health is not always related with reproductive issues, problems related to sexuality, violence in sexual nature and infections related to sexuality.