Fight Over Women’s Right to Sexual Happiness in Ecuador

Interesting.

A woman from the governing party in Ecuador has proposed that a women’s right to enjoy sexual happiness should be enshrined in the country’s law.

Her suggestion has provoked a lively debate in conservative Ecuador.

Maria Soledad Vela, who is helping to rewrite the constitution, says women have traditionally been seen as mere sexual objects or child bearers.

Now, she says, women should have the right to make free, responsible and informed decisions about sex lives.

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Opposition assembly member, Leonardo Viteri, accused her of trying to decree orgasm by law.

Another called the proposal “ridiculous” and said that such an intimate topic should stay intimate and not be enshrined in law.

It would seem that recognizing one’s right to one’s own person would cover this just fine.