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Reframing Sex Positivity in a Socially Isolated World

Thu, March 4, 2021
Kelly Neff

The anxiety, uncertainty and cancel-culture that has emerged in response to the pandemic has led to a resurgence of sex negative attitudes valuing judgement and fear over autonomy and self-expression. Kelly Neff, Ph.D., author of “Sex Positive,” explores how sex positivity can help us heal from the devastating effects of social isolation and loneliness brought on by this past year, and how we can cultivate resilience and positive attitudes even when our sexual needs and desires may have shifted dramatically or been put on hold indefinitely.

Kelly Neff, Ph.D., is a social psychologist, author, professor, futurist, and talk-radio personality who brings to the transformational media world her unique focus on the intersection of psychology, consciousness, and human sexuality. 

An academically trained research psychologist, she received her B.A. (2004) in Psychology magna sum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University and her M.A. (2006) and Ph.D. (2010) in Social Psychology from Claremont Graduate University.
Committed to exploring the leading edge of psychology and technology, she wrote her first book, “Teaching Psychology Online in 2013,” and followed it up with articles on sex, consciousness, psychology, and futurism that have been read and shared tens of millions of times. Her hit show Lucid Planet Radio has attracted expert guests across the sciences, popular culture, and esoteric traditions and has been streamed to hundreds of thousands of listeners since it premiered in 2015. 

Neff’s newest effort, “Sex Positive” (2020), seeks to empower sexual freedom, inspire healing, and improve people’s relationships by fusing cutting-edge scientific findings with Eastern philosophies and her own insights. 

 

View Video: YouTube with Kelly Neff

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