FEBRUARY Announcements | Society for Sex Therapy and Research

February 01, 2023

Hello SSTARGazers! Welcome to February.... personally one of my (KW) favorite months for many reasons. It is also kind of hard to believe February is already here - before you know it, we'll be congregating together for our annual meeting! I hope everyone continues to do well as this year progresses.

For the February announcements, we have educational opportunities coming up, a call for commentaries, and two calls for research participants. We also have our announcement about the annual meeting and early registration! For all details, please see below or go to the SSTAR website here: https://sstarnet.org/blog/february-announcements-2/

And still as always, if you have a workshop, book, job opportunity, call for participants, or any other promotional announcement that you would like distributed to our members (on behalf of yourself or someone else), please send an email to info@SSTARnet.org and please include “SSTAR MONTHLY ANNOUNCEMENTS” in the subject line, to the communications committee – to Elisabeth Gordon at DrGordon@PsychandSexMD.com, or to Karen Washington at kwashingtoniv@yahoo.com– at least five (5) days before the end of the month for it to be posted the following month. Please do not post this information separately to the listserv.

Please continue to be well and take care!

Elisabeth and Karen

SSTAR Annual Meeting Announcement

Dear Members,

We are pleased to announce that registration is OPEN for SSTAR’s 48^th Annual Meeting, Sex Science for Social Change. You can read through the entire program attached to this email. And you can also register directly here.

IN-PERSON and VIRTUALLY

May 4 – 7, 2023 at the Marriott Tampa Water Street, Tampa, Florida and via Zoom

SSTAR is offering the complete program - two Thursday pre-conference workshops, the full scientific meeting on Friday-Saturday, and the Sunday Ethics workshop both in-person and virtually. SSTAR gratefully acknowledges The Center for Marital & Sexual Health South for sponsoring this hybrid event.

SCHOLARSHIPS

SSTAR is foremost committed to fostering clinical sexuality practice and research. In order to fulfill this mission, SSTAR is dedicated to being a welcoming and inclusive environment for all who are interested in human sexuality, including Black, Indigenous or other Persons of Color (BIPOC), individuals from the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, students, as well as early career professionals.

SSTAR recognizes that payment of conference registration fees can be an economic hardship and is therefore offering 3 scholarships for the 2023 Annual Meeting of up to $1,500. Each scholarship will cover in person or virtual registration for 2 preconference workshops, the annual meeting on Friday and Saturday and post conference Ethics workshop on Sunday. Applicants need not be SSTAR members. Click here to apply.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

In addition to two pre-conference workshops, five plenary talks and a post-conference ethics workshop, engaging program sessions will include:

Masters & Johnson Awardee Dr. Cynthia Graham
2023 Consumer Book Awardee Dr. Anne Katz for “Women Cancer Sex”
Sandra R. Leiblum Awardee Todd L. Jennings
Live and interactive poster presentations
Data blitzes
In-depth research and clinical addresses on exciting new sexuality research

Confirmed speakers include:

Dr. Eunice Avilés
Dr. Leonardo Candelario-Perez
Dr. Eli Coleman
Dr. Diana Greene Foster
Dr. Anne Katz
Dr. Nathan Lachowsky
Dr. Katie Spencer
Dr. L. Monique Ward

As always, these sessions are a balance of invited and peer-reviewed talks that reflect a wide variety of topics and cutting-edge research in human sexuality.

HOTEL

Marriott Tampa Water Street

505 Water Street

Tampa, Florida, 33602

Phone: (813) 221-4900

Reservations: A block of rooms with a special group rate has been reserved for SSTAR meeting attendees at the Single/Double Room rate of $229 (USD). Reserve your room today here.

If calling the hotel, please inform reservations that you are attending the SSTAR 2023 Annual Meeting to receive this special rate. The room block will be released on April 10, 2023, so please make your reservation early. After that day, room reservations are subject to availability and prices may go up.

SPONSORSHIPS

Support SSTAR’s mission to foster clinical sexuality practice and research and gain exposure to over 150 attendees. The sponsorship opportunities listed below are limited in availability and secured on a first come first serve basis. Please review the second attachment to this email for all sponsor options.

Deb Ryan

DIRECTOR, ASSOCIATIONS

**Training Opportunities**

The Buehler Institute at LearnSexTherapy.com

Kink-Affirming Professional Certificate Program with Stefani Goerlich, LCSW, PhD, CST

Award-winning author and in-demand speaker Stefani Goerlich will share her knowledge in a series of five, 2.5-hour live webinars starting February 3, 2023. You will learn:

about different types of kink communities
the effect of kink phobia on both you and your clients
determining healthy vs. abusive kink behaviors
sexual boundaries and power play
making meaning of kink
cultural differences among kinky populations

All webinars will be recorded. At the end of the series in June, you will receive a Certificate as a Kink-Affirming Professional.

To learn more and to enroll, please visit this page: https://www.learnsextherapy.com/course/kap-certificate

The Buehler Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association as a provider of continuing education. The Buehler Institute is responsible for all content. Earn APA, AASECT, NBCC, and CA BRN approved credit.

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February 2023

Title: BDSM and Stigma

Presenter: Luna Matatas

Date & Time (incl. # of CE hrs.): Friday, February 17, 2023 | 9am-1pm Eastern (4 CE Credits)