Everything you need to know about sex positivity

Sex Positive Now is a book for everyone wanting to learn more about being Sex Positive.

It’s an anthology of 55 contributors from around the world – leaders in their fields of sexuality, education, therapy, kink, queer, disabled and everything to do with sex positivity. The varied and inclusive voices are inspiring and spectacular.

This is the first book of its kind to describe sex positive. It has been written to describe and explain sex positivity from many angles, giving many stories of what sex positive means to different people.

The anthology has something for everyone to learn from. There are so many perspectives, kinky, educational, sex workers, therapists, queer, ecological, feminist and more.

In the world of Sex Positive Now, people can make conscious choices about their sexuality and relationships. You can experience consensual sexual pleasure; with who you want, when you want and where you want.

This collection of writings has the potential to change your life and those around you.

Meet the writers

We have a passion for sex.

We are Sex Positive

Allena Gabosch

Executive Director of both the Center For Sex Positive Culture and Foundation for Sex Positive Culture from their creation until retiring January 1, 2015, has been active in the sex positive movement practically from its inception; producing educational and social events for the sex-positive community since 1990. She is a frequent speaker on many sexuality related subjects at colleges and conferences around the US and Canada and Europe, with an emphasis on Sexuality, Relationships, BDSM and Polyamory. She is working on two books. Her personal mission statement is to bring joy to sexuality and to make a difference in the world.

Andrew Gurza

Andrew Gurza is a Disability Awareness Consultant and Cripple Content Creator whose written work has been featured in Huffington Post, The Advocate, Everyday Feminism, Mashable, and Out.com, as well as several anthologies. He is also the host of the DisabilityAfterDark Podcast: The Premiere Podcast Shining Light on Sex and Disability available on all podcast platforms.

Andrew resides in Toronto, Canada.
www.andrewgurza.com or connect with him on Twitter @andrewgurza.

Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens

Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle have been partners and collaborators fifteen fertile years. Their Ecosex Manifesto launched a movement and o bacially added the E to GLBTQIE. Their award winning documentary l’m about coal mining in Beth’s home state West Virginia, Goodbye Gauley Mountain—An Ecosexual Love Story is available on Net ix & iTunes. They just finished a new documentary, Water Makes Us Wet—An Ecosexual Adventure. If they weren’t busy enough, they’ve also just released a book, Explorer’s Guide to Planet Orgasm. Beth is a professor and chair of the Art Department at UCSC and Annie is an artist and college lecturer. In 2017, their work was exhibited in the prestigious art exhibition, documentay 14, in Germany.

Beau Korvin Black

Beau Korvin Black is Ojibwa (Chippewa), French, Scottish, and a sprinkling of English. They are Two-Spirit, Masculine-of-Center (MoC), Leather Daddy, and a bdsm switch. Beau is a new face to writing in published works, but an old hat at unpublished poetry writing. They began writing poetry as an angsty teen and early twenty-something. They are embarking on a new adventure as a life coach and public speaker. This is a dream and a calling for them. Beau lives in Seattle, Washington with their amazing roommate, two spunky cats, and a very handsome little dog. When not bent over a pad of paper, or in front of a computer screen, writing deep thoughts, they can be found sitting on their balcony sipping hot coffee, and enjoying the misty rain of the Pacific Northwest.

Betty Dodson

Betty Dodson, artist, author, and PhD sexologist has been one of the principal voices for women’s sexual pleasure and health for over four decades. Her first book, Liberating Masturbation: A Meditation on Self Love (’74) became a feminist classic. Sex for One (’87) sold over a million copies and is an international best-selling book. Orgasms for Two (’02) embraced partner sex. Most recently, she released Sex By Design that details her experiences with America’s Sexual Revolution, the women’s movement and her feminist sexual activism.

In 2011, Betty received the public service award from SSSS (Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality) and the MASTERS AND JOHNSON AWARD presented by SSTAR (Society for Sex Therapy and Research). Betty was recently named one of the top ten sexual revolutionaries by Cosmopolitan magazine and number 43 of the 100 most important people in sex by Playboy Magazine.

Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD

Tina has had a distinguished career as a marriage and family therapist, medical family therapist, and certified sex therapist. As professor, researcher, author, and speaker, she has won numerous awards and been featured on radio, TV, podcasts and documentaries. She is the founder and Medical Director of the Northwest Institute on Intimacy which provides sexual health and sexual dysfunction treatment training to clinicians and clergy not otherwise provided in their graduate training. Her award winning book, Sex, God, and the Conservative Church – Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy reveals the devastation caused by sexual shame in the wake of the purity and abstinence only movements, and reveals the path to healing for both clinician and client.
Check out the websites ThankGodForSex. org, www.TinaSchermerSellers.com and www.InstituteOnIntimacy.com

Dawn Celeste McGregor

Dawn Celeste McGregor is a cis-woman, queer, sex-positive activist and advocate for consent and a shame-free society. She is a LGBTQAI and Woman’s Rights activist, Expansion Coach, Mysticism and Relationship Expert and Professional Writer who teaches about equity, authenticity, expansion of the self and society, personal freedom, responsibility, connection and opening to the ow of the Universal Force. Her writing about has been published in The Advocate, Unite Magazine, Seattle Gay News and The Seattle Lesbian. She has a monthly column in The Seattle Lesbian called Queer Relationships.
Facebook@Expansive Living and coaching and writing website is, expansiveconnections.com.

Buck Angel

Buck was born female on June 5,1962. He never felt female and struggled through life until he had the life-changing opportunity to transition from female to male and finally live life authentically. He had many obstacles during his transition mostly due to no information for transitioning for FTM transsexuals. But with the help of compassionate doctors, he lives his truth and now can help to educate the world with his story. His mission is to inspire people to redefine gender and to foster a new generation as they discover the fluidity of sexuality and navigate gender politics. His message “It’s not what between your legs that de nes you” has sparked many a conversation and opened minds to the important message that gender is what you say it is for you, and that self-acceptance is not only what makes a person happy, it’s how others come to understand you. Angel travels the world spreading his message of self-love, compassion and exploring how to live authentically in your own body.

Charlie Glickman PhD

Charlie Glickman PhD is a sex & relationship coach, a sexuality educator, a sexological bodyworker, and an internationally-acclaimed speaker. He’s been working in this field for over 25 years, and some of his areas of focus include sex & shame, sex-positivity, queer issues, masculinity & gender, communities of erotic affiliation, and many sexual & relationship practices. Charlie is also the co-author of The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure: Erotic Exploration for Men and Their Partners. Find out more about him on his website charlieglickman.com or on Twitter@charlieglickman and Facebook@charlie.glickman. For Charlie’s sex coaching and sexological bodywork services, visit MakeSexEasy.com.

Cunning Minx

Cunning Minx is the sultry-voiced producer and host of the Polyamory Weekly podcast, now with over 300 episodes. The podcast shares tales from the front of responsible non-monogamy from a pansexual, kink-friendly point of view. A kinky boobiesexual, Minx founded the show as a resource for the poly and poly- curious to form a community, share experiences and help guide each other on their journeys of poly and kinky exploration. Minx has been a submissive, bottom and otherwise generally non-dominant type for the past ten years.

Minx has spoken on poly, kinky and Web 2.0 community-building topics at ShibariCon, Geek Girl Con, MomentumCon, Atlanta Poly Weekend, Sex 2.0, Leather Leadership Conference, Dragon*Con, GD2, Heartland Polyamory Conference, New York Poly Pride and Poly Living. The Poly Weekly podcast is the winner of the 2007 Erotic Award for Best Podcast and has received accolades from ErosZine, Fleshbot and the Chicago Sun-Times.

D J Williams

D J Williams is the Director of Research for the Center for Positive Sexuality and a social / behavioral scientist at Idaho State University. His scholarship intersects sexology, leisure science, and criminology. D J is a leading expert on deviant leisure, thus he is sometimes a ectionately known as “Dr. Deviant.” His research has been published in numerous academic journals and books, and his work has been featured in media outlets worldwide.

Dawn Serra

Sex is a social skill. Dawn Serra speaks it, writes it, teaches it, and she helps you learn how to develop it. She is the creator and host of the weekly podcast, Sex Gets Real, and of the annual sexuality summit, Explore More. She also lectures at colleges and universities on sex and relationships and works one-on-one with clients who need to get unstuck around their pleasure and desire. Dawn identities as a white, cis, queer, fat, trauma survivor and uses pronouns she/her/hers.

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Deej Juventin

Deej is a leader in the eld of embodied therapy and somatic sex education. His work focuses on supporting people to mobilize the body’s innate capacities for growth, learning and change. He has helped pioneer somatic education, teaching professional trainings in sexological bodywork, somatic sex education and embodied counselling in Australia and internationally.

He is the founding president of the Somatic Sex Educators’ Association of Australasia, and co-director of the Institute of Somatic Sexology. Deej holds qualifications in psychology, sociology, counselling, adult education, bodywork, somatic sex education and professional supervision. He has a Masters in Somatic and Spiritual Psychology, and was awarded Somatic Sex Educator of the Year at the Sexual Freedom Awards in London in 2016.

