The University of Guelph will host the 38th annual Guelph Sexuality Conference, Canada’s largest and longest-running sexual health forum, June 23 to 24.

Featured lecturer for the event will be Dr. Marla Shapiro, a well-known Canadian medical doctor and a health journalist for CTV and The Globe and Mail.

The conference will bring together several hundred researchers, health-care workers, therapists, students, social workers and other health professionals from across North America.

This year’s conference theme is “Pleasure.”

Plenary speakers will address sexual health, well-being and the politics of sexual pleasure.

Shapiro will discuss HPV immunization and enhanced disease and cancer prevention Thursday at 1:30 p.m.

Other sessions both days will address topics from sexually transmitted infections to sexual assault to educational programs to HIV prevention.

Information and registration details, and a complete listing of conference sessions, are at guelphsexualityconference.ca

The Guelph Sexuality Conference is open only to registrants and the media (some sessions are closed to media). For more information or to obtain media passes, email sexconf@OpenEd.uoguelph.ca.

The event is sponsored by U of G’s Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, and the Office of Open Learning and Educational Support.