🎬 Videos(7)
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RfRx - Accepting Your Sexuality after Religion with Praia Westerband-Otero, LMHC & Dr Darrel Ray
Recovering from Religion
Religion can distort many things in our lives that are natural, including sex! Have you been taught that sex is only permitted in the context of marriage or procreation? Or that anything other than a monogamous heterosexual relationship will lead to damnation? That porn is addictive and will lead to a degenerate behavior? Do you struggle with guilt because you masturbate? We'll be tackling these questions and more along with providing some helpful tools for those of us who are struggling with these issues.
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RfRx - Reclaiming Your Sexuality After Religion with Dr Darrel Ray
Recovering from Religion
Transitioning out of religion isn't easy. Many of us have built our personal identity around our religious worldview and community, but what to do when that's gone or slipping away? We may be left feeling perplexed, confused, depressed and anxious in the aftermath of departing long held faith practices. This RfRx discussion will focus on strategies to rebuild a sense of self and self worth after one's religious identity is stripped away, as well as making rational decisions about unhealthy behaviors in contrast with sin consciousness.
📄 Articles(3)
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Comprehensive* List of LGBTQ+ Vocabulary Definitions - It's Pronounced Metrosexual
It's Pronounced Metrosexual
To help you make sense of the alphabet soup, and be as respectful and accurate as possible when using identifying language.
📚 Books(18)
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Expose Yourself: How to Take Risks, Question Everything, and Find Yourself
Erin Louis
After her first two books about the stripper world and her memoirs, Erin Louis offers us her new self-help book promoting critical thinking and self-confidence through humor, challenging insights, and her own true stories. A cross between "Fifty Shades of Grey" and "The God Delusion", Ms Louis titillates as she enlightens readers. You will learn how to find the freedom to be yourself, find confidence to take risks, and change your life. This book will show you how. As she says, you don't even have to get naked to do it, she's done that for you.
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Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
Darrel Ray
Why are all the major religions consumed with sex? What makes sex so important, whether Buddhism or Islam, Christianity or Mormonism? What is the impact of religion on human sexuality? This book explores this and more.
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A Guide to Gender (2nd Edition): The Social Justice Advocate's Handbook
Sam Killermann
A Guide to Gender (2nd Edition): The Social Justice Advocate's Handbook
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The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
Jane Ward
In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Jane Ward smartly explores what, exactly, is wrong with heterosexuality in the twenty-first century, and what straight people can do to fix it for good. She shows how straight women, and to a lesser extent straight men, have tried to mend a fraught patriarchal system in which intimacy, sexual fulfillment, and mutual respect are expected to coexist alongside enduring forms of inequality, alienation, and violence in straight relationships.
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What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety
Jaclyn Friedman
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
Jessica Valenti
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Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness
Cory Silverberg, Miriam Kaufman
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The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
Janet W. Hardy, Dossie Easton
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His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America's PornPanic with Honest Talk about Sex|NOOK Book
Marty Klein Ph.D.
Written by Dr. Marty Klein, a Certified Sex Therapist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with more than three decades' experience, this fascinating book contests the common belief that pornography is unilaterally harmful to individuals and our society, addresses common concerns and...
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America's War on Sex: The Continuing Attack on Law, Lust, and Liberty, 2nd Edition|NOOK Book
Marty Klein Ph.D.
This book exposes how a coalition of political, religious, and civic leaders are using the issue of sex to frighten, misinform, and bully Americans—paving the way for dramatic new public policies that are already restricting everyone's rights.
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Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps - And What We Can Do About It
Lise Eliot
Based on years of exhaustive research and her own work in the new field of plasticity, Eliot argues that infant brains are so malleable that a few small differences at birth become amplified over time, as parents and teachers--and the culture at large--unwittingly reinforce gender stereotypes.
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
🎙️ Podcasts(4)
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Ep. 7 with Dr. Darrel Ray: Why are religion and sexuality so tied together? (Pt. 2)
PsycHoe Podcast
Joined by the lovely Dr. Darrel Ray, we get to discuss a topic that he mentions he could go on for hours about; in fact, he has and will continue to do so. Dr. Ray, religious trauma specialist, goes into the intrinsic relationship between religion and our ...
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#27 Dr. Darrel Ray on Sociosexuality & Sex Addiction
Analyzed Podcast
Thomas and Sara talk with psychologist Dr. Darrel Ray about the concept of sociosexual orientation as well as the myth of sex addiction.
🏢 Organizations(1)
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American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
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📁 Other Resources(2)
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Zinnia Jones
YouTube Channel
My work focuses on insights to be found across transgender sociology, public health, psychiatry, history of medicine, cognitive science, the social processes of science, transgender feminism, and human rights, taking an analytic approach that intersects these many perspectives and is guided by the lived experiences of transgender people. The importance of real, concrete support is a guiding value to me, and I'm passionate about community health resources and outreach. I live in Orlando with my family, and work chiefly in technical writing.
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Hannah Witton
YouTube Channel
Hi I'm Hannah Witton, I make content about sex, relationships and disability & my stoma!