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Rights of Children

Statements about the rights children must have.

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Guyon

Rene Guyon proposed that we amend the Declaration of Human Rights with the following section: "Everyone has the right to sexual freedom and the free disposal of his or her body to that end; and no person shall be molested, prosecuted, or condemned by the law for having voluntarily engaged in sexual acts or activities of any kind whatever, provided they are devoid of violence, of constraint, and of fraud. (quoted by Haeberle 1983, p.169)

Wafelbecker 1982

Dr. Frits Wafelbakker, state inspector of public health, said at a meeting of the Netherlands Association for Sexology in 1982 that the following rights of children ought to be recognised:

  1. The right to receive information.
  2. The right ot enjoy their feelings and to develop them by means of:
    1. masturbation,
    2. sexual play with age peers, for which opportunity should be provided,
    3. sex with older partners.
  3. The right to decide for themselves whether to say "yes" or "no" when approached sexually by others.
(Brongersma,p.216)

Scherer 1978

 [1978] It is not a question of giving children more rights; rather it is a question of making less exceptions for them in the rights adults take for granted. (Brongersma,p.127)