Expand your thinking about all things sexual and sexy. Listen to Wendy’s engaging and comprehensive presentation to the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health.
“Let’s Talk about Sex: Sexual Nature, Harm, and Healing” is the title of Wendy’s acclaimed keynote to the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH) in 2015. In this special conference presentation, Wendy takes a comprehensive look at human sexuality from interpersonal, biological, sociological, and psychological perspectives. Wendy shares her view of sex as a powerful energy – infinite, mysterious, and life-changing. She reveals the unique nature of sex, encourages us to expand how we think about sex and the role it plays in our lives.
Here is an outline of what Wendy covers in the presentation:
1. Sex as powerful energy and how Wendy chose the field of sex therapy
2. Factors in healthy sexual development
3. Important features of sexual anatomy, physiology, and functioning
4. Sexual orientations and forms of sexual expression
5. The role of different hormones
6. Sex beyond reproduction – sexual pleasure and love-based sex
7. Sex as an active learning and conditioning process
8. The ways culture influences sexual attitudes and behaviors
9. Challenges to healthy sexuality – abuse, addiction, disease, lack of protection and education
10. How sexual abuse and compulsive behaviors support one another
11. What is involved and needed in sexual healing and recovery
12. The importance of sexual learning and healing resources
