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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Question:
Know of any sex-positive educators in the Honolulu area? Or good references for self learning?
Hmm! I’ll want to do a little research for you re: the first question (unless we have some HI folks tuned in who would like to weigh in on this?) – for your second question I’d say that there are books, [...]
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