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Alyssa Wulf, a linguist and co-founder of Real Reason, presented a provocative final plenary at the AASECT conference last week. (AASECT is a professional association of sexuality educators, counselors and therapists.) She began by showing how we use conceptual metaphors to make mental shortcuts, such as describing “ideas” with references to “food”: * Half-baked idea * Digest information * Chew on a thought She then explained how she investigated why people don’t push for Comprehensive Sex Ed… Continue

Richard Gregory, a prominent British neuropsychologist, estimates that visual perception is more than ninety percent memory and less than ten percent sensory nerve signals. This makes a lot of sense in sexology. So much of what turns us on and turns us off is not as much about what we are actually seeing — but about the feelings (memories) we associate with those things. This is empowering — We can change our perception of sex by creating more healthy and happy memories. David Schnarch, autho… Continue