Gary J. Alter, M.D. -  Plastic Surgery of the External Genitalia
  The anatomy of male and female genitalia will be described. The presenter will describe diagnostic, theoretical, and medical issues in the surgeries involving both male-to-female sexual reassignment and female-to-male sexual reassignment. He will also discuss other sexual phenomena he treats surgically, including hidden penis, hypospadias, penile amputation, peyronie's disease, and labia minora reduction. The presenter also treats genital deformities that result from other surgeries, and he will illustrate these surgical treatments and results.

Marianna Beck
From Goddess to Maiden
   If fertility and love goddesses were so important in early cultures how did concepts of the virgin alter over time? Virginity has been interpreted as either a patriarchal byproduct, designed to control female sexuality, protect male property rights and lines of inheritance, or a symbol of female sexuality imbued with special powers. In the Near East, the ancient meaning of the word “virgin” differed from modern interpretation in that it centered on female independence and autonomy and less on sexual abstinence. With the shift to patriarchal religions and rise of monotheism however, the concept of aggressive female energy in the form of female divinities, particularly parthenogenic goddesses (birth from woman alone rather than “god-begotten”) became increasingly taboo and resulted in the restructuring of many myths. This slide lecture examines some of those myths and explores the shifting concept of virginity over time. Examples will range from ancient cults associated with a number of “holy virgins” including the Virgin Mary  to other avatars symbolizing the split between nature and eros. Modern cultural attitudes regarding virginity in other parts of the world will also be discussed.

Vena Blanchard
Resolving Rapid Ejaculation: What works, what doesn't, and why
   Some clinicians say that rapid ejaculation is easy to treat. Others report only minimal success resolving this very common client concern. This presentation reviews the various treatment methods, considers why some clinicians, some clients, and some treatments are more successful than others, and offers a detailed description of one highly effective treatment program.
    Participants will develop a deeper understanding of both rapid ejaculation and effective therapeutic intervention while considering:
    * Why single clients experience greater improvement than couples
    * Which sexual and therapeutic paradigms underlie various treatment approaches
    * What features are common to the most effective methods
    * How the clinician's values--reflected in definitions of rapid ejaculation and successful treatment--influence treatment approaches and treatment outcome
    * How the intersection of technique and principle either supports or undermines therapeutic
success.

Carol Cassell, Ph.D.
Britney, Brandy, Buffy: Three Sexual Images of Teen Women.
   Do adolescent girls feel sexual passion/get horney/want intercourse? Or do girls just want to have fun, flirt, make love? What happens if a young women just wants to have sex? Then, we examine the consequences of morphing adolescent and adult women's sexuality.

Michael Castleman
Make It Sexy--Just Remember, The Editor-in-Chief is a Prude
   In our sex-drenched media, professionals and the public often assume that "sex sells." Actually, the media, especially the news
media, have a maddeningly approach-avoidance relationship with sex information. In this talk--titled with a verbatim quote from a
magazine editor--Castleman shares his perspective on how sex has defined, and been defined by, the mass media, from cave
paintings to the Internet. He'll also examine the promise and perils the media future holds for sex educators and therapists. Michael Castleman is also a longtime sexuality journalist, author of Sexual Solutions (in print 21 years). For five years (1991-95) he answered sex questions for the Playboy Advisor. He currently answers questions for Xandria.com. His sex writing has appeared in Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, New Woman, Men's Fitness, Men's Health, and many other magazines.

Celia Daileader, Ph.D
White Devils/Black Lust: Cross-Racial Eroticism in the English Renaissance
   Inter-racial sex in Renaissance England was both unimaginable, and obsessively imagined, particularly in the black male/white female configuration. When Shakespeare imagined such a union, he set the story far away in Venice, Cyprus, Tunis, or ancient Rome and not only because blackamoors were harder to come by in England. Indeed, Queen Elizabeth's very attempts to banish this group might be considered evidence of her ineffectualness in doing so, and by the end of the century Thomas Rhymer could complain that "With us [in England] a Moor might marry some little drab, or Small-coal Wench." Rhymer's attitude is representative not only in its implications for men of color, but also for the English women who are their potential mates. Depictions of inter-racial sex in the period support Kim Hall's argument that "the bodies of white women" evidence the "anxieties of an evolving monarchial nation-state in which women are the repository of the symbolic boundaries of the nation." Particularly on stage, the specter of miscegenation both titillated and exorcised cultural fears, simultaneously serving misogyny and racialism.

