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CONTENTS Conference Co-chairs’ Welcome 4 AASECT FOUNDER Schedule at a Glance 6 Patricia Schiller, JD, MA Professional Conduct Guidelines 8 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Pre-conference Workshops 8 President Debby Herbenick, PhD, MPH, CSE Students’ and First Timers’ Meet & Greet 13 President-elect Meet & Greet for Attendees Seeking AASECT Supervisors 13 Susan E. Stiritz, PhD, MSW, MBA, CSE, CSES Engaging Diversity Opening Plenary 13 Secretary Melissa Novak, LCSW, CST Welcome Reception and Poster Session 14 Sponsored by Treasurer Douglas Braun-Harvey, LMFT, CGP, CST, CSTS Special Interest Group Meetings 15 Vice President of Membership Friday General Plenary Sponsored by 15 Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, LMFT, CST, CSTS Conference Sessions Certification Steering Committee Chair Sally Valentine, PhD, LCSW, CST, CSTS Friday, June 15 16 Saturday, June 16 22 Outreach Steering Committee Chair Tameca Harris-Jackson, PhD, MSW, CSE Sunday, June 17 30 Professional Education Steering Committee Chair Whipple Plenary 21 Prem K. Pahwa, LCSW, CST AASECT Business Meeting 21 Public Relations, Media and Advocacy Steering Committee Chair Ian Kerner, PhD, LMFT, CSC Brainstorming Session: AASECT Diversity, Communications Steering Committee Chair Equity and Inclusion Committee 21 Eli Green, PhD, CSE AASECT Certification Meeting 22 STAFF Schiller Plenary 22 Executive Director AASECT Awards Luncheon Plenary 25 Michael Chan AASECT Mentoring Program Meet & Greet 29 Director of Programming Kellie Braband AASECT Regional Meetings 29 Membership Services & Continuing Education Coordinator General Information 36 Jessica Gonzalez Social Media Best Practices 43

AASECT PAST PRESIDENTS Thank You, Volunteers! 44 1967 – 1968 Warren Johnson, EdD Core Knowledge Area (CKA) Descriptions 44 1969 – 1970 Jed A. Pearson, MD 1971 – 1972 Dorothy Harrison, PhD Hotel Map 45 1973 – 1974 Earnest A. Hopkins Exhibitors and Sponsors 46 1975 – 1978 Carl Schultz, MD 1978 Michael A. Carrera, EdD, CSE Thank You Scholarship Fund Donors! 48 1978 – 1980 William A. Granzig, PhD, CSTS CE Tracker 49 1981 – 1982 Shirley Zussman, EdD, CST, CSE, CSTS 1982 – 1983 Carol Cassell, PhD 2018 Award and Scholarship Recipients 50 1983 – 1984 Thomas E. Gertz, EdD, DHS, DACS 1984 – 1985 Sallie Schumacher, PhD 1985 – 1987 Theresa Crenshaw, MD 1987 – 1989 James W. Maddock, PhD 1989 – 1990 David E. Scharff, MD CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES 1990 – 1991 Jerome M. Sherman, PhD 1991 – 1994 Sandra S. Cole, PhD, CSE, CSC  To identify established ideals and emerging visions of sexuality 1994 – 1996 Judith A. Seifer, PhD, RN that weave together traditional and innovative practices. 1996 – 1998 William Stayton, MDiv, ThD, PhD, DST, CSE, CSTS 1998 – 2000 Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, FAAN, CSC, CSE  To construct intergenerational discussions on best practices 2000 – 2002 Dennis P. Sugrue, PhD, DST by sharing different methods of teaching, exploring sexuality 2002 – 2004 Jean D. Koehler, PhD, LMFT, DST, CSE, CSTS 2004 – 2006 Barnaby B. Barratt, PhD, DHS, DST in therapy and studying collaborations in sexuality research. 2006 – 2008 Patti Britton, PhD, MPH, CSE, CSES, ABS, ACS, FAACS, MSC 2008 – 2010 Helen “Ginger” Bush, LCSW, LMFT, DST  To articulate tomorrow’s challenges by mentoring emerging 2010 – 2012 William W. Finger, PhD, DST leaders and addressing diversity, globalization, advocacy and 2012 – 2014 P. Michele Sugg, MSW, LCSW, CST 2014 – 2016 Konstance McCaffree, PhD, CFLE, CSE, CSES activism. WELCOME WELCOME TO DENVER! FROM THE CONFERENCE On behalf of the 2018 Annual Conference Program Planning Committee, we’re thrilled to PLANNING welcome you to Denver! We have been hard at work all year and are excited about the program we’ve put together. We want to offer special recognition of AASECT’s Colorado TEAM! members, many of whom have generously offered their time and expertise throughout the planning process. With their help, we’ve been able to develop a more comprehensive conference experience! Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST The conference planning committee was purposeful to not only provide an engaging Conference Co-chair learning experience but an inclusive one as well. Along with the spectacular lineup of pre- cons, workshops, plenaries, and social events, we want to highlight some new features:

Comfort room—looking for a place to unwind, decompress, and process what Juan Camarena, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, CST you’ve learned? The Colorado room will be available for just that. With the plethora Conference Co-chair of cutting-edge programming, we hope you’ll take advantage of this space as a getaway between sessions.

Professional conduct guidelines—in an effort to encourage attendees to respect and maintain good boundaries with other conference attendees, the Lexx Brown-James, PhD, LMFT, CSE conference planning committee collaborated with the Board of Directors to establish professional conduct guidelines. You can find these guidelines in subsequent pages of the program. It is our hope that you will take these recommendations seriously in an effort to contribute to a more safe learning, growing, and networking experience for all.

Tanya Bass, MS, CHES Beyond the Hashtag—the planning committee has developed a workshop that aligns with the conference theme and is designed to explore some of the controversial issues within our own profession—, coercion, and boundary violations. Please join us on Saturday afternoon to engage in conversation with AASECT leadership and help the organization progress in addressing these concerns. Neil Cannon, PhD, LMFT, CST, CSTS Not only is the program filled with opportunities to network, learn, and engage, but the conference location also has so much to offer! Our beloved Colorado members created something special for this year’s conference—a local guide to all things important to your Denver experience: food, entertainment, travel, etc. If you haven’t done so already, take a moment to explore this list and venture out into the local community and enjoy all Prem K. Pahwa, LCSW, CST that Denver has to offer. Again, welcome to the 2018 AASECT conference; we’re excited to have you with us! Whether it was the conference theme, plenary sessions, workshops, social events, or location that drew you here, we appreciate your decision to join your colleagues in order Sally Valentine, PhD, FAACS, LCSW, CST, CSTS to connect, move beyond contention, and shed light on the taboos and pleasures of sexuality. And, if you see us roaming around the conference, please feel free to say hello and share your experience!

Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST Jennifer Gunsaullus, PhD Juan Camarena, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, CST Mistress of Ceremonies 2018 Conference Co-chairs

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SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE See page 41 for descriptions of learning formats. WEDNESDAY June 13 SATURDAY June 16 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Registration and Information Grand Ballroom Foyer 7:00 am – 4:00 am Registration and Information Grand Ballroom Foyer 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Pre-conference Workshops Various 7:00 am – 8:00 am Tantric Meditation Gold (additional fees apply) 7:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast (on your own) 7:30 am – 4:00 pm Exhibits Open North & South Convention Lobby THURSDAY June 14 8:00 am – 9:00 am Providing Training and AASECT Tower D 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration and Information Grand Ballroom Foyer Continuing Education (CE) Credits 8:30 am – 12:30 pm Pre-conference Workshops Various AASECT Certification Meeting Windows (additional fees apply) 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Comfort Room Colorado 8:30 am – 5:00 pm AASECT Board of Directors Meeting Colorado (See page 15 for more info) 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Break (on your own) 9:15 am – 10:45 am Schiller Plenary – Girls and Sex: Grand Ballroom Navigating the Complicated New Landscape 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Pre-conference Workshops Various (additional fees apply) Peggy Orenstein 11:00 am – 12:00 pm 1 Hour Concurrent Sessions 5:00 pm – 9:30 pm Exhibits Open North & South Convention Lobby Various 12:30 pm – 2:15 pm Awards Luncheon Plenary – 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Students’ and First Timers’ Meet & Greet Windows Grand Ballroom Sexualizing Cancer 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Volunteer Check-in & Orientation Tower D Ericka Hart, MEd Meet & Greet for People Seeking Denver 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 1.5 Hour Concurrent Sessions Various AASECT Supervisors 4:15 pm – 5:45 pm 1.5 Hour Concurrent Sessions Various 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm 2018 Annual Conference Kick-off & Grand Ballroom Engaging Diversity Opening Plenary 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Recruiting New Members for the Certified Tower A Sexuality Educators (CSE) Specialty: Are We 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm Welcome Reception and Grand Ballroom Foyer Looking in the Right Places? Poster Session Sponsored by Mentoring Meet & Greet Tower B Regional Meetings (See page 29 for locations) FRIDAY June 15 Dinner (on your own) 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm A Kink in the Cure 7:00 am – 4:00 pm Registration and Information Grand Ballroom Foyer Grand Ballroom 7:00 am – 8:00 am Tantric Meditation Gold SUNDAY June 17 7:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast (on your own) 7:00 am – 10:00 am Registration and Information 7:30 am – 5:00 pm Exhibits Open North & South Convention Lobby Grand Ballroom 8:00 am – 8:45 am Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings 7:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast (on your own) (See page 15 for locations) 8:00 am – 9:30 am 1.5 Hour Concurrent Sessions Various 9:00 am – 10:30 am General Plenary – Passion, Grand Ballroom 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Comfort Room Colorado Pleasure, and Sexually Transmitted Infections: (See page 15 for more info) Strategic Approaches to Helping Young Women 9:45 am – 10:45 am 1 Hour Concurrent Sessions Various in High STI Prevalent Communities Stay Healthy Maria Trent, MD, MPH 11:00 am – 12:00 pm 1 Hour Concurrent Sessions Various Sponsored by 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm Closing and Looking Ahead to 2019 Windows 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Comfort Room Colorado (See page 15 for more info) 10:45 am – 11:45 am 1 Hour Concurrent Sessions Various 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Break (on your own) AASECT CERTIFICATION CREDENTIALS 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm 1 Hour Concurrent Sessions Various CSC – AASECT Certified Sexuality Counselor 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm 1.5 Hour Concurrent Sessions Various CSE – AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Whipple Plenary – What Do We Grand Ballroom CST – AASECT Certified Sex Therapist Know About Pedophilia? DST – AASECT Diplomate of Michael Seto, PhD, CPsych CSCS – AASECT Certified Sexuality Counselor Supervisor 5:45 pm – 6:15pm AASECT Business Meeting Windows CSES – AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator Supervisor 5:45 pm – 6:45pm AASECT Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Tower D CSTS – AASECT Certified Sex Therapist Supervisor Committee Brainstorming Session 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Taste of Kink Majestic Ballroom (Additional fee required) 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Bedpost Confessions Grand Ballroom

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PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT GUIDELINES AASECT members are well acquainted with the crucial importance of consent in healthy sexuality. Likewise, we encounter the clinical and interpersonal importance of maintaining good boundaries on a daily basis. It is only good professionalism to assume that, in the public areas of our meeting venues, we are surrounded by a general public who may have less experience with these topics than we do. We invite conference attendees to be thoughtful and respectful about their conversations in public spaces; what may be routine conversation for us as professionals is not likely to be for others. In addition, we trust you will commit to respecting and maintaining good boundaries with other AASECT members and conference attendees within our conference space. As with any professional space or workplace, we expect that our conference will be a safe environment for learning and networking. Fostering this type of conference experience requires members to not assume that because we are gathered to discuss and learn about sexuality that this automatically means a person is consenting to questions about their personal sexual, intimate experiences/histories or is open to sexual advances. Nor does it mean that a person is welcoming comments about their body and appearance. Our hope is that members will engage with each other in ways that honor each other, respects boundaries, and prioritizes consent. If you feel unsafe at any time during an AASECT event, please call building security at 2589 from a hotel house phone, 303-626-2589 from any outside line or the Denver police by dialing 911. If you experience sexual harassment (e.g., unwanted sexual comments or touching) please let AASECT staff know so that we can have an opportunity to educate the member about professional conduct.

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (additional fees apply)

WEDNESDAY CEUs and meet the SAR requirement for certification. Experiential JUNE 13 learning, live demos, and interviews take place throughout the 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm sessions to cover topics that include but are not limited to: (dis)ability and sexual pleasure, trans sexuality, bestiality, BDSM, Check-in and Information Grand Ballroom Foyer adults attracted to children, and various fetishes. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm will be able to: identify two behaviors on the spectrum on BDSM; Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) report one-way race play as ethical or unethical; identify two CKA: B, C, D, E, F, H, I, J, N, O, P 4 CE Silver antiquated and two contemporary terms for trans people; identify Presenter(s): Lexx Brown-James, PhD, LMFT, CSE and Tanya three ways their attitudes have shifted about one or more topics Bass, MS, CHES presented throughout the day; categorize two gender-affirming Description: The goal of a SAR is to give participants the surgery types; identify one challenging sexual behavior for you opportunity to explore their attitudes, values, feelings, and professionally and one personally; critique one sexual behavior beliefs about sexuality and how these impact their professional thought to be taboo; describe the difference between a pedophile interactions (AASECT, 2004). Join Dr. Lexx, LMFT and AASECT and sexual molester; distinguish boundaries for sexual behavior certified sexuality educator, for an Intersectional SAR. This treatment; describe the difference between zoophilia and SAR exposes professionals to various sexual lifestyles and the bestiality; name two services sexual surrogates provide; define prejudices faced by the people who live them. Using Kimberlѐ Intersectionality and explain five examples of its impact regarding Crenshaw’s Intersectionality framework, you will earn AASECT sexual behavior.

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Sex Therapy Supervision: Where the Rubber Meets the Road that include but are not limited to: (dis)ability and sexual (Part 1) pleasure, trans sexuality, bestiality, BDSM, adults attracted to CKA: A, C, D, E, F, H, I, J, K, L, O 4 CE Denver children, and various fetishes. Presenter(s): Richard Siegel, PhD, LMHC, CST, CSTS and Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants James Wadley, PhD, CST, CSTS will be able to: identify two behaviors on the spectrum on Description: This workshop offers clinical supervision and BDSM; report one-way race play is ethical or unethical; identify training in sex therapy, with four or eight hours, valid toward two antiquated and two contemporary terms for trans people; certification as sex therapists or supervisors. The leaders identify three ways their attitudes have shifted about one or more are seasoned sex therapists and supervisors with expertise topics presented throughout the day; categorize two gender- covering a wide range of skills, including , affirming surgery types; identify one challenging sexual behavior relationship problems, sexual compulsivity, substance for you professionally and one personally; critique one , LGBTQ issues, and diverse sexual expression and behavior thought to be taboo; describe the difference between a relationships. Limited to eight participants who are already pedophile and sexual molester; distinguish boundaries for sexual actively engaged in supervision for AASECT sex therapy behavior treatment; describe the difference between zoophilia and or supervisor certification. A pre-approved contract will be bestiality; name two services sexual surrogates provide; define required. Attendees can register for both Part 1 and Part 2 of Intersectionality and explain five examples of its impact regarding this workshop, or either session independently. sexual behavior. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: identify one supervisory technique Sex Therapy Supervision: Where the Rubber Meets the Road that should be able to improve your treatment skills with (Part 2) clients; identify two strengths in your clinical approach that CKA: CKA: A, C, D, E, F, H, I, J, K, L, O 4 CE Denver were identified in the pre-conference workshop; name three Presenter(s): Richard Siegel, PhD, LMHC, CST, CSTS and ethical concerns that might arise in the course of sex therapy; James Wadley, PhD, CST, CSTS describe two areas of clinical growth that you recognized from Description: This workshop offers clinical supervision and participating in the workshop; describe a boundary issue that training in sex therapy, with four or eight hours, valid toward might affect your therapy or supervision; identify one aspect certification as sex therapists or supervisors. The leaders are of AASECT supervision requirements that you learned today; seasoned sex therapists and supervisors with expertise covering name one pro and one con for conducting long-distance a wide range of skills, including sexual dysfunction, relationship supervision; state three reasons why it is important for sex problems, sexual compulsivity, , LGBTQ issues, therapists to have supervisors. and diverse sexual expression and relationships. Limited to eight participants who are already actively engaged in supervision for AASECT sex therapy or supervisor certification. A pre-approved THURSDAY JUNE 14 contract will be required. Attendees can register for both Part 1 and Part 2 of this workshop, or either session independently. 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Objective(s): At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: identify one supervisory Check-in and Information Grand Ballroom Foyer technique that should be able to improve your treatment 8:30 am – 12:30 pm skills with clients; identify two strengths in your clinical approach that were identified in the pre-conference SAR (continued) workshop; name three ethical concerns that might arise CKA: B, C, D, E, F, H, I, J, N, O, P 4 CE Silver in the course of sex therapy; describe two areas of clinical Presenter(s): Lexx Brown-James, PhD, LMFT, CSE and Tanya growth that you recognized from participating in the Bass, MS, CHES workshop; describe a boundary issue that might affect Description: The goal of a SAR is to give participants your therapy or supervision; identify one aspect of AASECT the opportunity to explore their attitudes, values, feelings, supervision requirements that you learned today; name one and beliefs about sexuality and how these impact their pro and one con for conducting long-distance supervision; professional interactions (AASECT, 2004). Join Dr. Lexx, LMFT state three reasons why it is important for sex therapists to and AASECT certified sexuality educator, for an Intersectional have supervisors. SAR. This SAR exposes professionals to various sexual lifestyles and the prejudices faced by the people who live them. Using Kimberlѐ Crenshaw’s Intersectionality framework, you will earn AASECT CEUs and meet the SAR requirement for certification. Experiential learning, live demos, and interviews take place throughout the sessions to cover topics

AASECT 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 9 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS THURSDAY, JUNE 14