He believes in radical acceptance as part of the process of change.

Dr Liz Powell

Dr. Liz believes that great sex can change the world. She is on a mission to help you have more meaningful, pleasurable relationships in life and work, as well as the bedroom. She’s a coach and licensed psychologist (CA 27871) helping couples and singles develop self-confidence and authenticity in their relationships, whether conventional or non-traditional. Dr. Liz has made multiple media appearances, including as a co-host as on the Life on the Swingset podcast and on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio show Ideas. As a sex educator, Dr. Liz has spoken on many stages internationally including the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists Annual Conference, the Guelph Sexuality Conference, and the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit. Dr Liz believes that being con dent in who you are is the gateway to great relationships and great sex - and great sex, according to Dr. Liz, can change the world.
Learn more about Dr. Liz at www.sexpositivepsych.com.

Emily E. Prior

Emily E. Prior is the Executive Director for the Center for Positive Sexuality and a Social Scientist. Her research focuses on the intersections of identity, deviance, and feminism. Emily has studied human sexuality and gender topics from a variety of perspectives, including Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology and won the Vern Bullough Award for research. Her work with the Center allows her to incorporate her love of educating and research within a positive sexuality framework.

Verena Neuenschwander

Her main interests are human relationships, sexuality, love, spirituality which are practiced with an integral frame that include body, mind, soul and spirit. Spiritual ground is mainly tantra and yoga, both traditional and contemporary, coming together in an integral life practice.

Aside she works as an osteopath and shiatsu therapist in her own practice for over 30 years, where she accompanies and supports people on their way of healing.

Remigius (Remy) Wagner

Remigius (Remy) Wagner works with several groups who deepen consciousness with meditation, bodywork, love and integral life practice. He holds a MA in Art History, Linguistics and Computer Science and diplomes as teacher, trainer and coach. He is mainly active as a cultural historian, coordinator and editor.

Eva Sless

Eva Sless is an award-winning Australian writer who specialises in sex with a focus on education and pleasure. For twenty years Eva has been entertaining, educating, and amusing audiences with her unique style, her tongue-in-cheek humour, and solid advice.

Her recently published sex education book titled “A Teen Girls Guide To Getting O ” is essential reading for young women and parents of young women with the aim of changing the world, one sex-positive conversation at a time.

From sex toy reviews and personal anecdotes, to researched advice and education for women, Eva is often referred to as the Indiana Jones of sex: Wild and exploratory and a little bit silly... With a classroom element.

Gloria Brame

A former English professor, Gloria Brame first became interested in the study of human sexuality when she got personally involved in the BDSM world, circa 1985. In 1991, she began work on her classic textbook of kink and fetish, Diverent Loving. Her research into the history and social anthropology of sex transformed her life. She became obsessed with a simple question: who gets to decide what’s normal sex? She saw that most theories of masturbation, sexual performance, BDSM/fetish, gender and all non-heteronormative sex and gender expressions were tainted by social prejudices, and has made it her mission to shine a more truthful light on these subjects. Gloria completed her Ph.D. in Human Sexuality specializing in BDSM/fetish in 2000. In the 10 sex books she’s published since then, Gloria has devoted herself to studying the evidence on sex and gender diversity and the psychobiology of sex. Her work has made her a leader in the study of sex, with an international reputation as a pioneer in the field.

IM Jae

IM Jae is an internationally recognized sex educator and coach. She has been actively involved with alternative sexual lifestyle communities for many years, both attending events as well as in leadership positions, including holding the title of Ms World Leather 2006. IM Jae produces a variety of events such as education retreats, classes, sex trivia, play parties, etc. She has a sex education podcast called Size Queen Love, as well as a blog and live meetup event that are all about men with large penises and the people who want them. In her personal life, she is the “mother” of a very sassy parrot. The Washington DC area is where she currently makes her home.
You can find her on Instagram@IMJCoach and her websites are imjcoach.com and sizequeenlove.com.

Janet Hardy

Janet W. Hardy is the author or coauthor of twelve groundbreaking books about relationships and sexuality, including The Ethical Slut (more than 200,000 copies sold to date, including the third edition published in 2017 by Ten Speed Press).

Janet has traveled the world as a speaker and teacher on topics ranging from ethical multipartner relationships to erotic spanking and beyond. She has appeared in documentary lms (Slut, Beyond Vanilla, Vice and Consent, BDSM: It’s Not What You Think), television shows (SexTV, The Dr. Susan Block Show), and more radio shows and podcasts than she can count.

