Advancing Sex-Positive Social Work Research and Practice

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10554348
AutoresCaitlin I Laughney (0000-0002-7304-9943, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen67
Número4
Páginas391-393
Fecha de publicación2022-08-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-8046 • E-ISSN: 1545-6846
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sw/swac036
PMID35916634
OpenAlexW4289443578
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas16

There is a growing concern within social work about the absence or lack of human sexuality training and education that social workers receive, specifically about sex-positive and pleasure-inclusive sexual wellness (Dodd & Tolman, 2017; Williams et al., 2016). As Dodd (2020) described in her book Sex-Positive Social Work, “a sex-positive perspective encourages agency in sexual decision making and embraces consensual sexual activity as healthy, something to be enjoyed without stigma or shame. It embraces sexuality as a human right” (p. 3). However, the scarce training that many social workers receive regarding a limited range of sexuality issues, such as sexual assault, HIV, and pregnancy, has traditionally followed a deficit-based framework that comes from a medicalized model of conceptualizing, pathologizing, and diagnosing sexual health as a problem in need of professional evaluation, control, and treatment (Myers & Milner, 2007). A deficit-based and medicalized model of sexuality in many ways directly conflicts with national and global aims toward the advancement of holistic sexual wellness, particularly for people with marginalized identities, such as children, women, sexual and gender minority people, sex workers, people living with disabilities, and people of color (Chmielewski et al., 2020; Fritsch et al., 2016; Harden, 2014). In response to these growing demands, social workers must examine how to develop a sex-positive framework within clinical practice as well as research

Agency (philosophy · Developmental psychology · Human sexuality · Pleasure · Political science · Population · Psychotherapist · Reproductive health · Shame · Social science · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Gender Studies · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work