The “Sex/Porn Addiction” Model, developed in the 1980’s, has promoted therapy and treatment services that are based in arbitrary, moralistic and sex-negative messaging and that do not stand up to academic, evidence-based scrutiny. Proponents claim that individuals become addicted to sexual pleasure or to watching pornography in the same way someone may become chemically dependent …
Speaker: Kristin Bennion
Mormon Mental Health Association Navigating Sexuality As A Single Mormon
This session will focus on helping single members of the LDS Church normalize the challenges they face from the often rigid messaging and constructs they receive in the current Church. Strategies that are sex-positive and self-affirming will be presented in order to create spaces that allow for healthy boundaries and ownership of individualized sexual decision-making. …