Rachel Featherstone – Sexuality And Pleasure Of Cisgender Women

How comfortable are you talking with your patients about their bodies, their sexuality, and their sexual pleasure? You can become well suited to deal with patients’ needs regarding sexuality, because when you understand the issues, you will feel better prepared to talk with your patients and provide the intimate nature of care that is needed for these conversations. Featherstone will explain the many influences around sexuality and help you develop the skills needed to listen, understand, and guide your patients.

What You’ll Learn In Sexuality And Pleasure Of Cisgender Women

Objectives

1. Analyze the impact of healthy sexuality on mental and physical health of women.
2. Identify FDA approved medications for treatment of female sexual dysfunction, and their mechanism of action.
3. Synthesize how body image, culture, media and religion impact sexual messaging and functioning.
4. Integrate education of the SIS/SES dual control model into patient education and assessment of female sexual functioning.
5. Review how reproductive health, pregnancy, infertility, and access to contraception and termination services impact sexuality.
6. Analyze the complex relationship between mental and physical health conditions and associated treatments on sexual functioning.

Outline

• Introduction/Relevance
• Defining Sex
• Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction in Women
• SIS/SES Systems
• Practical Examples of SIS/SES
• Categories of Sexual Desire

Influences

• Social Factors
• Religion/Culture
• Contraception
• Abortion
• Infertility
• Relational Factors and Infidelity
• Pregnancy and Postpartum
• Consent to Sexual Activity
• Sexual Trauma
• Sexual Education
• Self Pleasure
• Sexually Marginalized Women
• Women and Nonmonogamy
• Women and Kink
• • Conceptualization of Kink, BDSM
  • Paraphilias and Kink
• Sexuality in Adolescence
• Sexuality in Perimenopausal and Elderly Women

Sexual Anatomy

• Vulva and Clitoris
• Internal Sexual and Reproductive Organs
• Female Prostate
• Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Lubrication of the Vagina and Vulva

Squirting

Female Sexual Response

• Conceptual Model of Female Sexuality
• Arousal and Desire
• Pleasure and Orgasm

Sexual Pathology and Dysfunction

• Comorbidities of Sexual Dysfunction
• Diagnoses
  • Specifiers
  • Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
  • Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
  • Female Orgasmic Disorder and Treatment
  • Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder; Risk Factors and Treatment
  • Substance/Medication-Related Sexual Dysfunction and Treatment
  • Other Specified Sexual Dysfunction
  • Unspecified Sexual Dysfunction
  • Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder/Genito-Pelvic Dysthesia and Treatment
  • Paraphilic Disorders and Treatment
  • Compulsive Sexual Behavior versus Sex Addiction and Treatment

About Rachel Featherstone

R. “Featherstone” Featherstone, MSN, PMHNP, WHNP, PMH-C (they/them), is a dual-certified nurse practitioner of Reproductive/Sexual Health and Psychiatry. They are a veteran of the United States Army, serving as a military police officer at Fort Leonard Wood, MO in the 13th Military Police Company prior to becoming a nurse. They earned both their Master’s in Nursing and Postgraduate Certificate from Frontier Nursing University in 2019 and 2021, respectively.

After working for years in labor and delivery, mental health, and psychedelic medicine, Featherstone founded Eucalyptus Health in 2020. They offer sexual and psychiatric care via telehealth to parents and the LGBTQ+ community in Idaho and Virginia. They frequently speak on topics related to women’s mental health, 2SLGBTQIA+ care and mental health, eating disorders, and sexuality.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Rachel Featherstone is the founder of Eucalyptus Health. They receive a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. They have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Rachel Featherstone is a member of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America and the American Association of Women’s Health Nurse Practitioners.

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