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SSSS Western Region 2009
Sexual Ontogeny: A Lifelong Work in Progress
Final Program See PDF version for latest information
on·tog·e·ny, noun, International Scientific Vocabulary, 1872
: the development or course of development, especially of an individual organism
- Merriam-Webster
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12:00 - 7:30 pm Registration Open Phoebe A. Hearst Social Hall
Pre-Conference Continuing Education Learning Sessions
SPECIAL NOTE FOR STUDENTS: Full-time students registered for the entire conference, who do NOT require CE credit, may attend the following pre-conference workshops on a SPACE-AVAILABLE basis AT NO CHARGE. If a workshop fills with paying attendees, students will be notified by email that there is no room. Otherwise, students will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis, after any last-minute paying attendees, at the registration desk on May 7 at 12:45 for these sessions.
PreCon A (3 hrs CE, Focus: General)
1:00 - 4:00 pm
Neuroscience & Human Sexuality Session Canceled (See Session 12 in PDF for related talk)
Lucy L. Brown, PhD, Dept. of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
PreCon B (3 hrs CE, Focus: Therapy)
1:00 - 4:00 pm
Pain and Sex: A Physical Therapist's Curlew
Elizabeth McBride, MSPT, Private Practice, Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center, San Francisco
6:00 - 7:00 pm Dinner Crocker Dining Hall, Seascape Room
7:00 - 7:30 pm Opening Ceremonies Chapel
Carol Rinkleib Ellison, PhD, SSSS WR President
Opening Remarks
Dedication of SSSS WR 2009 to the memory of Marilyn A. Fithian, PhD
7:30 - 8:30 pm Presidential Plenary Session Chapel
Sexual Ontogeny (1 hr CE, Focus: General)
Carol Rinkleib Ellison, PhD, SSSS WR President, Private Practice
8:30 - 10:00 pm Welcome Reception Chapel
Join us for hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, and a chance to meet our speakers, members and friends. This is a unique opportunity for students, researchers, teachers, and other sexologists to meet.
| FRIDAY, May 8, 2009 |
6:45 - 7:45 am
7:30 - 9:00 am
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Morning Tantric Exercise, Dance & Meditation
Breakfast
Registration
Exhibits
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Curlew
Crocker Dining Hall, Seascape Room
Phoebe A. Hearst Social Hall
Chapel |
8:45 - 9:45 am Plenary Session Chapel
Behavioral Messages for Youth to Prevent Pregnancy and STD: What Should They Be? (1 hr CE, Focus: general) Douglas Kirby, PhD, Education, Training and Research Associates
9:45 - 10:15 am Coffee Break Chapel
Film Festival at Asilomar 2009 Host: by Winston Wilde, DHS, Private Practice
Films will be scheduled throughout the conference during concurrent session times, as well as social hours. The following films are slated to play:
- Transgender Shorts: "Harry Benjamin, M.D. 1885-1986" (2007); "XXXY" (2000);
"Binary Bathrooms" (2004); "Trannymals Go To Court" (2007)
- Cut: Slicing through the myths of circumcision (2008)
- Different from the Others (1919)
- Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasm (2004)
- Harsh Beauty (2005)
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MEALTIME DISCUSSION GROUPS: At meals some tables will be reserved for small group discussions on specific topics. You may sign up for discussions that interest you at the reception desk in the Chapel from Friday morning onward. Topics will range from that day's presentations, to general topics of interest, to becoming active in SSSS. The facilitator and title for each table, at each meal, will be printed on the sign-up sheets and will not appear in the printed program.
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Student presentations are indicated by **, and they will be judged by a panel of members who will select the Best Student Presentation of the meeting. The award will be presented at the Sunday Closing Ceremonies. The award is $100 and free registration at next year's WR meeting. Note: Students must do the full presentation. If a faculty member takes over, it is no longer a qualified presentation.
