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Manhattan Alternative Represented at Upcoming SSTAR Conference

Dr. Eli Mayer will be presenting a talk on Saturday, March 28 at the 40th annual conference of the Society of Sex Therapists and Researchers (SSTAR) in Boston.  The theme of this year’s conference is: Healthy Sexuality as a Human Right: Making Sex Therapy Available to Diverse Populations.  The conference provides an opportunity to educate “mainstream” sex therapists and researchers about how to provide quality Sex Therapy to those of us whose sexual interests and gender identities diverge from what has traditionally been considered the norm.Screen Shot 2015-03-22 at 12.06.31 PM

It was forty years ago that modern sex therapy to shape with Dr. Helen Singer-Kaplan’s book: The New Sex Therapy was published.  At this conference, Dr. Eli Mayer hopes to help bring the members of the organization in line with contemporary thinking, and has titled his talk The New New Sex Therapy: Working Productively With Nonnormative Populations.  He looks forward to sharing information from the conference with everyone when he returns.  To be continued…