ABSTRACT
To more clearly understand the connection between the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and sexual health, a historical account of the two terms seems to be in order. We do this to chart out the historical emergence of both sustainability and sexual health to better understand why both of these concepts have become so prominent in public health. Second, and perhaps more importantly, we do this to show that the connection between the two concepts is an entangled history which has its starting point long before the SDGs came onto the scene in 2015. The current merger of sustainability and sexual health within the SDG framework is thus a new iteration of this entangled genealogy.