Joy Davidson, Ph.D.
Working with Polyamorous Clients in the Clinical Setting
   In our monogamy-centrist culture, people who choose to extend romantic and sexual relationships beyond their primary bond often present a challenge to traditionally trained therapists. Yet, among an ever-growing minority of individuals, responsible non-monogamy -- i.e. "polyamory" -- is considered a serious, viable option. If clinicians hope to work successfully with those exploring a polyamorous love-style, we must be able to reach beyond our ingrained biases and expand our own knowledge and understanding of this paradigm. This workshop will touch on motivations for polyamory, the forms it can take, its benefits and risks, and the emotional tasks which face those in budding or long-term poly relationships. Focus, however, will be on the issues that poly or poly-curious clients are likely to bring into the clinical environment and ways therapists can help them negotiate both the passages within their relationships and the particular stresses of being polyamorous in a monogamous world.

Maria Yepiz Flaherty Ph.D.
Sex Education in Hispanic Media
   There is a myth that Hispanics are more reticent to discuss sexual matters. That religious and cultural taboos prevent an open discussion of sexual topics. In addition, most of the research conducted with Hispanics has been with at risk populations. Very little work has been done with the general population. This presentation will reflect work in the Hispanic media over the last year. Weekly radio shows, broadcast over 14 stations in five states. In addition, data from the website www.doctoramaria.com and experiences on Telemundo TV will be presented. A qualitative analysis of the questions will include: the demographics of the audience, the type of concerns expressed, sexual beliefs, attitudes and points of view expressed in the Hispanic community. Research is being designed and collected through the Internet. Reservations, conclusions and implications of interactive media sex education will be discussed.

Robert T. Francoeur, Ph.D.
African Sexual Practices: Dry Sex, Salt Cuts, and Widow Inheritance--and Lessons for Global Health
   Efforts to control HIV/AIDS in subequatorial Africa have concentrated on promoting education, condom use, sexual monogamy and access to AIDS drugs. Seldom considered are deep cultural values and customs related to male/female health communications (kunya), heterosexual intercourse practices, male sexual satisfaction and marital patterns that directly promote HIV transmission among heterosexuals, especially African women. Recently, indigenous health experts have opened the door for local and international AIDS workers to discuss the major role these values and customs play in the spread of HIV/AIDS. Drawing on new emic resources, the speaker will explore the health implications of attitudes towards foreplay, genital touches, vaginal secretions, "dry sex," "salt cuts" (Yankan gishiri), and marital patterns such as widow inheritance (joter). Some constructive solutions will be offered with practical implications for the global campaign against HIV/AIDS.

Robert T. Francoeur, PhD.
2000 Years of Western Ideas About Marriage, Contraception, and Abortion
   Some religious thinkers and organizations consistently condemn premarital sex, sexually inclusive relations, and abortion with myths that contradict history as well as the values and the behavior of the majority of Americans. A myth, as used here, is defined by Webster as "an unproved collective belief that is accepted uncritically and is used to justify a social institution," such as a sexual value system. Specific information from the history of sexuality in the Judaic and Christian traditions, and from current sociological data will be offered to expose and discredit common myths described as "traditional American religious values" that proclaim the moral unacceptability of: (1) premarital sexual relationships, (2) alternatives to sexually exclusive marriage, and (3) abortion, Mifepristone (RU 486), and embryonic stem-cell research.

Phil Harvey - The Government vs. Erotica: Our Eight Year Battle for Sexual Expression
   What have we learned about human sexuality from the eight year effort by the federal government to suppress sexually explicit entertainment? Was this a legal battle? A moral or a cultural one? Or was it a concerted effort by a handful of sexually frightened people using the power of the Justice Department to suppress what they fear?
    The legal strategy was clear: Multiple simultaneous indictments of dozens of mail-order companies selling sexually explicit material. This was later held to be an unconstitutional abrogation of the First Amendment rights of those indicted and attacked.
   What were we fighting for? What were the prosecutors fighting for? Clearly, those who most zealously work to suppress sexual imagery are afraid of something. what is it? Is sex really dirty? In a way, it is. In which ways?
   In which ways should it be? We'll address some of the symptoms of the reviling of especially) female sexuality as the source of evil in the world.
   Does sex destroy reason? You bet. Does that make it dangerous? A lot of people believe it does. We will discuss these questions and some possible answers.

Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., ABPP
Surviving the Erotic Transference and Countertransference
   Dr. Hedges will survey general considerations regarding the experiencing and handling of transference and countertransference in psychotherapy. The ways in which erotic stimulation often appear as remembered relational experience in transference and countertransference will be discussed along with case vignettes. Cautions and precautions in bringing into conscious focus of the transference-countertransference matrix will be presented along with suggestions regarding ways to elucidate and process meanings in a manner that is safe and therapeutic.

Kristen Hefley , M.L.S.
Selling Intimacy: Women Who Sell Their Undergarments on the Internet for a Profit
   Characteristics of the Internet such as high levels of privacy and anonymity, coupled with low start-up and overhead costs make the entrepreneurial aspects of the online sex industry extremely accessible, which has led to innovation of new methods for individuals to connect sexually. One of these ways is through the sale used clothing, particularly undergarments. Thirty-two women who participate in online auction sales of their undergarments responded to an Internet survey. The results of the survey help to illuminate the determinants of women's decisions to sell their used undergarments, how the women integrate the selling behavior into other aspects of their lives, and how the women differ from women in general and from women who work in other aspects of the adult industry. Some discussion of the women's perceptions of customers who purchase the undergarments is included.

Marjorie Heins
The Ongoing Court Battle over Internet Censorship
   This workshop will discuss the ongoing battle over censorship laws designed to shield minors from sexual ideas, information, and entertainment -- including, most recently, the pending challenge to the "Child Online Protection Act," or COPA. SSSS was one of four sexuality scholars' and therapists' organizations to join in a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the COPA case. The brief argued that there is no empirical basis to believe minors are harmed by exposure to sexually explicit words or images, and that education is a better approach than censorship to the goal of teaching good sexual values and behavior.

Lynda Smith Hoggan, MPH - From the Bedroom to the Classroom: Keeping Sex Education Sexy
   As with any subject, human sexuality can be boring if the student is a passive receptor and the instructor remains lecture-bound.  Infusing the course with some of the same elements that make sex itself exciting  personal involvement, two-way communication, appropriate risk-taking, and creative expression can enhance the experience for all, resulting in memorable learning.  This presentation will identify strategies for challenging both instructor and student, including the use of imaginative student-made sex education videos.

David M. Israelstam, M.D., Ph.D.
Transgender: a Bearded Psychiatrist Cross-dresses in Public
   At age 27, I discovered my buried-alive child (myself) in an internal mental closet, and opened the door. That child turned out to be a cute little girl - about two years of age. I worked on my emotional development for the next 30 years, in the process becoming a Board Certified Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist, today practicing solo. In the past four years, I've begun to cross-dress. I joined IFGE (International Foundation for Gender Education) and CGS (Chicago Gender Society) . At my first IFGE meeting two years ago, on the first morning, I met Virginia Prince and Yvonne Cook-Riley, as a balding bearded man wearing an attractive dress. They made me feel instantly welcome and acceptable, which I certainly appreciated. My presentation will include audio-visual components, along with my talk, describing my internal and external transformations in recent years.

David Johnston, Ph.D
Adapting sex therapy for touch-deprived adult virgins: avoiding common treatment failures
   A small percentage of clients who present as older male virgins to work with surrogate-partners have not responded with the usual expected progress to completion of the work. We discovered that these are severely touch-deprived clients who have been deprived in a profoundly disabling way of nurturing touch, usually from birth. In order to continue the work and not abandon the client to failure, treatment was adjusted to a moderate length therapy. Discovery and understanding occurred because my work with surrogate-partners is structured in a different paradigm than that commonly used. This paradigm, based on the intimacy of the surrogate-client relationship brings the client's style into sharp focus. Emotional characterological issues are dealt with as they arise to avoid failures. Consequently we learned to understand these clients and adjust treatment accordingly. This includes creating a new theoretical model to explain the profound dilemma faced by these clients.

