Sexual Attitude Reassessment · Reflective Exercise

What Felt Like Common Sense

This one has no correct answers and does not grade you. It is built to catch you in something rather than to ask you to spot it in someone else.

The case this is built on

A therapist in clinical supervision presents a couple navigating disagreements about sexual frequency.

What happened in that supervision is withheld until the end of this exercise. Reading it first would tell you what you were supposed to notice, and the exercise would stop working.

Estimated time to complete this exercise: 20 minutes

1First read
2The names
3The reveal
4Three questions
5Discomfort
6Close

Before you begin

How this one works

This is not a knowledge exercise. Nothing you write is graded, scored, or compared against a correct answer, because there is no correct answer to most of what follows.
Nothing you type leaves your browser. There is no record and no submission, and closing or reloading this page discards everything. At the end you can copy your own responses if you want to take them to consultation.
You will be asked to commit to a first impression before you have had a chance to examine it. That is deliberate.
Some of this may be uncomfortable. The discomfort is the material rather than a sign that something has gone wrong.

Work through it in one sitting if you can. Writing a real sentence rather than thinking of one makes a considerable difference to what the exercise can show you.

References

  1. van Anders, S. M., Herbenick, D., Brotto, L. A., Harris, E. A., & Chadwick, S. B. (2022). The heteronormativity theory of low sexual desire in women partnered with men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51(1), 391–415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02100-x