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What led you to become a Sex Educator?
3 reasons.
1.  I kept hearing people ask the same questions about sexuality but it always seemed like there was shame behind the questions.  I couldn’t understand how a culture could create an entire population to be ignorant and feel bad about the same things.  I wanted to change [...]

I really like it when people publish interesting science articles about sex. As much as we think we know about it, there’s always something new to learn. So put your sex geek hat on!
First, back in 1999, BMJ.com (originally the British Medical Journal) posted an article showing an MRI scan of penis-vagina intercourse. Up until [...]

You know times have changed from the days Good Vibrations opened our doors over 30 years ago. Today, sex toys are PICTURED on a popular mainstream website Oprah.com. This is big news in sexual pleasure land over here at GV. A world where sex toys are freely displayed without shame, and talked about as an [...]

“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.”
~Julius Charles Hare via tinybuddha.com
Sex is a practice.
So let me tell you what I mean. We live in a world that presents sex as something that we can do perfectly. If only we read the right tips in the magazines at [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
A mixture of circumstance and fate, really. I was attending UC Berkeley as an undeclared undergrad. I was thinking about Political Science so that I could move on to become a lawyer. After realizing Political Science did not interest me in any way, I was feeling pretty lost [...]

There are so many toys which resemble cartoons. Non-realistic vibrators with heads like dolphins, bodies like bears, kitties, or bunnies, and of course the Duckie.
There’s a “What’s Your Favorite” game going on over on our Facebook Page. Today’s game is “What’s Your Favorite Head“?
From realistic to abstractly rounded, there’s a variety of shapes that may [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
Initially it was because of the men in the leather club that I pledged; they impressed upon me the need for everyone in the community to give something back, and they asked me to teach them what I knew about knife play; I found out after doing a [...]

The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization has had a team working on an amazing document called the Review of Sex, Relationships and HIV Education in Schools for the last two years. The document was scheduled to be released this week, and unsurprisingly, it has been delayed due to sex-negative complaints.
So I decided to [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
I have always been fascinated with sex. Is there anyone who isn’t? I knew that I did not want to spend my life doing something that I hated, so I found something I loved and decided to make a career of studying and teaching about it.
How did you [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
As a teenager, I thought I’d become a philosopher!  After my initiation into BDSM, I realized that there was more to our human sexuality than just vanilla sex and there was a lot to discover.  An early member of the Society of Janus, only the second BDSM [...]

Here at Good Vibrations, we regularly have people ask us about the “herbal” pills, creams and other products available at most sex stores. I’m proud to say that we’ve never carried them because we’ve never had confidence that they were effective and safe. I think it’s worth unpacking this a bit more, especially in light [...]

I’ve seen quite a few books and workshops about polyamory/multiple relationships come out over the last few years. Heck, I’ve even facilitated a workshop or two on the topic.
But there’s not a lot of solid research that looks at non-monogamous people, so I was really glad to get an email from a grad student at [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
I was involved in many leftie organizations and saw how much personal dynamics, particularly relating to relationships and sex, were interfering with the political agenda.
How did you start giving sex advice?
I was always interested in sex and human dynamics but I got a reputation as someone to talk [...]

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 [...]