Janet serves as Editorial Director for Greenery Press, the rm she founded in 1992, as well as for Down There Press. She also runs The Active Voice, which covers editorial, event and promotional consulting.

She often fantasizes about being handcuffed to Stephen Sondheim’s piano.

Jay Wiseman

Jay Wiseman has over 40 years of experience in BDSM and was one of the early pioneers and builders of the BDSM community in the San Francisco area. Jay is the author of the frequently recommended book “SM 101: A Realistic Introduction” and the founder of the publishing company that later became Greenery Press. His book, “Jay Wiseman’s Erotic Bondage Handbook” is widely hailed as the book that sets the standard of fundamental knowledge for this practice. His instructional videos on rope bondage are excellent resources for both beginners and experienced bondage practitioners. His book “The Toybag Guide to Dungeon Emergencies and Supplies” provides crucial information to both players and dungeon monitors. He is currently working on a number of books and videos.

Jay holds a first-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, is an on-again, o -again member of Mensa, and lived in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district during the Sixties. A former ambulance crewman with years of experience, and recipient of the highest Red Cross commendation for emergency action, Jay now teaches classes in basic and advanced emergency medical care for BDSM clubs and other groups. After receiving his law degree in 2005 and passing the California bar exam in 2006, he sometimes works as a part-time law school professor. He is also a certi ed mediator. His areas of special legal interest include providing legal support for alternative communities, teaching bar exam preparation, search and seizure law, and conflict resolution.

His website is, predictably, www.jaywiseman.com.

Jaz Papadopoulos

Jaz is an interdisciplinary artist and writer of Greece, Turkish and Ukrainian descent. They work in experimental poetry, installation, video and performance. As an edge-walker, they explore the in-between – that which is overlooked by language and other social and cultural powers. They are interested in diaspora, gender, bodies, place, memory, grief, and ritual, and work with a practice informed by feminism, and spirituality, and embodiment. In 2016, Jaz completed a residency at the Cartae Open School in Winnipeg, Canada, and performed at documentary 14 in Athens, Greece alongside Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. Currently, they are a recipient of the New Artist in Media Art Production Fund at Video Pool in Winnipeg; are the Arts and Culture editor for an alternative newspaper, The Uniter; and are a collaborator with the alternative theatre company Happy/ Accidents. Their video works can be found on their vimeo page, at vimeo.com/ jazpapadopoulos. Born on Treaty 1 territory, Jaz now splits their time between Winnipeg and the west coast of Turtle Island. They revel in reading through their colourful book collection, eating fruit o the tree, and cackling around a table with other witches.

Jimanekia Eborn

Jimanekia Eborn is a sex educator as well as a trauma specialist. She is someone that has had trauma in her life. Being someone born intro trauma, having her mother murdered at a young age. That has led her to want to help others that have been assaulted, others that need a safe healing space. She has been working in the eld of mental health since she was 22 years of age. There is where she found her passion for helping those that have experienced sexual trauma. Through her work, she has connected with teenagers and adults around the world. Jimanekia is striving to provide support for those that have struggled after sexual assault. She wants to assist you with reconnecting with your sexuality and spirituality. Whatever, that means to you. As well as providing sexual education to the world.

SEWJim.com
MorethanNo.org ( I am the Director of Education for this non pro t) www.morethansex-ed.org ( I am a facilitator and teach 4th-12th grade comprehensive sexual education)

Joel Davis

A series of grueling aptitude tests 40 years ago revealed that, despite having a little interest in a lot of things, Joel had no great interest in anything in particular. Armed with that insight, Joel has spent the past 30 years as a freelance American Sign Language interpreter, mostly in the Seattle area, where he makes his home with his husband, Shawn, and their not-at-all-spoiled dog, Bandit. When not volunteering as a peer support group facilitator as he has for the past 20 years, Joel thrives on a decades’ long stint with the Seattle Men’s Chorus and, as the founding Archivist for the Gay And Lesbian Association [GALA] of Choruses, has written extensively on the history of the organization and the LGBT Choral Movement.

Joel has been HIV-Positive for more than half his entire life and is proud to assert that he is among the first cohort of long-term, HIV-Positive Gay Men to stand on the precipice of retirement.

Jordan Bouray

A polyamorous Seattleite born with both a body and brain that didn’t exactly meet factory specs, Roundfoot teaches on kink and sexuality from an unusual perspective: a seated one.

