The Right to Sexual, Reproductive, and Emotional Wellbeing: Second sexuality hotline report (Jan '18 - Dec '18)

This publication reports on the data documented via our sexuality hotline from January—December 2018. It is dedicated to all those who have called our hotline, entrusted us with their experiences, and provided us with insight as to how sexual and reproductive issues affect their lives. Through this report, we first and foremost wish to give back to our callers the data we have documented from our conversations with them. Secondly, we want to dispel the clichés, vagueness, and taboos around these issues by providing numbers and analysis that encourage an honest conversation about what it is that people are facing in Lebanon. We want to exhibit and discuss how social, medical, cultural, and religious norms deny women and trans* people autonomy over their own bodies and restrict their physical and emotional wellbeing, in punishment for their genders and gender expressions, choices, desires, nationalities, and socio-economic statuses.