Seniors, Sex, and Dementia: Creating a New Paradigm might help your clients and students address sexual trauma CKA: A, B, C, D, F, G, J, O 4 CE Tower A and/or PTSD (J/L); evaluate one or more ways you might adapt Presenter(s): Lawrence Siegel, MA, CSE the 4-D approach to your practice of sex therapy, education, or Description: This workshop presents information on how coaching (N). our aging populations are changing and how these changes can be accommodated in a variety of elder-care communities. 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Emphasis will be on discussing dementia and how those Lunch Break (on your own) identified or diagnosed with it are still entitled to sexual pleasure Explore the many dining options near the Sheraton Denver and intimate connections. The session will also present an Downtown. overview of common issues with regard to age-related sexual changes, illness and disability, and sexual effects of some medications commonly prescribed to seniors. 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, SAR (continued) participants will be able to: recognize the importance of CKA: B, C, D, E, F, H, I, J, N, O, P 4 CE Silver sexuality and intimate relationships in later life; identify changing Presenter(s): Lexx Brown-James, PhD, LMFT, CSE and Tanya parameters of capacity and consent along a continuum Bass, MS, CHES of cognitive functioning; distinguish between consensual Description: The goal of a SAR is to give participants the and abusive/exploitive sexual behavior with regard to those opportunity to explore their attitudes, values, feelings, and diagnosed with dementia; identify and develop strategies to beliefs about sexuality and how these impact their professional better care for the sexual and erotic needs of the changing interactions (AASECT, 2004). Join Dr. Lexx, LMFT and AASECT baby boomer generation. certified sexuality educator, for an Intersectional SAR. This SAR exposes professionals to various sexual lifestyles and the Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy, Counseling, Education, prejudices faced by the people who live them. Using Kimberlѐ and Coaching: An Integrative 4-D Approach Crenshaw’s Intersectionality framework, you will earn AASECT CKA: A, B, C, D, E, F, I, J, L, M, O, Q 4 CE Tower C CEUs and meet the SAR requirement for certification. Experiential Presenter(s): Gina Ogden, PhD, LMFT, CST, CSTS and learning, live demos, and interviews take place throughout the Kamara McAndrews, LMFT, CST sessions to cover topics that include but are not limited to: (dis) Description: This experiential training looks beyond ability and sexual pleasure, trans sexuality, bestiality, BDSM, performance to the intersection of sex survey research, adults attracted to children, and various fetishes. neuroscience, and relational nuance. We demonstrate the Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants Four-Dimensional (4-D) Wheel as an interactive GPS for will be able to: identify two behaviors on the spectrum on BDSM; exploring physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions report one-way race play as ethical or unethical; identify two of sexual experience, including gender identities, orientations, antiquated and two contemporary terms for trans people; identify practices, and partner choices. We offer strategies for three ways their attitudes have shifted about one or more topics engagement, creating safe space, inviting movement and ritual, presented throughout the day; categorize two gender-affirming and concretizing abstract concepts so they can be tangibly re- surgery types; identify one challenging sexual behavior for you examined. Participants can incorporate the 4-D approach into professionally and one personally; critique one sexual behavior approaches they already effectively use. thought to be taboo; describe the difference between a pedophile Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, and sexual molester; distinguish boundaries for sexual behavior participants will be able to: state one way the 4-D approach to treatment; describe the difference between zoophilia and sex therapy, education, and coaching differs from performance- bestiality; name two services sexual surrogates provide; define based approaches (P/Q); name three physical issues clients Intersectionality and explain five examples of its impact regarding and students bring to your practice of sex therapy, education, sexual behavior. and coaching (I/H); identify three emotional issues clients and students bring to your practice of sex therapy, education, and Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy, Counseling, Education, coaching (E); state three ways socio-cultural factors affect the and Coaching: An Integrative 4-D Approach (continued) sexual relationships of your clients and students (C); name at CKA: A, B, C, D, E, F, I, J, L, M, O, Q 4 CE Tower C least one spiritual value that might affect the sexual lifestyles Presenter(s): Gina Ogden, PhD, LMFT, CST, CSTS and of your clients and students (C/F); identify one or more ways Kamara McAndrews, LMFT, CST using the 4-D approach might help your clients and students Description: This experiential training looks beyond differentiate their issues regarding , gender- performance to the intersection of sex survey research, identity, partner choices, desire, behaviors, and other diversity neuroscience, and relational nuance. We demonstrate the issues (D); identify one or more ways using the 4-D approach

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Four-Dimensional (4-D) Wheel as an interactive GPS for exploring Beyond Trans 101: Complex Issues and Complicated Cases for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of sexual Gender Affirmative Therapists experience, including gender identities, orientations, practices, and CKA: A, B, D, F, H, O 4 CE Tower A partner choices. We offer strategies for engagement, creating safe Presenter(s): Margaret Nichols, PhD, CST, CSTS and Laura space, inviting movement and ritual, and concretizing abstract Jacobs, MSW, LCSW-R concepts so they can be tangibly re-examined. Participants Description: As recently as a few years ago, a gender can incorporate the 4-D approach into approaches they already affirmative therapist could do a great job simply by validating, effectively use. supporting, and advocating for their transgender clients. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, But as trans people have gained visibility and more people participants will be able to: state one way the 4-D approach to question their own gender identification, clinicians increasingly sex therapy, education, and coaching differs from performance- encounter clients who defy simple analysis. In this workshop based approaches (P/Q); name three physical issues clients we explore issues such as: social transition of pre-pubertal and students bring to your practice of sex therapy, education, children; clients with serious co-occurring conditions; non- and coaching (I/H); identify three emotional issues clients and binary or otherwise atypical clients; rapid onset gender students bring to your practice of sex therapy, education, and dysphoria in adolescents; and de-transitioning people. coaching (E); state three ways socio-cultural factors affect the Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, sexual relationships of your clients and students (C); name at participants will be able to: enumerate the pros and cons of least one spiritual value that might affect the sexual lifestyles pre-pubertal social transition; list four co-occurring conditions of your clients and students (C/F); identify one or more ways that can complicate the assessment of transgender clients; using the 4-D approach might help your clients and students explain how the breakdown of the has led to differentiate their issues regarding sexual orientation, gender- complexity in gender presentation and desires for medical identity, partner choices, desire, behaviors, and other diversity intervention among transgender people; discuss cases of issues (D); identify one or more ways using the 4-D approach alleged rapid onset gender dysphoria and detransitioners. might help your clients and students address sexual trauma and/or PTSD (J/L); evaluate one or more ways you might adapt the 4-D approach to your practice of sex therapy, education, or coaching (N).

The Ethical Management of Sexual Feelings in Clinical Practice and Supervision CKA: A, O 4 CE Tower B Presenter(s): Chris Fariello, PhD, MA, LMFT, CST, CSE, CSTS Description: in clinical practice and supervision is a common phenomenon; however few therapists receive training for dealing with these issues. While all disciplines have ethical codes limiting sexual contact, there is no guidance for how to manage feelings when they arise and research suggests deleterious effects occur when acting on these feelings. This workshop will explore the literature of sexual feelings, the negative and positive impact on the professional relationship, and the ethical options for managing sexual feelings. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: summarize the research on clinical sexual attraction and contact; critique the ethical codes of several disciplines around sexual expression; identify and discuss ethical and professional implications of sexually intimate behavior; demonstrate techniques to manage sexual feelings in an ethical and professional manner.

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CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

THURSDAY JUNE 14 dialogue on bisexuality in one-to-one interactions with clients or patients, small groups, and classrooms. pm pm 5:00 – 6:00 Dr. Miguel Muñoz-Laboy is Associate Professor at Volunteer Check-in and Orientation Tower D Temple University School of , College Led by Tanya Bass, MS, CSES of Public Health. He completed his Conference volunteer orientation undergraduate degree in Agricultural Sciences (BS) at the University of Puerto Rico, his masters Meet & Greet for People Seeking AASECT Supervisors Denver in public health (MPH) at the University of Connecticut, his Led by Sally Valentine, PhD, FAACS, LCSW, CST, CSTS doctoral degree in public health (DrPH) from the Department Are you looking for a supervisor for AASECT Certification? Are of Sociomedical Sciences, and his post-doctoral fellowship you an AASECT Certified Supervisor looking to take on more with the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. supervisees? If so, come to our meet & mingle and get linked up. Since his first fieldwork on HIV risk among young men’s bisexual networks in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in 1997, Dr. Muñoz- 5:00 pm – 9:30 pm Laboy has maintained a dual research agenda in public health Exhibits Open locally and internationally. His primary area of research has Join us in the North & South Convention Lobby to network with been on Latin@ bisexuality. His areas of domestic research exhibitors and sponsors. include: examining the social and cultural determinants of sexual health and mental health among bisexual Latino 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm men; studying the sex market configurations of bisexual Latino men; exploring the combined effects of untreated Students’ and First Timers’ Meet & Greet Windows depression, hyper masculinity, and history of incarceration Led by Tameca N. Harris-Jackson, PhD, MSW, LICSW, LCSW, CSE for the sexual- practices of economically and Prem Pahwa, LCSW, CST marginalized young and adult men in migrant communities; Students and first-time conference attendees are invited to join and developing and testing interventions in HIV continuity us for a meet & greet to kick off the conference. of care for Latin@s with opioids use disorders. To support his research program, he has received nine externally 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm funded grants as principal investigator (PI) or co-principal 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE KICK-OFF AND investigator (co-PI) and has served as co-investigator in 11 ENGAGING DIVERSITY OPENING PLENARY additional externally funded grants. He recently completed “I Don’t See Color or Race:” Latin@ Bisexuality at the a four-year study titled “Gender, power and Latino men’s Intersections of the Erotic, the Exotic and the Dangers of HIV risk” (5R01HD056948-02: Years: 2009-2013; PI: M. Colorblind Racism Muñoz-Laboy) funded by the National Institute of Child and CKA: C, D 1.5 CE Grand Ballroom Health Development and a two-year challenge grant-funded Presenter(s): Miguel Muñoz- Laboy, DrPH study titled “Network determinants of risk among formerly Moderator(s): Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST and incarcerated Latino men” (5RC1MH0788636-02: Years 2009- Juan Camarena, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, CST 2011: PIs: M. Muñoz-Laboy and Vincent Guilamo-Ramos) Description: Patients, clients, academics, and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He also practitioners construct what is erotic through a number of served as co-principal investigator to a five-year study on the complex socialization processes that regrettably often leave religious responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Brazil (PI: us with limited tools to talk about sex, pleasure, and even Richard Parker). silencing taboo topics such as the role of racial and ethnic Currently, Dr. Muñoz-Laboy serves as co-principal differences in eroticism and sexual interactions. This is the investigator with Dr. Laura Bamford in an intervention focus of this presentation as it pertains to bisexual Latin@s* study to increase HIV retention in care for HIV-positive in the United States, a group at the intersection of two injecting drug users of Puerto Rican ancestry in Philadelphia major axes of diversity. (“Clinica Bienestar,” #H97HA26504; 2013-2018, funded Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, by the Special Projects of National Significance HRSA). participants will be able to: define key concepts on the Dr. Muñoz-Laboy has 69 articles in peer-reviewed journals intersections of race, ethnicity, and bisexuality, including: and 12 chapters in edited books, and is co-editor of “Love stigmatization, stereotyping, transgressive pleasure, and Globalization” (published by Vanderbilt Press, 2008) erotization, bi-phobia, and intersectionality; identify tools and senior editor of “Religious Responses to HIV/AIDS” to promote healthy, erotic, constructive, healing racial (published by Routledge, 2014). AASECT 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 13 CONFERENCE SESSIONS FRIDAY, JUNE 15

8:30 pm – 9:30 pm Surrogate Partner Therapy: Challenging the Taboo of Therapeutic Sexual Touch Brian Gibney, MA; Jennifer Welcome Reception and Poster Session Grand Ballroom Foyer Jett, MA; Remi Newman, MA; Emiko Yoshikami, MA; Emma Sponsored by Adam & Eve! Meyers, PhD

Catch a glimpse of research updates during the poster session. Youth and Pleasure: Impacting Communities via Pleasure-Inclusive Education and Awareness Building A Collaborative Evaluation of Rural Public Health Practice Michelle Linschoten, MSW, MPH and Danielle Uding, MPH Kate Donaldson, CHES; Taryn Gal, MPH, CPH, CHES Short-Term Sex and Long-Term Effects: A Longitudinal Humility, Empathy, Democracy: Combating Medical Investigation of Hook Ups and Holistic Wellbeing Among Dehumanization with Radical Rebelliousness, Personal College Students Amy Hudson; Gabrielle Kaminsky, MS, Intimacy, and Pleasure Tania A. Escobedo MPhi; Stephanie Winkeljohn Black, PhD; Jesse Owen, PhD; Frank Fincham, PhD Voices from the Margins: Inclusive Therapy for the Kink Community Christina New Thinking in Metaphors: Innovative Methodological Antecedents, Event, and Impacts: Toward a Theory of Approaches to Identify Young Millennials’ Idealized Sexual Suggestion Rejection in Couples Cognitive Models for Sex Erinn Hoel, MSW, MEd and Sarah Hoover, MA, MEd Brittney Rademacher Healing as a Path to Self-Transformation: Engaging Eros The Etiology of Sexual Anorexia: Results of an Extensive Natalia Dias, MA to Heal the Dys-embodied Sexual Self in Women with Literature Review Ianne Rivera, MA Cancer Unmet of Adolescents: Exploring Formal Kinky & Queer: Exploring the Sexual Experiences of and Informal Sources of Information Within the Five Intersectional LGBTQ+ Practitioners Circles of Sexuality Karen Gutierrez Megan Speciale, PhD, MA and Dean Khambatta Kinky Women Research Study: Expanded/Qualitative Like a Virgin: The Porous Definitions of Virginity and Results Jennifer Rehor, MA and Julia Schiffman, MSW, ASW Virginity Loss Among Lesbians and Gay Men Lauren D. Ellis and Andrew S. Walters, PhD, MPH, CSE, CSES Sexual Values: Variations by and Being Partnered Rebekah Stanton; Susan Milstein PhD, CSE; They Were the Best of Times and the Worst of Times: David Knox, PhD; Scott Hall, PhD Having “The Talk” with My Family about Sexuality Jacob J. Coutts and Andrew S. Walters, PhD, MPH, CSE, CSES

I Made My Facebook Name Benefits So When You Add FRIDAY JUNE 15 Me it Says, “You’re Friends with Benefits”: Young Adults’ 7:00 am – 8:00 am Attitudes about FWB Relationships Eion G. Cashman, MA and Andrew S. Walters, PhD, MPH, Tantric Meditation Gold CSE, CSES Led by Sally Valentine, PhD, LCSW, CST, CSTS The morning Tantra meditation will include a guided Chakra Your Very Own Georgia O’Keeffe Painting: Women’s meditation that will assist in clearing and opening the energy Attitudes about Female Genitalia, Comfort with centers, followed by tantric practices of eye gazing, breath , and Fantasy Courtney M. Nobel; Callie L. Patterson; Andrew S. Walters, work, and heart connection. PhD, MPH, CSE, CSES 7:00 am – 4:00 pm “Fantasies. New and Lovely Images Follow Me Everywhere I Go”: Women’s Fantasies and Sexual Behavior Check-in and Information Grand Ballroom Foyer Callie L. Patterson; Courtney M. Nobel; Andrew S. Walters, PhD, MPH, CSE, CSES 7:30 am – 9:00 am Comparative Analysis of Perceived Barriers for Dating Breakfast (on your own) with Able-Bodied and Disabled-Bodied Young Adults Explore the many dining options near the Sheraton Denver Jennifer Summers, OTD, MOT Downtown. Coffee will be served in the Grand Ballroom Foyer. The Mutually Inclusive Intersection of Spirituality and Sexual Pleasure Yeamah Logan 7:30 am – 5:00 pm “Don’t People”: Focus Group Study of Students’ Exhibits Open Experiences and Expectations of Sex Education and Sexual Join us in the North & South Convention Lobby to network with Assault Prevention Kaylee Richmond and Robin Kimberlin exhibitors and sponsors.

14 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY Level of Experience: No Previous Foundational Intermediate Advanced See Legend for Core Knowledge Intended Audience: Education Counseling Therapy Supervision Medical Other Area (CKA) descriptions on page 44.

