Category Archives: pleasure

S//xology Outsiders Training: Understanding Diverse Desires

Join me on September 5–6, 2026, for the S//xual Health Alliance’s S//xology Outsiders: Advanced Clinical Perspectives & Hidden Worlds of Desire—a live, online professional training exploring the identities, relationships, practices, and desires that many clinicians and helping professionals receive little or no formal education about. I will be teaching about the intersections between consensual nonmonogamies/polyamoryContinueContinue reading “S//xology Outsiders Training: Understanding Diverse Desires”

Understanding Neurodiverse Sexuality Challenges

In my newest blog on Psychology Today I explore some of the sexual issues that face neurodiverse people and how they and their partners can address them to create a happy, satisfying sex life together. You can find it at https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/202608/neurodiverse-sexuality-and-common-challenges

Join Our Workshop on Non-Monogamy Satisfaction

In celebration of OPEN’s Week of Visibility for Non-Monogamy, join us on July6 for “Cultivating Satisfaction in Non-Monogamy.” Learn from the researchon relationship satisfaction in polyamory and CNM and gain insight to makeyour relationship more joyful. This virtual workshop offers AASECT CEU’s. Sign up here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultivating-satisfaction-in-non-monogamy-tickets-1991084669846 The dynamic duo of Tamara Pincus, LICSW and Dr. Elisabeth “Eli” SheffContinueContinue reading “Join Our Workshop on Non-Monogamy Satisfaction”

Mastering Aftercare: Tips for Lasting Sexual Satisfaction

I blog for the Psychology Today website, and occasionally their editors ask me to edit what I have written to make it fit better with their site. The blog below is an example of that. The editors asked me to make the language less explicit and to focus on the psycholiogical aspects of post-sex communication,ContinueContinue reading “Mastering Aftercare: Tips for Lasting Sexual Satisfaction”

Expand Your Counseling Skills: Non-Monogamy Certification Program

Certification Program in Consensual NonMonogamies starts this fall! Are you a counselor, therapist, coach, or social worker who wants to develop greater expertise in serving clients in consensually nonmonogamous relationships? Consider taking the online nine-month certification course that I offer in collaboration with the Sexual Health Alliance. This self-paced course includes three live intensives withContinueContinue reading “Expand Your Counseling Skills: Non-Monogamy Certification Program”

Breaking Free: Rejecting Purity Culture’s Impact

My newest blog on Psychology Today explores some of the reasons people leave purity culture behind, and some of the outcomes they experience when they reject Evangelical expectations. Shout out to Mx. Tessi Muskrat for their awesome research on this topic! https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/202507/rejecting-sexual-shame-from-purity-culture #Shame #gender #relationship #Religions #purityculture #personalgrowth #NewBeginnings #healing