Pleasure-Centered Educational Program: A Comprehensive Approach to Pleasure-Oriented Sexuality Education in Domestic Violence Shelters

A Brief Report on the Association between Dissociation during Sex and Condom Use Self-Efficacy among Women Residing in Domestic Violence Shelters

“…activities focused on safe sex communication, condom use self-efficacy, or pleasure into safe sexual practices) are critical for reducing women's sexual risk. For example, others have suggested that the incorporation of pleasure into sexual practices may be particularly needed for survivors of IPV (Hogben, Ford, Becasen, & Brown, 2015;Tambling, Neustifter, Muska, Reckert, & Rua, 2012) and a positive focus on sexuality may help survivors with sexual communication and self-efficacy. Thus, future studies are needed that examine whether a positive focus on sexuality improves sexual communication and self-efficacy among survivors of IPV.…”

Women’s sexuality: Victims, objects, or agents?

“…There are few examples of explicitly sex-positive programming in the literature, and those that do exist are not explicitly intended for use with young adult or older adult women. However, a few components of existing workshops stand out as important to program participants: the creation of a safe, nonjudgmental environment; open, positive discussion; discussion about a broad range of sexualities and behaviors; freedom from pressure to participate or engage in sexual activity; opportunities to discuss ambivalence; and appealing to multiple senses (e.g., auditory, visual, tactile;Bay-Cheng et al, 2013;Gubrium & Shafer, 2014;Tambling, Neustifter, Muska, Reckert, & Rua, 2012). Workshops of this kind may feel particularly participant friendly if led by a similar-age, knowledgeable, and nonjudgmental peer (Bay-Cheng et al, 2013).…”

Sex-Positive Curricula: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Physical Fitness, Self-Concept and Sexual Functioning

“…Although, comprehensive sexuality education places an emphasis on a wider range of issues pertaining to sexual intercourse, the tone is still negative and topics are still limited to unplanned pregnancy and medical concerns (SIECUS, 2011;Tabling, Neustifter, Muska, Reckert, & Rua, 2012). There is little discussion of the benefits, either physical or emotional, of sexual behavior.…”

“…Similar to the early 20 th century curricula, the majority of sex education programs today emphasize the harmful aspects of sexuality in order to discourage sexual behavior (Carter, 2001;Davis et al, 1998;Daily, 1997;Few, 1997;Fine, 2006;Gupta, 2011;Kann et al, 2006;Kirby, 2007;Lamb, 2013;Linderg et al, 2006;Tabling et al, 2012).…”

“…Prior to college, most sex education is based in abstinence-only curricula which provide a negative, narrow scope of sexuality (Tabling, Neustifter, Muska, Reckert, & Rua, 2012 …”