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The Sexual Health Alliance (SHA) offers sex therapy training, counseling certification, and AASECT-approved education led by top experts in an engaged, diverse, and inclusive community across 6 continents

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NEWSLETTER: bit.ly/SHASignUp The Sexual Health Alliance (SHA) promotes an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to sexuality with the goal of fostering cooperation and dialogue among diverse professionals. Throughout the year, SHA facilitates communication among sexual health providers through our signature lecture series, roundtable forums, and educational workshops.

We Know You're Naughty About Santa 😈This isn’t about Santa himself. It’s about psychology.Every December, interest in Sa...
12/24/2025

We Know You're Naughty About Santa 😈

This isn’t about Santa himself. It’s about psychology.

Every December, interest in Santa-themed erot/ca predictably spikes, not because people suddenly change, but because the season activates powerful patterns around taboo, fantasy, and safety.

Santa works as a fantasy archetype. He’s authoritative but contained. Judging, yet rewarding. Powerful, yet imaginary. That combination allows desire to explore control, surrender, and “naughty vs. nice” dynamics without real-world risk.

Add nostalgia into the mix, and the effect deepens. Holiday imagery signals warmth, safety, and childhood memories. And when the nervous system feels safe, desire has more room to emerge. Safety doesn’t kill aro//sal, it often unlocks it.

What looks playful on the surface is actually a masterclass in how fantasy, culture, and desire intersect. This is the kind of nuance s//xual health professionals need to understand — not to pathologize fantasy, but to normalize it, contextualize it, and work with it skillfully.

👉 Take the quiz to find out which SHA Certification fits your work best: https://bit.ly/4l1ZgYU

12/23/2025

When pleasure is understood and supported, it doesn’t just affect the body; it reshapes confidence, decision-making, and emotional wellbeing.

As Venus O’Hara shares, informed guidance and permission to explore can be profoundly empowering. This is what real-world s//xology looks like in practice: practical, embodied, and deeply human.

This January 24-25, learn what kinds of transformation modern clients are actually seeking: https://s*xualhealthalliance.com/everybody-wants-this

Why do we kiss under the MISTLETOE? 💋What feels like a playful holiday moment actually carries centuries of meaning.Long...
12/23/2025

Why do we kiss under the MISTLETOE? 💋

What feels like a playful holiday moment actually carries centuries of meaning.

Long before it became a Christmas custom, mistletoe was seen as powerful. In ancient Greece and Rome, it was believed to have healing properties. In Norse mythology, mistletoe appears in the story of Baldur and F***g, where it becomes a symbol of love, peace, and reconciliation after loss. Celtic Druids revered it as a sign of vitality and fertility because it stayed green even through harsh winters.

By the Victorian era, these myths merged into tradition. Kissing under the mistletoe became a ritual of romance and goodwill, with each kiss symbolically marked by plucking a berry until none remained.

Today, the meaning lingers. Mistletoe represents connection, warmth, and the human need for closeness, especially during darker, colder seasons when people naturally seek comfort and bonding.

Want to keep learning how culture shapes desire, relationships, and connection? Join SHA’s free newsletter and deepen your understanding of intimacy across time and context: https://s*xualhealthalliance.com/signup

12/23/2025

Me: ✨ learning in new cities, global perspective, and unforgettable classroom moments.

SHA Study Abroad isn’t just travel; it’s professional growth, cultural immersion, and education you feel in your body and practice.

👉 Explore Study Abroad 2026: https://s*xualhealthalliance.com/studyabroad2026

Quiet Dating Is Secretly Helping All Singles 🤫Quiet dating isn’t about hiding your love life. It’s about removing the au...
12/21/2025

Quiet Dating Is Secretly Helping All Singles 🤫

Quiet dating isn’t about hiding your love life. It’s about removing the audience.

Instead of live-tweeting every date or outsourcing your intuition to friends, quiet dating centers clarity, self-trust, and emotional regulation. It gives people space to notice behavior over hype, alignment over fantasy, and desire without pressure.

What we’re seeing clinically is a bigger shift: people are decentering performance and re-centering agency. Attraction becomes grounded. Decisions feel clearer. Intimacy stops needing validation.

But quiet doesn’t mean invisible. Privacy should feel steady, not confusing. When silence protects your nervous system and supports choice, it’s healthy. When it erases you, that’s a red flag.

If you work with clients navigating modern dating, attachment, and intimacy, this is a trend worth understanding deeply, not just socially, but psychologically.

👉 Take the quiz to see which SHA certification supports the work you want to do next: https://bit.ly/4l1ZgYU

Gen Z’s Cuffing Season Schedule Explained 🗓️What used to be a vague cultural moment has turned into something far more d...
12/21/2025

Gen Z’s Cuffing Season Schedule Explained 🗓️

What used to be a vague cultural moment has turned into something far more deliberate. For Gen Z, cuffing season isn’t just about winter loneliness... it’s a structured response to uncertainty, choice overload, and emotional risk in modern dating.

By turning dating into a timeline, people reduce ambiguity. Labels like “scouting,” “tryouts,” and “playoffs” offer psychological safety by creating rules where there otherwise aren’t any. Gamification becomes a coping strategy, especially in app-based dating, where endless options can feel overwhelming.