8:00 am – 8:45 am transmitted infection may become a seminel event in her Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings experience that must be carefully navigated both clinically and Join us for the following SIG meetings: emotionally for optimal outcomes. At the conclusion of this workshop, Objective(s): Medical Denver participants will be able to: discuss the epidemiology of Led by Lawrence A. Siegel, MA, CSE sexually transmitted infections in the United States and the Alt Sex Windows novel interventions that have the potential to address issues Led by Lori Michels, LMFT, S-PSB, CST facing young women, with focus on those residing in high STI Military & Sexuality Century prevalent communities. Led by Jesse T. Logan, PhD, LCPC, LCMFT, CST Dr. Maria Trent is Professor of Pediatrics at the Sexuality & Aging Tower A Johns Hopkins University School of . Led by Jessica Ford, MA, MSW, LCSW, CST She has joint appointments in the Department of Trans Tower C Population, Family and Reproductive Health Led by Gretchen Fincke, LCSW, CST, CSTS Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sexuality & Disability Tower B School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Led by TBD . She is Director of the Adolescent Medicine Tantra Gold Fellowship Program, a medical consultant for the Baltimore Led by Sally Valentine, PhD, FAACS, LCSW, CST, CSTS City Health Department School-Based Health Program, and People of Color Tower D a faculty leader of the Taussig College in the Johns Hopkins Led by Anne Mauro, MS, DHS School of Medicine College Advisory Program. Dr. Trent This SIG meeting is designed to be a safe space for conference provides primary care and subspecialty consultation services participants that identify as people of color; the SIG organizers in the Harriet Lane Center for Adolescent and Young Adult respectfully request this be a closed space. Allies and everyone Health and the Adolescent Medicine consultation service interested in the overall diversity of AASECT is welcome to attend within the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee brainstorming A major focus of Dr. Trent’s research and clinical interest session scheduled for Friday at 5:45pm in Tower D. has been reducing health disparities and improving adolescent and young adult reproductive health outcomes. 9:00 am – 5:00 pm She is an independent scientist and serves as the principal investigator for several funded projects: 1) the TECH-N study, The Comfort Room Colorado Room a large randomized, controlled clinical trial funded by the Moderator(s): Betsy Cairo, PhD, HCLD, CSES; Amity Walter, National Institute of Nursing Research designed to test a ACSW, CST; Nina Hausfeld, LPC, ATR; Rebecca Frank, MSW technology-enhanced community health nursing intervention The Comfort Room is a place you can hang out, rest, relax, and to improve patient adherence and outcomes after pelvic re-energize. Do you need to hold a small meeting? You are wel- inflammatory disease (PID); 2) the Women’s BioHealth study come to do so; however, we ask that you don’t disturb others designed to evaluate the impact of mycoplasma genitalium who are seeking quiet time. The contact information for everyone and trichomonas vaginalis on the health status of pregnant on the Conference Committee is available in the Comfort Room and non-pregnant young women; 3) the COUPLES study, in case you need extra support. Ice water awaits you, along with a dyadic intervention to improve clinical outcomes for a relaxing environment that holds up to 40 people. STI-affected adolescents and young adults; 4) TECH-N-2 CHECK-N, which utilizes the TECH-N design to improve health status for youth living with HIV who have failed to 9:00 am – 10:30 am GENERAL PLENARY suppress their viral load through adherence to antiretroviral Passion, Pleasure, and Sexually Transmitted Infections: therapy; 5) a Pediatric LARC Simulation study, and 6) a Strategic Approaches to Helping Young Women in High microbial research study exploring the impact of precision STI Prevalent Communities Stay Healthy care on the vaginal health of PID-affected patients. Dr. Trent is the author of more than 90 scientific Sponsored by Synthetic Surrogates research articles, editorials, book chapters, and patient- CKA: H 1.5 CE Grand Ballroom directed media materials in the field of adolescent and Presenter(s): Maria Trent, MD, MPH young adult health. Her work is not only found in scientific Moderator(s): Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST and journals and medical textbooks, but also in places where Juan Camarena, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, CST the research outputs can reach the young people who Description: While exploring one’s passions for pleasure need them. Dr. Trent has been recognized for her work by is an important aspect of developing a healthy sexuality in medical associations and the lay press. In 2013, she was adolescent and young adult women, diagnosis with a sexually named to Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 list of African-

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American influencers and game changers making vital Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, accomplishments in the field of health and science. She has participants will be able to: identify what vaginal rejuvenation also been named an Influential Marylander and consistently is and how it assists in achieving optimal sexual health and one of the ‘Best Docs’ in Baltimore by her peers. She functioning. continues to receive honors for clinical care and public health teaching excellence and has emerged as an important voice Intimate World of Transgender Individuals and Their Partners: Transgender Identity and Sexual Identity in in public health for adolescents and young adults. Couples Therapy Raised in small rural community in North Carolina, Dr. Trent is a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science CKA: C, D, E, M 1 CE Tower B Eva Smidova, PhD, MA and Mathematics, Yale University, the University of North Presenter(s): Gretchen Fincke, LCSW, CST, CSTS Carolina School of Medicine, and the Harvard School of Moderator: This presentation will closely examine clinical Public Health. She completed her residency training at Description: work with transgender individuals (FTM and MTF) and their in- Children’s National Medical Center and an Adolescent timate partners. The demanding process of transition involves Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard formation as well as sexual identity formation. Medical School. She has been on the faculty at Hopkins for The presentation explores conceptualization of gender identity the last 16 years. and sexual identity, a relationship between sexual identity and sexual orientation, and new trends in sex therapy with trans- 1 HOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS gender individuals and their partners that contribute to a resil- ience of the intimate couple. 10:45 am – 11:45 am Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Moving Toward Pragmatic, Judgment-free Language in participants will be able to: discuss stages of gender identity Discussion of BDSM Desires formation, sexual identity formation, and effective sex therapy CKA: B, C, E, F, M, O 1 CE Tower D with transgender individuals and their intimate partners. Presenter(s): Midori Moderator: Matthew LeBauer, LCSW Rediscovering My Body after Cancer Description: While the Shades of Grey trilogy brought CKA: B, C, E, H, I 1 CE Denver *BDSM to popular awareness, it failed to provide a realistic Presenter(s): Tara Galeano, MA, CST vocabulary for discussing the nuances of desire, free of Moderator: June La Valleur, MD, FACOG, CSC judgement and stigma and decoupled from cultural bias. Midori Description: Rediscovering My Body after Cancer is a has travelled the world teaching women and couples how to four-week class for women who have been diagnosed with define, explore, and express their desire for power exchange cancer to help them reimagine their bodies and reconnect and play. Both clinicians and sex educators will learn how to with themselves sexually and with their partners. In the field use the “Appetite Grid” to help couples discuss potential play of psychosocial oncology, the focus on body image and sex- in an open-ended and precise way. uality for women is significant and often underrepresented. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, This class helps women focus on acceptance of their bodies participants will be able to: discuss BDSM thoughts, desires, and renewing pleasure after cancer. fantasies, expression, and play using open-ended and precise Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, language free from clinical jargon and stigma. participants will be able to: identify three skills employed by the group members to reimagine their bodies and reconnect Vaginal Rejuvenation, a New Technology for Vaginal Health and sexually to themselves. Improved Intimacy CKA: G, I, M 1 CE Silver DIALOGUE PANEL PRESENTATION: Sex on Film: Presenter(s): Lisa Thomas, MSW, MFT, DAACS, CST, CSTS A Research-Education-Filmmaking Collaboration and Susan Schroder, MD CKA: C, F, J, K, N, Q 1 CE Windows Moderator: Courtney Geter, LMFT, CST Presenter(s): Debby Herbenick, PhD, MPH, CSE; Bryant Paul, Description: This workshop will discuss vaginal PhD; Jill Bauer; Ronna Gradus; Rashida Jones rejuvenation, what the procedure entails, and how this Moderator: Francie L. Stone, PsyD, CST, CSTS innovative new technology can help our patients with Description: As researchers, educators, and filmmakers, we everything from embarrassing incontinence to increased collaborated on a nationally representative probability survey of arousal and improved sexual functioning. The presentation sex and media use (in particular, the use of porn) among nearly will give AASECT’s audience a rare opportunity to hear both a 3,000 men, women, and adolescents. Findings from our study physician and a sex therapist talk about the pros and cons of informed the popular Netflix series, Hot Girls Wanted: Turned vaginal rejuvenation. On, about the intersections of sex and technology. We’ll share

16 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY Level of Experience: No Previous Foundational Intermediate Advanced See Legend for Core Knowledge Intended Audience: Education Counseling Therapy Supervision Medical Other Area (CKA) descriptions on page 44. data points from the study itself — which addressed highly Sex in the Age of PrEP – Exploring Modern taboo areas of adolescent sexual development — and talk Ethical Dilemmas about the process of collaborating across disciplines. CKA: A, C, D, H 1 CE Tower C Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Presenter(s): Michael Giordano, MSW, LISCW participants will be able to: describe how research can be Moderator: Elizabeth Harrison, LCSW, CST integrated into mainstream media as a form of education. Description: PrEP. TasP. Raw sex. Bareback. You may not have heard these terms before. But they are both Coming Out as Polyamorous changing and describing the way many people — gay, CKA: P, E, F, 1 CE Gold queer and bisexual men especially — are having sex. These Presenter(s): Tamara Pincus, MSW, CST changes may trigger biases in providers. In this workshop, Moderator: Elise Sanchez, PsyD you will explore ethical considerations through the lenses of Description: Coming out as polyamorous is important for countertransference, bias confrontation, and sexual health. You self-acceptance and expression for many non-monogamous may find your beliefs on HIV, , responsibility, and risk people; however, it comes with a variety of risks. This challenged. This presentation will be interactive. interactive workshop will provide the opportunity to learn Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, about various factors impacting a coming-out experience and participants will be able to: articulate what PrEP and TasP are identify strategies to make coming out as poly less stressful. and the benefits of each. When you leave this workshop, you will have a better understanding the complexities of coming out to partners, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm family, and community. Lunch Break (on your own) Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Explore the many dining options near the Sheraton Denver participants will be able to: identify three strategies for making Downtown. the coming-out process smoother.

Vulvar Dermatoses: A Primer for the Sexuality 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Specialist 1 HOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS CKA: B, E, G, H, M 1 CE Tower A What You Always Wanted to Know About AASECT Supervision Presenter(s): Susan Kellogg Spadt, PhD, CRNP, CSC and Did Not Know Whom to Ask Moderator: Deb Azorsky, MA, LPC, CST CKA: N, O 1 AASECT CE Windows Description: Vulvar dermatoses, including lichen sclerosus, (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credits) lichen planus, lichen simplex chronicus, psoriasis, and contact Presenter(s): Sally Valentine, PhD, LCSW, CST, CSTS; dermatitis, are common dermatologic conditions that affect the Gretchen Fincke, MSSW, CST, CSTS; Francie Stone, PsyD, vulva and often cause chronic irritation, pruritus, and burning. CST, CSTS; Konnie McCaffree, PhD, CFLE, CSE, CSES Vulvar dermatoses can cause chronic pain, itching, and Moderator: Jessica Ford, MA, LCSW, CST and have a profound effect on a woman’s sexual Description: This session will clarify the AASECT Supervision expression and comfort. Delay in diagnosis is often due to the process and highlight changes made to the AASECT patient’s hesitancy to seek treatment or the provider’s delay Certification Program. Additionally, it will be an introduction to the in biopsy. This can result in myriad failed prescriptive and self- AASECT Supervisor’s Handbook that was written and distributed treatment measures, worsening symptoms, and frustration for in early 2018. the patient and an increased likelihood for the development of Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, squamous cell carcinoma. It is imperative for participants will be able to: discuss the supervision process providers, who commonly treat women with vulvar concerns, and updated changes. to be familiar with the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of common vulvar dermatoses. This workshop will provide an Talk about Taboo! Interpreting the World of Age Play: Adult updated review of benign vulvar dermatologic conditions that Babies, Diaper Fetishes, Littles, and Middles can dramatically impact sexual expression and discuss medical CKA: D, F 1 CE Silver and behavior management that facilitate comfortable intimacy. Presenter(s): Rhoda Lipscomb, PhD, CST Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Moderator: Mary Fisher, CMHC participants will be able to: list four nonprescription Description: Age play is an umbrella term for those who interventions for couples who wish to be physically intimate identify as adult babies, diaper fetishists, littles, middles, and that will protect the integrity of vulvar tissues and minimize age players. It is a little known subset of the kink and fetish exacerbation of lichenoid symptoms while maximizing sexual world, and its members are rarely seen in clinical pleasure. practice despite the need for competent clinicians trained to relate to this unique population. In this presentation, participants

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will be educated about the population and how best to treat understanding body image issues. In imagining a world without them and their romantic partners. borders or prisons, we will discuss concrete ways to reorient Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, sexual freedom around marginalized populations of color, how participants will be able to: discuss the various types of age to uncover unintentional bias about “good healthy” bodies in play identities, the research on the subject, and the treatment our language and behavior, and remind ourselves to constantly approach applicable to this unique community. hold systems of power (such as science and law) accountable. This workshop will intentionally focus on colonized sexological Ending the Intercourse Discourse: Elevating and Enhancing histories and worldviews, discussing issues of racialized Pleasure for People with Clitorises medical oppression and scientism. CKA: C, D, G, M 1 CE Tower B Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Presenter(s): Laurie Mintz, PhD; Jennifer Vencill, PhD, CST; participants will be able to: identify three ways body image is a Katie Spencer, PhD systemic issue larger than just eating disorders. Moderator: Isa Jones, LMFT, CST Description: This workshop will focus on pleasure for More Tech, More Talking: How Evolving Sex Tech Impacts people with clitorises (PWC). PWC must reject cultural Fidelity Agreements messages regarding the supremacy of penetrative sex to CKA: C, E, F, I, K, M, O 1 CE Denver embrace the full erotic potential of their clitorises. People Presenter(s): Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA, CST on the transmasculine spectrum who have not had gender Moderator: Matthew LeBauer, LCSW confirmation surgery must grapple with an organ that has Description: Sex technology, such as interactive sex toys historically been constructed as “female,” while transfeminine that can be controlled over the internet and hyper-realistic people who have gender confirmation surgery must learn to virtual reality porn, is evolving rapidly. This presentation will remap clitoral arousal. Clinical solutions to these, and related familiarize clinicians and educators with the current state issues, will be provided. of sex tech and, more important, how it can challenge Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, of fidelity. This will help attendees support participants will be able to: use clinical and educational individuals and couples to ask themselves and each other strategies that enhance the pleasure of people with clitorises of the right questions so that sex tech, if used, will be a positive all genders. addition to their sex lives. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Healthy Sexuality for Sex Offenders participants will be able to: apply the knowledge gained to better CKA: C, J 1 CE Tower D facilitate clients’/students’ discussions about how new sex tech Presenter(s): Jennifer Weeks, PhD and Erin Kelly, MA fits into their fidelity agreement, relationship, and sex life. Moderator: Chris F. Fariello PhD, MA, LMFT, CST, CSE, CSTS Description: This presentation will discuss the concept Embracing Your Discomfort: Cultivating Mindfulness in of teaching healthy sexuality to sexual offenders. Standard Sexual Health and Social Justice treatment models are highly abstinence based and do little CKA: E, K, O 1 CE Century to help offenders understand their sexuality and create a Presenter(s): Jennifer Gunsaullus, PhD personalized healthy sexuality plan. We will discuss our Moderator: Richelle Frabotta, MSEd, CSE, CSES program’s efforts to create a healthy sexuality program for Description: Sexual topics can be personally uncomfortable sexual offenders as well as the difficulties in doing so in a and evoke heated reactions. What would it look and feel like mandated population. to have more mindfulness and compassion in sexual, social, Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, and political conversations, and less reactivity and irritation? participants will be able to: recognize the difficulties in This experiential workshop teaches applied mindfulness and providing a healthy sexuality curriculum to sexual offenders compassion skills for sexuality professionals to better serve mandated to treatment. our communities in person and online. The intent is to facilitate a shift from quick reactions of anger, defensiveness, blaming, Race is a Body Image Issue: Expanding the Sexological shaming, or emotional distancing, to personal responsibility, Understanding of Body Image Issues resiliency, and presence. CKA: A, B, C, D, F, H 1 CE Tower A Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Presenter(s): Sonalee Rashatwar, MSW, MEd participants will be able to: apply skills in mindfulness to Moderator: Elise Sanchez, PsyD become more responsible agents for social sexual change. Description: This workshop will decenter whiteness in

18 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY Level of Experience: No Previous Foundational Intermediate Advanced See Legend for Core Knowledge Intended Audience: Education Counseling Therapy Supervision Medical Other Area (CKA) descriptions on page 44.

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm ORIGINAL RESEARCH SESSIONS 1.5 HOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS Original Research Sessions will include information on Ourselves as Context: The Ethics of Personal Disclosure in research background, methods, results, and discussion in Therapy and in Educational Settings the format of three 15-minute presentations followed by a CKA: 1.5 CE Tower D Q&A with the audience. Presenter(s): Heather Raznick, LCSW, CST and Reece 1 CE total Tower C Malone, DHS, MPH, CSE Moderator: Jeshana Avent-Johnson, PsyD Moderator: Amanda Walters, PsyD Description: Disclosing aspects of our own sexuality can What Are Sex Offenders’ Dispositions Toward Non-deviant potentially complement or hinder a client’s path to healing Sexuality, and Can Our Knowledge of Them Shape Sexual or a learner’s process to building knowledge capacities. Education? There are ethical dilemmas in determining whether to CKA: E, J disclose aspects of our own identity and history, such as Presenter(s): Genevieve Martin, PhD sexual orientation, relationship configurations, fetishes, or Description: Although sexual education is an essential relationship with our body. component of sex offender (SOs) treatment programs, its Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, efficacy has not been evaluated. We propose that the goal participants will be able to: identify three benefits and three of sexual education should be to improve SOs’ sexual health risks of disclosure. and that treatment effects should be evaluated with regard to rehabilitation of the sexual sphere rather than sexual The Shadow Side of Sex Positivity: Uncovering the “White recidivism risk reduction. Fragility” Taboo Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, CKA: A, C, O 1.5 CE Tower A participants will be able to: distinguish the unique Presenter(s): Satori Madrone, MA and Carole Clements, dispositions of sex offenders toward non-deviant sexuality. MA, MFA Moderator: Roger Kuhn, MFT Wet Panties and Perked Nipples: Young Black Women’s Description: In order to develop resilience and cultivate Voices of Pleasure and Desire inclusivity, it is necessary to examine how subtle forms of CKA: B, C, D, E, I racism and objectivity impact our field. Using a mindfulness- Presenter(s): Lilanta Bradley, PhD, MFT based approach, this workshop will explore the role sex Description: This multi- examines how Black positivity inadvertently plays in maintaining racialized and women, in their recollections as Black girls, perceive and heteronormative views and practices in educational and internalize their lived experiences of sexual desire and pleasure. therapeutic settings by examining white fragility. Participants The Listening Guide was the methodological approach used. will be invited to explore the “white fragility taboo,” with the Voice of Self, Voice of Response, Erotic Voice, and Voice of aim to develop awareness and compassion toward the Body were the four themes constructed. intrapersonal dynamics that white fragility evokes. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: discuss the socio-cultural participants will be able to: analyze how white fragility adversely influences on young Black women’s voices of pleasure impacts practices of inclusion in sex education and sex therapy and desire. environments; identify how mindful self-exploration can create allyship in order to transform and diversify sex positivity. Editing Out : Contraception in Popular Teen Culture Imaginable Sexual Bodies: Trans Sexualities, Erotic CKA: B, C Embodiments, and the Re-Centering of Pleasure Presenter(s): Hannah Regan CKA: A, D, H 1.5 CE Tower B Description: The parallel was examined between the Presenter(s): Lucie Fielding, MA, PhD and Angie Gunn, MSW, decline in use among adolescents and the films LCSW directed to teenage audiences between 1991 and 2017. The Moderator: Mary Fisher, CMHC disappearance of condoms and STI plotlines from popular Description: The sexual lives of trans and gender media seems to make a larger concern and oral nonconforming individuals are rarely discussed in the clinical contraceptives therefore adequate. literature. And when they are, emphasis is too often placed on Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, the preservation of sexual function or on sexual losses. The participants will be able to: identify how popular culture may images of trans sexualities that emerge from these discourses be contributing to sexual behaviors such as condom usage. leave little room for pleasure and provide few models for

