Sex Positivity and the Maintenance of White Supremacy in Sex Therapy
Presenter Title/Affiliation
California Inst. of Integral Studies
Start Date
22-5-2021 9:15 AM
Event Name
Event
Zoom URL to Join
https://ciis.zoom.us/j/98925562609
Zoom Meeting ID
989 2556 2609
Abstract
This project focuses on the role sex positivity plays in (unconsciously) maintaining white supremacist sociopsychological biases within the field of Sex Therapy. Using discourse analysis, it identifies the maintenance of White Supremacy via language and dialogue through an examination of White Fragility’s six tenets—miseducation, good/bad binary, segregation, internalized superiority, individualism, and universalism—in literature and discourse produced for the 52nd Annual Conference of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), titled The Circle of Life: Sex Positivity Through All of Life’s Stages, June 4 – 7, 2020 in Palm Springs, California. This study will serve as a basis for the development of a theoretical model of sex-and-relationship therapy, which acknowledges the racialization of sexuality without perpetuating White Supremacy.
Presenter Contact
CClements@mymail.ciis.edu
Sex Positivity and the Maintenance of White Supremacy in Sex Therapy
This project focuses on the role sex positivity plays in (unconsciously) maintaining white supremacist sociopsychological biases within the field of Sex Therapy. Using discourse analysis, it identifies the maintenance of White Supremacy via language and dialogue through an examination of White Fragility’s six tenets—miseducation, good/bad binary, segregation, internalized superiority, individualism, and universalism—in literature and discourse produced for the 52nd Annual Conference of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), titled The Circle of Life: Sex Positivity Through All of Life’s Stages, June 4 – 7, 2020 in Palm Springs, California. This study will serve as a basis for the development of a theoretical model of sex-and-relationship therapy, which acknowledges the racialization of sexuality without perpetuating White Supremacy.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/lavlang/2021/saturday/2