Paula Kamen, Ph.D.
Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution
    This lecture--based on extensive original interviews, academic research, and pop culture studies--delivers a comprehensive "big picture" journalistic report on a major cultural change of our society of the past 30 years: post-boomer women's evolving sexual paradigms for sexual independence and control. The work of "Her Way" (praised by the New York Times as "an exhaustive and complex survey of what young women want") critically examines a variety of often-overlooked social influences that directly impact young women's private lives more than ever before. It reports how young women think and act like men sexually more than ever before, but yet are also beginning to forge new paradigms for control.

Michael R. Kauth, Ph.D.
Same-sex Attraction as Adaptation to Sex-Segregated Life
   Sex-segregated human communities where individuals must negotiate the social hierarchy, defend against aggression, and acquire a share of limited resources to survive long enough to mate provide a context for the adaptation of same-sex eroticism. Having a significant non-kin same-sex alliance may have facilitated survival and acquisition of quality resources including sexual partners. Early human males who established alliances with older, higher-status males or same-age peers may have better managed within-group aggression, survived extra-group hostility, acquired nutritional and material resources, and obtained quality wives. Thus, both same-sex and other-sex erotic attractions could influence reproductive success. Form, status, and expression of erotic attractions would be expected to vary across cultures. This model is consistent with several observations about male-male sexual behavior. Similarly, female-female erotic attraction may have developed to manage intra-group hostility and conflict, avoid male aggression, acquire quality resources, and gain assistance during pregnancy and child rearing

Marty Klein, Ph.D. - Lies, Damned Lies, & Sex Therapy
   Many of our patients keep sexual secrets. In addition to deliberately lying, they withhold information from their partner(s)--about their desires, fantasies, past experiences, and other "personal" information.  People keep sexual secrets because they fear being judged and rejected, a fear based in self-judgment and self-rejection. Thus, the audience for the secret isn't others--it's the secret-keeper him/herself. This is why the topic is critical in therapy. There are, however, many reasons that therapists hesitate to process this phenomenon deeply enough: for example, the desire to be open-minded about people's arrangements, and the (unconscious) defense of our own secret-keeping. It can also be hard to pursue patients' secret-keeping because we focus too much on sexual function & pleasure, and not enough on emotional experience. Most of our patients don't really want better functioning or more pleasure--they want less anxiety & isolation, more relaxation & connection. By not focusing enough on secret-keeping, we miss an important chance to help patients accomplish that: first, by not helping them acquire the skills involved in self-acceptance and self-revealing, and second, by not pursuing the psychological issues (boundaries, shame, fear of abandonment, etc.) whose resolution  can ultimately help make this possible.

Michael L Krychman, M.D.
Cybersexual Personalities: A Tool For The Promotion of Positive Sexual Health
   The Internet has influenced the way we interact. People have created alternate sexual personalities and have begun to explore hidden desires as they enter the world of sexuality on the Internet. The development of a cybersexual personality is a dimension to the human persona, which should be evaluated during the psychosexual examination. The analysis of the cyber personality will aid in the development of a comprehensive treatment plan. Through the discussion of case studies, a discussion of Internet sexuality and alternate personalities will be preformed. Both positive attributes and detrimental ramifications have resulted secondary to this new techno sexuality. The therapeutic uses of the cybersexuality and the potential harmful consequences of sexuality upon the net will be explored. Conclusion: Cybersexuality when nurtured in a regulated fashion can promote positive sexual health, and can help those with sexual difficulties.

Elizabeth Rae Larson, MS, DHS, FAACS
Data from the Odd Set
   What do women from outside the boundaries of traditional normality have to tell us about women's wants? Do the desires of sadomasochists, polyamorists, erotic spiritualists, lesbians, sex artists and other so-called female deviants reflect any light on questions about women's sexuality? This presentation reviews what we know from literature, clinical experience and the odd research sample.