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clients to delight in. This workshop will shift the conversation side effects of commonly used drugs/medications, including from loss to difference and pleasure and provide participants those purported to be pro-sexual. It will also include an with creative strategies to enhance practice. overview of physiological and neurohormonal bases of sexual Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, response and of the pharmaceutic interventions available for participants will be able to: describe three ways in which the treatment of sexual disorders. The final discussion will trans, non-binary, or gender nonconforming (TGNC) clients are focus on understanding comprehensive, integrated approaches viewed in clinical literature; apply one aspect of this workshop to treatment of sexual dysfunctions and disorders and the need to clinical practice with TGNC clients. to become better informed about substances and their impact on sexual functioning. Mitigating Stigma and Discrimination in BDSM: Exploring Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Therapists’ Social Justice Responsibilities participants will be able to: describe the neurohormonal and CKA: A, D, F, O, P, Q 1.5 CE Tower C physiological mechanisms that modulate sexual response, Presenter(s): Peter Chirinos, MA and Caroline Shahbaz, MA as the basis for understanding the various chemotherapeutic Moderator: Matthew LeBauer, LCSW interventions in the treatment of sexual dysfunctions and Description: This workshop examines the role of mental disorders; identify the sexual side effects of commonly used licit health practitioners in combating stigma and discrimination and illicit drugs, including those substances purported to have against people who practice BDSM. As more mental health “prosexual” effects. professionals become knowledgeable about BDSM, they will need skills to not only address the individual effects but also Enlivening Pleasure Now: Using Mindfulness, Embodiment, address the social and cultural sources of discrimination. and Movement For Your Sex Therapy Practice This workshop presents ideas on becoming effective allies, CKA: C, E, F, I, M, O 1.5 CE Denver advocates, and activists as the situation requires. Presenter(s): Jacqueline Mendez, MA, LMFT, CST Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Moderator: Francie L. Stone, PsyD, CST, CSTS participants will be able to: identify three ways in which Description: Change happens by giving clients a new people who practice BDSM are currently stigmatized experience of themselves in the moment. Often, sex therapists and discriminated against; identify three skills required in hesitate to bring experiential work into the room. The presenter professional advocacy. will discuss theories of body-focused psychotherapy and the application to sex therapy. This is done by guiding clients The Art of Disability and Sexuality through the use of breath, mindfulness, and sensory awareness CKA: D, E, H, I, M, O 1.5 CE Silver techniques and deliberate physical movement that increase Presenter(s): Jennifer Summers, OTD, MOT and Robert awareness and create pleasure in the body. Coombs Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Moderator: Deb Azorsky, MA, LPC, CST participants will be able to: discuss the reasons and benefits Description: This workshop will prepare you to value for including the body, body awareness, and movement in sex the experience of intimacy, identity, and sexual engagement therapy, couple’s therapy, and group interventions; integrate at for people with disabilities. You will better understand the least one body-focused technique to expand their effectiveness intersection of disability culture and sexuality as well as learn in working with clients with diverse culture and languages to practical skills to address the unique needs of this population. assist in increasing body-awareness and pleasure. Concepts discussed in this workshop will be exemplified using artwork from professional photography series about sexuality The Privilege of Power: Exploring the Functionality of and disability. The artist will share his lived experiences with Rape Fantasy for Black Women sexuality as a gay man with a spinal cord injury. CKA: A, B, E, F, M 1.5 CE Gold Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Presenter(s): Lexx Brown-James, PhD, LMFT, CSE participants will be able to: identify specific difficulties with Moderator: Christopher Roney, LCSW intimacy and sexuality for people with disabilities; apply Description: Rape fantasy is discussed as a pleasurable important strategies to address these concerns. experience. This workshop explores the effect of intersectionality on sexuality for Black Women and proposes Sexual Pharmacology: An Overview of Sexual Effects of a possible adaptive response in the form of sexual surrender. Commonly Used Drugs and Medications We explore the connection of power and sexual pleasure, CKA: G, D, H, L 1.5 CE Windows specifically as it pertains to marginalized women. Participants Presenter(s): Lawrence Siegel, MA, CSE and Richard Siegel, will compare types of rape fantasy, plan how to guide others PhD, CST, CSTS around these types of fantasy, and identify their own triggers Moderator: Elizabeth Harrison, LCSW, CST about rape fantasy. Description: This session will present an overview of sexual

20 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY Level of Experience: No Previous Foundational Intermediate Advanced See Legend for Core Knowledge Intended Audience: Education Counseling Therapy Supervision Medical Other Area (CKA) descriptions on page 44.

Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Specifically, what must AASECT consider as the organization participants will be able to: compare two types of rape fantasy works toward a vision of inclusivity? What actions are and identify their own triggers around rape fantasy; identify one necessary for the organization to demonstrate that it affirms function of rape fantasy. the fundamental value of sexuality for ALL bodies, and that advancing the highest standards of professional practice 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm WHIPPLE PLENARY includes an intentional focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in sexual health practice? Join us for an open brainstorming What Do We Know About Pedophilia? session facilitated by members of AASECT’s Diversity, Equity, CKA: J 1.5 CE Grand Ballroom and Inclusion (DEI) Committee as we develop ideas that will Michael Seto, PhD, CPsych Presenter(s): serve as a foundation for a new vision with DEI-centered goals Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST Moderator(s): and objectives for AASECT. and Juan Camarena, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, CS This session provides an overview of what Description: 5:45 pm – 6:15 pm we have learned scientifically about pedophilia, defined as a persistent, recurrent sexual attraction to prepubescent AASECT Business Meeting Windows children. The speaker will discuss etiology, assessment, key Join your colleagues for the AASECT Annual Business Meeting. characteristics of individuals with pedophilia, the empirical Members will have an opportunity to review past, present, and association between pedophilia and sexual offending future policies and programs and ask questions of AASECT involving children, stigma, and the implications of this leadership. Open to all AASECT members. knowledge for public health, policy and clinical practice. Also addressed will be the controversial idea that pedophilia can 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm be understood as a sexual orientation with regard to age. Taste of Kink At the conclusion of this workshop, Objective(s): participants will be able to: recognize how pedophilia is CKA: A, C, D, F, M, O 3 AASECT CE Majestic Ballroom (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credits) typically assessed in clinical and forensic settings; describe Registration fee: $125.00. Limit 120 participants. the empirical association between pedophilia and sexual The AASECT AltSex Special Interest Group offending against children. Description: and National Coalition for Sexual Freedom have teamed is a registered clinical and Dr. Michael Seto up to bring you a live sex demonstration of seven or eight forensic and a research director kink practices. Demonstrated by members of the local kink with the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group in communities, these will show not only paraphernalia and Brockville and Ottawa, Canada. He also serves technique, but the process of contracting and consent, the as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sexual Abuse technical aspects of play, and aftercare. AASECT members will and has adjunct professor appointments at four universities: have some opportunity to sample if they wish, and Q&A will be the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Carleton provided at each station. University, and the University of Ottawa. Dr. Seto has At the conclusion of this demonstration, published extensively on pedophilia, sexual offending, and Objective(s): participants will be able to: explain the basics of consent and mentally disordered offenders, and he regularly presents at negotiation, play, and aftercare in a BDSM context; describe scientific meetings and professional workshops on these two toys and/or equipment commonly associated with BDSM topics. He has written well-reviewed books on pedophilia practices and explain how kinky people use them for pleasure; and sexual offending against children (2008) and on internet identify healthy patterns of BDSM practices and differentiate sex offenders (2013), both published by the American them from unhealthy ones. Psychological Association.

Bedpost Confessions 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm CKA: A, C, D, E, F, H, I, J, K, L, N, O 3 CE Grand Ballroom AASECT Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee Presenter(s): Michelle Johnson, MA; Sophia O’Connor; Lindsey Lyons Brainstorming Session Tower D Registration fee: Included in conference registration. Led by Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST and Tameca BedPost Confessions merges entertainment, N. Harris-Jackson, PhD, MSW, LICSW, LCSW, CSE Description: ethics, and education while exploring sex and sexuality Description: Envisioning a DEI-centered AASECT – through the lenses of humor and vulnerability (without sparing AASECT’s vision for sexual health is to affirm the fundamental any racy details). Four performers will tell stories and read value of sexuality and advance the highest standards of audience members’ anonymous confessions from the stage. professional practice for educators, counselors, and therapists. Rarely are we given the chance to express our deepest How can AASECT best achieve this vision for ALL people? secrets and desires in a safe and caring container. Although

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many outstanding private therapy and educational workshops to their organization or practice. Participants can start work on support sexual health, what is missing is a community-based, their application during the session with the hands-on support readily accessible resource focused on raising the bar of our of the presenters. Special attention will be given to the areas of sexual awareness and expression through storytelling. This the application that are more challenging for new CE Provider event aims to fill that gap! Everyone is welcomed to come as applicants, as well as the rules that potential CE Providers need they are, moving forward as the dignified and creative sexual to follow. beings that we are! Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, 8:00 am – 9:00 am participants will be able to: illustrate the power of story and AASECT Certification Meeting vulnerability in the realm of sexuality; recognize the power of

community-based expression through sharing and storytelling; CKA: 1 AASECT CE Windows (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credit) design their own version of storytelling to take back to their communities. Presenter(s): Sally Valentine, PhD, LCSW, CST, CSTS; Gretchen Fincke, LCSW, CST, CSTS; Francie Stone, PsyD, CST, CSTS; Eli Green, PhD, CSE SATURDAY JUNE 16 Description: Join members of the AASECT Certification Steering Committee as they discuss AASECT Certification 7:00 am – 8:00 am requirements. Application procedures, supervision, and time for general questions and answers will set the agenda. Tantric Meditation Gold Led by Sally Valentine, PhD, LCSW, CST, CSTS am pm The morning Tantra meditation will be an active, dynamic 9:00 – 5:00 meditation inspired by Osho. Join us as we free our busy The Comfort Room Colorado Room minds with shaking, dancing, and dropping into a deep sense See page 15 for description. of calm, release, and relaxation.

7:00 am – 4:00 pm 9:15 am – 10:45 am SCHILLER PLENARY Check-in and Information Grand Ballroom Foyer Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape 7:30 am – 9:00 am CKA: B, C, E, H, J, K, M 1.5 CE Grand Ballroom Breakfast (on your own) Presenter(s): Peggy Orenstein Explore the many dining options near the Sheraton Denver Moderator(s): Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST and Downtown. Coffee will be served in the Grand Ballroom Foyer. Juan Camarena, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, CS Description: Based on her New York Times best-seller, Girls & Sex, Orenstein discusses the new sexual landscape 7:30 am – 4:00 pm girls face from high school through college and reveals Exhibits Open how they’re negotiating it. She will discuss media and Join us in the North & South Convention Lobby to network social media messages that emphasize desirability over with exhibitors and sponsors. understanding desire: the impact of internet on sexual development; taboos around female sexual pleasure 8:00 am – 9:00 am (and why they endanger girls); the complexities of the Providing Training and AASECT Continuing Education “hookup culture,” and the realities of assault. Using examples (CE) Credits both from this country and others, she will offer hope that, through awareness, education, and guidance, we can CKA: A, N, O 1 AASECT CE Tower D (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credit) increase girls’ safety, satisfaction, and personal agency. At the conclusion of this workshop, Prem Pahwa, LCSW, CST Objective(s): Presenter(s): participants will be able to: analyze how prevalent models This session will walk participants through the Description: of sex education may reinforce gender disparities in teen application process for becoming an AASECT CE Provider. It sexual encounters; recognize and articulate why effective sex will cover the different range of categories that people can apply education should go beyond reproduction, contraception, for, as well as single events. It will help participants understand and STI protection to encompass consent, personal agency, the differences in the categories and which level of providership , and pleasure. is right for their work. The session will give participants an opportunity to ask both general questions and those specific

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societal ‘virtues.’ We look deeply at erotic wisdom and key Peggy Orenstein is the author of The New York adaptations of the Jade Egg practice for supporting sexual Times best-sellers Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My mastery in the ‘power-stage’ of life, and the benefits of Daughter, and Waiting for Daisy, as well as Flux: embracing our omni-orgasmic potential. Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a At the conclusion of this workshop, Half-changed World and the classic Schoolgirls: Objective(s): participants will be able to: identify three core methods for Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. A empowering older women to accept the ‘power stage’ of life contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, Peggy and engage in their version of sexual mastery; explain our has also written for such publications as the Los Angeles ‘omni-orgasmic’ birthright and how to support clients/patients Times, USA Today, Vogue, Time, and the New Yorker and has to expand their definition of themselves to include being omni- contributed commentaries to National Public Radio’s All orgasmic (especially if the person is non-sexual and/or not Things Considered and the Public Broadcasting Service’s partnered). PBS NewsHour. In 2012, the Columbia Journalism Review named her one of its 40 Women Who Changed the Media Business in the Past 40 Years. She has been recognized for Pushing Boundaries: Teaching Diverse and “Taboo” Sexuality in Higher Education Settings her outstanding coverage of family diversity by the Council on

Contemporary Families (CCF) and received Books for a Better CKA: A, D, F, M, O 1 AASECT CE Tower B (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credit) Life Awards for both Girls & Sex and Waiting for Daisy. Presenter(s): Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD, MEd, CSE Moderator: Grace Ballard 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Description: When it comes to discussing sexuality in higher 1 HOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS education settings, some topics of diverse sexuality are still Candy Consent seen as more taboo or challenging than others. This interactive CKA: A, B, E, N 1 CE Denver workshop will engage participants in naming many of these Presenter(s): Kristen Lilla, MSW, LCSW, CST, CSE subject areas, discussing various barriers that may arise in Moderator: Charlie Huntington including these topics in classroom/workshop/training spaces, Description: This hands-on, interactive workshop teaches examining strategies for offering more inclusive education that consent is an essential element to maintaining healthy across diverse and/or taboo topics, and working to apply these and egalitarian relationships. The importance of teaching strategies to their own educational environments. consent to adolescents is so they understand consent Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, negotiations. Being able to consent to an activity allows people participants will be able to: discuss different strategies of to express boundaries and have a clear understanding of discussing diverse and potentially taboo sexuality topics others’ boundaries and personal space. It is also important for within undergraduate and graduate classes, workshops, adolescents to recognize how their personal emotions, other and research settings. people, and previous experiences can influence one’s decision to give, or deny, consent. Beyond Sensate Focus: Erotic Mindfulness Practice to Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Deepen the Experience of Pleasure participants will be able to: practice asking for consent and CKA: E, M 1 CE Tower A respecting others’ consent; define what it means to give Presenter(s): Melissa Walker, MA, LPC, R-DMT consent; identify how it feels to give consent; identify how it Moderator: Francie L. Stone, PsyD, CST, CSTS feels when someone does not ask for your consent. Description: Erotic Mindfulness is a practice and quality of attention that supports clients to develop a relationship with A New Look at Menopause: The Myths, Truth, and Power of their complex and unique experience of pleasure. While sensate Mature Pleasure focus invites non-judgmental, non-demand, and pleasure- CKA: A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, M, N, O, P 1 CE Century oriented focus, erotic mindfulness deepens and expands this Presenter(s): Debra Wickman, MS, MD and Saida practice by incorporating somatic and contemplative elements. Desilets, PhD This practice builds a bridge to heal the mind-body dichotomy Moderator: June La Valleur, MD, FACOG, CSC that is heightened around the taboo of fully experiencing Description: This workshop reveals the damaging pleasure in a conscious and intentional way, thereby inviting impact of menopausal myths and the social taboo of congruence within the self. sexual freedom in aging women. We explore the danger Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, partici- of socially propagated sexual ideals and their impact on pants will be able to: describe and facilitate an erotic mindful- women’s psycho-sexual health, while detailing methods to ness for clients; apply this practice to the learning of the human help women engage their sexual sovereignty and transcend sexual response cycle, discover clients’ erotic gateways into arousal; facilitate this practice with individuals and couples in

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counseling settings as well as sex education groups; illustrate The of Gay Men’s Cuckolding Fantasies how this practice can reconcile the discordant experience of

complex pleasure – pleasure where positive and challenging CKA: C, D, F David Ley, PhD, CST, CSTS sensations, emotions, and memories are all present; integrate Presenter(s): Until very recently, the phenomenon of Erotic Mindfulness with Sensate Focus for couples. Description: “cuckolding,” or sexual interest in one’s partner being sexual Furries and Pets and Therians, Oh My! Exploring Humanimal with another, was rarely seen among gay men, though it is a widespread behavior in heterosexuals. This research Intersubjectivities examines the personality factors that contribute to different

CKA: B, F 1 CE Tower D approaches to cuckolding among gay males. Positive Carly Goodkin, MA Presenter(s): experiences of cuckolding are predicted by personality and Jennifer Rehor, LMFT Moderator: attachment styles. The concept of humanimal intersubjectivity, Description: At the conclusion of this workshop, the embodiment of both human and animal subjectivities Objective(s): participants will be able to: identify personality and experienced simultaneously, can facilitate an exploration of attachment factors that may assist in conceptualizing and adult humans identifying or role-playing as animals, including: treating gay males who engage in cuckolding. furries, therians, human pups, and pets. Adults who engage in these forms of animal identification and role-play face stigma Identity and Intimacy on the Asexual Spectrum and the misconception that their pursuits are exclusively

motivated by sexual gratification, when in fact they may have a CKA: D, E, F Jessica Hille, JD, LLM variety of psychological and social motivators. Presenter(s): Description: This presentation draws from results of an Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, partici- online survey of more than 1,300 members of the asexual pants will be able to: distinguish between furries, therians, community, including participants who identify as asexual, human pups, and pets and identify potential motivations for demisexual, and graysexual. We will explore what these engagement in these forms of identification and role-play. sexual orientation labels mean to these individuals, as well as Treating “Monsters”: How to Work with Minor Attracted their experiences with and desire for intimacy, relationships, and sex. This presentation will demonstrate the complex, Persons in a Clinical Setting heterogeneous nature of the asexual community and CKA: A, B, C, D, E, F, I, J, O, P 1 CE Windows advocate for inclusion of asexual identities and experiences in Presenter(s): Nicoletta Heidegger, MEd, MA education and clinical practice. Moderator: Renee Roy, MA Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Description: There is a lack of preventive treatment or support participants will be able to: discuss the heterogeneous nature for those living with pedophilic desires; many of us as health of the asexual community and the diversity of members’ care professionals will not even work with this population. The experiences with desire, intimacy, and sex. dearth of support and services offered for minor attracted adults only further puts our community and our children at risk. Adjusting the Sexual Script to Include Clitoral Stimulation Join in a conversation about how to work with minor attracted During Penile Vaginal Intercourse clients so we can take preventive measures to support every- one in our communities and give this stigmatized population a CKA: B, D, I, M Angela Towne fighting chance. Two brave and willing Minor Attracted Persons Presenter(s): Many females participate in penile vaginal are excited to answer your questions. Description: intercourse (PVI), but do not receive the clitoral stimulation Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants needed to as desired. Fifteen women who require will be able to: challenge, confront, recognize, and voice their clitoral stimulation in order to orgasm described how they own individual and occupational biases towards minor attracted acquired orgasmic clitoral stimulation during PVI. Orgasmic persons; compare strategies and research about the support and stimulation was achieved by either stimulating the clitoris on treatment of MAPs. the man’s body with intentional pressure and movement, or by creating space around the clitoris (2-3”) where preferred 11:00 am – 12:00 pm ORIGINAL RESEARCH SESSIONS stimulation could occur. Objective(s): At the conclusion of the presentation, Original Research Sessions will include information on participants will be able to describe five methods of directly research background, methods, results, and discussion in stimulating the external structures of the clitoris during penile the format of three 15-minute presentations followed by a vaginal intercourse. Q&A with the audience. 1 CE total Silver Moderator: Elise Sanchez, PsyD 24 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY Level of Experience: No Previous Foundational Intermediate Advanced See Legend for Core Knowledge Intended Audience: Education Counseling Therapy Supervision Medical Other Area (CKA) descriptions on page 44.

