Clinical associate in sexual medicine
AUBMC , Lebanon
Pleasure-Based Sexual Health in clinical Practice
Pleasure has been identified as a vital component for individual health and wellbeing but its inclusion in clinical practice is infrequent.
Sexual pleasure is trapped in a conspiracy of silence.
On one hand, health care professionals (HCP) do not generally receive adequate training to discuss sexual pleasure with their patients. Most of them address sexuality through a risk-based approach, insisting on the negative consequences of risky sexual behaviors.
On another hand, due to several sociocultural barriers, patients wait for HCP to open the “pleasure” discussion.
Health professionals should address sexual pleasure and well-being in their clinical practice to improve sexual health outcomes. Ignoring sexual pleasure concerns and well-being in counselling with patients has not only a negative effect on safer sex practices but is a missed opportunity to improve their sexual, mental, and physical health.
Incorporating pleasure in clinical practice is possible through a variety of approaches. We will focus on ways to break the silence around sexual pleasure in our clinical practice.
Disclosure information not submitted.
PL2.2 - Putting pleasure back into sexual health - 2
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
13:30 – 14:00 CST