There’s also biology at play. Shorter days, colder weather, and seasonal mood shifts increase the drive for closeness, touch, and emotional regulation. Add dopamine from novelty and crushes, and it makes sense why connection gets prioritized this time of year.

The risk isn’t cuffing season itself. The risk is when people start treating partners like prospects, optimizing outcomes instead of building curiosity, presence, and mutuality. When dating becomes performance-based, emotional availability often drops.

Want to better understand dating patterns, attachment styles, and modern relationship dynamics, and help others navigate them with clarity?

👉 Take the quiz to find your SHA Certification path: https://bit.ly/4l1ZgYU

12/21/2025

Many male clients worry they’re “low volume”, not because of physiology, but because their expectations were shaped by exaggerated media portrayals.

As Dr. Joshua Gonzalez explains, normal semen volume spans a wide clinical range, yet shame and misinformation often do the real damage.

This is why competent care in male s//xual health requires both medical literacy and cultural context.

👉 Become SHA Certified and strengthen how you assess, educate, and support male clients: https://bit.ly/4l1ZgYU

3 Signs You Have A Dating Hangover 🌀Ever leave a date and feel more wired, drained, or uncertain the next day than excit...
12/20/2025

3 Signs You Have A Dating Hangover 🌀

Ever leave a date and feel more wired, drained, or uncertain the next day than excited?

A “dating hangover” isn’t about doing something wrong. It’s your nervous system telling you something important about safety, self-trust, and emotional energy.

Replaying the date on a loop. Worrying you were “too much.” Feeling emotionally depleted instead of grounded.

These patterns often show up when reassurance-seeking, people-pleasing, or attachment wounds get activated. And they’re incredibly common in modern dating—especially when connection starts to feel performative instead of mutual.

Here’s the reframe professionals use: Dating clarity doesn’t come from editing yourself. It comes from noticing how your body and nervous system respond.

If dating leaves you exhausted instead of clearer, that’s not a failure—it’s data.

Want to help clients (or yourself) make sense of modern dating dynamics with confidence and clarity?

👉 Take the quiz to find your SHA Certification path: https://bit.ly/4l1ZgYU

12/20/2025

When clients are stuck in pressure, anxiety, or “doing it for someone else,” the work isn’t about fixing bodies; it’s about clarifying desire.

As Nicoletta von Heidegger reminds us: when people understand who they’re doing this for, shame softens and authentic connection becomes possible.

This is the kind of nuanced, pleasure-centered framework today’s clinicians need when working with male clients across identities, relationships, and life stages.

👉 Become SHA Certified and deepen your clinical impact. Start with this 30-second quiz: https://bit.ly/4l1ZgYU

THE DEEPFAKE CRISIS IS HERE 🚨AI “nudify” tools can turn a single photo into explicit content—without consent. No hacking...
12/19/2025

THE DEEPFAKE CRISIS IS HERE 🚨

AI “nudify” tools can turn a single photo into explicit content—without consent. No hacking. No intimacy. Just one image.

This isn’t a tech prank. It’s digital s//xual violence.

Women and femmes are disproportionately targeted, the legal system is lagging behind the technology, and harm begins at creation, not distribution. The psychological, professional, and relational impact is real... and long-lasting.

As professionals, educators, and clinicians, understanding digital consent is no longer optional. Modern s//xual health now includes technology, power, safety, and accountability.

👉 Join the newsletter to deepen your understanding of modern s//xual health, consent, and emerging digital harms: https://s*xualhealthalliance.com/signup

*xualhealthprofessionals

12/18/2025

At some point in your career, someone will invite you into the SHA community. Make sure to say YES!

Because where you learn matters. Who you grow with matters. And becoming a confident, informed s//xual health professional doesn’t happen alone. 🤝

→ Ready to find your path? Take the SHA Certification Quiz: https://bit.ly/4l1ZgYU

V/AGRA GOES PINK! 💗For decades, medical solutions for aro//sal focused almost entirely on men. Women were told to try th...
12/18/2025

V/AGRA GOES PINK! 💗

For decades, medical solutions for aro//sal focused almost entirely on men. Women were told to try therapy, reduce stress, or “wait it out”, even when the issue was physiological, not psychological.

This new topical sildenafil cream marks a shift. Instead of acting systemically or targeting desire in the brain, it focuses on blood flow at the tissue level, supporting warmth, engorgement, and lubrication where magic actually happens for many women.

That distinction matters. Over 40% of women experience some form of ar0//sal difficulty, yet evidence-based options have been limited. This isn’t “female V/agra.” It’s a sign that women’s bodies are finally being studied, understood, and treated with real science, not marketing language.

For professionals, this is bigger than one product. It’s about recognizing how physiology, access, stigma, and education intersect in health care — and being equipped to guide clients with accuracy, nuance, and compassion.

Want to support clients navigating modern dating, attachment, boundaries, and relational resilience? Take our short quiz to find the SHA Certification that fits you best: https://bit.ly/4l1ZgYU

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