12:30 pm – 2:15 pm Moderator: Jessica Ford, MA, LCSW, CST AWARDS LUNCHEON PLENARY Description: How to create sexual desire where none exists? This question has long perplexed alchemists, sorcerers, Sexualizing Cancer romantics, and frustrated lovers. It now confronts sex CKA: A, B, C, D, H, M, P 1 CE Grand Ballroom therapists. Using a single case study approach, this innovative Presenter(s): Ericka Hart, MEd workshop will explore key facets of the successful treatment Moderator(s): Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST and of sexual aversion in the context of an arranged . Two Juan Camarena, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, CS contrasting viewpoints (cognitive-behavioral and humanistic- Description: Sexualizing Cancer is a workshop that in- existential) will be presented. Participants will be engaged tends to decolonize the medical industry by exposing the vio- in a discussion of desire, pleasure, cultural norms, and the lence caused to Black bodies for the sake of cancer research. importance of clinical creativity. Exposing the ways in which black bodies have been used for Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, experiments in the past and the lack of awareness in breast participants will be able to: identify the full spectrum of sexual cancer campaigns targeted to Black and brown bodies have desire disorders with a primary focus on distinguishing lead to higher rates of mortality today. The workshop has sexual aversion and global and situational manifestations of been created for anyone interested in decolonizing by reclaim- Female Sexual Interest and Arousal Disorder (FSIAD); identify ing pleasure/sexuality, with a particular emphasis on breast the difficulties inherent in the treatment of sexual aversion; cancer patients at diagnosis, during treatment, and post-treat- describe two theoretical perspectives (humanistic-existential ment. Sexualizing Cancer is also designed to and cognitive-behavioral) regarding sex therapy treatment of support medical providers/front line staff of hospitals to be sexual aversion; recognize skills applicable to case formulation inclusive in their services of LGBTQIA+ people. and treatment of sexual aversion; recognize skills in culturally Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, sensitive sex therapy; identify the challenges and opportunities participants will be able to: explore the ways in which breast when working with couples from arranged . cancer has been portrayed as a single narrative; identify three ways that the medical industry, as it pertains to sexual DIALOGUE PANEL PRESENTATION: Battle Buddies: Community- reproduction, has used black bodies as experiments; list two Led Co-creation of a Successful SexEd Program for Black Gay ways in which breast cancer patients can achieve sexual Men pleasure pre- and post-treatment. CKA: B, C, D 1.5 AASECT CE Tower A Ericka Hart (pronouns: she/they) is a Black Queer (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credits) Femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker, Presenter(s): Javontae Williams, MPH; Kimberly Huggins, and award-winning sexuality educator with a MPH, MSW, MEd; Lindsay Lock, MEd, MS; Coronado Lopez Master’s of Education in from Dyer; Cedric Sturdevant Widener University. Ericka’s work broke ground Moderator: Amity Walter, LCSW, CST when she went topless, showing her double mastectomy Description: Some LGBT sexuality professionals either scars at Afropunk Fest 2016. Since then, she has spoken at attempt to be colorblind or over-focus on their clients’/ colleges and universities across the country; been featured students’ race. Programs are implemented in ways that serve in countless digital and print publications, including Essence, the staff and their culture, instead of the needs of participants. Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, Refinery 29; and has As a result, Black gay and bisexual men disengage in HIV/AIDS a running PSA on Viceland. Ericka’s voice is rooted in leading- care because what they came for is not recognized or valued. edge thought around human sexual expression as inextricable This panel will discuss the successes and challenges of a to overall human health and its intersections with race, gender, community-led sexuality education co-development process. chronic illness, and disability. Both radical and relatable, she Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, continues to push well beyond the threshold of sex positivity. participants will be able to: identify strategies for working with Ericka is currently an adjunct at Columbia University’s School of various stakeholders to produce effective sexuality education; Social Work and calls Brooklyn, her partner, and several plants describe how to use multiple sources of data to inform the (one of which is named Whitney Houston) home. development of relevant educational materials.

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Complexity of Couples, Sexual Desire, and Clinician 1.5 HOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS Values

Discovering Desire: A Case Study Approach Exploration of the CKA: A, E, I 1.5 CE Windows Barry, McCarthy, PhD Treatment of Sexual Aversion (Part 1) Presenter(s): Lauren Casalino, MA, LPC Moderator: CKA: I 1.5 CE Silver This presentation will explore the challenge Kathryn Hall, PhD, CST and Daniel Watter, EdD, Description: Presenter(s): of maintaining strong, resilient sexual desire with married or DST, CSTS AASECT 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 25 CONFERENCE SESSIONS SATURDAY, JUNE 16

partnered couples. Desire is the key dimension, and secondary traditional sex therapy is based in binary assumptions desire problems are the most common cause of referral for about bodies and sexual functioning; learn to apply a TGNC sex therapy. Clinically, the keys to desire are anticipation, competent, pleasure-based positive sexuality framework to pleasure-orientation, freedom and choice, and unpredictable their sex therapy work with TGNC clients through revising sexual scenarios. The couple learns to value both intimacy and specific sex therapy techniques. eroticism — while recognizing the multiple roles, meanings, and outcomes of couple sexuality. Maximizing Your Role as a Kinky or Non-Monogamous A major sexual transition for males is to give up the totally Provider predictable individual pass-fail performance approach to CKA: A, F, I 1.5 CE Tower C sex and adopt the Good Enough Sex (GES) model. GES Presenter(s): Angela Gunn, LCSW, CST and Liz Powell, PsyD is usually much more acceptable to women than men who Moderator: Elise Sanchez, PsyD typically choose a stand-alone medical intervention (Viagra, Description: As Kinky and non-monogamous professionals, testosterone, penile injections) with the hope of returning to we will explore using your own sexual identity and expression autonomous sex function. In contrast, GES is a couple concept as a tool for creating safety, aligning with your client, and focused on giving and receiving pleasure-oriented touch. creating new paradigms of healing and relating to others. While GES recognizes sensual, playful, and erotic touch as sexual in therapist sexuality is often taboo, therapists can leverage their addition to intercourse. own experiences and exploration to deepen the therapeutic Traditionally, clinicians were expected to be able to treat relationship and create safety. all types of clients and problems with the assumption that Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, the clinician was value-free. The reality is that clinicians have participants will be able to: identify barriers to their personal personal and professional values so when they claim to be sexual expression and understand ways to approach these value-free they are not being honest with clients or themselves. barriers; demonstrate increased skills in boundary setting, We explore clinician’s interest, competence, and values in asserting their personal rights to pleasure, and exploring ways helping attendees determine what clients and problems they to be authentic in different settings; describe race, gender, should treat and which to refer. Both traditional and non- sexuality, and ability-specific hindrances to sexual expression traditional clients/couples deserve first class clinical treatment. and recognize tools to confront this when observed; formulate Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, practical skills for working with diverse clients and using their participants will be able to: identify the psychobiosocial own identity to facilitate increased effectiveness. factors that facilitate or subvert sexual desire; employ the Good Enough Sex (GES) model to reinforce desire, pleasure, Sexuality and Aging: No Expiration Date eroticism, and satisfaction; critique myths about clinician CKA: A, B, C, E, G, H, I, M 1.5 CE Century personal and professional values and reinforce that client goals Presenter(s): June La Valleur, MD, CSC and MeLanie and values are more important than clinician values. Modjoros, MD, CSC Moderator: Suzanne E. Rapley, PhD, DST, CSTS Developing and Applying a Pleasure-Based Positive Sexuality Description: Sexuality changes with age but doesn’t Framework with Gender Diverse Clients disappear! Certified Counselors/physicians June La Valleur and CKA: C, D, F, G, I, M, O 1.5 CE Tower B Melanie Modjoros share medical insights on sexuality issues for Presenter(s): Katherine Spencer, PhD, LP and Dianne Berg, people over age 65. Sexuality at these ages is often ignored or PhD, CST, CSTS overlooked by medical professionals. Learn how and what to Moderator: Deb Azorsky, MA, LPC, CST address in the aging client with declining health and changing Description: This workshop will engage participants in sexuality. Effects of several chronic diseases will be discussed. exercises aimed at helping them identify a sex positive and The sexual/ethical issues that arise when individuals move into pleasure-based approach for clinical work with transgender/ assisted living/nursing homes will be presented. gender non-conforming (TGNC) clients. The presenters will Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, share their work developing the Gender Affirmative Lifespan participants will be able to: prepare counselors and therapists Approach (GALA), with a focus on one of the core tenets of to discuss aging-related issues with their clients; integrate GALA: Pleasure-based Positive Sexuality. Participants will aging/sexuality resources in their area for their clients to use; learn specific ways to challenge cisnormativity in sex therapy identify medical issues as clients age, and how they intersect techniques and promote pleasure in sexuality work across the with an individual’s sexuality and experience as well as their gender spectrum. partner’s; create an environment that reduces the stigma and Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, paralysis surrounding the sexual lives of aged individuals; participants will be able to: critique cisnormative and distinguish which sexual changes are a part of “normal” aging heteronormative frameworks of sex therapy, including how versus those concerning for, or resulting from, a medical issue.

26 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY Level of Experience: No Previous Foundational Intermediate Advanced See Legend for Core Knowledge Intended Audience: Education Counseling Therapy Supervision Medical Other Area (CKA) descriptions on page 44.

Teaching Pleasurable Touch therapists. Using a single case study approach, this innovative CKA: E, M 1.5 CE Tower D workshop will explore key facets of the successful treatment Presenter(s): Charlie Glickman, PhD of sexual aversion in the context of an arranged marriage. Two Moderator: Francie L. Stone, PsyD, CST, CSTS contrasting viewpoints (cognitive-behavioral and humanistic- Description: One of the most common sexual challenges existential) will be presented. Participants will be engaged people face is not knowing how to offer touch that brings in a discussion of desire, pleasure, cultural norms, and the pleasure to a partner. Rather than focusing on teaching new importance of clinical creativity. techniques, sexuality professionals can help their clients Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, and students learn how to create pleasurable touch through participants will be able to: identify the full spectrum of sexual awareness, attunement, and feedback. Somatic sex educator desire disorders with a primary focus on distinguishing Charlie Glickman, PhD, will show you four powerful, non- sexual aversion and global and situational manifestations of sexual practices that you can offer your clients to help them Female Sexual Interest and Arousal Disorder (FSIAD); identify create deeper connection, better communication, and more the difficulties inherent in the treatment of sexual aversion; pleasurable touch. describe two theoretical perspectives (humanistic-existential Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, and cognitive-behavioral) regarding sex therapy treatment of participants will be able to: identify three ways that dynamics sexual aversion; recognize skills applicable to case formulation of compliance and enduring unpleasant sex can shape sexual and treatment of sexual aversion; recognize skills in culturally interactions; utilize, with clients, at least three practices to sensitive sex therapy; identify the challenges and opportunities create attuned, pleasurable touch based on active consent. when working with couples from arranged marriages.

Hidden Ways American Childbirth Damages People’s Sex Lives Colonized Black Masculinity and Sexuality – And How to Help CKA: A, B, C, D, E, F, J, P 1.5 CE Tower A CKA: H 1.5 CE Denver Presenter(s): Yamonte Cooper, EdD, LPCC, NCC, CST Presenter(s): Stephanie Buehler, MPW, PsyD, CST, CSTS and Moderator: Deb Azorsky, MA, LPC, CST Amy Gilliland, PhD, BDT(DONA), CSE Description: Colonization of black masculinity includes Moderator: Courtney Geter, LMFT, CST image domination and lack of representation. In Western Description: American healthcare providers often deny epistemology, the Black male is constructed as a mere body. or ignore the fact that the organs and hormones involved in The scaling of bodies is an assumption found within the core reproduction are the same as those involved in the expression of Western Enlightenment thought which presumes that only of sexuality. This denial may create physical, emotional, and able-bodied middle-class White male bodies were the ideal relational injuries during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum as well as intellectually, aesthetically, and morally superior period. In this workshop, educators, counselors, and therapists to other people. This includes the association of Black men will learn the nature of such injuries and intervention approaches with uncontrolled libidinal passions and , which to help couples heal and enjoy their sexual relationship after indicates an engendering of racism. baby is born. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: identify colonized black masculinity participants will be able to: identify at least three ways in which and sexuality; explore the historical construction of black American childbirth damages couples’ sex lives; describe at masculinity and sexuality; discover the history of the LGBTQ least three ways in which educators, counselors, and therapists community in the African-American community; explore can help couples resume or heal their sex lives during or after interventions in sex therapy that will assist sex therapists and the birth of a child. other human sexuality professionals in helping clients impacted by colonized black masculinity and sexuality. 4:15 pm – 5:45 pm 1.5 HOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS Beyond the Hashtag: Addressing Sexual Harassment, Coercion, and Consent among Human Sexuality Discovering Desire: A Case Study Approach Exploration of the Professionals Treatment of Sexual Aversion (Part 2) CKA: A, J, O 1.5 CE Windows CKA: I 1.5 CE Silver Presenter(s): Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST; Juan Kathryn Hall, PhD, CST and Daniel Watter, EdD, Presenter(s): Camarena, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, CST; Lexx Brown-James, PhD, DST, CSTS LMFT, CSE; Tanya Bass, MS, CHES; Neil Cannon, PhD, LMFT, Jessica Ford, MA, LCSW, CST Moderator: CST, CSTS Description: How to create sexual desire where none Moderator: Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST exists? This question has long perplexed alchemists, sorcerers, Description: Beyond the Hashtag is an invitation to continue romantics, and frustrated lovers. It now confronts sex the dialogue created by the #MeToo movement. It provides

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an opportunity for conference participants to engage in an Life Size Sex Dolls: Moving Past the Stigma, Myths, and Taboo active discussion about sexual abuse/harassment/misconduct/ and Enhancing Intimacy and Pleasure coercion within the field of human sexuality professionals. CKA: E, F, G, H, I, M 1.5 CE Tower D Members of the AASECT Board of Directors will provide time Presenter(s): Rhiannon Beauregard, MA, LMFT-S, CST, and space for participants to voice their experiences and work S-PSB; Randi Ragsdale; Stacey Townsend collaboratively toward addressing these issues within AASECT. Moderator: Rhoda Lipscomb, PhD, CST Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Description: When the average person thinks of a , participants will be able to: Identify three unethical behaviors what images come to mind? Seedy, lonely men; pornography; defined by AASECT’s Code of Ethics; discuss one concern socially inept individuals incapable of having a relationship? Al- regarding sexualization among professionals in the field of low us to change your mind by presenting on how life-size sex sexuality; name two AASECT leaders they can communicate dolls can be VERY significant and safe companions for develop- with if an issue of sexualization arises. ing intimacy and enhancing pleasure. We will walk you through this innovative sexual health tool that will change the way you Kink/BDSM for Aging Adults: A Creative Expansion of the think about sex dolls and the people who benefit from them. “Good-Enough Sex” Model Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, CKA: A, B, E, F, I, M 1.5 CE Denver participants will be able to: name three instances of stigma Presenter(s): Sabitha Pillai-Friedman, PhD, CST, CSTS or myths that exist around life-size sex dolls; describe three Moderator: Chris F. Fariello PhD, MA, LMFT, CST, CSE, CSTS ways individuals and relationships can develop intimacy and Description: This workshop will provide sexuality enhance pleasure with a sex doll; determine whether a life- professionals with a model for treating aging adults’ sexual size sex doll would be a good tool to have in their work with difficulties, lack of desire, and sexual boredom with the use of their clients and why. kink/BDSM. Using two case studies of an older heterosexual couple and a lesbian couple, the presenter will describe the Black Sexual Epistemology: Re-Centering African-Americans sexual loss and boredom experienced by aging adults whose in the Sex Positivity Movement sexual functioning had declined significantly and how the CKA: B, C, P 1.5 CE Gold “Good-Enough Sex” model was used to provide a foundation Presenter(s): Tracie Gilbert, MSEd, MEd for the subsequent exploration of kink/BDSM. Moderator: Jennifer Valli, LCSW, CST Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Description: Sex positivity are major buzz-words within participants will be able to: demonstrate knowledge in treating the contemporary sex ed movement; very rarely, however, the sexual difficulties, lack of desire, and sexual boredom of do African-Americans lead those discussions or are actively aging adults with the use of kink/BDSM; evaluate the benefits included. A cursory glance at the sexual history of the United and risks of using kink/BDSM with aging adults. States reveals this systematic marginalization of African- American sexuality, while simultaneously drawing from it in Sexual Healing Heals More Than Sex: An Embodied Relational the development of sexual identity. What is this history of Approach to Transformative Intimacy Black sexual “Columbusing,” and what might Black sexuality CKA: A, B, C, D, E, H, I, M, O 1.5 CE Tower B be without it? Research on this topic will be shared. Presenter(s): Stella Resnick, PhD, CST, CSTS Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Moderator: Denise C. Onofrey, LMFT, CST participants will be able to: explain the basic tenets of Black Description: Sexuality is integral to the whole person and Sexual Epistemological theory; analyze the basic tenets of holistic body, not just the pelvis; neurobiologically intertwined Black Sexual Epistemological theory. with emotional attachment histories; and fundamental to our sense of self. Treating sexual disappointment in couples offers Sexual Interest, Disorder, or Crime: When is a Fetish an opportunity to identify intersubjective interactive triggers Just a Fetish? of insecurity, shame, and anxiety. This presentation describes CKA: A, B, C, D, F, J 1.5 CE Tower C research that unresolved painful emotions are primarily triggered Presenter(s): Anna M. Randall, MSW, MPH, DHS nonverbally in bodily, right brain communications. It offers a Moderator: Lisa Yee, MS, LMFT, CST healing present-centered, somatic, experiential relational process Description: It’s no surprise that fetishes (a.k.a. ) that catalyzes pain into pleasure, a key to transformation. are misunderstood, pathologized, and seen by some as warning Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, flags to criminal behavior. Sexologists are on the front line to participants will be able to: describe how early childhood inform and ease distress but may feel ill-equipped or stymied by history of subtle sex-negative cues from parents can have a intrapersonal or societal paraphobia. When do the labels matter lasting negative impact on adult sexuality; identify the qualities and why? Explore the ongoing social and civil struggle to discern, of embodied intimacy that enhance sexual interest and arousal classify, and address stigmatized edges of sexual variance between intimate partners. affecting individuals, their relationships, and social systems.

