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An Erotic Boundary: Transforming Attraction from Liability to Ethical Learning (Erion); Reckoning with One’s Own Ethical Failures in Intimate Care: Aftercare, Accountability, and the Scholar-Subject in Kink Research (Martin); Drafting Your Ethics Statement: Positive Sexuality in Practice (Pliskin)

Audre Lorde and a Professional Ethos

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Healing Through Trauma Play: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Participants’ Personal Narratives (Sunassee); When Sex Isn’t Positive: Disgust, Stigma, and Unthinkable Desire (Action); Was that my Therapist at the Glory Hole?: Examining possible ethical and boundary issues in kink and sex positive spaces (Dohearty)

Workshop: Owning Forbidden Desires - Person Centering Taboos (Black) (Included in your registration.)

Workshop: Owning Forbidden Desires - Person Centering Taboos (Black) (Included in your registration.)

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Kinky Krossroads: Developing Cultural Humility with BIPOC Clients (Mittal); Deconstruction: The Ethics of Sex Therapy with Active or Former Participants of Christian Nationalism (Gibson & Postema); Orgasmic Birth: Reclaiming Pleasure, Autonomy, and Ethics in Childbirth (Pascali-Bonaro)

Closing remarks and announcements, day one. Please let the moderators know if you wish to stick around for a few more minutes to network and/or socialize.

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Programming the Self: TPE, Neuroplasticity, and the Reconstructed Submissive Identity (Sunassee); The Affinity of Breeding Kinks: Using Qualitative Methods to Create a Community Definition Around Core Concepts of Sexual Practices (Olson & Cummings); Desirability Politics, Fetishism, and Their Impacts on Sex, Identity, and Digital Spaces (Starr)

Radical Intimacies: Fetish, Kink, and the Liberation of Disabled Sexualities

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Workshop: The Ethics of Cultural Translation in Sexuality Education: Whose Knowledge Counts? (Affia) (Included with your registration.)

Away from Infantilization: Discussions of Autistic Sex and Sexuality (Roldan); Asexuality and Sexual Attitudes: Distinguishing Cultural Values from Personal Interest (Lancaster); Can you… Do it?: An Exploration of Sex and Disability (Slawson)

Take a quick break to refresh, stretch, and/or network.

When Words Replace Touch: Ethical Considerations of Using AI LLMs to Augment Sex Work (LaRosa); Parenting Beyond Monogamy: Black Queer Polyamorous Approaches to Family, Care, and Legacy (Bevins)

Drs. James and Veronica Elias Student Research Awards for 2026 and Closing Remarks for the conference.