Jeff Laurie
Sex and the Internet: News, Research, Advice and SexNews Daily!
   The Internet is the most exciting new mass medium in several generations. And one of its most important applications is in the realm of sexuality. In this presentation, we will look at why the Net has become such a powerful source of sexual expression. The session covers the intrinsically intimate, interactive and community oriented nature of the Net; the availability of news stories on sex research, sexual health, sexuality-oriented human interest stories and explicit sexuality advice; and what these may imply for US and world sexual culture. The session includes a look at the online newsletter SexNews Daily!: it's mission, the sources of sex news stories, reactions from readers, and potential future directions for online publishing and information in the realm of sexuality.

Anne Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.
Satisfaction and Regret Following Male-to-Female Sex Reassignment Surgery
   Male-to-female (MtF) transsexuals who underwent sex reassignment surgery (SRS) with the same surgeon during the years 1994 - 2000 completed an anonymous mailed questionnaire concerning satisfaction, regret, and several preoperative and postoperative variables. Most of the 232 respondents reported high levels of overall happiness with their SRS result and substantial improvement in their quality of life with SRS. None reported outright regret, and only 15 (6%) expressed even occasional regret. The factors most significantly associated with satisfaction or regret were the actual functional results of surgery, and number of postoperative complications experienced. In multiple regression analyses, year of surgery, respondent's recalled childhood femininity vs. masculinity, and adequacy of preoperative psychotherapy were the only preoperative factors significantly associated with satisfaction or regret. The purely physical outcomes of SRS may be more important than transsexual typology or compliance with established treatment regimens in predicting satisfaction or regret following MtF SRS.

Raymond Lawrence, Jr.
The Poisoning and Rescuing of Eros: Modern Christianity and Contemporary Sexuality
   The history and development of sexual values and attitudes towards sexual pleasure is a peculiar one, shaped by conflicting and contradictory forces, and much of this process is covert or subterranean. The sum of the struggle over sexual values in the western world is a profound ambivalence toward sexual pleasure. We live today amidst the consequences of that profound ambivalence, in a milieu that is wildly sensuous on the one hand and severely repressive on the other. The wonder is that we do not drive all our children to psychosis. This presentation will highlight some of the major influences on the ways we today in western culture think about and assign value, positive and negative, to sexual pleasure, and will suggest some ways we might recover from our ambivalence and create a more positive social approach to sexual pleasure.

Ray Lawrence, Jr.
How the Church Handles Clergy Sexual Misconduct
    The current sexual problems in religious groups in this country are complex and are driven by a variety of factors. Christian groups, which have the hegemony in this country, are in the worst of double binds, non-Christian groups less so. Religious traditions typically promotes the values of love, acceptance, forgiveness, and reconciliation, and Christianity is not different in that respect. In the context of such values, sexual intimacy is not far away. Christian groups have not parsed the problem of predatory sex, or explored the question of precisely when sex becomes exploitation because they are still infected to one degree or another with the medieval claim that all sex is predatory. This leaves Christian groups unprepared for real life sexual problems, evidence of which is currently in the daily papers. Current irrationality about sexual pleasure arguably stems from the widespread reluctance to unambiguously affirm sexual pleasure.

Peter Lehman
Teaching Porn Films: The Classroom and the Community
   In this presentation, I will outline a unit on hard-core film pornography in my university class Sexuality in the Media. I will review the films I show and explain their relevance to the topic. The unit examines how the forms of the films and their notions of sexuality are shaped by their production and reception contexts, including who made them for what intended audience in what
viewing circumstances.
   The second part of my presentation outlines recent media coverage of my course. Media attention in the Phoenix area in 2001 became highly politicized, with threats from some Arizona State legislators to cut any state funding that supported my teaching the course and my related research in the area. This punitive budgetary action potentially involves penalizing the Arizona State University budget for such expenses as my salary for teaching the course, and other normal faculty expenses. I will conclude by discussing the balance of academic freedom and academic responsibility that Arizona State University administrators and I have mutually agreed upon as the best principle to guide us through this media crisis.

