I love being a sex educator- there’s nothing quite as satisfying as knowing that right now, someone somewhere is having a better orgasm because of something I said to them. I want to help other sex educators develop their skills and discover how much fun it can be! One of the biggest hurdles, though, is […]

There are a lot of reasons people have sex. We do it because we want to express love, feel pleasure, or build connection. We also do it because we’re bored, we’re stressed out, we want to distract ourselves from our problems, we want to manipulate our partners, or to avoid arguments. In one of my […]

One of the biggest difficulties queer, kinky, and/or polyamorous people face when looking for therapists or other mental health support is that professionals get very little training about any kind of sex, much less “alternative” sexualities. Despite the lack of any real correlation between being kinky (for example) and having mental health issues, many therapists […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Clipped from: sexandthe405.com (share this clip) Google just launched Google Instant, a somewhat nifty feature. You’ve probably noticed recently that when you start to enter a search query, Google would give you suggestions so you wouldn’t need to keep typing. They’ve taken it a step further. […]

When the topic of slut-shaming comes up, it’s often said that there is no equivalent for men. After all, the terms used for men who have a lot of sex or a lot of sex partners are things like ladies-man, stud, or Don Juan. They lack the negativity of slut and I’m certainly not going […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Clipped from: chronicle.com (share this clip) Every year, I get dozens of calls and emails from university groups, professors, fraternities and sororities, and residential assistants, asking about sex education presentations. I send trained educators to them to talk about sex-positivity, the physiology of pleasure (as compared […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Clipped from: au.news.yahoo.com (share this clip) According to an article from the West.com.au, an Australian Court of Appeal has handed down a decision that transgender men are not legally men: In a summary of the 63-page judgment, the court said Chief Justice Martin and Justice Pullin […]