
Positive Sexuality
A Promising Future for Sex Research, Education, and Practice
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. March 2025
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-1-032-63179-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on an emerging, multidisciplinary, positive sexuality framework that guides sexuality research, education, and practice.
Using this positive sexuality framework, this book will provide helping professionals and others with current research and information on topics and populations that are often missed or misrepresented, including but not limited to: lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, and other orientations; transgender, nonbinary, and other non-cisgender identities; seniors; sex workers; racial minorities; and other marginalized peoples. This framework, based on the social and behavioral sciences, can be used in tandem with other theoretical frameworks, modalities, and methodologies to better support a growing, multifaceted, and unique human population. Chapters are authored by topic experts and utilize the most recent scholarship pertaining to positive sexuality. Readers will come to understand diverse sexuality more completely and inextricably linked to other parts of one's identity and learn to address diverse sexual topics and issues more openly and with a spirit of compassion and human connectedness.
This edited volume is a must-read for sexuality researchers, clinicians, helping professionals, policymakers, and students from diverse educational backgrounds who are interested in human sexuality.
Using this positive sexuality framework, this book will provide helping professionals and others with current research and information on topics and populations that are often missed or misrepresented, including but not limited to: lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, and other orientations; transgender, nonbinary, and other non-cisgender identities; seniors; sex workers; racial minorities; and other marginalized peoples. This framework, based on the social and behavioral sciences, can be used in tandem with other theoretical frameworks, modalities, and methodologies to better support a growing, multifaceted, and unique human population. Chapters are authored by topic experts and utilize the most recent scholarship pertaining to positive sexuality. Readers will come to understand diverse sexuality more completely and inextricably linked to other parts of one's identity and learn to address diverse sexual topics and issues more openly and with a spirit of compassion and human connectedness.
This edited volume is a must-read for sexuality researchers, clinicians, helping professionals, policymakers, and students from diverse educational backgrounds who are interested in human sexuality.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
5 s/w Abbildungen, 5 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-63179-0 (9781032631790)
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Emily E. Prior | DJ Williams
Positive Sexuality
A Promising Future for Sex Research, Education, and Practice
E-Book
03/2025
Routledge
€36.99
Available for download

Emily E. Prior | DJ Williams
Positive Sexuality
A Promising Future for Sex Research, Education, and Practice
E-Book
03/2025
Routledge
€36.99
Available for download

Emily E. Prior | DJ Williams
Positive Sexuality
A Promising Future for Sex Research, Education, and Practice
Book
03/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€53.10
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Persons
Emily E. Prior, M.A. (she/her) is the Founder and Executive Director for the Center for Positive Sexuality. She is a queer femme, an interdisciplinary social scientist, and adjunct professor.
D J Williams, Ph.D., is a professor at Idaho State University and a Research Affiliate and Executive Board Member for the Center for Positive Sexuality. His work is known worldwide and focuses primarily on sex as leisure experience and also violent crime as leisure.
D J Williams, Ph.D., is a professor at Idaho State University and a Research Affiliate and Executive Board Member for the Center for Positive Sexuality. His work is known worldwide and focuses primarily on sex as leisure experience and also violent crime as leisure.
Content
Ch 1: Positive Sexuality and Sociolinguistics: A Conversation
Ch 2: The Crisis of Sexuality Training in Social Work: A Need for Positive Sexuality
Ch 3: Sex Positivity and Healthcare
Ch 4: Intuitive Sexuality: A Sex-Positive Model for Understanding and Treating Compulsive Sexual Behavior
Ch 5: "The Term 'Life' Should be Returned to Us": Achieving a More Just Society through Sex-Positive Criminology
Ch 6: Polyamorous Elders: The "Original Gangsters" of Sex-Positivity
Ch 7: Sex Work as a Form of Art: Using Arts-Based Research to Understand the Profession
Ch 8: Positivity Sexuality as Praxis: A Collaborative and Intergenerational Discussion on the Training and Mentoring Experiences of Sexuality Educators
Ch 9: "Does It Mean Someone Loves You If They Call You Daddy?": Anonymous Sex Education Questions about Kink from 5th-12th Grade Students
Ch 10: Communicating Sex in Digital Spaces: From Emojis to "What are You Into?"
Ch 2: The Crisis of Sexuality Training in Social Work: A Need for Positive Sexuality
Ch 3: Sex Positivity and Healthcare
Ch 4: Intuitive Sexuality: A Sex-Positive Model for Understanding and Treating Compulsive Sexual Behavior
Ch 5: "The Term 'Life' Should be Returned to Us": Achieving a More Just Society through Sex-Positive Criminology
Ch 6: Polyamorous Elders: The "Original Gangsters" of Sex-Positivity
Ch 7: Sex Work as a Form of Art: Using Arts-Based Research to Understand the Profession
Ch 8: Positivity Sexuality as Praxis: A Collaborative and Intergenerational Discussion on the Training and Mentoring Experiences of Sexuality Educators
Ch 9: "Does It Mean Someone Loves You If They Call You Daddy?": Anonymous Sex Education Questions about Kink from 5th-12th Grade Students
Ch 10: Communicating Sex in Digital Spaces: From Emojis to "What are You Into?"