Contributing To A New Paradigm Within Counseling Psychology

Further, given our counseling psychology values emphasizing social justice, wellness, and resilience, the SIG would advocate for the inclusion of sex-positive human sexuality training as a necessary component of doctoral level curricula as well as ongoing continuing education for counseling psychologists, and others working in health service psychology. Interestingly, some of the individuals who create taboo around those types of situations may have comparable sexual histories—despite never having experienced any life-altering ramifications as a result of them. As a broad ideology and world view, sex positivity is simply the idea that all sex, as long as it is healthy and explicitly consensual, is a positive thing.

By pulling back the layers of our culture—one that often equates sex with shame—we can explore how sex positivity provides an antidote to this shame. Sexuality often grapples with the repercussions of previous lived experiences, as well as narratives reaching far beyond the two or more individuals engaging in any given action.

On the contrary, if religion assumes the characteristics of a doctrine that is primarily concerned with issuing laws on how to offer prayers and how many times, people's wealth and its distribution, dress code, sex life, punishment for crimes etc, then the whole concept of spirituality loses double dong its Godly element.

For me, sex positivity is about consent and communication. However, if being sex positive means that I am a part of a mostly white and cisgender movement claiming that all consensual expressions, or non-expressions, of sexuality are good and healthy”, then I am out.

While white women and elite stars continually occupy center stage in the cultural attention to sexual assault, gender-based violence against people of color remains woefully unaddressed—and when it is addressed, often, more violence ensues at the hands of the racist state.