The Meaning of Sexual Well-being Among LGBTQ+ People in the Netherlands Using the Framework of Mitchell et al.

What counts as sexual well-being may mean different things to different people; it is individually shaped and individually interpreted. Sexual well-being as a concept is concerned with someone's appraisal and quality of aspects of one's sexuality that one considers important. It must be understood as a reciprocated concept, between the individual and partner(s), where individual autonomy triumphs. We suggest the addition of sexual agency into the framework of sexual well-being, based on the observed influence of cis-heteronormativity on LGBTQ+ sexual well-being. We argue that sexual well-being could be an important principle to consider when developing interventions in the domain of public health in relation to sexuality, as it represents reality by embracing individuality.