Go Back Research Article September, 2021

Trauma-Informed Sex Positive Approaches to Sexual Pleasure

Author James Dennis Fortenberry Author Nicole M. Favaa

Abstract

This paper develops a trauma-informed sex-positive framework as a public health, clinical, and research approach to sexual experience over the life course. The framework centers trauma-informed sex positivity as the linkage for sexual pleasure (along with sexual wellbeing and sexual health) to the social, cultural, and legal concepts of sexual justice. By providing a conceptual distinction of sexual pleasure from sexual wellbeing and sexual health, the framework improves clarity about how these constructs are related as well as provides possibilities for detailed operationalization in public health surveillance and in the new research.

Keywords

sexual pleasure sexual wellbeing trauma-informed care sexual rights sexual justice sexual trauma consent sexual autonomy pleasure-centered approaches public health clinical interventions sex education healing through pleasure intersectionality gender and sexuality mental health empowerment bodily autonomy sexual resilience holistic sexuality cultural perspectives on pleasure sexual ethics trauma recovery positive sexuality intimacy sexual expression lgbtq+ sexual health pleasure activism stigma reduction somatic healing sexual self-discovery
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Volume 33
Issue 4
Pages 537–549
DOI 10.1080/19317611.2021.1961965
ISSN 1931-762X
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