Inclusive sex therapy practices: a qualitative study of the techniques sex therapists use when working with diverse sexual populations
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Abstract
Attention to the clinical needs of diverse client populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and queer (LGBTQ) clients, openly non-monogamous clients, and bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism (BDSM) lifestyle clients, has grown in recent years. This study reports interview-based qualitative research findings, from a sample of sex therapy specialists and subject-matter experts (n = 34), on key clinical principles and practices used in the treatment of such diverse client groups. Three clinical principles are identified: therapist self-reflection, client-affirmation, and normalizing. Core clinical techniques to support these overarching principles are then described and discussed. The utility of such techniques, and relevant treatment considerations in inclusive sex therapy practice with diverse clients, are evaluated in relation to interview data.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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