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What led you to become a sex educator?
I have always been interested in sexuality as both an art form and a science but my very first teaching experiences were community based classes on body image. My body has always been naturally larger and as a teenager I struggled a lot with self acceptance. When I [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
Looking around, I originally faced an astounding lack of sex positive supports for alt sex practices. Most therapists truly want to help, but hardly any are actually familiar with alternative sexuality. Today, I get to be the one to share authentically with others hoping to speak freely [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
One, my own family and sex history. I’m the daughter of a sexual abuse survivor, although I did not know this until I was in my late 20s. Still, learning it explained a lot: the fraught energy around sexuality but also the uncomfortable silences in my home [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
I’ve always been interested in creating community and dialoguing about art and sexuality.  I’ve found several ways of making this happen with in my life.
1. By creating Femina Potens, space for community to grow, dialogue and share skills in a sex positive environment.
2. By documenting our sexual culture [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
The AIDS Crisis. In the 1980’s I was working in the Broadway theatre and I was losing up to four friends a week to AIDS. I joined a support group for people with AIDS and their allies called the New York Healing Circle. The vast majority of people [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
I got lucky. I got to read Havelock Ellis from my parents’ bookcase at age 10. Though I didn’t understand much of it, I loved the glossary at the back of the book with all those fancy sex words I’d never heard or seen. When I was growing [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
Sex is a topic I have always had an avid interest in and I was disappointed by the minimal amounts of education I was offered when I was in school. Once I found out that other information was available, I got to work and began doing a lot [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?

So many things really. One, I have a child (well, now she’s 18) but when she was little I recognized that I didn’t want her growing up with the same misinformation, and total lack of information, that I did. I wanted her to have enough knowledge to [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
When I was seventeen years old I began volunteering with  P.E.P., a Peer Education Program, where high school aged students  visit  high schools in the area  and educate about HIV/STI prevention. The first day I joined, the woman who discovered the program, Wendy Arnold,  came into the room [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
In some ways, the more pertinent question may be how I possibly could have avoided it. My father was a political activist, my mother was a nurse who has been working in infectious disease since I was a teenager, including work with one of the first children’s HIV [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
My own enjoyment of sex; my own niche of helping people to live a life they love, to honor their gifts, their desires and to shed the restrictive cultural rules and norms for those that are empowering. I have been ‘kinky’ forever and was in the dark [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
At nineteen I not only started my life as a sexual person, but I also met and feel into a relationship with a woman who took me to my first BDSM conference, where she was teaching. I attended her classes at her request and found myself answering questions [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
One day in my college “Human Sexual Behavior” class, an educator from Planned Parenthood put a condom on her hand, a little past her wrist. She said “if a guy ever tells you a condom won’t fit, do this. And if he has a penis bigger than this? [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
I understood that an expansive sense of self comes from exploring and accepting who you are as a sexual being. Sexual discovery has allowed many people to live with an ease and comfort in who they are which may allow them to be the envy of others. Many [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
I have been teaching for about 10 years in academic circles, so the teaching part is part of who I am.  I came into Sex education through Dark Odyssey.  I have to credit the kindness and faith of Tristan Taormino for giving me the opportunity to share what [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
I wish I could say there was one huge shinning moment that leads me to my desire to be a sex educator, but sadly there was not.  There were a few things that did help guild me here.  The first of which was the need.  I had way [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
An intellectual epiphany. At San Francisco State University I was the Queen of Intro Courses: journalism, business, art, etc. One semester I took Introduction to Human Sexuality. The very first topic? Legal battles over intersex children’s rights and genital reassignment surgery. I swear, the heavens opened up and [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
I was personally curious about learning more about sex because I did not receive any sex education growing up in Singapore. I missed out on biology completely because I was in the Arts stream. The compulsory annual school assemblies I attended through my secondary school were on why [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator?
Sex was never a taboo topic in my family, but I never would have guessed that this would be a career for me. I started talking about sex within the context of HIV/AIDS and for some reason, I had a talent in making people feel comfortable with typically [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
I was ordained a Catholic Priest in 1975.  I decided I wanted to do an upfront gay ministry in 1978.  The religious community I belonged to told me they would sponsor me, but I needed to get an advanced degree.  They didn’t want to put me forward simply [...]

What led you to become a Sex Educator
I was a radio producer who couldn’t find a completely fulfilling outlet for connecting with an audience. I loved comedy and political banter, but I felt that these weren’t things that were necessarily fulfilling to talk about. What I mean is we can argue politics, or laugh at [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
On Valentines Day a couple years back, I was walking through UC Berkeley’s campus and I saw a group of students handing out condoms, as well as rounding up people to play games, like red light, green light sex positions. After being a Catholic school student for most [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
My early childhood. A few days after I witnessed my brother’s home birth I was discovered demonstrating what I’d seen for a friend. My mother taught me about sex when I was really little and when you have that information, other kids want to get it from you. [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
When I was 12, I asked my Dad a question about sex in a New Jersey Diner. He proceeded to take the Ketchup bottle, the salt and pepper shakers, and re-arrange them. Then he proclaimed in his booming voice “Ok, so here’s the penis and here are [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
My first Human Sexuality course at the college level was taught by an uninformed individual who was still recommending the diaphragm as the best birth control method for young students. The icing on the cake was when she began preaching about living a celibate life just as [...]