Karen Lucas

Karen ‘Kaz’ Lucas is an established leader in the Kenyan arts and culture ecosystem. Having begun her career in the early 2000s as a singer, she has gone on to win awards and run creative ventures and projects cutting across the performing arts, media production, digital marketing and innovative events that shape the industrial standard. Notably, her web-series project Kenyan Woman provided a new perspective on what it means to be a successful woman in Kenya, therefore uplifting young women by demonstrating that women can de ne themselves beyond stereotypical boundaries. Kaz has had a lifelong passion for changing the way sex education is taught to young people. Driven by this passion and enabled by her media experience, she started The Spread Podcast, a sex positive podcast that creates a safe space for people to understand their sexuality and learn to live confidently in awareness of their sexual identity.

Kevin Patterson

Kevin Patterson is an active member of the Philadelphia polyamory community. He’s been practicing ethical nonmonogamy since August of 2002 after opening up a relationship that eventually became his marriage. In April of 2015, Kevin was inspired to start Poly Role Models, an interview series for people describing their experiences with polyamory. Poly Role Models is part of a drive and a desire to change the way our lives and communities are viewed. It is a platform for the diversity of our relationship structures and the people within them to shine through.

Kevin’s work can be found and supported on Facebook @PolyRoleModels on Tumblr, Twitter, & Instagram, and at www.patreon.com/PolyRoleModels

Kim Loliya

Kim Loliya is a coach, bodyworker and consultant specialising in women’s sexuality and empowerment. Kim’s practitioner work at The Pleasure Institute includes working with trauma, pelvic pain, orgasm dificulties, scar tissue, relationship dificulties and much more. Through body-based, practical tools, Kim creates a gentle healing space for women, non-binary people and couples and covers new avenues for intimacy, joy and healing. Outside of her clinic, Kim works as a facilitator and curator in the U.K and internationally and is the co-creator of sex+, a sex positive magazine that shares real stories and rewrites narratives

Kris Lovestone

Kris Lovestone is a relationship coach & sex educator from Costa Rica who helps people to get what they really want out of their relationships and sex-lives so that there are fewer broken hearts and homes in the world. By teaching emotional intelligence, communication tools and the anatomy of arousal, he facilitates people finding their true authentic desires, boundaries & preferences and assists them to put them into action and manifest them safely in their lives.

He holds a degree in health science, is a masterful facilitator & mediator and is extensively trained in communication protocols, relational technologies and consent best-practices. He is a proud father and a devoted partner in a prosperous long-term open relationship and works as a teacher and speaker. He is the author of Conscious Cock and the Nutella Proposal and is the creator of the Conscious Cock Boot Camp for men. Follow him online at consciouscock.com

Lasara Firefox Allen

Lasara Firefox Allen is an activist, advocate, and is the author of four books including Jailbreaking the Goddess (Llewellyn, 2016). She works in the field of social work. Mother to two amazing young people and married to the love of her life, Lasara lives with her family in the wilds of Northern California.

Captain Snowdon

Captain Snowdon - captain lives uninvited on the territory of the Lekwungen and WSÁNEĆ peoples on Vancouver Island. Their background is in social justice, harm reduction outreach, sexological bodywork, performance art and poetry. Captain runs the Sex Positive Art and Recreation Centre in Victoria and co-creates the Somatic Sex Educator Professional Training www.somaticsexeducator.com Currently, captain uses the pronoun they/them, identi es as a genderqueer- queer radical faery- faggot witch and is in love with the ocean and facilitation for liberation still loving it 30 years and counting..

This is about learnings so far... about how the work of sex positivity is deep and vast. How being with the ebb and ow of desire, eros and community requires us to reimagine again and again the kind of world we want to live in and live in it like we are already there.. here on the ground in practice and fuck up together.

Linda Kirkman

Dr Linda Kirkman PhD is a sexologist, sex therapist and sex educator. She has a background in education and public health, and broad experience in public speaking, lecturing, writing and counselling as well as delivering workshops and seminars. Her work is a exible combination of counselling or sex therapy, preparing and delivering workshops, seminars and professional development on diverse aspects of sexuality and relationships to audiences ranging from primary age children to health professionals.

Mac McGregor

Mac McGregor is a dedicated, heartfelt activist and educator who focuses every part of his existence on creating a world where people can feel free to be true to themselves. Mac is a bringer of Unity through Community Empowerment and will always find a way to build a bridge instead of a wall. Mac was appointed by the Mayor as a Seattle City Commissioner in 2011 and he served until 2016. Mac is the transgender and gender non-conforming outreach director for Social Outreach Seattle and a former board member for Seattle Counseling Center. He is on the Seattle Police Department LGBT advisory board. And continuously speaks on panels and solo at numerous colleges, non-pro t groups and state and city government on gender & sexuality. Mac recently worked on a small team to help Seattle Police Department develop policy and training around working with the transgender community. Mac donates his time as the head instructor for Social Outreach Seattle’s Self-Defense Academy, teaching self-defense to empower all people, regardless of income. Mac is also a diversity educator focusing on gender and sexuality. Mac’s experience prior to transition was that of a successful female athlete and business owner. This experience led him to be a champion for women’s rights, attempting to close the pay gap and achieve equal opportunity for women and folks that are gender variant.