Janet Lever, Ph.D.
What's at Stake with Workplace Romances?
   In contrast to the well-publicized sexual harassment policies found in all Fortune 1000 companies, only a tiny portion of companies have any formal guidelines for dating coworkers--not even when coworkers are in the same department or one is the boss of the other. The lack of guidelines from employer and EEOC make this an important and "ripe" area of study, yet research to date is extremely limited, and has mostly been done by business consultants and legal experts, rather than sociologists or those with expertise in intimate relationships. Repercussions in the workplace are minimal when both parties are single and seen to be "looking for love" (as opposed to a quick route of advancement) but can be severe when at least one party is married, when partners are same-sex, when the romantic union involves one person who evaluates the other, or when the relationship (including marriage) breaks up and the persons must still interact as coworkers.
   This presentation will briefly review what is known about this topic to date, and outline what we need to know and how we could design research to answer the most interesting questions. There will also be a progress report on a survey sponsored by a major women's magazine that is being conducted by the author at present time. To name just a few areas of interest being explored: how policies (or lack thereof) differentially impact the genders, transfer/exit rates due to break-ups, impact of flirtation on office morale, perceptions of favoritism or bias, and maintenance of stereotypes about how women are successful in work settings.

Ron Levine, Ph.D
Biblical Stories As Sophisticated Sexual Instruction
   The Religious Right has consistently used classical Biblical stories to "support" their repressive, punitive and regressive ideas about human sexuality. Since these Bible stories are part of the cultural fabric of American culture, these distortions are particularly insidious. A careful examination of the Biblical text, reveals quite a different picture; a picture which allows us as clincians to use Biblical wisdom to present our patients with a progressive, affirming, and nurturing picture of human sexuality. In this workshop, the following stories and issues will be explored:
l. The Garden of Eden: Original Sin vs. Growing up.
2. Sodom and Gomorrah and the Holiness Code of Leviticus: Homosexuality, Hospitality and Life and Death
3. The Story of Onan: Masturbation vs. Deception.
4. The Story of Esther: Birth Control in the Bible
5. The Story of Lot, and Boaz and Ruth: Incest, Seduction and the Messiah.
6. Erotic Images from the Song of Songs: The Female Voice of Human Sexuality.
   We will use each of these stories as a template for clinical interventions with our patients. Come with and open mind and an open heart.

Joseph Marzucco, MS, PA-C
Sexual Desire - Medical and Pharmacological Considerations
   Desire in its most rudimentary conceptualization is a psychobiological energy. While this energy drives physiologic sexual response its elements are not fully understood. The etiology of altered desire caused by medications and diseases can be difficult to determine. In many instances evidence is tangential and mechanisms of action have only been speculated.
   A medically related sexual incident can begin a cascade of sexual dysfunction causing psychological and relationship damage. This intertwined effect, if left unchecked, can be difficult to correct. Diseases and medications that may affect desire will be reviewed by organ system and drug categories. The effects of health and herbal products will be discussed. In order to help the patient, clinicians must become familiar with organic etiologies of changes in desire caused by an increasing armamentarium of medicines and disease processes.

Michael E. Mills, Ph.D.
Evolved Psychological Sex Differences in Sexuality: An Overview from Evolutionary Psychology
   This talk will present an overview of sex differences in sexuality from the perspective of evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology. The evolution of sexual reproduction, the two sexes, and sexually dimorphic psychological adaptations will be examined. The different "reproductive strategies" employed by males and females, and the resulting conflicts of interests between the sexes, will be identified, with a particular emphasis on sexually dimorphic adaptations intimately connected with reproduction (i.e., courtship, jealousy, mating, and parenting). Examples of the manifestations of these basic sex differences across cultures will be briefly reviewed.

Jack Morin, Ph.D
Eros and Depression
   Sophisticated clinicians increasingly recognize the complex interplay between mood and other aspects of health as far-ranging as sleep, eating, creativity, substances use and abuse, family and social functioning--and, of course, sexuality. Yet our ideas about the role of depression in erotic life are surprisingly one-dimensional; we see it almost exclusively as an inhibitor of desire and functioning. In this workshop, we'll explore a more nuanced, paradoxical view, in which depression can also serve as an aphrodisiac, and eroticism can be depressing. Combining theory and clinical examples, we'll focus especially on two neglected areas: (1) how a person's "Core Erotic Theme" can breed depression at the same time it generates sexual intensity, and (2) how depressive states and their associated emotions--such as anxiety, guilt, and shame-can produce ultra-high levels of arousal. We'll examine the profound clinical dilemmas posed by these dynamic  interactions, and how we can address them more effectively

