Objectives:

• Review the literature related to diverse sexual practices and perception of pathology (including the DSM V)
• Explore the prevalence of sexual diversity
• Review issues experienced by people who are sexually diverse in public and with medical, spiritual and mental health practitioners
• Highlight why embracing diversity is imperative to providing trauma informed, culturally responsive care.
• Define kink in general
• Learn about the 5 stages of kink identity development
• Identify benefits of kink (empowerment, communication, self-exploration)
• The importance of consent
• Review the differences between abuse and kink
• Learn about bondage, discipline, sadistic and masochistic practices in general
• Personality traits of BDSM practitioners
• Understanding subspace
• The importance of aftercare
  
• Types of Dominant/submissive relationships dominant/submissive, master/slave, owner/pet, Daddy/little, Female Led Relationships
• Bedroom vs. Lifestyle relationships
  
• Define asexuality, polyamory and open relationships
• Learn about the prevalence of each
• Explore the research related to effects of the practice of each on mental health

Based in part on the Counselor Toolbox Podcast Series on Human Sexuality, Kink and Polyamory