What I do:
My Writing:
I have served as a sexual health expert for The New York Times’ Wirecutter product review website since 2014. Check out my guides to:
My writing has also appeared in The Daily Dot, Huffington Post, The Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago, XOJane, Ms. Behaved, Salon, and others.
I previously served as editor for Kinsey Institute’s (sadly now-defunct) Kinsey Confidential sex education blog.
I am available for writing projects, and can provide quotes to journalists working on articles about sexuality and self-love topics. Get in touch!
Education and Presenting:
Here are some of the classes, workshops and presentations I have offered in past:
Ask a Sexpert (series of sex education events for undergraduates at Indiana University). I LOVE talking to college students about sexual health and education! Get in touch to have me as a speak to your class.
Guide to the G-Spot and Squirting
Introduction to Mindful Sex
How to Talk Dirty with Confidence
The Beginner’s Guide to Sex Toys
Making Your Own Sex Positive Jewelry (fun crafting class with polymer clay!)
Helping Clinicians Better Serve and Understand Transgender and Non-Binary Populations, AASECT Conference 2015
Using Coloring Books as an Aid for Sexual Health Education, NACS Conference, 2015
Reconnecting to the Sexual Self After Trauma: Using Sex Toys as a Therapeutic Tool, Securing Sexuality Conference, 2023
I am available for consulting, writing, education, and speaking on the following topics:
Sexual health in general, with a specific focus on sexual health for LGBTQIA and sex worker communities
Sex toys and how to use them for solo and partner pleasure
Reconnecting to sexuality as an aspect of healing trauma
Intentional/non-orgasm driven sexuality (i.e. sensate focus)
Self love, and self pleasure as self care
Sacred and spiritual sexuality
Kink and BD/SM
Sex and body image (especially fat positivity and fat acceptance)
Sex work and adult industry matters
These are just a few of my favorite things! Something else in mind? Contact me to discuss.
If I don’t feel qualified to speak to a specific topic, I will do my best to put you in touch with someone who can.
My Podcast:
One guest. Ten deeply personal questions. Listen as I dig deep into the dirty laundry of drag queens, queer luminaries, authors, artists, religious leaders, activists, performers, sex workers, and others for hilarious, horrifying and touching uncensored stories about their love and sex lives, in this limited series podcast I created in 2020-2021. Available wherever you list to podcasts!
