The stories within these pages draw on the personal narratives of surrogate partners, kink and BDSM professionals, escorts and intimacy coaches, to show that all forms of sex(uality) work have the potential to provide powerful healing.
How to Have Honest Conversations With Young Children
Serves as a guide for parents with children from infancy through six years of age, to help parents recognize how their behaviour influences their child's sexuality. The goal of Sex Ed, Strollers, and Sippy Cups is to give parents practical tools to proactively teach young children about sexuality, and the confidence to use these tools.
Even as the world changes for the better, everyday homophobia and transphobia persists. This book highlights the microaggressions that LGBTQ people face on an everyday basis and examines the impacts that such experiences have on mental health.
Sexual Health Education Programme Manual for Groups and Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Let's Talk About Sex is a sexual health education programme manual for individuals and groups with intellectual disabilities. The manual provides a contemporary, well-structured programme covering physical and emotional aspects of sexual health, gender identity, consent, assertiveness, dignity and respect, and sexual relationships.
Sex in the Brain gives an overview of what happens in the brain during the development of romantic and sexual relationships, from the intense emotions accompanying the early stages of a new relationship through to kissing, touch, arousal, orgasm, commitment, parenting, infidelity, breaking up or staying together.
This book offers a concise, practical guide to ethical and legal concerns related to therapists' sexual feelings and fantasies. The psychotherapy profession has always struggled to deal openly with therapists' sexual feelings. Between the often unavoidable fact of sexual attraction, and the potential crossing of boundaries and sexual relationships ......
The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released. The collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and ......
Sexuality is intricately woven into every facet of a person’s life, often presenting unique challenges and amplifying other psychological issues. Despite its significance, many therapists shy away from addressing sexual topics in sessions, opting instead to refer patients to specialized sex therapists.
Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this important work provides authoritative scientific and applied perspectives on the full range of paraphilias and other sexual behavior problems. For each major clinical syndrome, a chapter on psychopathology and theory is followed by a chapter on assessment and treatment. Challenges in working ......
