Sex Positivity and the Maintenance of White Supremacy in Sex Therapy

Presenter Name

Carole Clements

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.

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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.

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