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Why I Do What I Do

Surprisingly, sex education is a fairly thankless job. While there is often the bonus of fun work which I am passionate about, and the occasional free sex toys to test and review, overall, there is a lot of drama. You have to promote yourself constantly to get bookings, you usually have to work a full [...]

Sex Education Does Not Lead To Increased STI Transmission

For those who do not know, many sex educators, myself included, were recently attacked in a post/report that claimed that our education on the Brown University campus was a direct correlation of the recent four new cases of HIV within the student population. It stated that people such as myself (a “sex toy representative”) did [...]

Vegas Recap

I’m baaaaaack!

That’s right. After having spent five days in the city of sin (being incredibly NOT sinful), I’m back in slightly warmer Arizona, with my nose to the grindstone.

First and most important announcement: I am now the proud owner of an Njoy Eleven, thanks to Greg and Deanna, two of the wonderful Njoy [...]

AVNs and AEE in Vegas

Hey Folks,

I’m off yet again to Las Vegas. At this time last year, I had never been…and now this is my fourth trip there! Interesting what living in the Southwest and being part of the adult industry can entail.

The Adult Entertainment Expo and Adult Novelty Expo is a change for a) porn stars [...]

Pornotopia Censored!

I’ve been to this festival, and spent time with both Matie and Molly (owners of Self Serve) as well as the wonderful Pornotopia volunteers. Pornotopia is where I first saw glimpses of Crash Pad Series, Chemistry, Silken Sleeves and other wonderful, sex positive and ethical clips clips of pornography. I’m heartbroken to hear that it [...]

What to do about LUBEWhat to do about LUBE

There is a new lube study out there, that the media has really picked up on. According to it, and the media, water-based lube used during anal sex is dangerous, and IF one is to use lube at all, they should use silicone.

I think that this study, and the hype around it, is dangerous [...]

FemQuake Love From Maymay

Maymay is a brilliant, sex positive activist, writer, educator and all around awesome person. You can check out his blog, or find him always on Twitter.

And he decided to do something really sweet. He wrote a post about me for FemQuake. I am a FemQuaker now.

I thank him for thinking of me, and [...]

Info and the Library Research

I just heard from Audacia Ray about a project she’s doing with two other researchers about finding out what type of information is available when you search the internet in public libraries. I think this is a really important bit of research, as many people’s only internet access comes from public libraries. Everyone should be [...]