Critical Introduction - The Meaning of Sexual Health

什么是性健康？

理想化的概念

健康的定义作为全面的“完好状态，不仅仅没有疾病”就自身来说带有理性化色彩。通常由于人类环境的不完整性，这种概念是理想化的和不切实际的。在实际生活中，人们并未始终享受着这种完好状态，而且大多数时候将不得不顾及自己的病疼。可谓“人无完人，金无赤足”，生活并不总是一帆风顺的，并且人生来就不得不冷静地应对生活的短缺、条件的局限、身体的不适、心情的失望和不利的环境。如果人人都以获得了“不可剥夺的权利”而达到了完好状态，确乎是一个极大的误解。简而言之：
如果照字面意义来理解，世界卫生组织对性健康的诠释必定会给个人造成不必要的挫折感和对卫生保健体系提出不切实际的诉求。世界卫生组织关于性健康的定义作为一个理想或许有用，只是我们要辩证地理解人类生来就是肉身凡胎，并且我们罕有或绝少会满足于完满地达到性健康。

Critical Introduction - The Meaning of Sexual Health

What is Sexual Health?

A Utopian Concept

The definition of health as a state of overall "well-being, not merely the absence of disease" is, in itself, ideological. In view of the generally imperfect human condition, this concept is utopian and unrealistic. In real life, people do not always enjoy this kind of well-being and thus would have to consider themselves sick much of the time. "Nobody's perfect", life is not always fair, and some shortcomings, limitations, discomforts, disappointments, and disadvantages must be borne with equanimity. It would certainly be a grave misunderstanding if everyone felt entitled to well-being as an "unalienable right". In short:
The WHO interpretation of health, if taken literally, is bound to create unnecessary personal frustration and unreasonable demands on any health care system. The definition may be useful as an ideal, but only as long as it is well understood that human beings are constitutionally vulnerable and mortal and that they must be content with rarely or never reaching it fully.