This essay focuses the historically changing of sexual and reproductive rights, and discusses how the framework of sexual rights fills in the absence of human rights in the field of sexual topics and benefits the universality of human rights discourse. The discussion of contemporary sexuality is embedded into the larger political framework of global capitalism, neocolonialism, militarism and ethnic conflict, and the gender hierarchies that exist everywhere. In this frustrating context, issues related to sexual and reproductive rights have also begun to emerge, and this essay will address these issues in four parts. The first section analyses the concept of human rights and the sociology of human rights; the second part retains the right to patriarchal male domination of the family and it questions the 'reproductive and sexual rights' of human rights; the third part presents the feminist critique that liberalism does not grant all individuals freedom;the fourth section discusses several issues related to global political processes and the struggle for reproductive and sexual rights, especially in the case of the LGBT rights.

XIEGAICIZHUO. Sexual and Reproductive Rights. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 2: 46-51. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.050208.

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