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The Center for Positive Sexuality is pleased to announce a call for submissions for four small grants to support research on race and sexuality.
Race and sexuality are intricately connected, as are so many other aspects of our individual identities. To ignore the impact and experience of race in sexuality research is to forget a crucial element of our identities –
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emilyThe Center for Positive Sexuality is pleased to collaborate with the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS) to offer an Institutional Review Board for studies on sexuality.
Researchers who need IRB approval but are not affiliated with an institution that can provide an IRB can now get their IRB via CARAS,
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Victoria
Polyamory, or polyam, is the practice of having intimate, consensual relationships with multiple people at a time. This practice is often conflated with cheating, or brushed off as something for people who want to avoid real intimacy, which could not be further from the truth! In fact, polyamory requires arguably an even greater sense of intimacy to build trust and connection.
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Victoria
Technology has played a massive role in modern social justice movements. From documentation to calls for action, tech allows us to be more active, aware, and united than ever before. Not long ago, however, we lived without these tools, and some of our important history has gotten shuffled and mixed up along the way.
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emilyAre you interested in participating in a study about early relationships over time?
The Share Lab at York University is seeking BOTH members of romantic couples to fill out our confidential online daily survey on relationship interactions and sexuality for 1.5 years (~60 mins per survey;
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Victoria
Today, news broke of the Supreme Court’s ruling that LGBTQIA+ individuals are protected from sexual orientation/gender identity based discrimination in the workplace, marking an invigorating victory in the midst of heightened activism over the last few weeks. In honor of this victory, we have another #MythMonday post to keep the wheels of education and awareness rolling.
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emily
The Center for Positive Sexuality condemns racism, white supremacy, and violence against Black lives in all forms. We condemn the recent murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. We condemn police violence and the violence of incarceration. We condemn the violence of systemic bias and apathy to the disproportionate effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black communities.
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Victoria
Myth: Asexual people do not partake in sexual activity or romance at all
There’s little public discourse on asexuality, accompanied, inevitably, with an array of misconceptions. Prevalent among these misconceptions is the idea that asexual individuals (aces) never partake in sexual activity, and are unromantic.
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Victoria
MYTH: Bisexuality isn’t real: people are either just straight and experimenting, or actually just gay or lesbian.
Whew! Talk about erasure!
This myth about bisexuality may sound archaic, but it’s a stigma that still persists in public discourse today. Did you know that only 12% of bisexual men have come out,
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Victoria
Masturbation month is still going (or coming, if you will) and this week we’re going to debunk the myth of goal-oriented masturbation. Goal-oriented masturbation is the notion that pleasure should result in climax. This idea can put immense pressure on you to get there and get off,
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