28 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY Level of Experience: No Previous Foundational Intermediate Advanced See Legend for Core Knowledge Intended Audience: Education Counseling Therapy Supervision Medical Other Area (CKA) descriptions on page 44.

Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm participants will be able to: explain the current scientific understanding of sexual development related to sexual Dinner (on your own) interests, particularly the development of what are often Explore the many dining options near the Sheraton Denver referred to as unusual sexual interests or paraphilias; relate Downtown. three distinctions between , the various paraphilic disorders, their relevance or irrelevance to sexual crimes and 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm why this matters; describe at least two ways to assist clients A Kink in the Cure and students decrease paraphobia regarding their worrisome CKA: A, B, C, D, E, F, H, I, J 2 CE Grand Ballroom sexual interests. Presenter(s): Tim Murray, TKP and Aicila Lewis Description: Imagine a live performance piece similar to The 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Vagina Monologues, but about people with experiences in BDSM Recruiting New Members for the Certified Sexuality Educators (kink). The material was created through the composite testimonial (CSE) Specialty: Are We Looking in the Right Places? of more than 100 people and then assembled into the presented format. The piece includes both an outline of the uncomfortable CKA: O 1 AASECT CE Tower A (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credits) truth of sexual abuse and violence that exists in our culture and Led by Betsy Cairo, PhD, CSE, CSES ways in which kink has been both a barrier and benefit to folks in addressing the resulting shame and trauma of those experiences. Description: Join the conversation as we examine current practices of targeting populations who may be interested in This is an ethnographic, multi-media, creative-nonfiction becoming certified sexuality educators. What is an “educator,” performance centered in the world of Kink and BDSM. These along with the types of populations we should be exploring, are the stories of people who have a history of sexual abuse or will be discussed. Additionally, we will explore the certification trauma and how BDSM has impacted their healing process. process and becoming a CSES. The personal nature of the material will also give the attending therapists an opportunity to identify any internal Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: discuss the possibilities of CSE reactions they have to BDSM as subject matter. Therapists recruitment to include high school teachers. who have received partial exposure to the material say it's valuable to their ability to be more prepared to work with clients who engage in BDSM or identify their own inner barriers and Mentoring Meet & Greet Tower B Led by Tameca N. Harris-Jackson, PhD, MSW, LICSW, behave in a professional manner around the subject. Following LCSW, CSE the performance, there will be a talkback with the audience on BDSM, Kink, and Poly topics. Description: Are you a student or early career member interested in getting involved with AASECT, but not sure Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants where to start? Maybe you’ve been a member for a while and will be able to: discuss the various ways in which kink can be are looking for ways to give back to the next generation of used as a healing practice, similar to art, drama, and equine educators, counselors, and therapists? We welcome you to therapy; integrate a better understanding of how and why people join us in discussing exciting innovations to our mentorship use kink to process sexual shame and trauma, and how they as program, such as virtual “happy hours” meet-ups, in-person therapists can support their patients in this effort. group mentorship opportunities, and more.

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm AASECT Regional Meetings Connect with AASECT members in your region! (see map)

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SUNDAY why practice guidelines are needed, the process used to JUNE 17 create the current proposal, the next steps in developing 7:00 am – 10:00 am practice guidelines, and proposed areas or topics that practice guidelines should address. Check-in and Information Grand Ballroom Foyer Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: describe the specific challenges 7:30 am – 9:00 am that kink-identified clients experience in accessing kink Breakfast (on your own) competent therapeutic care; identify at least three areas that Explore the many dining options near the Sheraton Denver proposed practice guidelines should address to describe kink Downtown. Coffee will be served in the Grand Ballroom Foyer. competent therapeutic care.

8:00 am – 12:00 pm Trans Topology — A Primer for Pleasure CKA: D 1.5 CE Tower D The Comfort Room Colorado Room Jaimie Hileman See page 15 for description. Presenter(s): Moderator: Jennifer Lucas-Brown LPC, CST Trans Topology — A Primer for Pleasure is 8:00 am – 9:30 am Description: 1.5 HOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS about the relationship Trans people hold with their bodies, how they may interact sexually with others, and what sexual pleasure Sexual Self-Efficacy as Political Power: Through the Lens of looks like from a trans perspective. This workshop begins with Teaching in a Disability Culture a review of research, relevant data, and narrative, followed CKA: A, B, C, D, E, G, H, K, M, N 1.5 AASECT CE Tower C by interactive learning with participants, with plenty of room (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credits) provided for both Q & A and feedback. Presenter(s): Susan Stiritz, PhD, MBA, MSW, CSE, CSES and Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Christopher Worth, MA participants will be able to: recognize basic terminology for Moderator: Fiona O’Farrell, MA, LMFT trans anatomy and sexuality; describe both challenges and Description: In this country, the taboo against opportunity regarding trans sexual activity and pleasure. acknowledging one’s awareness of their “erotic” may be universal. For individuals with intellectual disabilities, however, it Understanding and Treating Grief and Loss When Sexuality and has become an almost insurmountable obstacle to conceiving Gender are the Issues they are entitled to not only sexual pleasure and intimate CKA: D, E 1.5 CE Gold connection but to self-advocacy and a place in the public Presenter(s): Edy Nathan, MA, LCSWR, CST forum. This workshop aims to illuminate how a short course Moderator: Stephanie Ring, MD FACOG moved students and teachers alike to claim the integral Description: Grief speak is in the closet. It’s time to let it connection between sexual self-efficacy and political self- out. Find the key and transcend communication barriers in this advocacy. interactive group. Grief is integral to the sexuality and issues of Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, gender. Untreated grief leads to role confusion and emotional participants will be able to: explain the overlap of sexual self- imbalance and keeps the neural pathways fused with the loss. efficacy and self-advocacy opposing ableism, racism, classism, How to unmask what is hidden is the primary task. Projective and other colonizations of bodies; demonstrate at least four and self-discovery techniques are available and shown to skills needed to work with individuals and populations whose uncover, understand, and treat grief in sexuality and gender. sexual and gender expression have been forbidden. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: utilize three ways to help clients DIALOGUE PANEL PRESENTATION: Developing Therapy Practice self assess how they cope with grief based on personality Guidelines for Working with Kinky Clients structure; discuss grief and loss within the context of gender CKA: A, F, O, P 1.5 CE Denver and sexuality, with a language and fluency that help sort out Presenter(s): Braden Berkey, PsyD; Anna Randall, MSW, the client’s experience. MPH, DHS; Peter Chirinos, MA, LPC, NCC, DCC, ACS; Margaret Nichols, PhD, CST, CSTS Narrative Conversations: Helping Clients Moderator: Charlie Huntington Reconstruct Taboo Description: Calls for developing therapy practice CKA: C, F, I, N 1.5 CE Tower A guidelines for working with BDSM clients have been published Presenter(s): Mauricio Yabar, MSW, MEd, LCSW, CST since the early 2000s. Clinicians and researchers working in Moderator: Jennifer Glick, MA, MSC, LMFT, CST this area for the past 10 to 20 years have formed a working Description: This workshop provides participants with group to propose practice guidelines. The panel will discuss an alternative context for understanding taboo topics in

30 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY Level of Experience: No Previous Foundational Intermediate Advanced See Legend for Core Knowledge Intended Audience: Education Counseling Therapy Supervision Medical Other Area (CKA) descriptions on page 44. therapeutic conversations. Participants will be introduced to multi-disciplinary approaches with somatic, post-modern, the benefits of Narrative Therapy for working with persons psychodynamic, and solution-focused theories. Due to timing, who engage in non-typical sexual behaviors or whose sexual this session mostly references cisgender women clients. preferences are stigmatized. Participants will review Narrative Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, practices that can be helpful in the process of re-authoring participants will be able to: formulate creative treatment plans these experiences. Narrative is a therapeutic approach or interventions with clients diagnosed with vulvar/pelvic that aspires to reconstruct a person’s realities through a pain, focusing on developing healthier and more pleasurable collaborative process between client and therapist. relationships to sexuality, sensuality, intimacy, and eroticism, Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, with an emphasis on a mind-body connection. participants will be able to: identify at least two Narrative Therapy practices and integrate these in their therapeutic Sexual Shame – What Research Says, and Why it is Worse in conversations about taboo topics with their clients; revise at the U.S. Than You Think least two assumptions about clinical work around taboo topics CKA: B, C, O 1 CE Tower C by employing Narrative ideas in the assessment of their clients Presenter(s): Tina Schermer-Sellers, PhD, LMFT, CST, CSTS and their clients’ treatment needs. and Kristin Hodson, MSW, CST Moderator: Ethan Bratt, MS, LMFT The Mystery of the Missing Theory: Why Sex Ed Has So Little Description: In 2017, the first operational definition of sex- Theory, Why That Works Against Us, and What We Can ual shame was delineated in research.That same year, Peggy Do About It Orenstein interviewed 70 women aged 15 to 20 about their CKA: A 1.5 AASECT CE Tower B experiences of sexuality. These interviews revealed a startling (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credits) portrayal of the loss of personal power these women were Presenter(s): Rosalyn Dischiavo, MA, EdD, CSE, CSES not relinquishing in other areas.We will discuss sexual shame Moderator: Mira Cantrick, MA, R-DMT research and this cultural phenomenon.We will also share a Description: What is the CREATE theory of Sex Education model for healing shame and reclaiming pleasure and power, with adults and how did it come about? Why is there so much and discuss cases and outcomes where this model is applied. written about sex education practice, but so little actual sex Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, education theory? This session makes strong arguments participants will be able to: describe the historical events that and gives easy suggestions for practitioners to actively and led to an increase in sexual shame in American culture; identify consciously think about sex ed theory, contribute to it through the socio-cultural influences contributing to sexual shame; our work, and see the meaning and impact of our work grow apply culturally competent treatment approaches to western as a result. religious upbringings; name the four elements of an evidence- Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, based model for healing sexual shame. participants will be able to: identify the need for sex education theory and the impact of its lack; recognize cultural biases as Shedding the Taboo of Kink Education with Youth the reason for the lack of theory; name at least two components CKA: B, C, D, F, H, J 1 AASECT CE Silver of the CREATE theory of sex education with adults. (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credits) Presenter(s): Alison Oliver, MSW Moderator: Lauren Casalino, MA, LPC 9:45 am – 10:45 am Description: Despite reports of increased participation in 1 HOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS BDSM/kink activities and relationships among young people, Finding Pleasure and Intimacy When Sex is as well as a rise in kink-related popular culture references in (Undesirably) Painful: Working Clinically with Pelvic a post-50 Shades of Grey world, kink education still tends Pain Diagnoses to be reserved for adults. This workshop will highlight the CKA: C, D, E, F, G, H, I, M 1 CE Windows rationale for kink education for youth aged 15 to 19 and offer Presenter(s): Kayna Cassard, LMFT age-appropriate and inclusive lesson plans consistent with the Moderator: Stephanie Ring, MD, FACOG National Sexuality Education Standards. Description: Women with pelvic pain diagnoses often Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, have challenging relationships with sexuality and eroticism, participants will be able to: identify at least three age- sometimes even losing connection to their intimacy and appropriate learning activities or discussion prompts to use sensuality completely. This workshop will provide a brief with youth aged 15 to 19 related to BDSM/kink activities and overview of diagnoses and treatment possibilities, with an in- communities. depth focus on how to help clients explore their relationship with sexuality, sensuality, intimacy, and eroticism. Participants will be taught pleasure-based and creative solutions from AASECT 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 31 CONFERENCE SESSIONS SUNDAY, JUNE 17

Befriend and Transcend Your Sexual Story Using 9:45 am – 10:45 am Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS): A Path to Healing ORIGINAL RESEARCH SESSIONS and Pleasure This Original Research Session will include information on Presenter(s): Patricia Rich, LCSW, CST, CSTS research background, methods, results, and discussion in Moderator: Rachel B. Alpert, LCSW, LMFT, CST the format of two 20-minute presentations followed by a CKA: C, D, E, F, H, I, J, N 1 CE Denver 20-minute Q&A with the audience. Description: We each contain a complicated sexual story with internal characters, emotions, somatic responses, and be- 1 CE Total Tower B liefs that influence how we experience ourselves sexually. When Moderator: Jen Meyer, LPC, LMFT, CST we find, befriend, and transcend this story, we gain access to our inner fountain of sexual energy and can deepen intimacy with and Proud: A Phenomenological Study of ourselves and others. The Internal Family Systems model (IFS), Consensual Sex Workers’ Lives an evidence-based, trauma-informed psychotherapy approach, CKA: C, J offers a powerful pathway to this deep level of sexual healing and Presenter(s): Michael Curtis, MS pleasure. Case studies and experiential exercises are included. Description: Historically research has been helpful in Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, addressing and providing resources related to issues faced participants will be able to: identify core concepts of the by individuals in the adult industry, yet it is often clouded Internal Family Systems model, such as Parts, Self, multiplicity by the usage “sex worker” and “human trafficking victim” of mind, and the protective system, and relate these to the interchangeably. By confounding these terms there is an healing of sexual problems and increased sexual pleasure. implication that research studies on either population can be generalizable. This presentation will explore the experiences Sex and Intimacy after Cancer Treatment of consensual sex workers related to their familial and intimate Presenter(s): Jeffrey Albaugh, PhD, APRN, CUCNS, CSC relationships and access to effective psychotherapy. Moderator: June La Valleur, MD, FACOG, CSC Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, CKA: E, G, H, I 1 CE Tower D participants will be able to: demonstrate an understanding Description: It has been estimated that up to 90% of of the difference between the experiences of consensual sex patients have sexual dysfunction after cancer treatment. Sex workers and human trafficking victims and the impact that and intimacy can be challenging and sometimes painful after disclosure of working in the adult industry can have on an cancer treatment. This session will describe the prevalence individual’s mental health and support system. and reasons for sexual dysfunction after cancer treatment, as well as some of the common treatments for male and female Among Black and Hispanic Women: Results sexual dysfunction after cancer treatment. From a Nationally Representative Study Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, CKA: C, F, K, M participants will be able to: describe the prevalence and reasons Presenter(s): Ashley Townes, MPH for sexual dysfunction after cancer treatment and treatment Description: To estimate the prevalence and appeal of a options to help improve sexual health. diverse range of sexual behaviors among black and Hispanic women in the United States, data were analyzed from a Men and Infertility: Masculinity and Taboo subset of black and Hispanic individuals who participated Presenter(s): Elliott Kronenfeld, LICSW, CST in the 2015 Sexual Exploration in America Survey. Black Moderator: Charlie Huntington and Hispanic women reported on 32 sexual behaviors and CKA: B, C, E, G, H 1 CE Tower A the appeal of 50+ sexual behaviors. These data provide Description: As couples face the reality of fertility chal- a foundation for understanding diverse sexual behaviors lenges, men often are resistant to seeking support and psy- among black and Hispanic women in the United States’ chological help. Couples struggle as sex and intimacy become general population. transactional as they get further into their fertility protocols and Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, are left without knowing how to remain connected and unified. participants will be able to: identify common lifetime sexual More often than not, the female partner will find ample sup- behaviors and the appeal of a diverse range of behaviors ports as the primary medicalized patient, leaving a male part- that have been reported by black and Hispanic women in ner to fend for himself. In nonheteronormative couples, finding the United States. meaningful supports is even more confusing! Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, partici- pants will be able to: identify strategies to engage clients in a conversation about the importance of support for men and couples in the fertility process.

32 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY Level of Experience: No Previous Foundational Intermediate Advanced See Legend for Core Knowledge Intended Audience: Education Counseling Therapy Supervision Medical Other Area (CKA) descriptions on page 44.

