Tag Archives: Teaching
Behind the Scenes at Your Local Feminist Adult Retail Store: Oh My! Sensuality
I have been working at Oh My! Sensuality for about two years, and they have been years filled with dancing, tasting a lot of lube, watching/reviewing a lot of porn and products, and helping western Massachusetts pick out all sorts of awesome, totally silly at times, but always worth smiling about, toys. The work I […]
Gloves: The Wonder Barrier
At this point in my life, I do not exchange fluids with anyone. Beyond makin’ out about it, I don’t want any of your fluids and I don’t want to give you mine. I practice safe sex as adamantly as I practice consent in my partnerships. I always have a bag of supplies on me, […]
Why Sex and Love Should be Taught Separately
I have already discussed how “Sex” is a really subjective term, and is not reliable as a stand-alone vocabulary word for teaching. I want to make it very clear that I think that having sex with someone you love can be wonderful. I think sex is wonderful, I think love is wonderful, and when they […]
Transcending Boundaries Conference 2011, a weekend of queer joy
I did not do a “Fun Stuff Friday” piece this week because I was off having a ball at the Transcending Boundaries Conference. I will just have to do something fun this week another day to make up for it (per usual). THIS WEEKEND WAS SO GOOD I presented a workshop about consent, and despite […]
Speaking Accountably
For a lot of college students, like myself, now is the time of year for fall break to happen. And that means that a lot of us go back to our hometowns and feel nostalgic and uncomfortable. This break, I went back to Southern Virginia to see my family, and spent a lot of time […]
Fun Stuff Friday: Remembering Our Bodies Ourselves
Hi Everyone, Tomorrow I am going to the 40th anniversary of Our Bodies Ourselves. I am super excited. My mom is also coming with me, which should be wonderful/challenging/interesting/stressful/holycrapfeelings. She gave me her first edition copy of Our Bodies Ourselves when I was in 4th grade. It changed everything. I loved, and will forever love, […]
Sex Is Hilarious and Pleasure is Going to Change the World (a less serious post about doin’ it)
My posts recently have been pretty heavy-handed. So because I am not in the mood to do a toy review, I wanted to discuss one of the reasons why I love sex. It’s hilarious. And that rules. Sex is funny. It’s playful. Its meant to be fun! Pleasure is your effin’ birthright. Pursue that shit! […]
Unapologetically Taking Up Space: A letter to Germaine Lawrence
Dear totally rad ladies, Although I only worked with you all for a short amount of time, after every class I left in awe of how perceptive and bold you all are. You are a challenging group, and that is a compliment. I wanted to leave you with something that my first sex educator told […]
Condoms, and how to use em’ better
So I learned a lot of things about condoms during this training, a lot of new info I had no idea about. So here I am to share it with you all. (internal condoms will be covered at a later date.) Lets start with the basics, there are three kinds of condoms. Latex, which is […]