Charles Moser, MD, Ph.D.
What do we really know about S/M? myths and realities
   This presentation will explore what S/M is and what it is not. Common myths will be exposed and a realistic picture of what we really know about S/M will be explored. Definitions, types of S/M interactions, types of S/M practitioners will be discussed. The myths and realities of S/M practices and those who engage in these practices will be discussed in detail. Controversies concerning the definition, origins, and scope of S/M interactions will be discussed. The existing research will be reviewed and critiqued. The research will be reviewed to establish or question common beliefs about S/M.

Jennifer Musick, MPH
Creative Teaching Techniques for the Undergraduate Human Sexuality Course
   As the old adage goes, "Knowledge is Power." As educators, however, we want to effect more than a simple increase in knowledge for our students. More specifically, we hope that the increased knowledge base translates to attitudinal and/or behavioral changes. An effective human sexuality course will aid students to clarify their own value system, develop an understanding and appreciation for those whose value system differs from one's own, and make decisions based on knowledge, rather than fear, guilt, or ignorance. This interactive workshop will present several techniques, class activities, and project ideas that have been successful in assisting students to explore issues, gain a deeper understanding of the complex nature of human sexuality, and express their own creative potential.

Paul Okami, Ph.D.
Sex Differences in Human Sexual Behavior
   Men and women are of the same species and possess a generally similar suite of evolved psychological, anatomical, and physiological mechanisms. It is therefore expected that sex differences in many domains of life will be few. According to Darwinian theory, the most numerous sex differences are likely to be found in the domains of sexuality and reproduction. I first review evidence suggesting substantial sex differences in the following domains of sexual behavior: mate preferences, interest in casual sex, interest in partner variety, jealousy, fantasy, masturbation, sexual "plasticity," and magnitude of intrinsic sexual motivation. I then propose a general program for research and explanation of sex differences that invokes both proximate and ultimate variables. This program is based in modern Darwinian theory, neuroendocrinology, human genetics, and social and behavioral sciences. I conclude by considering sociopolitical implications of research on sex differences.

Charlotte Poe
Sex Lives of the Popes
   Did you know that popes have been poisoners, murderers, fornicators, whoremongers, drunkards, lechers, gamblers, necromancers, devil-worshippers, atheists and those who practiced incest? Many have been married. More, while making a show of celibacy, have installed their mistresses in the Vatican and promoted their illegitimate sons -- or 'nephews' as they are known in the Church -- to high office. There have been gay popes and promiscuous popes of both persuasions. Orgies were not unknown in the papal palaces. One pope ran a brothel out of the Lateran Palace. Several increased their income by taxing the whores of Rome. Others sold indulgences to clergy in the form of a sin tax allowing them to keep their mistresses. Celibacy was not required of priests until 1139. We will examine the sexual mores of the early popes (400 - 1600 AD) and some of the later ones (1922 - present).

Stella Resnick, Ph. D.
Is The Deck Stacked Against Married Sex? The Odds Against Uniting Desire and Commitment, and How to Beat Them
   Sex-negative programming in childhood sets us up, as adults, to split love, particularly within a familial setting, from lust. This split is conditioned directly into the body in the form of unconscious, habitual, emotional and muscular tension patterns that inhibit sexual energy and arousal for one's intimate. Given these foundations, the inability to maintain desire in a long-term loving relationship, though disappointing for couples, should be considered normal and normative. This presentation will cite several case studies where body-oriented methods during therapy and for homework have been particularly effective for re-introducing sexual passion in couples where one or both partners had lost their desire for the other.

Linda E. Savage, Ph.D.
Women's Sexuality at Midlife and Beyond: The Feminine Paradigm
   With a life expectancy of 78 years, one third of women's lives will be post-menopausal. The conventional expectation is that sexual desire and pleasure decline inevitably. This presentation will describe a new perspective on menopause, one that motivates midlife women to pursue new developmental paths. Stories of the many older women defying the conventional stereotypes will be shared. In looking at such women, we can develop ways to describe mature sexuality that does not perpetuate the image of sexy as synonymous with young or assume that sexual inadequacy will be the norm. The new paradigm offers concepts that are useful to women at menopause and beyond, such as intentional desire, mature erotic beauty, the healing power of sexuality, sexual empowerment and the honoring setting. Methods such as strengthening a woman's Guardian self and encouraging her relationship with her body wisdom will be illustrated with clinical examples.

