Sex positive, education focused retail boutiques often market themselves as welcoming to women, a clean well lit environment designed to be the antidote to basement porn shops with sticky floors.1 Since it’s so rare to see a space catering specifically for women, in my experience men were often left wondering …
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Selfies, Social Media, and Showing Up The Five Millennial Love Languages
From selfies, to Facebook, to ruining… well… everything, millennials are often depicted as a fickle, fragile, and juvenile generation. Despite our youthful reputation, many millennials are approaching or in their 30s and the majority of us have spent a decade or more building relationships. While those relationships are, at their …
Read More »What I Really Hear When You Misgender Me And What You Should Say When You Do
Here I was thinking we could have a nice, simple post go up this week, maybe I’d finally get around to reviewing my current favorite dick, but then some people decided to be shitheads and now I guess we’re talking about gender again. I’m not going to unpack all of …
Read More »What Couples Toys Taught Me About Sex Positivity
Here’s the thing about working in a sex shop, you are asked the exact same questions, all day, every day. Here’s the thing about being asked the exact same questions, all day, every day, you get pretty damn good at answering them. Unfortunately, one of the most common questions I …
Read More »Six Scenes From the Queer Porn Film Festival That You Need to Watch!
Just this Sunday, April 19th, thanks to the amazing Courtney Trouble, Tobi Hill Meyer, and Jacqueline Mary, the first ever Queer Porn Film Festival was hosted in Brooklyn. As you might imagine, it was pretty damn fantastic! There was Porn and Pancakes, discussion panels, workshops, and even a live porn …
Read More »Do We Really Need Science to Tell Us the G-Spot is Real?
About two weeks ago Salon decided to write up a recent report from some Italian scientists, which they say “claims once and for all that the controversial G-spot is nothing but a myth (with a really good PR campaign).” It promptly spread all across the internet and this whole conversation started …
Read More »5 Lies We Teach About Consent
Consent may be one of the most important concepts that can be taught and yet so many teachers, parents, educators, and adults in general are doing it wrong. Between the things society does, the things they accept, and the things they outright say, our kids and teens are getting a pretty …
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