By: Anne Mauro, AASECT Awards Committee Chair

2024 AASECT Award Recipients

Congratulations and thank you for the work that you do!

AASECT Sexuality Book Awards

General Focus

Out: A Parent’s Guide to Supporting Your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond by John Sovec

With Sprinkles on Top: Everything Vanilla People and Their Kinky Partners Need to Know to Communicate, Explore, and Connect by Stefani Goerlich

AASECT Book Awards

Audience Focus (children under 18)

My Culture, My Gender, Me by Cassandra Corrigan

Audience Focus (teens under 18)

Totally Normal: An LGBTQIA+ Guide to Puberty, Sex, and Gender by Monica Gupta Mehta and Asha Lily Mehta

Sexuality Professional Focus

Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human Service Professionals by Shanna Katz Kattari

AASECT Audiovisual and Film Award

Every Body by Julie Cohen

AASECT Live Web Series Award

Mariah Caudillo

AASECT Podcast Award

Our Better Half: Drs. Jane Fleishman, Jayleen Galarza, Sabitha Pillai-Friedman, Rosara Torrisi

Professional Standard of Excellence Award

Marla Renee Stewart (Sex Down South Conference)

AASECT Award for Integrative Approaches to Sex Therapy

Marissa Nelson

AASECT Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Bianca Laureano

AASECT Award for Emergent Professional

Nikita Fernandes

Distinguished Service to AASECT Award

Colby Agostinelli

Humanitarian Award

Tarra Bates-Duford

AASECT Sexuality Educator Award

Shanéa Thomas

Student Presentation Award Coming soon! 

Schiller Prize Award – Coming soon!

Virtual Awards Ceremony

Thursday, May 23, 2024

7:30 PM ET

Join us! AASECT members and award recipients will be sent a virtual link to join the event. RSVP is not required.