11:00 am – 12:00 pm promoting adolescent self-efficacy and self-worth. Ultimately, 1 HOUR CONCURRENT SESSIONS the workshop will assist educators in teaching youth how to develop safe and fulfilling relationships. Mm, Mm, Om: Using Mindfulness-Based Interventions to Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Help Clients Quiet the Mental Whirlwind and Increase participants will be able to: identify three sex positive Sexual Pleasure approaches to teaching adolescents about desire, pleasure, CKA: E, I, M 1 CE Tower D and sexual response; clarify their feelings and attitudes about Presenter(s): Megan Torrey-Payne, LCSW, CST teaching adolescents about desire, pleasure, and sexual Moderator: Charlie Huntington response and two ways to work through discomfort; recall Description: Mindfulness is frequently suggested as a treat- presenter’s 3 Cs for effectively teaching adolescents about ment modality for a wide range of sexual issues. However, most sexual desire, pleasure, and response. of us are not Zen Masters, Yogis, or meditation gurus and are uncertain how to incorporate mindfulness and meditation into DIALOGUE PANEL PRESENTATION: New and Emerging our practices. This workshop will help guide clinicians in identify- Research in Alternative Black Sexualities ing ways to implement mindfulness-based exercises with the CKA: C, F, P 1 CE Denver goal of helping clients increase sexual satisfaction and pleasure. Presenter(s): Nicholas Baham, PhD and Shaida Akbarian At the conclusion of this workshop, participants Objective(s): Moderator: Janelle Washburne, LCSW, LMFT, CST will be able to: identify and implement two mindfulness-based Description: This workshop will present a review and interventions that can be used in clinical practice to help clients critique of new and emerging research in alternative Black increase sexual pleasure. sexual expression, including and BDSM. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, The Right to Parent: Addressing Social, Political, and participants will be able to: critique new and emerging literature Therapeutic Barriers for Gender and Sexual Minorities in the study of alternative Black sexual practices; explain Wanting to Parent conclusions reached from oral narratives of Black participants CKA: C, D, E, F, G 1 CE Tower A engaged in alternative sexual practices. Presenter(s): Samuel Sanabria, MA, PhD and Anne Mauro, MA, DHS Too Kinky for Kink: Working with Clients Who Experience Julia Schiffman, MSW, ASW Moderator: Shunning in the Kink Community Description: For many people, the desire to parent is a CKA: C, F 1 CE Century social and biological need deeply linked with sexual identity Presenter(s): Megan Pollock, MS, CST and development. This is also true for LGBTQ individuals. Moderator: Jennifer Rehor, LMFT However, despite the recent confirmation of marriage equality Description: As long as the credo of Safe, Sane, and Con- in the United States, there continue to be social, political, and sensual (SSC) is observed, BDSM purportedly embraces be- therapeutic barriers for LGT individuals interested in becoming haviors forbidden elsewhere. However, some forms of kink are parents. Attendees will learn about these barriers as well as a stigmatized within the BDSM world, even with SSC. This shun- counseling framework designed to support LGBT individuals as ning does not appear to be consistently applied, and different they pursue parenthood. demographics seem to affect exclusion more than others. The At the conclusion of this workshop, Objective(s): session will examine case examples of these instances, reflecting participants will be able to: identify three therapeutic strategies on intersectionality and implications for working with clients who that assist LGBT individuals as they manage the social and experience rejection within the BDSM community. political barriers toward parenthood. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: discuss characteristics and Don’t Skip Out or Trip Out on Pleasure: Educating Adolescents intersectionality factors that impact perceived acceptance and Within a Sex Positive Framework availability of participation in kink-rejected areas of BDSM. CKA: B, C, E, F, G, H, J, K 1 AASECT CE Silver (Please note, this session offers only AASECT CE Credits) The Complexity of Pelvic Health with BDSM/Kink Presenter(s): Genevieve Hunter, MSEd Play Dori G. Lewis, LPC, M.A, EdM Moderator: CKA: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, M 1 CE Tower B Adolescents are often left out of discussions Description: Presenter(s): Aleece Fosnight, PA-C, CSC, CSE and on sexual desire, pleasure, and sexual response. In order to Heather Edwards, MPT view adolescents as sexual beings, with agency and the ability Moderator: Stephanie Ring, MD, FACOG to think critically about themselves and their behavior, we must Description: Having a good sense of what people are address inequities in how we teach them about sexuality. This doing with their pelvises and how we can best advise them interactive workshop with explore pleasure as a mechanism for on the risks and benefits of various types of kink and BDSM AASECT 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 33 CONFERENCE SESSIONS SUNDAY, JUNE 17

play provides space to discuss what they enjoy doing with When World Views Collide: How to Understand and Talk with their bodies in a supportive, sex positive way. It is important Adversaries to develop rapport with clients who know that our job is to CKA: A, C, O 1 CE Windows look out for their safety separate from judgment of their sexual Presenter(s): Yolanda Turner, PhD and William Stayton, MDiv, choices. ThD, PhD, CSE, CST Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Moderator: Rachel B. Alpert, LCSW, LMFT, CST participants will be able to: name three potentially positive Description: Sexuality educators, counselors, and effects of BDSM practice and three potentially risky therapists need to respond well and tactfully to those who considerations of BDSM practice to advise clients about pelvic dislike what (they think) we do and who disagree with the health concerns with BDSM play. sexuality rights we promote. During this workshop we will learn and talk together about the origins of differing sexual ethics and Interracial Open Relationships: How to Manage Jealousy how to navigate these encounters. We will discuss how people and Promote Racial Sensitivity arrive at the positions they do and why it is so hard for them to CKA: C, F, O 1 CE Tower C change their beliefs and opinions about positive sexuality. Presenter(s): Susan Wenzel, MA, CST Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, Moderator: Jennifer Lucas-Brown LPC, CST participants will be able to: identify the origin of taboo Description: Open interracial relationships have unique behaviors; articulate why there is so much push-back to sex challenges and insecurities. This session’s design enhances positive information; describe and formulate at least three ways clinicians’ competency so they can work effectively with to converse with a sex negative person. interracial consensual non-monogamous (CNM) clients and importantly address racial tension, jealousy, and other 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm contributing factors to crisis in interracial CNM relationships. This Closing and Looking Ahead to 2019 Windows session will particularly explore the following three challenges: A look ahead to the 2019 Annual Conference in Philadelphia, 1) How to manage jealously 2) Racial fetishism and 3) Racial PA. We hope to see you next year! sensitivity. Objective(s): At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: identify practical tools to help clients manage jealousy; identify racial tensions, racial biases, discrimination, and micro-aggressions in interracial consensual open relationships.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

CHECK IN AND INFORMATION Welcome Reception AASECT Diversity, Equity and Wednesday, June 13 • 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm and Poster Session Inclusion (DEI) Committee Thursday, June 14 • 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Sponsored by Adam & Eve Brainstorming Session Friday, June 15 • 7:00 am – 4:00 pm Thursday, June 14, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM Friday, June 15, 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM Saturday, June 16 • 7:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets are required for the Welcome See page 21 for location. Sunday, June 17 • 7:00 am – 10:00 am Reception and are included with your conference registration. If you would like Taste of Kink SPECIAL EVENTS to purchase a ticket for a guest, please Friday, June 15, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Students’ and First Timers’ Meet & Greet visit the registration desk. The AASECT AltSex Special Interest Thursday, June 14, 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM See page 14 for location. Group and National Coalition for Sexual Students and first-time conference Freedom have teamed up to bring you a attendees are invited to join us for a meet Tantric Meditation live sex demonstration of seven or eight & greet to kick off the conference! Friday, June 15, 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM and kink practices. Additional registration fee See page 13 for location. Saturday, June 16, 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM required. Limit: 120 participants. Sally Valentine, PhD, LCSW, CST, CSTS See page 21 for location. Volunteer Check-in and Orientation See pages 14 & 22 for location. Thursday, June 14, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Bedpost Confessions See page 13 for location. Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings Friday, June 15, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Friday, June 15, 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM Meet & Greet for People Seeking BedPost Confessions merges See page 15 for locations. AASECT Supervisors entertainment, ethics, and education Thursday, June 14, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM while exploring sex and sexuality through AASECT Business Meeting Are you looking for a supervisor for the lenses of humor and vulnerability Friday, June 15, 5:45 PM – 6:15 PM AASECT Certification? Are you an (without sparing any racy details). AASECT Certified Supervisor looking to Open to all AASECT members. Admission included in conference take on more supervisees? If so, come See page 21 for location. registration. to our meet & mingle and get linked up! See page 21 for location. See page 13 for location.

36 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY Awards Luncheon Plenary Mentoring Meet & Greet CONTINUING EDUCATION (CE) Saturday, June 16, 12:30 PM – 2:15 PM Saturday, June 16, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM INFORMATION Tickets are required for the Awards Are you interested in getting involved with A total of up to 35 CE credits may Luncheon on Saturday and are included AASECT’s Mentoring Program? We are in be earned through attendance at the with your conference registration. Please need of new Mentors! Join us for a meet conference. present your ticket to your server to & greet, learn more about the program Procedures/How to Secure CE Credit ensure being served the appropriate and get connected with a mentor or Course Evaluations and Participant meal. If you would like to purchase mentee! See page 29 for location. Satisfaction Evaluations will be distributed a ticket for a guest, please visit the electronically after the conference. registration desk. Regional Meetings Conference attendees will complete all See page 25 for location. Saturday, June 16, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM evaluations online as well as download Connect with AASECT members in their session attendance records and Recruiting New Members for the your region! See page 29 for location. Certified Sexuality Educators (CSE) print their official CE certificate. Watch your email for a link to the survey by the Specialty: Are We Looking in the A Kink in the Cure Right Places? end of the conference. Saturday, June 16, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Saturday, June 16, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Imagine a live performance piece similar Session Attendance Join the conversation as we examine to The Vagina Monologues, but about AASECT will be tracking all CE credits current practices of targeting populations people with experiences in BDSM electronically during the 2018 Annual who may be interested in becoming (kink). Admission included in conference Conference. Attendance at education certified sexuality educators. What is registration. See page 29 for location. sessions will be recorded through a name- an “educator,” along with the types of badge-scanning system at the entrance to populations we should be exploring, Closing and Looking Ahead to 2019 each education session. Each conference will be discussed. Additionally, we will Sunday, June 17, 12:15 PM – 12:30 PM attendee badge will have a unique examine the certification process and A look ahead to the 2019 Annual barcode to allow you to be scanned into becoming a CSES. Led by Betsy Cairo, Conference. See page 34 for location. sessions. To most accurately track your PhD, CSE, CSES participation and receive CE credit, you See page 29 for location.

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must scan your badge at the beginning and again at the end of each session you attend. Conference volunteers (wearing bright orange lanyards) will be available at the beginning and conclusion of each educational session for CE badge scanning. Please note: Your badge may be scanned at only one concurrent session at a time. Scanning in at multiple concurrent sessions could jeopardize your eligibility for credit. Anyone who leaves a session part-way through will be scanned out to record the length of time spent in that session. Anyone staying for the duration of the session will automatically be credited with the full session allowance. Where possible, the attendance scanning period will start 10 minutes prior to the beginning of each session. The attendance scanning period ends 10 minutes after each session begins. In order to receive credit, you must scan into the session within 10 minutes after the session begins. You cannot earn credit for a session if you enter the course later than 10 minutes after the start of the session or do not scan into a session. If you are experiencing problems with your badge, you must notify AASECT staff immediately. AASECT has no affiliation with the registration company supplying the scanners for this year’s conference and will not be able to make any adjustments during or after the meeting. We ask that you please respond to our request for feedback as soon as you receive it after the conference. The AASECT commitment to continuing professional education is reflected in the CE workshops offered in conjunction with the Annual Conference. Only those workshops designated as approved for CE credit meet the criteria for the groups mentioned here. Other sessions may qualify for some professional groups. However, it is the professional’s responsibility to determine the acceptability of these program offerings for specific licensure or other certification needs. At the time of the printing of this program we have received the following CE approvals: AASECT: This program meets the CE requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.

38 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY American Psychological Association (APA): AASECT is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for . AASECT maintains responsibility for this program and its content. National Association of Social Workers (NASW): This program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886515262-2570) for 35 continuing education contact hours. Please note: The following states do not accept National CE Approval Programs and require individual program/provider application processes: • New York (www.op.nysed.gov/prof/sw/ swceinfo.htm) • Michigan (www.michigan.gov/ lara/0,4601,7-154-35299_63294_63303— ,00.html) • West Virginia (www.wvsocialworkboard.org) The following states currently do not recognize NASW National Approval. Applications can be submitted to NASW State Chapters: • New Jersey (www.naswnj.org) • Idaho (www.naswidaho.org) • Oregon (www.nasworegon.org)

AASECT is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and and Mental Health Counseling of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration as a provider of Continuing Education for Licensed Clini- cal Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider Number 50-5057, Exp. 03/31/2019).

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): AASECT has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. #6056. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. AASECT is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

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DISCLOSURE POLICY able to fully participate, please refrain In order to ensure balance, independence, from using scented products such as objectivity, and scientific rigor in all perfumes, lotions, aftershave products, AASECT activities, all presenters are to or hair products. We ask for everyone’s disclose to the program audience any support in contributing to a scent-free real or apparent conflict(s) of interest conference space. related to the content of their continuing education presentation. GENDER NEUTRAL RESTROOM A gender neutral restroom has been ACCOMMODATIONS FOR designated in the main conference area. DISABILITY (ADA) If you have any special needs for this AFFIRMING PRONOUNS conference, please let us know at the To help ensure that everyone’s pronoun time of registration. We will make a preferences are known and respected reasonable effort to accommodate during the conference, all participants people with disabilities, per ADA have been provided with the opportunity requirements. to indicate their affirming pronoun with a button on their name badge. SCENT POLICY For some conference participants, They/them scented products can trigger She/her headaches, shortness of breath, asthma He/him attacks, and difficulty concentrating Ask my pronoun — particularly in small spaces such as conference session rooms. To help ensure that all AASECT attendees are

40 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY AASECT MEMBERSHIP CONSENT TO USE sessions that present techniques, AASECT membership links you to PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES strategies, models, methodology, and/ thousands of other sexual health Registration and attendance at the or research relevant to the field of practitioners, providing you with a AASECT Annual Conference constitutes sexuality. All workshops should engage network of accomplished peers and an agreement by the registrant to allow participants and focus on sharing new opportunities for professional education, AASECT use of the registrant’s image information and/or expanding previous growth, and development. For further in photographs to be used in AASECT knowledge. Audience participation and information visit www.aasect.org. Those materials and electronic platforms. If you engagement are strongly encouraged. who register for the full conference as wish to be excluded from conference non-members will receive membership images, please email [email protected]. Original Research Session through December 31, 2018. Original research sessions include sections LEARNING FORMATS on background, methods, results, and AASECT MISSION Poster Session discussion. Abstracts selected for oral Founded in 1967, the American Posters are short research presentations presentations are approximately 15 Association of Sexuality Educators, displayed on large printed boards minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) that present information on a specific with the audience. They have been grouped is devoted to the promotion of sexual study, model, concept, or intervention. in sets of three and will be presented health by the development and At the poster session, many authors during the same concurrent session. To the advancement of the fields of sexual simultaneously present their posters, extent possible, abstracts were grouped education, counseling, and therapy. and the audience circulates and stops to by topic. As is standard practice, oral AASECT’s mission is to advance the discuss posters of particular interest with research presenters should expect to be highest standards of professional the authors. asked questions about their research by practice for educators, counselors, and members of the audience. The session will therapists. Workshop be moderated. Only one author of a study The 2018 Annual Conference will again may present during an oral session. include both one-hour and 1.5-hour

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Dialogue Panel Presentation ANNUAL CONFERENCE MOBILE APP The 2018 Annual Conference will also include a concurrent Back by popular demand is the conference mobile app! session block of time dedicated specifically to cultivated Conference attendees may access the AASECT 50th panel presentations on shared themes. These panel Annual Conference mobile app by following these three presentations will comprise three panelists, who will each easy steps: present a 15-minute brief about their idea or concept related 1. Go to your App Store (Google or Apple) to the theme. These briefs will be followed by a facilitated 2. Search for the Eventmobi app (our app provider) and dialogue between panelists and the audience to further download explore the connections between the ideas presented in the Eventmobi app and search for AASECT2018 the briefs. The goal of these panels is to create a respectful, 3. Open engaging environment to explore complementary and The event app includes features such as access to the event divergent perspectives. agenda, speaker information, interactive personalized agenda, meeting maps, alerts, updates, and more! You can also use the app to connect with other attendees, presenters, exhibitors, and sponsors.

42 BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TABOOS & PLEASURES OF SEXUALITY SOCIAL MEDIA BEST PRACTICES

Some people keep social media for personal purposes; others use it professionally. If you want to tag someone in a post, get their permission before you do it. Sharing quotes from presentations or your thoughts about them is a great use of social media. However, please do not share personal conversations without the expressed permission of everyone involved. If you want to post photos of other attendees on social media, you must get permission first. If they consent, ask if they’d like to be tagged. Some people prefer not to have their photos tagged online – don’t take it personally.

TWITTER is a great way to share tidbits, quotes, and thoughts about conference presentations. Whenever possible, credit the speaker just as you’d cite a source in a paper or blog post. Many presenters will post their Twitter handles in their presentations. If they are not on Twitter, you can name them instead. Using the #AASECT18 hashtag makes it easier for everyone to keep track of the conference tweets. You can save a search in your Twitter app to follow it, too. When a tweet starts with someone’s handle (i.e., “@theAASECT is doing a great job with the #AASECT18 conference”), the only people who will see it in their streams are those who follow both you and @theAASECT. If you want a tweet to be visible to all of your followers, try something like: “I’m really impressed with the #AASECT18 conference.”

FACEBOOK is a useful way to let your friends know what you think of the conference, what presentations you’re attending, etc. You can also use Facebook to connect with other attendees, plan dinners, get information or feedback, and network. (Just remember that some people use it personally rather than professionally.)

INSTAGRAM. AASECT is also on Instagram! Use Instagram to share photos, quotes, and thoughts about conference presentations as well as great moments with your colleagues, friends, and presenters (with consent, of course). Whenever possible, credit the speaker just as you’d cite a source in a paper or blog post. Many presenters will post their IG handles in their presentations. You can mention them in the caption or tag them in the photo. If they are not on Instagram, you can name them instead. Instagram also allows you to link other social media outlets (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.) for a mass share. Follow us or post using the #AASECT18 hashtag to make it easier for people to keep track of the conference posts. The hashtag should automatically save in your search tab for easy navigation.

AASECT 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 43 LEGEND FOR CORE THANK YOU, VOLUNTEERS! KNOWLEDGE AREA (CKA) DESCRIPTIONS

Volunteering at the AASECT Annual Conference is an honor and a AASECT has updated the Core Knowledge Areas (CKAs) privilege. We are grateful for this year’s dedicated volunteers, who required for certification and certification renewal of were selected from a large pool of outstanding applicants. These all sexuality educators, sexuality counselors, and sex volunteers are essential in helping our conference run smoothly, therapists. The content and learning objectives of every making sure that attendees are scanned for CE Credits at the various session at the conference meet one or more of the conference sessions, and providing other general support. We hope CKAs described below. The CKAs of all conference ses- that you will join us in taking a few minutes to thank this year’s sions are designated by the letters A – Q. Participants may choose sessions based on the CKAs needed for volunteers when you see them: AASECT Certification. A. Ethics and ethical behavior. Auburn Meisner, MSW Traci Seidman, PhD B. Developmental sexuality from a bio-psycho-social Bernard Newton, LPC Yasmine Kaidbey, LGSW perspective across the life course. Charlie Huntington Breana Myers C. Socio-cultural, familial factors (e.g., ethnicity, culture, Grace Ballard, MA, LPCC Michelle Ritz, MS religion, spirituality, socioeconomic status, family Hannah Regan Omara Cardoza, MA values) in relation to sexual values and behaviors. Kris Roudebush, MA Sara Antonson D. Issues related to sexual orientation and/or gender identity: heterosexuality; issues and themes impact- Marti Stany, LCSW Shantel Edmonds, PsyD ing lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual people; Tali Boots, LPC gender identity and expression. E. Intimacy skills (e.g., social, emotional, sexual), intimate relationships, interpersonal relationships, and family dynamics. F. Diversities in sexual expression and lifestyles, including but not limited to polyamory, swinging, BDSM, tantra. G. Sexual and reproductive anatomy/physiology. H. Health/medical factors that may influence sexuality, including but not limited to illness, disability, drugs, mental health, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy termination, contraception, fertility, HIV/ AIDS, sexually transmitted infection, other infections, sexual trauma, injury, and safer sex practices. I. Range of sexual functioning and behavior, from optimal to problematic, including but not limited to common issues such as desire discrepancy, lack of desire, difficulty achieving or maintaining arousal, sexual pain and penetration problems, difficulty with orgasm. J. Sexual exploitation, including sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and . K. Cyber sexuality and social media. L. Substance use/abuse and sexuality. M. Pleasure enhancement skills. N. Learning theory and its application. O. Professional communication and personal reflection skills. P. History of the discipline of sex research, theory, education, counseling, and therapy. Q. Principles of sexuality research and research methods.

