ABSTRACT
Sex therapy is an area of psychotherapy that developed in the 1970s during the so-called sexual revolution. From a superficial perspective, it seemed simply to be a pragmatic approach that used education and behavioral interventions to help people with sexual performance problems. From a political and cultural perspective, however, sex therapy’s inattention to factors like social and cultural context, gender construction, and heteronormativity; its reliance on limited and intercourse-centered diagnoses; and its neglect of preventive sex education mark it as narrow and politically conservative (Irvine, 1990; Becker, 2005).
