Upcoming Conference on Alternative Sexualities 9/23/10 in San Francisco
"One of the biggest difficulties queer, kinky, and/or polyamorous people face when looking for therapists or other mental health support is that professionals get very little training about any kind of sex, much less “alternative” sexualities. Despite the lack of any real correlation between being kinky (for example) and having mental health issues, many therapists assume that BDSM players are also abuse survivors. Of course, many kinky folks are, simply because there are a lot of survivors in the world, but if sexual assault caused kink, there’d be even more kinky folks. Similar attitudes about queers and polyamorous folks are also pretty common.Just an event I thought I should put out there, in case anyone is interested and would like to go. Even if no one is, it's still great that people are working to inform the current mental health education about a group of people that has been rather unrepresented and improperly researched.
So it’s really great that the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities is hosting the 3rd Annual Alternative Sexualities Conference on September 23 at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market St. in San Francisco.
You don’t need to be a professional to attend, so students and others with an interest in the topic are definitely welcome."
If you would like to go, there's a link to the registration form in the article.
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