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Nickles, MA, DST Margaret Nichols, PhD, CST, CSTS Amit Arava, LCSW, CST Heather Artman Mariotta Gary-Smith, MPH, CSE Amit Arava, LCSW, CST Heather Artman Mariotta Gary-Smith, MPH, CSE Andy Hogg, PhD, DST Heather Brooks Rensmith, LCSW, CST Megan Burr Pollock, MS, CST Andy Hogg, PhD, DST Heather Brooks Rensmith, LCSW, CST Megan Burr Pollock, MS, CST Angela Andersen-Honnecke, MA, LPC Heather Edwards, MPT Megan Torrey-Payne, MSW, LCSW, CST Angela Andersen-Honnecke, MA, LPC Heather Edwards, MPT Megan Torrey-Payne, MSW, LCSW, CST Ann Elizabeth Van Atta, MSW, CST Heidi J. Sproull, AM, LMSW, CST Melanie Ricaurte, PsyD, CST Ann Elizabeth Van Atta, MSW, CST Heidi J. Sproull, AM, LMSW, CST Melanie Ricaurte, PsyD, CST Belinda Chaffins, PsyD, CST Ian Kerner, PhD, LMFT, CSC Michelle Belke, MSW, CST Belinda Chaffins, PsyD, CST Ian Kerner, PhD, LMFT, CSC Michelle Belke, MSW, CST Beth Christopherson, LCSW, CST Ilialis A Reyes, LMSW MJ Denis, MA, LMFT, LPC, CST, CCPS Beth Christopherson, LCSW, CST Ilialis A Reyes, LMSW MJ Denis, MA, LMFT, LPC, CST, CCPS Brier Jirka, LIMHP, CST Israel Helfand, PhD, LMFT, CST Nicole B. Wallace, MS, LPC, CST Brier Jirka, LIMHP, CST Israel Helfand, PhD, LMFT, CST Nicole B. Wallace, MS, LPC, CST Buck Black, MSW, LCSW, CST Jack Alan Copley, Dmin, LMFT, CST Paige Vandersloot, CST Buck Black, MSW, LCSW, CST Jack Alan Copley, Dmin, LMFT, CST Paige Vandersloot, CST Cameron Gridley, PsyD, CST Jami Lynn Bula, MA Pamela Landau, CSE Cameron Gridley, PsyD, CST Jami Lynn Bula, MA Pamela Landau, CSE Carole Goldberg, PsyD, CST Janette Strokappe, DVM, MSc Patricia Rich, LCSW, CST, CSTS Carole Goldberg, PsyD, CST Janette Strokappe, DVM, MSc Patricia Rich, LCSW, CST, CSTS Carolyn Stanford Lee, DNP Janiqua Sasha Nettles, Paula K Guillory, MPH Carolyn Stanford Lee, DNP Janiqua Sasha Nettles, Paula K Guillory, MPH Catherine D. Ravella, RN, PhD, DST, CSTS Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST Peregrine M. Kavros, PhD, MBA, CST Catherine D. Ravella, RN, PhD, DST, CSTS Jayleen Galarza, PhD, LCSW, MEd, CST Peregrine M. Kavros, PhD, MBA, CST Cathleen Helfand, BA, MS Jennifer A. Wiessner, LCSW, CST Rebecca L. Love, MS, LPC CST Cathleen Helfand, BA, MS Jennifer A. Wiessner, LCSW, CST Rebecca L. Love, MS, LPC CST Cay L. Crow, MA, LPC, CST, CSTS Jennifer Lucas-Brown, LPC, CST Robyn Beth Faye, MD, FACOG, NCMP, IF, CSC Cay L. Crow, MA, LPC, CST, CSTS Jennifer Lucas-Brown, LPC, CST Robyn Beth Faye, MD, FACOG, NCMP, IF, CSC Chelsea Wakefield, PhD, LCSW, CST Jennifer McComb, PhD, CST Rosemary Anne Leone Chelsea Wakefield, PhD, LCSW, CST Jennifer McComb, PhD, CST Rosemary Anne Leone Cortina Peters, LMHC, CLC, CSE Jo Marie Kessler, MS, NP, DST, CSE Ruth Yarger, MSW, LCSW Cortina Peters, LMHC, CLC, CSE Jo Marie Kessler, MS, NP, DST, CSE Ruth Yarger, MSW, LCSW David Ley, PhD, CST, CSTS Justine Elaine Braford, LMSW, CST Sabitha Pillai-Friedman, PhD, LCSW, CST, CSTS David Ley, PhD, CST, CSTS Justine Elaine Braford, LMSW, CST Sabitha Pillai-Friedman, PhD, LCSW, CST, CSTS De-Andrea Blaylock-Johnson, MSW Katherine Ellin, PhD, MSW, DTR, CST, CSTS Sara Perry De-Andrea Blaylock-Johnson, MSW Katherine Ellin, PhD, MSW, DTR, CST, CSTS Sara Perry Dennis Radliff Kathleen Schlegel, MFT Sarah Gubits, LCSW-C Dennis Radliff Kathleen Schlegel, MFT Sarah Gubits, LCSW-C Donald Cronk, BA, MS, CST Katie Heiden-Rootes, PhD Stephanie Buehler, MPW, PsyD, CST, CSTS Donald Cronk, BA, MS, CST Katie Heiden-Rootes, PhD Stephanie Buehler, MPW, PsyD, CST, CSTS Donna M Harris-Richards Kelly J. Wise, PhD, LCSW-R, CST, CSTS Tamekia Nekia Howard, MS, CASAC,ICADC Donna M Harris-Richards Kelly J. Wise, PhD, LCSW-R, CST, CSTS Tamekia Nekia Howard, MS, CASAC,ICADC Edy Nathan MA, LCSW, CST Kimberly Jackson, MSSA, CST Tara Sketchley, B.A. Edy Nathan MA, LCSW, CST Kimberly Jackson, MSSA, CST Tara Sketchley, B.A. Eli R Green, PhD, CSE Kristen Lilla, MSW, LCSW, CST, CSE Tim D Murray, TKP Eli R Green, PhD, CSE Kristen Lilla, MSW, LCSW, CST, CSE Tim D Murray, TKP Elisabeth Sheff-Stefanik, PhD, CSE Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R Virginia W Sloan, BA, MA, MPH, PhD Elisabeth Sheff-Stefanik, PhD, CSE Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R Virginia W Sloan, BA, MA, MPH, PhD Elliot Ruggles, LCSW, PhD Laura Rademacher, MA, CST Wendy Marie Mercer, MS, LMHC, NCC, BCPC, CST Elliot Ruggles, LCSW, PhD Laura Rademacher, MA, CST Wendy Marie Mercer, MS, LMHC, NCC, BCPC, CST Emily V Ortiz Lee Kinsey, PhD, LPC, NCC Xavier Spencer, MSMFT, IMFT, CST, LCDC-III Emily V Ortiz Lee Kinsey, PhD, LPC, NCC Xavier Spencer, MSMFT, IMFT, CST, LCDC-III

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Name Address City State/Province Country Zip/Postal Code

Please check the sessions you attended and total the number of CE credits. Pushing Boundaries: Teaching Diverse and “Taboo” Sexuality…, Kattari ...... 1 AASECT CE ____ Additional fee required for the following Wednesday and Thursday Pre-cons. Beyond Sensate Focus: Erotic Mindfulness Practice to Deepen…, Walker...... 1 CE ____ Furries and Pets and Therians, Oh My! Exploring Humanimal Intersubjectivities, Goodkin...... 1 CE ____ Wednesday, June 13, 2018/ Thursday, June 14, 2018 Treating “Monsters”: How to Work with Minor Attracted Persons…, Heidegger ...... 1 CE ____ Pre-con: Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR), Brown-James & Bass ...... 12 CE ____ Pre-con: Sex Therapy Supervision, Part I, Siegel & Wadley ...... 4 CE ____ The Psychology of Gay Men’s Cuckolding Fantasies, Ley 1 CE TOTAL ____ Pre-con: Sex Therapy Supervision, Part II, Siegel & Wadley ...... 4 CE ____ Identity and Intimacy on the Asexual Spectrum, Hille Adjusting the Sexual Script to Include Clitoral Stimulation During…, Towne Thursday, June 14, 2018 AASECT Awards Luncheon Plenary: Sexualizing Cancer, Hart ...... 1 CE ____ Pre- con: Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy, Counseling, Education, and Coaching, Discovering Desire: A Case Study Approach…(Part 1), Hall & Watter...... 1.5 CE ____ Ogden & McAndrews...... 8 CE ____ Battle Buddies: Community-Led Co-creation of…, Williams et al ...... 1.5 AASECT CE ____ Pre- con: Seniors, Sex, and Dementia: Creating a New Paradigm, Siegel ...... 4 CE ____ Complexity of Couples, Sexual Desire, and Clinician Values, McCarthy ...... 1.5 CE ____ Pre- con: The Ethical Management of Sexual Feelings in Clinical Practice and Developing and Applying a Pleasure-Based Positive Sexuality…, Spencer & Berg ...... 1.5 CE ____ Supervision, Fariello ...... 4 CE ____ Maximizing Your Role as a Kinky or Non-Monogamous Provider, Gunn & Powell ...... 1.5 CE ____ Pre- con: Beyond Trans 101: Complex Issues and Complicated Cases for Sexuality and Aging: No Expiration Date, La Valleur & Modjoros...... 1.5 CE ____ Gender A rmative Therapists, Nichols & Jacobs...... 4 CE ____ Teaching Pleasurable Touch, Glickman ...... 1.5 CE ____ Engaging Diversity Opening Plenary, Muñoz-Laboy ...... 1 .5 CE ____ Hidden Ways American Childbirth Damages People’s Sex Lives…, Buehler & Gilliland...... 1.5 CE ____ Discovering Desire: A Case Study Approach…(Part 2), Hall & Watter ...... 1.5 CE ____ Friday, June 15, 2018 Colonized Black Masculinity and Sexuality, Cooper ...... 1.5 CE ____ Ge neral Plenary: Passion, Pleasure, and Sexually Transmitted Infections, Trent ...... 1.5 CE ____ Beyond the Hashtag: Addressing Sexual Harassment, Coercion, and…, Galarza et al ...... 1.5 CE ____ Moving Toward Pragmatic, Judgment-free Language in Discussion of BDSM Desires, Midori...... 1 CE ____ Kink/BDSM for Aging Adults: A Creative Expansion of…, Pillai-Friedman ...... 1.5 CE ____ Vaginal Rejuvenation, a New Technology for Vaginal Health…, Thomas & Schroder...... 1 CE ____ Sexual Healing Heals More Than Sex: An Embodied Relational Approach…, Resnick...... 1.5 CE ____ Intimate World of Transgender Individuals and Their Partners…, Smidova...... 1 CE ____ Life Size Sex Dolls: Moving Past the Stigma, Myths, and Taboo…, Beauregard et al...... 1.5 CE ____ Rediscovering My Body after Cancer, Galeano ...... 1 CE ____ Black Sexual Epistemology: Re-Centering African-Americans in…, Gilbert...... 1.5 CE ____ Sex on Film: A Research-Education-Filmmaking Collaboration, Herbenick et al ...... 1 CE ____ Sexual Interest, Disorder, or Crime: When is a Fetish Just a Fetish?, Randall ...... 1.5 CE ____ Coming Out as Polyamorous, Pincus ...... 1 CE ____ Recruiting New Members for the Certifi ed Sexuality Educators (CSE)…, Cairo ...... 1 AASECT CE ____ Vulvar Dermatoses: A Primer for the Sexuality Specialist, Spadt ...... 1 CE ____ A Kink in the Cure, Murray & Lewis ...... 2 CE ____ Sex in the Age of PrEP – Exploring Modern Ethical Dilemmas, Giordano ...... 1 CE ____ What You Always Wanted to Know About AASECT Supervision…, Valentine et al ...... 1 AASECT CE ____ Sunday, June 17, 2018 Talk about Taboo! Interpreting the World of Age Play…, Lipscomb ...... 1 CE ____ Sexual Self-E cacy as Political Power: Through the Lens…, Stiritz & Worth...... 1.5 AASECT CE ____ Ending the Intercourse Discourse: Elevating and Enhancing Pleasure…, Mintz et al...... 1 CE ____ Developing Therapy Practice Guidelines for…, Berkey et. al ...... 1.5 CE ____ Healthy Sexuality for Sex O enders, Weeks & Kelly ...... 1 CE ____ Trans Topology — A Primer for Pleasure, Hileman ...... 1.5 CE ____ Race is a Body Image Issue: Expanding the Sexological Understanding…, Rashatwar...... 1 CE ____ Understanding and Treating Grief and Loss When Sexuality…, Nathan...... 1.5 CE ____ More Tech, More Talking: How Evolving Sex Tech Impacts Fidelity Agreements, Tuckman ...... 1 CE ____ Narrative Conversations: Helping Clients Reconstruct Taboo, Yabar...... 1.5 CE ____ Embracing Your Discomfort: Cultivating Mindfulness…, Gunsaullus ...... 1 CE ____ The Mystery of the Missing Theory: Why Sex Ed Has So Little Theory…, Dischiavo. . . . 1.5 AASECT CE ____ Finding Pleasure and Intimacy When Sex is (Undesirably) Painful…, Cassard ...... 1 CE ____ What Are Sex O enders’ Dispositions Toward Non-deviant Sexuality…, Martin 1 CE TOTAL ____ Sexual Shame – What Research Says, and Why…, Schermer-Sellers & Hodson ...... 1 CE ____ Wet Panties and Perked Nipples: Young Black Women’s Voices…, Bradley Shedding the Taboo of Kink Education with Youth, Oliver ...... 1 AASECT CE ____ Editing Out Condoms: Contraception in Popular Teen Culture, Regan Befriend and Transcend Your Sexual Story Using Internal Family Systems…, Rich ...... 1 CE ____ Ourselves as Context: The Ethics of Personal Disclosure in Therapy…, Raznick & Malone ...... 1.5 CE ____ Sex and Intimacy after Cancer Treatment, Albaugh ...... 1 CE ____ The Shadow Side of Sex Positivity: Uncovering the “White Fragility” Taboo, Madrone et al ...... 1.5 CE ____ Men and Infertility: Masculinity and Taboo, Kronenfeld ...... 1 CE ____ Imaginable Sexual Bodies: Trans Sexualities, Erotic Embodiments, and …, Fielding & Gunn . . . .1.5 CE ____ Sex Worker and Proud: A Phenomenological Study of Consensual…, Curtis 1 CE TOTAL ____ Mitigating Stigma and Discrimination in BDSM…, Chirinos & Shahbaz ...... 1.5 CE ____ Sexual Diversity Among Black and Hispanic Women…, Townes The Art of Disability and Sexuality, Summers & Coombs...... 1.5 CE ____ Sexual Pharmacology: An Overview of Sexual E ects of…, Siegel & Siegel ...... 1.5 CE ____ Mm, Mm, Om: Using Mindfulness-Based Interventions to Help Clients…, Torrey-Payne...... 1 CE ____ Enlivening Pleasure Now: Using Mindfulness, Embodiment, and Movement…, Mendez ...... 1.5 CE ____ The Right to Parent: Addressing Social, Political, and Therapeutic…, Sanabria & Mauro ...... 1 CE ____ The Privilege of Power: Exploring the Functionality of Rape Fantasy…, Brown-James ...... 1.5 CE ____ Don’t Skip Out or Trip Out on Pleasure: Educating Adolescents…, Hunter ...... 1 AASECT CE ____ Wh ipple Plenary: What Do We Know About Pedophilia?, Seto...... 1.5 CE ____ New and Emerging Research in Alternative Black Sexualities, Baham & Akbarian ...... 1 CE ____ Taste of Kink ...... 3 AASECT CE ____ Too Kinky for Kink: Working with Clients Who Experience Shunning…, Pollock...... 1 CE ____ Bedpost Confessions, Johnson et al...... 3 CE ____ The Complexity of Pelvic Health with BDSM/Kink Play, Fosnight & Edwards ...... 1 CE ____ Interracial Open Relationships: How to Manage Jealousy and…, Wenzel ...... 1 CE ____ Saturday, June 16, 2018 When World Views Collide: How to Understand and Talk with Adversaries, Turner & Stayton . . . . 1 CE ____ Providing Training and AASECT Continuing Education (CE) Credits, Pahwa ...... 1 AASECT CE ____ AASECT Certifi cation Meeting, Valentine et al ...... 1 AASECT CE ____ Total CE credits Earned ______Schiller Plenary: Girls and Sex…, Orenstein ...... 1.5 CE ____ Candy Consent, Lilla & Hoeger ...... 1 CE ____ A New Look at Menopause: The Myths, Truth, and Power…, Wickman & Desilets...... 1 CE ____ Total AASECT CE credits Earned ______

Please note that session evaluations and participant satisfaction questionnaires will be distributed electronically this year. Conference attendees will complete all evaluations online and print their o cial CE certifi cate.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2018 AASECT AWARD AND SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS!

Distinguished Service to AASECT Award – Gina Ogden, PhD, LMFT, CST, CSTS Integrative Approaches to Sex Therapy Award – Douglas Braun-Harvey, LMFT, CGP, CST, CSTS Professional Standard of Excellence Award – Ruby Bouie Johnson, LCSW, LCDC, CSAT Humanitarian Award – Women of Color Sexual Health Network Sexuality Educator Award – Wayne Pawlowski, MSW, CSE, CSES Book Award – The Wiley Handbook for Sex Therapy – Zoë D. Peterson, PhD Student Presentation Award – Jessica Hille, JD, LLM – Original Research Session: Identity and Intimacy on the Asexual Spectrum Schiller Prize – Gina Ogden, PhD, LMFT, CST, CSTS and Kamara McAndrews, LMFT, CST – Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy, Counseling, Education, and Coaching: An Integrative 4-D Approach Bill T. Jones Scholarship – Ashley Townes AASECT Creating Community Scholarship – Kelly Giles and Lisa Butterworth, LPC John Sughrue, Jr., MD Scholarship – Jen Conroy

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PHILADELPHIA Lowes Philadelphia Hotel Pennsylvania June 13-16, 2019

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