Maggie McNeill

Maggie McNeill was a librarian in suburban New Orleans, but after an acrimonious divorce economic necessity inspired her to take up sex work; from 1997 to 2006 she worked rst as a stripper, then as a call girl and madam. She eventually married her favorite client and retired to a ranch in Oklahoma, but began escorting part-time again in 2010 and full-time again early in 2015 after another divorce (this time amicable). She has been a sex worker rights activist since 2004, and since 2010 has written a daily blog called “The Honest Courtesan” maggiemcneill.wordpress.com which examines the realities, myths, history, lore, science, philosophy, art, and every other aspect of prostitution; she also reports sex work news, critiques the way her profession is treated in the media and by governments, and is frequently consulted by academics and journalists as an expert on the subject.

Martha Tara Lee

Surrounded by friends who were sexually inhibited and struck by dire lack of positive conversations around sex and sexuality in Singapore, Dr. Martha Tara Lee decided to take it upon herself to be an advocate for positive sexuality by embarking on her doctorate in human sexuality then launching Eros Coaching in Singapore in 2009. Since 2011, she has been the only sexuality educator certified by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) in Singapore. Often cited in the media, Dr. Lee is the appointed sex expert for Men’s Health Singapore, and Men’s Health Malaysia journals. She is also the host of weekly radio show Eros Evolution for OMTimes Radio. She was recognised as one of the ‘Top 50 Inspiring Women under 40’ by Her World in July 2010, and one of ‘Top 100 Inspiring Women’ by CozyCot in March 2011. She continues to provide in-person and Skype sexuality and relationship coaching, conduct workshops, and speak at events. She is the author of Love, Sex and Everything In-Between; Orgasmic Yoga: Masturbation, Meditation and Everything In- Between; and most recently, From Queen to Princess: Heartbreaks, Heartgasms and Everything In-Between. www.ErosCoaching.com

Dr. Meg-John Barker

Dr. Meg-John Barker is a writer, therapist and activist-academic specialising in sex, gender and relationships. Meg-John is a senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University and has published many academic books and papers on topics including non-monogamous relationships, sadomasochism, counselling, and mindfulness, as well as co-founding the journal Psychology & Sexuality. They were the lead author of The Bisexuality Report and they are involved in running many public events on sexuality and relationships, including Critical Sexology.

Meg-John is also a UKCP accredited therapist working with gender, sex, and relationship diverse (GSRD) clients. In addition to their many academic books, they have now written several books for the general public including Rewriting the Rules (Routledge, 2013), Queer: A Graphic History (Icon Books, 2016), Enjoy Sex (How, When and IF You Want To) (Icon, 2017), How to Understand Your Gender (Jessica Kingsley, 2017) and The Secrets of Enduring Love (Penguin, 2016).

They are frequently mentioned in the media, and they blog about sex and relationships on rewriting-the-rules.com.
Twitter@megjohnbarker.

Justin Hancock

Justin Hancock is a sex and relationships educator, trainer and practitioner working with young people and adults in this field since 1999, and co-author of Enjoy Sex (How, When and IF You Want To) (Icon, 2017). His website BISHuk. com is one of the leading sex and relationships advice websites for all those over fourteen and is sponsored by Durex UK. The accompanying book to the website, Sex Explained: A real and relevant guide to sex, relationships and you was self- published in 2013 which was very well received by activists in sex, sexuality and sexual health work such as Brooke Magnanti, Buck Angel and Dr Ranj Singh. In addition to this Justin works with practitioners in sex and relationships education and sexual health services providing training and resources. He was involved in writing teaching resources for the DO SRE for Schools project. He has made a number of media appearances on television, radio and has written several pieces for newspapers and blogs. Twitter@bishtraining.

Nekole Shapiro

Nekole Shapiro helps you dive into your body to find your own best expert for your own best life. She combines a lifetime of body-work experience with her Columbia University pre-medical and cultural anthropology studies. As a second-generation grassroots organizer, educator and body worker, she is a go to person for parents, birth pros, sex educators, activists and countless others searching to bring the human back to humanity. Her “almost indescribable” approach is catching on and changing lives!

Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson

Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson, co-authors of Designer Relationships, are a devoted married couple. They have been creative collaborators since 1999, and their critically acclaimed titles have garnered numerous awards. Michaels and Johnson are the authors of Partners in Passion, Great Sex Made Simple, Tantra for Erotic Empowerment, and The Essence of Tantric Sexuality. They are co- founders of the Pleasure Salon, a monthly gathering in New York City that brings together sex-positive people and pleasure activists from a variety of communities. www.MichaelsandJohnson.com

Race Bannon

Race Bannon has been an organizer, writer, educator, speaker and activist in the LGBT, leather/kink, polyamory and HIV/STI prevention realms since 1973. He’s authored two books, been published extensively, spoken to hundreds of audiences, created the world’s largest kink-friendly psychotherapist and medical

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referral service, was a leader of The DSM Project that led to a beneficial change in the way psychotherapy views BDSM, founded a groundbreaking alternative sexuality publishing company, been an internet radio sex talk show host, received national and local awards, appeared in numerous documentaries, and currently writes for the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com). His sexuality and relationships blog is bannon.com and some of his other work can be found at racebannon.com.

Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph.D.

In 1975 Ray began teaching erotic massage to people of all sexual orientations in San Francisco. His 1989 Erotic Massage — the Touch of Love book was the first instructional book to illustrate genital massage and has sold over a million copies worldwide.

He has taught many somatic modalities and has written/created over a dozen books and DVDs on sacred sexuality including Women of the Light: The New Sacred Prostitute, Sacred Orgasms, and The Essential Tantra. He also co-created the 90-minute documentary The Sacred Prostitute and a recent documentary, Path of the Sexual Shaman: Teachings on Energy, Orgasm, and Wisdom. Ray is the former vice-president of the Association of Sexual Energy Professionals.

On a shamanic path for over two decades, Ray is a 13-year SunDancer and has been greatly influenced by Tibetan Buddhism. His latest creation is the Shaman Cards: Ceremonies for Energy and Wisdom. Via Skype and the phone, he now gives individual sessions and trainings on energy, sexuality, shamanism, and transformation. www.SexualShaman.com

More here if interested: www.whisperedspaces.com/kenneth-ray-stubbs/ Ron Richardson

Ron Richardson, also known as Lustyguy on Polyweekly, has been around the sex positive movement since the late 1980s. He worked for about five years at Seattle’s Lusty Lady, ran an adult video production company that flimed only people in actual relationships, and for the past five years has been a regular co-host and co- producer on Polyamory Weekly, Cunning Minx’s podcast on polyamory, sexuality, and communications.

Ruby Bouie Johnson

Ruby Bouie Johnson is a clinical social worker and sex therapist who has 14 years of experience in a variety of behavioral health settings. Currently, she is private practice in Plano, Texas. Over the last 4 years, Ruby has been specializing in kinky, polyamorous, and open relationships as well as sexually – and gender-fluid clients. Ruby has a strong family and group theoretical and intervention skill set. She is able to work with triads, quads, and polycules with power dynamics and communication problems. Ruby has published in various journals and in the African American Encyclopedia on Criminology, she has presented at Kinky Kollege, Consent Summit, Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, and her proposal was recently accepted by National Sex Education Conference. Ms. Johnson is a contributor for Huffington Post, is on faculty for the Kink Knowledgeable Program, and serves on the board for the National Coalitionfor Sexual Freedom. Ruby is the CEO, Founder, and organizer for PolyDallas Millennium LLC.

Ruby has a hub of information at www.blacksexgeek.net or www.facebook.com/blacksexgeek

Sara Blaze

Sara Blaze is a lifestyle Fem Domme, a Professional Dominatrix, a community leader, a partner and a parent.

Sara is the President of MVK Alternative Lifestyle Society, BC’s largest BDSM not for pro t organization focused on outreach and education and has held this position for over six years. Sara is also the Producer of Westcoast Bound, MVK’s premier annual event focused on BDSM education. With her leadership, Westcoast Bound has grown exponentially from 100 attendees to nearly 500.

As an educator, Sara teaches both locally and internationally and has been interviewed on several occasions.

Shay McCombs

Shay McCombs is a young writer and activist, as well as an incoming freshman at the University of Washington. They are asexual, polyamorous, and nonbinary; they support social justice publicly but heavily criticize it among its advocates. Shay is an enthusiastic research geek, particularly for queer history, effective altruism, medieval music, and cognitive science. Through the local pagan church, Our Lady Of The Earth And Sky, they help lead a small group of second- generation queer pagans that works to foster youth, asexual, and non-binary inclusion in pagan spaces.

Sui Yao

With a visual communication design background and six years of professional experience in the advertising industry, I decided to become an entrepreneur by becoming an independent creator in one of the most exciting ad markets in the world.

