Dr. Travis Sky Ingersoll: Posted on Monday, December 01, 2014 12:59 PM
 Since the beginning of the fall 2014 school semester, I've had the pleasure and privilege to teach my class "Sexuality Concepts for Social Workers" at two different college campuses. In my course, students are required to use my textbook with the same title. That textbook is scheduled to be released nationally near the end of January 2015 from Cognella Publishing. When that historic event happens, I'll write all about it here.
On the topic of publications, I'm proud to announce that my Human Sexuality dissertation has been made available in book-form through LAMBERT Academic Publishing. |
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Dr. Travis Sky Ingersoll: Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2014 7:41 PM
A good sexuality policy for retirement and
assisted living facilities espouses the ideal that all people, of all ages,
deserve and are entitled to a superior quality of life. Creation of a sexuality policy which
gives sanction to sexual expression, while taking into consideration the
realities of residents with different levels of cognitive and physical impairment,
would achieve such an ideal. In our society sex and desire are falsely believed to be
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Dr. Travis Sky Ingersoll: Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2013 9:32 PM
A:What we know about trans-related (i.e.,
transgender, transsexual, intersex) topics has grown significantly over recent
years. However, individuals who identify as being neither “male” nor “female”
or of being something entirely different, a third gender if you will, is a
human reality depicted in our earliest writings and artworks. Before getting to
the answer, I feel it’s necessary to provide a brief historical background of
indigenous American Two-Spirit people.
Throughout
North and South America, many of the native population’s creation myths |
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Dr. Travis Sky Ingersoll: Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2013 10:14 PM
What exactly is premenstrual syndrome?A syndrome is a group of symptoms that occur together, and in the case of PMS those symptoms are in relation to the female menstrual cycle. With PMS, physical symptoms may include cramps, dizziness, backache, fatigue, nausea, a tingling in the extremities, abdominal bloating, breast tenderness, breast swelling, change in appetite, thirst, edema, and increased body weight. Psychoemotional symptoms may include anxiety, tension, irritability, depression, mood swings, crying spells, decreased interest, insomnia, feeling out of control, and an |
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Dr. Travis Sky Ingersoll: Posted on Monday, September 24, 2012 7:29 PM
Question: Is Frigidity Real?
A little background about the word “FRIGID” Before I get into whether the condition of frigidity is real or not, it’s important to inform that the word “frigidity” is an
outdated, sexist term. There was a
time in most world societies (not that long ago to be honest) that women were
more likely to be seen as domestic livestock, as being voiceless, powerless and
inherently inferior to men. Their
husbands and boyfriends expected them to demonstrate their appreciation for
everything a man provided for them, by enthusiastically, passionately having
sex with them whenever it was required. |
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Travis Sky Ingersoll: Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 10:20 AM
Answer:
There may be many paths toward the possible
truth in answering this series of questions. However, I feel it is important to
offer some concrete possibilities.
It is possible for both men and women to have sex with people that they
don’t love. One-night stands and
occasional hook-ups are a reality for many sexually active people throughout
the world. I’m not endorsing such
behavior, rather I’m simply acknowledging that it happens. I believe that the best sexual
experiences involve intimacy, trust, open communication and spiritual
connection; all of which are difficult to obtain in a one-night stand. |
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Travis Sky Ingersoll: Posted on Friday, June 22, 2012 3:45 PM
Question:
Why many girls call
their female friends “my wife”, ”Honey”, etc, but boys think it’s sick. What make girls do
that? Does it mean they changed their sexual orientation?
Answer: What makes girls do that? Doesn’t
it mean they changed their sexual orientation? I find these to be interesting questions. All stereotypical “male” and “female”
behavior has to do with socially-constructed gender roles and gender-based
ideologies. |
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Dr. Travis Sky Ingersoll: Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2012 5:08 PM
Answer:
Even though there are very happy
men and women who do not have much interest in sex, I think that one’s sexual
satisfaction can be a very important factor in whether or not some people feel
happy with their romantic relationships; married or not. To directly answer your question, my opinion
is that some marriages do fail because one or both partners are unhappy with
their sex life. However, the reasons
behind such unhappiness can have a variety of sources, including past sexual
experiences, communication issues, and even the loss of sexual attraction
toward one’s partner. |
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Travis Sky Ingersoll, Ph.D., MSW, M.Ed.: Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2012 5:48 PM
Do you agree that we are all bi-sexual? No I don’t. However I
do agree with the growing volume of research that asserts the majority of human
beings are bisexual to some degree; with individuals being purely attracted to
the opposite sex or purely to the same sex being the true sexual minorities. And when I refer to the term “bisexuality”
I’m defining it as a sexual orientation in which the individual is capable of
being romantically and/or sexually attracted to members of both sexes (i. |
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Travis Sky Ingersoll, Ph.D., MSW, M.Ed.: Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2011 4:36 PM
Answer:
Healthy relationships are consensual,
non-exploitive, mutually pleasurable, safe, developmentally appropriate, based
on mutual expectations, caring and respectful. Any sexual relationship that
cannot be described in those terms should probably be carefully examined;
something may be wrong, possible very wrong! On US college campuses, approximately 20-25% of college
females become victims of an attempted or completed rape at some point during
their college career (American College Health Association, 2008). |
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