ABSTRACT
This book is designed to help therapists and other health professionals develop their understanding and practice around the complex area of human sexuality in all its diversity. As well as being helpful for clinicians in re¯ecting on issues of sexuality and how they are present and inform their practice, it is also intended to be a resource for training in the area of sex and sexuality. Current thinking around the concepts, activities and beliefs around sex and sexuality can be regarded as historically, regionally and culturally determined, and can be engaging and controversial. These ideas are therefore part of a changing cultural discourse involving social and moral judgements about what is acceptable or usual, and what might be problematic (Foucault, 1978).
