Intimate Health Consulting takes center stage in this article by Case Quinlan in The Establishment about the need for culturally competent, sensitive care for LGBT people, sex workers, and survivors of sexual assault.
“In a webinar released last October, Palmisano, who identifies as queer, explained how pleasure-centered sex education can reduce HIV, STIs, and unplanned pregnancies. In the webinar, she first encourages health care providers to drop their assumptions — about how many partners and encounters is “appropriate,” for example — and to move forward with the attitude that sex is meant to be pleasurable and that it’s okay for patients to want to have it. This sets the tone for avoiding other leaps, such as the idea that the “norm” is a straight cisgender man having vaginal intercourse with a straight cisgender woman.”
https://www.theestablishment.co/how-doctors-can-stop-shutting-marginalized-groups-out-of-the-health-care-system-3c6e0eb483e4
