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What led you to become a Sex Educator?
I interned for an amazing organization, Health Initiatives for Youth and had a chance to really see the power of sex education and the impacts it has on developing into a healthy adult. It was amazing to finally connect health education to community activism and youth development. The [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
I have always felt passionate about providing sexuality information to my peers, but I didn’t realize that I could pursue sex education as a career until college. As a teenager, I recognized that providing sexual health information was something I was meant to do because I could [...]

In light of John Thursday’s great post on shirtcocking and the fact that I’m a cat person, I couldn’t help but post this.
Heh.

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
I kinda fell into it. I had just found my way into Montreal’s queer community, and had signed up as a volunteer with Gay Line. They provided a 30-hour training session for new listeners, but their focus was largely on gay and lesbian concerns, and I found [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
I think my biggest motivation was the struggle I had for quite a few years to grasp my own sexuality, starting somewhere around 1961 when there were no books worth reading and before what I think of as “the discovery of the clitoris”. I thought I was crazy [...]

“It’s unfortunate what we find pleasing to the touch and pleasing to the eye is seldom the same.” Fabienne, Pulp Fiction
One of the sticking points in many of the debates and conversations that I’ve participated in around porn is that porn sex doesn’t look like real-life sex. Unfortunately, if the only images that we have [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator
I had an a-ha! moment while watching an Oprah show on the prevalence of oral sex in middle school students. Realizing there is waaay too much bad or incorrect information out there, I decided to become a sex educator.
How did you start giving sex advice?
I’ve always been that [...]

When it comes to moral panics, nothing gets people riled up quite as much as sex. For a while now, I’ve been following the moral panic that some people are trying to foment around sex work and the trafficking of women.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I firmly believe that nobody should ever be forced into [...]

What led you to become a BDSM Educator?

In 2003 I wanted to share and experience a pedagogical role in the community especially when it came to inclusion and diversity. Hence, the birthing of the Bay Area Women of Color Photo Project 2003-2009. Also, in 2007 I wanted invaluable knowledge with people so that they [...]

This also appeared on CarnalNation.com.
As some of you may know, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a document produced by the American Psychiatric Association. It serves as the official list of how we define mental health and mental health disorders. In a nutshell, if it’s in the DSM, it’s officially a [...]

What led you to become an educator
Mostly I teach about how to handle non-monogamous relationships.
I personally had a disastrous non-monogamous dating career during high school and college, and even for a couple years afterward. I knew enough to be sure that I wanted nothing to do with monogamy, but not enough to understand that I [...]

From nbcdfw.com via Feministing
It makes me really angry that there’s a need for this, but I’m glad it exists.
There have been a few products coming out lately that make it easy to test your drinks for date rape drugs. Since such drugs are easy to add to someone’s drink and they generally are metabolized quite [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
The realization some years ago that people were woefully uneducated or undereducated about sex and sexuality led me to decide that I wanted to be a sex educator. I specifically became interested in it when I realized how little accurate sex education teenagers were getting, largely as a [...]

The Guttmacher Institute has just released a report that shows that worldwide increases in contraception use between 1995-2003 led to a reduction in the number of unintended pregnancies and therefore abortions. Now, that seems pretty obvious to me, but there’s some backstory to this.
At the same time that contraception has become more widely available, there [...]

This has been floating around the internet for a few weeks- I’ve received links to at least 5 different sites posting it. But I still want to post it here becuse I think it’s that important.
When discussing tips for preventing sexual assault, almost all of the ideas are about changing people’s behavior so they won’t [...]

How did you start giving sex advice?
After I wrote my spicy, senior sex memoir, Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty, people just started asking me for advice. My book was so intimate that they felt they knew me, and they’d ask me questions they never asked their doctors and tell [...]

I don’t think there’s much I can say about this one. It comes from the often-entertaining failblog.org.
Although I do want to mention that you can get the same item on our website for $5.

How did you start giving sex advice?
That’s a really good question, because I’ve actually been giving people sex advice all my adult life, long before I had any veritable qualifications. In fact, I can recall being 10 years old and informing my sister – who was worried about getting pregnant from a tampon - that that [...]

I’ve been following the Rhode Island debates about whether to criminalize indoor sexwork lately. Actually, a lot of why I’m following it is because the effervescent Megan Andelloux has been on the receiving end of a lot of hassle over the opening of the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health, an educational organization somewhat akin [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Michael Schwartz, the chief of staff for Republican senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, and his proclamation that telling boys that porn will make them gay will keep them from looking at it.
So imagine my pleasure in this little video from the Onion. There’s nothing I can say [...]

There are a lot of people conducting sex research, but most of us only hear about them when they make headlines. So I decided to take a look behind the scenes so you can hear about sex research from someone who’s actually doing it. Dr. John Beiter has been giving people his test as a [...]

How did you start giving sex advice?
I was a leader in the Lesbian And Gay Organization (now LGBT) at UC San Diego when I joined a discussion panel resource for local schools. I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1983 and soon thereafter started working with a group of sex-positive educators called the [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
Truthfully, I’m more of love and relationship educator or an Activist of the Heart. After the release of my book, Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships, I came in contact with more and more people who were struggling to find support around polyamory and open relationships. [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
Celeste: I was interested in sex and relationships from a very young age, began masturbating early, talked with all of my friends about sex and was always a non-judgmental ear that people could go to if they needed to talk or had questions. I started out following [...]

One of the things that I love about being a sex educator is the incredible diversity of my colleagues. Sex educators come to the profession for many different reasons and via many different paths. And yet, there are quite a few similarities among us.
I receive a lot of inquiries from people who want to become [...]