I'm wondering about the "Sexuality Workshop" phase of some of these LGATs. I've searched these boards and found this informative thread:
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It's about the Human Awareness Institute (www.hai.org). It contains a lively discourse from some former participants, both for and against HAI. They talk about how the workshop is "clothing optional" and go over some practices, like touching each other, close-up inspection of genitalia, and kissing of each other's genitalia, and an implication of actual intercourse in the last stage. I recommend it to anybody seeking information on Sexual Workshops.
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But the HAI focuses entirely on "sexuality", and has up to 7 levels. I'm wondering about the "Sexuality Workshops" that are tagged onto the end of LGAT training, after the initial three sections. I believe Landmark and Legacy have these. The one my friend is currently "enrolled" in, Summit Education, has a two day Sexuality Workshop (going on this weekend actually, though she is not taking it).
So I'm wondering, if anybody knows, what goes on in these shorter, tail-end Sexuality Workshops? Is it clothing optional? Do they have people do sexual things masked as innocent actions ("relax, it's not oral sex, it's just touching a part of the body with your lips")? Would there be enough time for actual sex, or is it covertly continued (like the way there is an Advanced after the Basic, Leadership after the Advanced, Masters after the Leadership, etc.). Knowing how LGAT groups manage to get participants to do things they usually wouldn't do, through peer/leader pressure or an imminent sense of failure, what happens when sex is equated?
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My theory of the "end game" in terms of these Sexuality Workshops (based on the HAI) is the fact that people can repeat the course over and over. If every time the workshop is held, new people (especially women) are pushed to try ambiguously presented sexual activities, which may result in impromptu or group sex, then savvy repeat participants are pretty much paying for the opportunity to have sex, or something close to it. Which means that the people running these workshops are essentially pimping out the new attendees, who in-turn are paying to be prostituted.
It seems in line with the general LGAT M.O. of getting people to pay for a course where a large part of the curriculum is based on "enrolling" people into the program. Another theory is that it promotes promiscuity, group sex, polygamy, ect, as the only way to be truly sexually happy, and thus giving people a reason to continue participating in the LGAT group (sex sells).
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A funny thing to point out: Reading the HAI site and other Sexuality Workshop descriptions, we come up with a lot of flowery talk about feelings and relationships and intimacy, blah, blah, blah, but nothing about nudity or actual sex, yet, they're still bold enough to call it a Sexuality Workshop.
In the above thread, one of the former HAI members (who's now against it) mentioned that it was wrong for them not to right out state the possibility of sexual activity, and the pro, current HAI participant pretty much retorts "It's called a SEXUALITY workshop. You should expect there to be some sex". Yet, when I cautioned my friend about the it, she said "It's called a Sexuality Workshop, but it's not like there's going to be actual sex."
This is similar to the way LGAT apologist on these boards, when presented with cases gone wrong, simply say "Well, it's definitely not for everybody." yet have no answer to how the people that it's not for are supposed to know that when their practices are so secret.