COSRT: College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists
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>Registered Charity No: 1101961
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>CONFERENCE
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>PSYCHOSEXUAL THERAPY IN SEXUALISED CULTURE
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>We are currently in the grip of a cultural panic about sexualisation.
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>On the one hand we are being encouraged to have 'great sex', to
>experiment and to be adventurous. Pole-dancing has become a leisure
>industry, sex-toys a must-have part of the sexual repertoire, and online
>porn something to help us to figure out what turns us on. Looking sexy is
>a way of pampering ourselves and can make women feel empowered in their
>femininity. If sex becomes tricky there are a host of people who can help
>us out from tantra gurus, to agony aunts, to pharmaceuticals to treat
>every problem.
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>On the other hand we are terrified about how sexual it is all becoming.
>Young girls dancing along to sexy music videos and wearing porn star
>T-shirts are clearly 'too sexy too soon'. Men are learning a twisted,
>predatory, sexuality from over-exposure to hardcore porn on the internet
>from a young age. Women are alienated even further from their sexualities
>by being drenched in a pornified media that tells them only a certain
>body type is sexy, and that they must excite their partners through
>offering a menu of adventurous sex.
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>These are the confusions and concerns that now enter our therapy rooms
>with every client. At this conference we will learn about the debates
>from the researchers and writers who have studied them most closely,
>familiarising ourselves with the terrain. We will also hear responses
>from therapists about how these issues play out in their own therapy
>rooms, drawing on key cases that they have been part of.
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>The day will familiarise you with current policy perspectives, sexual
>health and sex education and media engagement, as well as addressing the
>vital question of what psychosexual therapy looks like in sexualised
>culture.
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>Please join us on:
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>Saturday 19th November 2011
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>Kings College London, Waterloo
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>Register at: www.cosrt.org.uk<http://www.cosrt.org.uk>
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>PROGRAMME
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>09.30 Registration
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>10.00 Welcome Peter Bell, chair of COSRT and Corinna Furse, CEO of COSRT
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>10.15 The sexualisation debate and women's sexual leisure
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>Feona Attwood
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>Chair and respondent: Jo Cocker
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>11.30 Coffee
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>12.00 Sexting, pornstars and thongs: Young women's sexualisation
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>Clare Bale
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>Chair and respondent: Desa Markovic
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>13.15 Lunch
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>14.00 Moral Panics, men and (online) porn
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>Clarissa Smith
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>Chair and respondent: Meg Barker
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>15.15 Tea
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>15.45 Therapy with men who go to sex-workers
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>Robert Watson
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>Chair and respondent: Glyn Hudson-Allez
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>17.00 Discussion
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>Chair: Glyn Hudson-Allez
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>17.30 Conference close
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