Janice M. Swanson, RN, PhD, FAAN and Elizabeth A. Swanson-Hollinger, BS, MPH
Teaching Sexual Health Education to Public Health Students and Practitioners
   Students and practitioners in public health are continually faced with tough clinical problems which must address sexual health issues to be resolved. Within higher education, human sexuality courses are traditionally viewed as the means to adult sex education. Students in the health professions, however, may not have the opportunity to take a sexuality course, or if they do, may not have the option to gain the skills that would enable them to transfer learning to clinical situations encountered in field work, or later, in practice. Insights into teaching sexuality in public health courses and settings are needed by the profession to better prepare practitioners and to inform practice. The purpose of this presentation is to identify: 1) conditions under which sexual health is taught to public health students and staff; and 2) strategies used to integrate sexual health education into: a) existing public health courses (e.g., didactic, experiential); b) supervision of field work in public health settings (e.g., case management, ambulatory care); and c) public health trainings for practitioners (e.g., continuing education for nurses, capacity building workshops for community-based organizations serving high risk populations). It is proposed that integrating sexual health education into public health education and practice can prepare practitioners to better serve their communities.

Louis H. Swartz, Ph.D., LL.M., R.N.
Naked Play and Serious Things: Striptease Dancing, Law and Sexology
   Totally nude striptease dancing involves symbolic expression of important, but highly contested and as yet widely misperceived, meanings and messages. Naked erotic dancing playfully demonstrates truths about the goodness, beauty and awesomeness of human bodies and eroticism. Such expression ought to be entitled to First Amendment protections, refused thus far by the Supreme Court (City of Erie v. Pap's A.M., [2000]). The paper includes legal and sociological analysis and asserts that this problem area merits serious sexological attention. The paper features several theoretical ideas: (1) revitalization movement, referring to profound shifts in values in the U.S. since the 1960s, including values concerning bodies and eroticism; (2) play, at many levels of meaning, including human eroticism, legal proceedings, and some aspects of social conflict; (3) methodological pluralism; (4)charisma and awesomeness, applied to erotic experiences and some perceptions of other people's naked bodies; (5) ambivalence; and (6) fighting faiths.

Gary Taylor, Ph.D. - The Value of Virginity: Myths About Male Desire
   One of the great cliches about male heterosexual desire is that men particularly seek out and desire, as wives or female sexual partners, virgins. This cliche seems to be confirmed by the works of Shakespeare, who has an extraordinary preoccupation with virgin females. However, as both legal and literary evidence demonstrates, Shakespeare was not representative of his era. Historically, there have always been plenty of men attracted to experienced females. The canonicity of Shakespeare has therefore tended to freeze in place an idiosyncratic idealization of female virginity, as the norm of a more "moral" and "chaste" past.

Gary Taylor, Ph.D. - Paradigms of Male Sexuality: Testicles, Penis, & Castration
   Early in the twentieth century Sigmund Freud made theories about castration central to the understanding of both male and female sexuality. These theories have been so widely dispersed that they tend to be assumed even by people who have never read a word of Freud. But Freud's theory silently redefined castration, in a way that departed from the entire history of the practice, which--contra Freud--is a much later development than circumcision. Human castration originated in southwest Asia c. 4000-5000 B.C., following the development of techniques for castrating domestic animals. The subsequent history of castration as a routinized social practice shows that it meant, in societies before the early twentieth century, very different things than Freud and all modern interpreters have assumed.

Winston Wilde, DHS
Sex Blind: Preliminary findings from a survey on the sexualities of blind Americans.
   The presenter will report initial quantitative data from the first significant inquiry into the sexualities of blind persons. Additionally, a presentation of three case studies will elaborate qualitative data. If many sighted Americans are stimulated into erotic response through visual cues, what turns blind people on?