Today, 4 September 2025 marks World Sexual Health Day, a global call to advance sexual health, rights, and well-being for all, with this year’s theme highlighting “Sexual Justice: What Can We Do?”

Sexual justice is about ensuring everyone has autonomy over their bodies and freedom from shame, discrimination, and violence.
While often seen as separate from broader public health, Sexual Health is deeply connected to Digital Safety. Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV), online harassment, image-based abuse, deepfakes, doxxing, sexual blackmail also known as sextortion, is not just virtual; it directly harms survivors’ mental health, sense of worth, and bodily autonomy‌ which are basically the fundamentals of sexual justice and health.

How TFGBV Undermines Sexual Health

• Perpetration via technology is nearly omnipresent in GBV cases, with 99% of gender-based violence instances involving tech misuse in some form.
• Globally, up to 60% of women with internet access have experienced at least one form of TFGBV.
• Advanced threats like deepfakes, non-consensual intimate image sharing, and AI-generated sexual content heighten the emotional and psychological impacts for survivors.

These harms disrupt sexual autonomy, contribute to avoidance of intimacy, and erode trust, creating real barriers to sexual health.

Sexual Justice Demands Digital Justice

On this World Sexual Health Day, the pursuit of Sexual Justice must mean confronting Digital Violations that threaten bodily autonomy and sexual dignity. This includes pushing for legal recognition of TFGBV, supporting survivors, and building safe, inclusive digital spaces.

How #SpeakUpSpeakOut Champions Both Sexual and Digital Rights

Our #SpeakUpSpeakOut campaign directly responds to these issues:

• We offer survivor-centered storytelling platforms so survivors can share experiences and reclaim their voice and interventions.
• We champion artivism, turning lived pain into creative expression to catalyze healing, visibility, and advocacy.
• We engage communities – especially in Ghana’s marginalized contexts, in dialogue about online abuse, consent, trauma, and support.

In essence, sexual health isn’t just about bodies, it’s about environments that honor autonomy, dignity, and consent. Digital spaces are part of that ecosystem.

This World Sexual Health Day, let’s affirm that ending TFGBV is integral to sexual justice. Let’s speak, heal, and reclaim our digital and intimate spaces together.