Your Guide to Finding a Doctor Who Is an LGBTQ+ Ally
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“So, how does the LGBTQ+ community find a safe space to seek medical treatment free from judgment, assumption, and in the worst cases, harassment and even assault?
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Gender Inclusive Terms for Sexual Health, Pregnancy, and Birth
Click HERE or on the following link to see the full live Google doc of Gender Inclusive Terms for Pregnancy, Birth, and Sexual Health: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pSq-wQq_gVCw7Px4gexKH1QXY5X9nJCaR-mCXWGvBVM/edit
While there is a notation in this document giving permission to share and repost, the …
De-stigmatizing Grief
Guest blog post by Kailey Roberts, a clinical psychology PhD candidate at The New School for Social Research and an NIH-supported pre-doctoral research fellow specializing in cancer and bereavement. She has worked as a researcher and clinician for 6 years …
Cross-post: Sliding Scale Appointments Now Available!
I have the pleasure of announcing that beginning this summer I will be working under the supervision of Dr. Kelly Wise, psychotherapist and AASECT certified sex therapist. I’ll be taking on a limited number of sliding scale appointments at …
Cross-post: Is it Possible to Eradicate a Fetish?
By Dr. Michael Aaron, originally posted on December 8, 2014 on DrMichaelaaronNYC.com/blog.
In a recent post, I wrote about how the field of sexology is uneven in its application and rife with regional and individual biases, largely due …
Cross-post: GO Magazine proclaims “The Kink Doctor Is In”
Dulcinea Pitagora, founder of ManhattanAlternative.com, was featured in an article in GO Magazine‘s April 2015 issue. Read the online version of the interview here, or click on the image below for a PDF of the print …
Cross-post: GO Magazine proclaims “The Kink Doctor Is In”
Dulcinea Pitagora, founder of ManhattanAlternative.com, was featured in an article in GO Magazine‘s April 2015 issue. Read the online version of the interview here, or click on the image below for a PDF of the print …
The NYC Healthcare Hustle
Guest blog post by Stephanie Schroeder, a freelance writer and activist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Three years ago I published memoir about my struggle with bipolar disorder, Beautiful Wreck: Sex, Lies & Suicide. I got a little …
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
Call for NYC Kink/Poly/LGBTQ Affirmative Providers
Welcome to the launch of ManhattanAlternative.com! We are a network of therapeutic service providers in New York City who are sex-positive, affirmative, and have expertise related to issues that kink, poly, consensually non-monogamous, trans, gender non-conforming, and/or LGBQ-identified individuals