10:15 - 11:45 am Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 Erotic Minorities Chapel
10:15 - 11:15 am Fellow Travelers: A Pictorial History of the American Radical Faerie Movement, 1979-2008 Mark Thompson, MA, Author, Cofounder of Black Leather Wings
11:15 - 11:45 am
OPEN
Session 2 Sexual Behavior & Relationship Contexts Curlew
10:15 - 11:15 am
From Strangers to Spouses: An Investigation of Relationship Status and Sexual Arousal Christina Scott, PhD, Angelberto Cortez, Jr., BA, Vanessa M. Snyder, BA, & Jacob Voogd, BA, St. Mary's College of California
11:15 - 11:45 am
Stressors and Strengths of Sexual Minority Youth Darrel Higa, PhD, University of Washington
Session 3 Psychosocial Development Marlin
10:15 - 11:15 am
Gay Male Psychosocial Development: A New Model of Eight Tasks and Challenges Across the Lifespan (1 hr CE, Focus: general) Daniel Alonzo, PsyD, Phillips Graduate Institute
11:15 - 11:45 am
Sexual Literacy: A Framework for Discussing Transmasculine Identity** Richard Garcia, BA, San Francisco State University
Noon - 1:00 pm Lunch Crocker Dining Hall, Seascape Room
1:30 - 3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
Session 4 Clinical Issues Chapel
1:30 - 2:30 pm
New Perspectives on Sex Therapy & Sexual Evolution (1 hr CE, Focus: therapy) Stella Resnick, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice, Beverly Hills, California
2:30 - 3:30 pm
Film & discussion: The Maxwell Multiple Climax (1 hr CE, Focus: therapy) Brandon Maxwell, Independent Film Producer, Director, Dammit Jim Pictures, LLC, Host: Elizabeth Rae Larson, DHS, Seattle Institute for Sex Therapy, Education & Research
Session 5 Assessment of Sexual Behavior/Desires Curlew
1:30 - 2:00 pm
Introduction of the Multi-Dimensional Sexual Esteem Scale** Kathleen Scoggin, MA, San Francisco State University
2:00 - 2:30 pm
Mating Strategies: What Personal Ads Tell Us about What Men and Women Really Want Don Strassberg, PhD; Brittany English, BA, University of Utah
2:30 - 3:00 pm
It's like wanting a sweet juicy orange and when you bite into it it's sour: Situational Affect & Condom Use** Danielle Young, MA, & Brandi Schmeling, MA, University of Hawaii
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Sexually Explicit Cell Phone Video/Picture Communication** Jordan Rullo, MS, University of Utah
Session 6 Identities & Paradigms Marlin
1:30 - 2:00 pm
The Political Necessity of Nuance in Rape and Sex Offender Discourse Breanne Fahs, PhD, Arizona State University
2:00 - 2:30 pm
Brief Sexual Encounters: Embodying Oppression & Resistance Darrel Higa, PhD, University of Washington
2:30 - 3:00 pm
Feminism and Pornography: Building Sensitive Research and Analytic Approaches** Natalie Purcell, MA, MPA, University of California, Santa Cruz
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Consistencies Among the Features of Sexual Orientation** Julia Mackaronis, BA; Donald Strassberg, PhD, University of Utah
3:30 - 9:00 pm Afternoon & Evening in Historic Monterey
3:30 - 6:00 pm
AN AFTERNOON AT THE AQUARIUM Monterey Bay Aquarium Admission & transportation included with conference registration www.montereybayaquarium.org |  |
6:00 - 7:00 pm Plenary Session Monterey Bay Aquarium Auditorium
Sex in the Sea (1 hr CE, Focus: general) Steven Webster, PhD, Director of Education and Senior Marine Biologist, Monterey Bay Aquarium (1981-2003)
7:00 - 9:00 pm Cannery Row Reception at Wave Street Studios
Walk across the street from the Aquarium for hors d'oeuvres, live entertainment, and a no-host bar.
| SATURDAY, May 9, 2009 |
6:45 - 7:45 am
7:30 - 9:00 am
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
8:00 am - 10:00 pm
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Morning Tantric Exercise, Dance & Meditation
Breakfast
Registration
Exhibits
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Curlew
Crocker Dining Hall, Seascape Room
Chapel
Chapel |
8:45 - 10:45 am Plenary Sessions Chapel
Middle-aged Male Sexuality: Viagra Falls Michael Castleman, MA, Author
Passion through the Lifespan: Historical and Psychological (1 hr CE, Focus: general) Elaine Hatfield, PhD; Richard Rapson, PhD, University of Hawaii
10:45 - 11:00 am Coffee break & Exhibits Chapel
11:00 am - Noon Concurrent Sessions
Session 7 Clinical Issues Chapel
11:00 am - Noon
The Integration of Arousal and Orgasm in Existing Interventions for Pelvic Pain (1 hr CE, Focus: Therapy) Heather Howard, PhD, Private Practice
Session 8 Sexual Practices Curlew
11:00 am - Noon
Aging Kinky: A Panel Discussion on BDSM through the Lifespan (1 hr CE, Focus: general) Moderator: Winston Wilde, DHS, Private Practice, Charles Moser, MD, past SSSS-WR President, Olga Perez-Stable Cox, MA, MFT, Private Practice, Professor, Orange Coast College, Mark Thompson, MA, Author, Cofounder Black Leather Wings
