Positive Embodiment: Body Connection, Autonomy, and Sexual Well-Being
Positive embodiment is a respectful, connected way of experiencing the body through awareness, autonomy, sensation, comfort, identity, and bodily trust.
Genital Self-Image: Appearance, Confidence, and Sexual Well-Being
Genital self-image is how a person perceives and feels about their own genitals, including appearance, size, shape, function, and comfort during intimacy.
Body Neutrality: Reducing Appearance Pressure and Building Respect
Body neutrality reduces the pressure to judge the body by appearance and instead emphasizes respect, comfort, function, sensation, and lived bodily experience.
Body Acceptance: Self-Respect, Body Image, and Sexual Confidence
Body acceptance means respecting and living with one’s body without requiring it to meet ideal standards of appearance, ability, age, or sexual performance.
Body Image: Appearance, Self-Perception, and Sexual Confidence
Body image is how a person perceives, thinks, and feels about their body, including appearance, physical characteristics, abilities, changes, and sexual confidence.
Embodiment: Body Experience, Identity, and Sexuality
Embodiment is the lived experience of the body, including sensation, movement, body image, sexuality, identity, pleasure, discomfort, and bodily awareness.
Sexual Self-Image: Body Image, Confidence, and Sexual Identity
Sexual self-image is how a person perceives and feels about themselves sexually, including attractiveness, confidence, body image, desires, abilities, and sexual expression.
Neurodivergent Relationship: Communication, Intimacy, and Support
A neurodivergent relationship involves one or more neurodivergent partners and may include distinctive communication, sensory, emotional, and intimacy needs.
Mobility Impairment and Intimacy: Access, Comfort, and Adaptation
Mobility impairment and intimacy explores how limited movement can affect positioning, comfort, sexual activity, relationships, accessibility, and sexual well-being.
Spinal Cord Injury and Sexuality: Function, Adaptation, and Intimacy
Spinal cord injury and sexuality explores how SCI can affect arousal, sensation, fertility, sexual function, relationships, adaptation, and sexual well-being.