Objectives:
- Review the literature related to diverse sexual practices and perception of pathology (including the DSM V)
- Explore the prevalence of sexual diversity
- Review issues experienced by people who are sexually diverse in public and with medical, spiritual and mental health practitioners
- Highlight why embracing diversity is imperative to providing trauma informed, culturally responsive care.
- Define kink in general
- Learn about the 5 stages of kink identity development
- Identify benefits of kink (empowerment, communication, self-exploration)
- The importance of consent
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Review the differences between abuse and kink
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Learn about bondage, discipline, sadistic and masochistic practices in general
- Personality traits of BDSM practitioners
- Understanding subspace
- The importance of aftercare
- Types of Dominant/submissive relationships dominant/submissive, master/slave, owner/pet, Daddy/little, Female Led Relationships
- Bedroom vs. Lifestyle relationships
- Define asexuality, polyamory and open relationships
- Learn about the prevalence of each
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Explore the research related to effects of the practice of each on mental health
Based in part on the Counselor Toolbox Podcast Series on Human Sexuality, Kink and Polyamory
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes