Paper Title
Trauma-Informed Sex Positive Approaches to Sexual Pleasure
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
Article Type
Research Article
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Publication Info
Volume: 33 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 537–549
Published On
September, 2021
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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.
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