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 [...]
For anyone under 20, you might have read about it your history books, along with Gloria Steiman, or John Lennon and Yoko Ono doing their “bed in” for peace. But do you realize there is still a Sexual Revolution going on today? You may not recognize it, but let me throw out some random thoughts [...]
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 [...]
It’s the last day aboard this Olivia cruise, and a full house turned out for Carol’s “spicing it up with toys” workshop, and stayed late. Eager? But of course!
The Wau Wau sisters put a couple dildos to great use at the Wet n’ Wacky pool games, which were aptly named. They brought the house down [...]
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.
I must have met ten fabulous women today. They’re all around me, in line for the boat taking us to the island, next to me at the comedy club, beside me in line for breakfast. What I haven’t seen so much of is the other sex. But there are clues, yes. They have been this [...]
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 [...]
Who knew a room full of cruising lesbians decked out in pajamas could be so much fun? Yeah, yeah, I know, of course it’s fun. But it’s especially fun when the DJs are jumping, we’re handing out vibrators to the best-simulated orgasm (not that we promote faking it), and the crowd of eager fans is [...]
I am surrounded by water. There is the insanely deep and warm and rich BLUE of the Caribbean surrounding the ship, with raging cities of marine life just out of sight. This water fills me with a false nostalgia for a time I never knew and a bogus but passionate affinity for sailors throughout time [...]
It seems like ages ago that I was sitting in the Olivia headquarters in San Francisco, exploring the bright idea of bringing Good Vibrations aboard an Olivia cruise. For those of you who don’t know, Olivia is the oldest and coolest lesbian cruise company in the world. (Excepting maybe the Greeks, but their marketing was [...]
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 [...]
I have been working for Good Vibrations for over 3 years now and I was just thinking: I could never see myself working anywhere else. Where else can I talk openly about sex and vibrators while holding a dildo in my hand, or explain why anal sex is healthy and pleasurable—it’s all just another day [...]
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.
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I have been working for Good Vibrations for over 3 years now and I was just thinking: I could never see myself working anywhere else. Where else can I talk openly about sex and vibrators while holding a dildo in my hand, or explain why anal sex is healthy and pleasurable—it’s all just another day [...]
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