ABSTRACT
The study of human sexuality and sex therapy is transdisciplinary and examines the socio-cultural, religio-political, and physio-psychological aspects of the human experience. At any given time, sexuality influences and is influenced by what is happening around us. Human sexuality reaches beyond the constructs of gender and sexual orientation, influencing education, government, health, philosophy, and globalist economic systems. Additionally, human sexuality plays an integral role in the capitalistic gains that threaten the world through neocolonialism, genocide, and systemic oppression. This chapter reflects the socio-cultural aspect of human sexuality and examines the intersecting issues of race, culture, pleasure, sex therapy, and mental health. Two-Spirit Indigenous sexuality will be used as the grounding focus with the goal to decolonize sexuality and 2SLGBTQI issues in the fields of sex therapy and sexuality studies. Two-Spirit is an umbrella term used by some Native American/First Nations people to signify gender and sexual orientation variance and/or an LGBTQ+ identity. Two-Spirit was derived from the northern Algonquin phrase niizh manitoag, which has been translated to mean “two spirits”.
