Sex Talk: From the Bedroom to the Classroom ? ORANGE

By Ahsika Sanders

Dr. Lawrence Brownstein was invited to teach Human Sexuality by the University of Texas at Austin after almost 15 years of work with Planned Parenthood, where he hosted workshops on various sexual topics for teenagers across the state.

Brownstein says his course at UT aims to promote scholarly examination of social and personal factors in sexual expression. Human sexuality and loving relationships are taught from a psychological perspective, he says. The course examines the emotional and relationship dimensions of sexuality.

That?s straight from the syllabus, but having taken his course, I can honestly say that?s exactly what it does. He is able to tackle questions about sex in a way that makes you either comfortable enough to not squirm in your seat or comfortable enough to laugh at your awkwardness. For me, it was one of those rare occasions where heaps of information was fun.

I was even able to apply a class tidbit to my relationship almost a year and a half later. When my boyfriend and I joke around, I might lightly hit his arm or jokingly shove him. One day he was poking fun at my ?big feet? and my usual love tap was more of a?smack! It didn?t hurt him, but I realized it was much harder than usual and I was instantly reminded about Brownstein warning about being physical in a relationship. He said if you resort to a physical response instead of communicating verbally, then you may tend be physical in confrontation with them as well. I was so pleased to apply such good relationship advice that didn?t come from the pages of Comso.

In addition to teaching at UT, Brownstein maintains a private counseling practice and specializes in individual, marital and relationship counseling, which he says often presents issues of sexuality. ?The most common problems that people come up with are ? for males ? inability to maintain an erection or to have an orgasm, and for females, the most common one is loss of sexual interest with her mate, not necessarily with other people,? Brownstein says.

He says he addresses this loss of sexual interest by first determining if it is just the spouse they are disinterested in because if that?s the case, it?s less of an issue with an unhealthy sex drive. He explores what it is about their partner that might be turning them off to try to mend the relationship that way.

?But if they don?t have any sexual interest in anyone [at all], then one of the first things that we do is make sure that they have normal testosterone levels for a woman, and I try to find out if they having any pain or difficulty with intercourse that?s blocking the sexual drive,? he says. ?I?d ask a series of questions to try to focus the issue, like whether or not they ever remember ever having a strong sex drive and when that started to wane.?

Above anything else, Brownstein says the one thing he certainly hopes his students remember is that ?you are a miracle [and] to try to be kind to one another, particularly sexually.?

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