Body Comparison: Appearance Standards, Anxiety, and Sexual Confidence
Body comparison is the habit of judging one’s body against other people or appearance ideals and may influence body image, anxiety, confidence, and sexuality.
Appearance-Based Teasing: Body Image, Shame, and Sexual Confidence
Appearance-based teasing involves unwanted jokes or ridicule about physical appearance and can affect body image, self-esteem, relationships, and sexual confidence.
Desexualization of Disability: Ableism, Autonomy, and Sexuality
Desexualization of disability is the assumption that disabled people are asexual, undesirable, or incapable of relationships, intimacy, and sexual autonomy.
Infantilization of Disabled Adults: Autonomy, Dignity, and Sexual Rights
Infantilization of disabled adults means treating disabled adults as childlike or incapable, often limiting autonomy, privacy, relationships, consent, and personal decision-making.
Disability: Accessibility, Autonomy, Health, and Sexuality
Disability can affect physical, sensory, intellectual, developmental, or neurological functioning and may interact with accessibility, health, relationships, autonomy, and sexuality.
Age-Inclusive Sexuality: Sexual Health and Well-Being Across Life
Age-inclusive sexuality recognizes sexual health, identity, intimacy, education, autonomy, and well-being as relevant across different stages of life.
Gender Literacy: Identity, Expression, Roles, and Understanding
Gender literacy is the ability to understand and communicate about gender identity, expression, roles, stereotypes, diversity, and their relationship to sexuality and society.
Bystander Intervention: Preventing Sexual Harm Through Safe Action
Bystander intervention means taking safe, appropriate action when witnessing possible harassment, coercion, sexual violence, or another harmful situation.
Rape Culture: Victim Blaming, Consent, and Sexual Violence
Rape culture describes social attitudes that normalize, excuse, minimize, or trivialize sexual violence while often shifting responsibility toward victims.
Victim Blaming: Sexual Violence, Consent, and Responsibility
Victim blaming shifts responsibility for abuse or sexual violence onto the person harmed instead of focusing on the actions of the person who caused it.