The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities

This Handbook is the first volume to address the dynamic issues related to sexuality from a social work perspective by providing a comprehensive, current and international overview of issues related to sexuality. It explains how each issue is important and critically discusses the leading views in the area, providing diverse and inclusive perspectives from leading scholars in the field. Divided into seven parts: - Structural Context - Sexual Identities - Sexuality trough the Lifespan - Health, Mental Health, and Sexuality - Sexual Health and Well-Being: Pleasure, Desire, and Consent - Practice Issues - Regulating Sexuality: Historical and Contemporary Legislation It will be of interest to students, academics, researchers,and practitioners of social work and related health and social care subjects, and is particularly relevant for practice courses as well as courses on Human Growth and Development and Human Behavior in the Social Environment.

SJ Dodd, MSEd., MSW, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor, at the Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY, and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is also founding Director of the Silberman Center for Sexuality and Gender (SCSG).

Introduction. Part 1: Structural Context. 1. Social Work and Sexual Health: A History. 2. Heteronormativity and Social Work: The What That Dare Not Speak its Name. 3. Combatting Cisnormativity in Social Work Education, Research and Practice. Part 2: Sexual Identities. 4. Asexuality. 5. Navigating Genders and Orientations: An Exploration of Bisexuality and Pansexuality. 6. Social Work Practice with Sexual Minority Men: History, Terminology and Social Context. 7. Social Work Practice with Sexual Minority Men: A Developmental & Life Course Perspective. 8. 'Corrective Rape' and Black Lesbian Sexualities in South Africa: Negotiating the Tensions Between 'Blackwashing' and 'Pinkwashing' Homophobia. 9. Beyond 50 Shades: BDSM and Kink for Social Workers. 10. What the Heart Wants: Polyamory, Compersion and Monogamish Arrangements. Part 3: Sexuality Through the Lifespan. 11. Intersections Between Body Image, Sexual Identity, and Sexual Well-being Among Gender-Diverse Youth. 12. Sexuality and Relationships Education in Group Homes. 13. LGBT+ Parenting. 14. Sexual and Gender Identity in Older Age. 15. Social Work and LGBTQ Aging. 16. Intimate Expression During the End of Life: Considerations for Practitioners Working with Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults. Part 4: Health, Mental Health, and Sexuality. 17. Sexuality and Cancer. 18. Spectrums: Autism, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality. 19. Sexy Spoonies And Crip Sex: Sexuality and Disability in a Social Work Context. 20. A Vision of Justice: Seeing the Sex-ABILITY of People with Intellectual Disabilities. 21. Neurodiverse Relationships: When Partners' Brains are Wired Differently. Part 5: Sexual Health and Well-Being - Pleasure, Desire, And Consent. 22. Orgasm and the Desire to be Desirable. 23. Understanding Consent Among Emerging Adults: Wrestling with the Social Construction of Gender, Sexuality, and Salient Social Categories. 24. Grab 'Em by the Pussy: An Exploration of Consent in the #MeToo Era. 25. Sexual Violence and the Steps to Recovery: From Reporting to Healing. Part 6: Practice Issues. 26. Sex Therapy: Social Worker's Potential as Sexuality Experts. 27. Rethinking Sexual Risk. 28. Therapist Self-Disclosure: Use of Self as a Transgender Therapist. 29. Somatic Experiencing and Sexuality: Trauma Resolution, Embodied Integration, and Sexual Health. 30. Safeguarding Young People in Care: Sexuality and Relationship Education. 31. Reacting to Sexually (Un)acceptable Behavior with the Flag System. 32. Show Me the Ropes: Common Kink Community Practices. 33. Applying Critical Feminist Theory and Praxis to Examine Contemporary Social Work Education, Practice, Policy, and Research with Individuals in the Sex Trades. Part 7: Regulating Sexuality: Historical and Contemporary Legislation. 34. Sexing and Genderizing Policy: Moving Beyond Binaries and Normatives. 35. Scoping the Literature about LGBTQI Migrants: A Critical Synthesis of Knowledge Produced about LGBTQI Migrants and Implications for Social Work. 36. From Fallen Women to the Tumblr Ban: Representing the Landscape of Sex Work from a Historical and Legal Perspective. 37. Regulation of Kink and BDSM: Pathologization through Diagnostic Tools.