Marty Klein – Advances in Treating Sexual Issues

Outline

Using the Sexual Intelligence approach with couples and individuals.

• What do most people want from sex?
• What do people focus on during sex?
• What can make sex complicated?

Changing our relationship to sexuality.

• What ordinary people do.
  • Normalizing?

American culture is sex-negative.

• Understanding out assumptions about sex.
• Common clinical assumptions about sex.
• Our ongoing therapeutic challenge.

Narrative & constructing sexuality.

• Constructing sexuality.
• Sexual narratives matter.
  • Erectile disfunction
• Changing our narratives.
  • Sexual function as a means, not an end.

Conditions for enjoying sex.

• Aspects of conditions.

Anatomy of sexual arousal.

• Sexual disfunction.

Alternative sexual expression.

• Popular narrative of kinky sex.
• S/M.
• Focus on effects of shame, guilt and secrecy rather than pathologizing.

Assessment and function.

• Dysfunction.
• Good reasons people don’t enjoy sex.
• Why people don’t initiate sex.

The most overrated part of sex.
A new vision of sexual function.

• Sexual intelligence
  • Sexual self-acceptance

Similarities between male and female sexuality.

• All genders what …
• All genders are anxious about …
• All genders believe …

You don’t need to understand “women” or “men”.
Interventions.
Two most practical suggestions.

• Communication.
• Self-acceptance.