Good Vibrations Magazine

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 [...]

Once again, Folsom St. Fair was a lovely time. The crowd was (mostly) lots of fun, the costumes outfits were impressive, the weather was perfect, and there was the usual array of spectacle. Plus, it seemed like people had  amazing hair this year. I saw everything from multi-colored, waist-length braids, a bouffant bleach job, mohawks, [...]

Carnal Nation has a new piece up about the ongoing question of whether cybersex is cheating or not. And I think that a lot of the debate is missing the point.
As far as I’m concerned, what makes something “cheating” is that you’re not following the rules. If you’re playing checkers and you move your piece [...]

The Folsom St. Fair is coming up on Sept. 27 and I have a few tips for anyone coming to enjoy the spectacle. Folsom is an amazing experience and a great opportunity to have fun, if you’re interested in queer, kinky, leather, sexy folks. (You can pick any combination of those adjectives to describe most [...]

A news report came out today that hits close to home for me. Literally, since it’s about something going on at my hometown high school.
It seems that an annual tradition has evolved in which the senior girls create a “slut list” of the incoming first-year girls. According to ABC news, the list names of the [...]

As you may have heard, Michael Schwartz, the chief of staff for Republican senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, has announced that the best way for parents to keep boys from looking at porn is to tell them that it’s “homosexual.” He figures that this makes sense because “boys at that age have less tolerance for [...]

Ahh, the Daddy.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term from a sexual perspective, the Daddy evolved in the gay BDSM scene. Back in the day, you couldn’t just walk into a store, buy a bunch of leather gear, and call yourself a dominant. The entire community was underground and you had to know someone [...]

Yesterday, I blogged about the The Sexual Health, Education and Pleasure Project in Toronto and some of Dr. Miriam Grossman’s backlash to accurate, pleasure-positive sex education. But there was one thing that she said that I want to come back to since it wasn’t quite on-topic yesterday.
Here’s the quote from the Macleans article about SHEPP [...]

You’d think that by now, I wouldn’t have to keep saying it. Well, ok, maybe not.  I can dream, can’t I?
An article came out in Macleans yesterday about Good For Her, a fabulous sex toy store in Toronto and the amazing non-profit agency that they just launched, The Sexual Health, Education and Pleasure Project. SHEPP’s [...]

Joan Price, the author of Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty
is working on a new book about sex for people over 50. As part of her project, she’s asking people to send in their questions, concerns and comments so she can make sure that she addresses them.
Feel free to pass [...]

Remember how at the start of the gay marriage debates, a lot of people were claiming that gay marriage was a threat to the institution of marriage? Well, the most recent information  from the National Center For Vital Statistics (thanks to HuffPo for the link) shows that after 4 years of gay marriage, Massachusetts has [...]

I’ve liked Anna Paquin as an actor for years and I’ve only recently started watching True Blood, but again, I’m impressed with her acting shops.
So I’m really glad that this item came across my screen this morning. Here’s a quote from an article in which he responds to questions about her nude scenes in True [...]

Via Queers United
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is asking for public opinion on the Harvey Milk Day bill (SB 572) which would honor the slain gay rights hero. Last year the governor under conservative pressure vetoed the bill and is facing similar pressure and scrutiny from the religious right.
Please call the Governors office and follow the [...]

I’m fascinated by the ways in which guilt and shame play out in our lives, especially our sexual lives. I don’t think there’s a sex educator out there who hasn’t had someone come to them with these feelings and, unfortunately, most of us don’t have much of an understanding of how these emotions work. It’s [...]