Noon - 1:00 pm LUNCH & AWARDS Crocker Dining Hall, Seascape Room
1:30 - 2:30 pm Plenary Session
Chapel
The Best Is Yet To Come: A Call for Sexual Optimism As We Grow Older (1 hr CE, Focus: general) Gina Ogden, PhD, ISIS Principal Investigator
2:30 - 3:00 pm Coffee break & Exhibits Chapel
3:00 - 5:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
Session 9 Innovations in Teaching and Healing Chapel
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Radical Sex Education: The Adventures of the Love Art Laboratory (1 hr CE, Focus: general) Annie Sprinkle, PhD, Love Art Laboratory; Elizabeth Stephens, MFA, University of California, Santa Cruz
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Sex and Spirit-Bringing Back the Sensual Nature that Heals (1 hr CE, Focus: Therapy) Gina Ogden, PhD, Author and ISIS Principal Investigator; Suzie Heumann, Author and CEO/President of Tantra.com; Lucy Brown, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Linda Savage, PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy, Private Practice
Session 10 Women's Sexual Health Curlew
3:00 - 4:00 pm
A Mind-Body Approach to Female Sexual Dysfunction (1 hr CE, Focus: Therapy) Diana Wiley, PhD, Seattle Institute for Sex Therapy, Education & Research
4:00 - 4:30 pm
Aging Lesbians' Needs and Priorities: Results of an Online Survey Paige Averett, PhD, & Carol Jenkins, PhD, East Carolina University
4:30 - 5:00 pm
Heterosexual Receptive Anal Intercourse (HRAI) Reported by Women in Los Angeles County Grace L. Reynolds, DPA; Dennis Fisher, PhD; Lucy Napper, PhD, California State University, Long Beach
5:00 - 6:00 pm Special Event
Chapel
Death of a Sexpert . . . and Other Revivals Susie Bright, MFA, Writer, Performer
Susie talks about the up-to-the-minute representation of the "sex educator," the "sex guru," and the "sexpert" in popular culture. How has the popular marketing of sexual knowledge and education affected public policy and sexual scholarship? What does integrity in our field look like after a celebrity dunking? After Oprah, rebirth? - or disintegration?
6:00 - 7:00 pm Dinner Crocker Dining Hall, Seascape Room
7:15 - 9:15 pm Saturday Night: Live (2 options)
7:15 - 9:15 pm Chapel
Film, panel and discussion: Boyhood Shadows: I Swore I'd Never Tell (2 hrs CE, Focus: therapy) Stephen L. Braveman, MA, Private Practice; Nicholas McDaniel, BS, Monterey County Rape Crisis Center; Clare Mounteer, Monterey County Rape Crisis Center; Jorge Ramirez, PhD, Male survivor
7:15 - 9:15 pm Meet at Curlew
Shamanic Journey: Invoking Your Keeper of the Flame Gina Ogden, PhD, & friends
9:15 - 10:00 pm Dessert and Socializing Chapel
| SUNDAY, May 10, 2009 |
6:45 - 7:45 am
7:30 - 9:00 am
8:00 am - Noon
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Morning Tantric Exercise, Dance & Meditation
Breakfast
Registration
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Curlew
Crocker Dining Hall, Seascape Room
Chapel
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8:30 - 10:30 am Concurrent Sessions
Session 11 Clinical Issues Chapel
8:30 - 9:30 am
Surrogate Partner Therapy in Midlife Sexual Exploration: Possibilities for New Therapeutic Applications In Transsexed and Bisexual Individuals (1 hr CE, Focus: therapy) Marilyn Lawrence, PhD; Elise Turen, PhD, Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
9:30 - 10:30 am
The Effects of Chronic Pain on Sexuality and Self-Esteem in Women (1 hr CE, Focus: Therapy) Judiann Simon, PhD, Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
Session 12 Clinical Issues Curlew
8:30 - 9:00 am
Infant and Child Sexuality: Love's First Steps Remi Newman, MA, Sexuality Educator, Private Practice
9:00 - 9:30 am
Finding Voice: Listening, Learning and Talking about Sexual Pleasure and Desire with Adolescent Girls** Elizabeth Greenblatt, BS, San Francisco State University
9:30 - 10:00 am
College Students Mentoring At Risk High School Students** Dani Sumner & Kate Boyer, California State University, Monterey Bay
10:30 - 10:50 am Coffee Break Chapel
10:50 - 11:50 am Plenary Session Chapel
Normal Childhood Sexuality: An Oxymoron? (1 hr CE, Focus: General) Suzanne Frayser, PhD, Cultural Insights, LLC, SSSS Past-President
11:50 am - 12:10 pm Closing Ceremonies Chapel
Carol Rinkleib Ellison, SSSS WR President
Carol Cassell, SSSS WR Past-President
Best Student Presentation Award
Closing Remarks
12:15 - 1:00 pm Lunch: Where to from here? Crocker Dining Hall, Seascape Room
Carol Rinkleib Ellison, SSSS WR President
SIGs/Small Group Discussions
1:00 - 3:00 pm PostCon (2 hrs CE, Focus: Education)
Developing Scientific Presentations for Professional Continuing Education: What Is Needed Sharon McNeely, PhD, Northeastern Illinois University
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