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“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.

We’re very excited about Reel Queer Productions, part of our sister company Good Releasing. Help propel director Courtney Trouble and her films into AVN fame!
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Vote! Here are Good Vibrations Recommendations [...]

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 [...]

$pread Magazine is putting a call out for models and contributors for their next Issue, 5.3. The deadline is November 1st.
$PREAD CALL FOR MODELS AND CONTRIBUTORS, ISSUE 5.3
In our upcoming issue, we’re exploring age and aging within the sex industry. Feature pitches (ideas for articles of 2000-3000 words) should be sent to contribute@spreadmagazine.org. We’re particularly [...]

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 [...]

When I visit the store and I happen to look over to a couple or single perusing over the various DVDs we have in stock, sometimes I see a puzzled look, eyes squinting, brow furrowed as if this posture will somehow give the answer-what movie is the best for me?
For instance, here is a description [...]

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. [...]

Tomorrow, Courtney Trouble of NoFauxxx.Com and Good Releasing’s Roulette, Nostalgia, and Speakeasy is giving away something for nothing: porn! If you’re curious about her work and the website she’s been running for the last 6 years, check it out:
NoFauxxx.Com will be open to the public for the entire day of October 1st. To get into [...]

Good Vibrations will be donating to a very cool event coming up next month — so mark your calendars, San Francisco! — put on by Muni Diaries.
MuniDiaries.com is a place for Muni riders to read and share tales on the bus. They publish submissions from anyone who rides SF’s beloved public transit system. The idea [...]

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 [...]