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Adolescent Sexuality: Expanding the Understanding of Sexuality from Toddler to Teen
Title of Event: Adolescent Sexuality: Expanding the Understanding of Sexuality from Toddler to Teen
Description of Event:
The term pleasure has a conflicted and sorted history. Throughout time, pleasure seekers have been seen as hedonistic, irresponsible, and untrustworthy. Pleasure is a highly sexualized word that is considered taboo and often shamed. Adrienne Maree Brown’s Pleasure Activism (2020) presents an alternative view of pleasure that is not solely sexual, and has serious implication when working with adolescents.
This workshop will present the importance of de-sexualizing ideas of pleasure throughout the lifespan and specifically focus on contending harmful and overly sexualized ideologies often modeled by adults. Expanding the definition and understanding of pleasure provides a biopsychosocial juxtaposition that provides potential harm reduction in behavioral practice for youth.
Date of Event: August 16, 2024
Time of Event: 10am-12pm CT/ 8am-10am PT/ 11am-1pm ET
Location: Online Synchronous
Presenter/Speaker: Dr. Lexx Brown-James, LMFT, CSE, CSES
Contact Name: Chris Whitt
Contact Email: cwhitt@thechicagoschool.edu
AASECT Approved CEs: 2