Sexuality Superheroes: CoCo La Crème
This week's Sexuality Superhero is CoCo La Crème. Lorraine Hewitt is a sex educator, burlesque performer, foodie and a master of sewing! You can check out her workshops at Good for Her, and learn more by reading her feature below.
How did you find yourself working in sexuality?
Growing up, I received the standard public school sex education curriculum. It explained the mechanics of sex, but didn’t really speak to sexual enjoyment or sexual communication. Because of that, I was missing a lot of information about the things that make sex great. My lack of knowledge became more and more obvious to me, as I became sexually active. I felt uncomfortable and unsexy, because I didn’t have the slightest idea about how to talk about pleasure.
The desire for a better sex life is really what propelled me into the field. I worked around the corner from one of Toronto’s first progressive sex shops, and I started going there all the time to ask questions and check out...
How to Cohabit Peacefully With Others During Your Self-Isolation
We took Global TV's The Morning Show from the Corus studio to our home studios today! This week, we chat about how to get along with the people close to you during self-isolation. Check out my notes and video segment below!
I’m with my kids 24/7 with no end in sight – how do I keep from going bananas?
First, talk to your kids about how you’re feeling. And ask them how they’re feeling. Take it slowly and really listen to what they have to say. This is a stressful time for everyone. It’s a time of transition, uncertainty, fear, financial stress and constant change. Change has been documented as a primary source of prolonged stress, so we’re all experiencing heightened stress levels at this time.
So prioritize acknowledging, validating and working through feelings over home schooling or productivity. There is, of course, value in learning and producing, but the pressure cooker is almost at its limit with the news and precariousness of the...
Your Quaran-Team: How to Manage the Stress of COVID-19
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- Strategies for assembling your support team (AKA quaran-team) during this stressful time
- Apps that can help you to manage stress, transition and isolation
- How to manage being cooped up with your family, partner or roommates
- How to cope with difficult personalities and strained relationships in close proximity
- Ways to bring yourself back to the present and support others in doing the same
- How to recognize and manage signs of stress
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If you’ve got questions or topic suggestions for the podcast, submit them here. As well, you can now record your messages for us! Please record your message/question in a quiet room...
How Can I Tell If I’ve Had an Orgasm?
I have a question based on a woman who doesn’t know if she is having an orgasm or not. She says she’s enjoying herself and claims that I’m “making her feel more than any other lover has ever made her feel before”, but she doesn’t know if she had an orgasm. So how can I really tell if she had an orgasm?
This is a great question!
Many women struggle to discern whether or not they’ve actually had orgasm because the experience is highly varied. In some of my workshops, I ask women to describe an orgasm in one word and their responses range from earth-shattering and f*&king intense to nice and relieving. Some orgasms provide ecstatic bliss and others simply lull you into a deep relaxation.
Thanks to the theatrical performances in mainstream porn, many of us think that an orgasm should be so mind-blowingly powerful that we don’t even realize that we’re jumping up and down like chimpanzees and...
What We Can Learn from Equine Horse Therapy
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How can equine therapy with horses help couples improve communication? How can horses support survivors of trauma? What is vaginismus and what are some approaches to managing painful sex? Dr. Maha Nasrallah-Babenko joins Jess to answer these questions and more.
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Sexuality Superheroes: Carlos Cavazos
Say hello to this week's Sexuality Superhero, Carlos Cavazos. Carlos is a Licensed Psychotherapist and Certified Sex Coach who has consulted people from around the world! Carlos also has a successful Youtube channel, preaching their advice about relationships, sex and fetishes. Check out Carlos' feature below and learn more!
How did you find yourself working in sexuality?
I sort of manifested it. When I was little, I used to be obsessed with "Talk Sex with Sue Johanson". I would stay up late and watch this lady with vagina pillows and penis puppets talk about all sorts of things that I found fascinating. I instantly knew I wanted to do that when I grew up. When it came time to start college I realized that there was no clear route to becoming a sexpert so I chose to major in psychology. During my intro to psych class, the professor had everyone in the auditorium introduce themselves and what they wanted to do career-wise. I mentioned I wanted to be a sex...
Core Erotic Feeling, Gang-Bangs & Spankings
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Award winning sex educator, Tristan Taormino, joins Jess to talk about spanking, gang bangs, eye candy, social justice and mind-effing.
Why you might want to attend Sex Down South this year...
- How to reclaim the gang bang
- The role of the gang bang “host”
- How to discuss rules and boundaries before a group sex experience
- Spanking rules and tools
- The importance of understanding your core erotic feeling
- The benefits of uncovering your elevated erotic feelings
- The role of a service top
- The appeal of the mind eff
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If you’ve got questions or topic suggestions for the podcast, submit them here. As well, you can now record your messages for us! Please record your message/question in...
How Can You Support Your Parents if They're Ready to Date Again?
What's the best advice you can give your parents (or other fellow baby boomers) if they're ready to get back into the dating pool again? Jess sits down with hosts Carolyn and Jeff on Global TV's The Morning Show to further discuss. Check out her notes and video segment below!
1. They’re launching a Bachelor-type show for seniors — what does this say about dating in 2020 and any predictions for how this might be different than the traditional show?
It’s a reminder that our desire for love, companionship and sex exists across the lifespan. I just hope they don’t make age a central feature of the show or use it at the butt of jokes as is often the case in Hollywood. And I hope they use this rare showcase of love, dating and sex among seniors to promote safer sex, because older adults can be at greater risk.
2. How is dating for boomers different than dating for millennials?
The desired outcomes may be different. There may be...
Why We Love Dirty Underwear!
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On this week's podcast, panty-peddler, Lacey Bloom, joins Jess to talk about her experience selling used underwear online. What makes it so exciting and how can used underwear help to destigmatize sexual taboos? They also chat about wild requests, bodily discharge, personal kinks and finding pleasure in the mundane.
Listen to Lacey weekly on The Sofia Gray Show. Follow Sofia Gray on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.
We also sat down with Sofia Gray rep, Zak Callen, to get to know the brand a little better. Check out their Q&A below!
1. Why did you launch Sofia Gray?
Sofia Gray was started by a group of young entrepreneurs, who had a real interest in the adult industry. They saw that a safe and secure, well designed, quality marketplace did not exist for used underwear. Hence, Sofia Gray was born.
2. Who uses Sofia Gray - on the buying and selling side?
The...
Sexuality Superheroes: Lola Jean
Meet our next Sexuality Superhero, Lola Jean. Lola is a sex educator and podcaster, pro domme, wrestler and coach! She has learned so much from this industry and she's sharing her knowledge with the world! Read her feature below and learn more.
How did you find yourself working in sexuality?
I didn’t make an intentional decision to disappoint my parents every day, but man am I lucky I did. I was in between jobs during another phase of my own sexual exploration when I was in search of “a job I didn’t hate.” I began working with Kenneth Play in a more supportive role and didn’t have any intention of becoming an educator and events facilitator myself. However, when I saw the way people reacted to what I had to say, when I realized how my voice and stance felt underrepresented, and most of all how I knew much more than I thought I did. I like to challenge not only traditional ways of thinking and behaving, but the radical ones too. I feel...