I aim to use my art and thirst for experimentation to create work that pushes the edge in this increasingly globalized and commercial world. I aim to transform the social implications of media into intriguing experiences to help all groups, with an emphasis on female cohorts in China.

Born, raised and educated in China and then working in innovative advertising agencies has allowed me to act as the conduit between Eastern and Western value systems. Long-term, I see myself as a vanguard of Chinese culture by bringing China to the world. I endeavor to look at contemporary truths in Chinese culture and try to communicate these to third parties through my work.

Susie Bright

Best-selling author Susie Bright, the country’s preeminent feminist sex writer, is one of the world’s most respected voices on sexual politics, as well as an award- winning author and editor who’s produced and published thousands of the nest writers and journalists working in American literature and progressive activism today.

Tai Fenix Kulystin

Tai Fenix Kulystin provides therapeutic trauma coaching, somatic sex education, tarot and astrology readings, ritual design, writing, and workshops for transformation, liberation, and social change. They strive for authentic, compassionate connection in their work and life, and hope to bring others to a greater sense of sovereignty, self-understanding, and wholeness. Tai is a trans genderqueer, polyamorous, white, professional middle class, queer witch dedicated to anti-oppressive trauma healing work utilizing empathy, embodiment, and pleasure. Their professional coaching work is called Conscious Pleasure and they are based in Seattle, Washington. For more information about Tai’s work, please visit www.TaiKulystin.com

Tamara Pincus

Tamara Pincus is a licensed clinical social worker and AASECT certi ed sex therapist who runs a private practice in the Washington DC area. She specializes in working with kinky, poly and LGBTQ clients. Tamara has been active in alternative sexuality communities since 1998. Tamara completed her Bachelors in Psychology at Smith College and her Masters in Social Work at Catholic University of America. She has spoken around the country on issues related to ethics in sex therapy, consent culture, polyamory and BDSM. She has published articles and pamphlets including What Professionals Need to Know about BDSM (through NCSF) and What is Polyamory and Why Do Social Workers Need to Know About it (through GWSCSW). She is one of the authors of the book “Its Called Polyamory: coming out about your non-monogamous relationships.” She is a mother of two who lives in a multi partner polyamorous household.

Taryn de Vere

Taryn de Vere is a sex-positive parent, a mother of 5, a writer and parenting adviser.

Teri Ciacchi

Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi, MSW Teri is the relational matrix of the Living Love Revolution, a holistic sex educator, a Priestess of Aphrodite, a leader of the EcoSexuality movement, and an EcoMagicks practitioner. She has been generating Cascadia Holistic Peer Counseling system since 1997, holding Aphrodite Temples since 2000 and co-creating Surrender:The EcoSex Convergence since 2013. In July 2017 she started Interdependence and Autonomy LLC, a for pro t business that builds consent culture by healing con ict through education, mediation and facilitation and creating “consent - centric” events. Her newest endeavor is Ecosex Celebrating Lover Earth, held on Orcas Island Summer Solstice 2018.

Reverend Ciacchi looks to Nature for guidance and wisdom. She translates the teachings she receives from mycelium (mushrooms), bees and stardust into useable social skills for human beings. She leads collaborative workshops and events that honor the innate connections between humans and the Living Earth. You can nd her works at the following websites:

www.LivingLoveRevolution.org, www.iandaspace.com www.AphroditeTemple.com www.ecosexportland.org and www.ecosexorcasisland.org.

Uma Ayelet Furman

Uma is one of Australasia’s leading somatic sex educators, with many years of experience working with individuals, people in relationships, and groups. Uma has innovated somatic sex education through her groundbreaking work in client-centred practice. Based in Brisbane, Australia, Uma works internationally, specializing in supporting people to work somatically through sexual issues and concerns. She is a Certified Somatic Sex Educator and a founding member of the Somatic Sex Educators’ Association of Australasia (SSEAA).

Veronica Monet

Veronica Monet, ACS is an internationally acclaimed sexual empowerment change agent. CNN, FOX, Politically Incorrect, Yale, Stanford and UC Berkeley are just a few of the numerous news and educational institutions that have hosted Veronica for her forward thinking insights and expertise.

Veronica helps individuals and couples heal shame and live fully. As a Relationship Coach, Sexologist and Anger Specialist, she combines her extensive education with deep empathy. Personally overcoming incest, rape, violence and abuse she is committed to helping others own their personal and erotic empowerment in the most loving and honorable lifestyle tailored to them.

Veronica invites you to join her in The Shame Free ZoneTM. Here you will discover her game-changing Exquisite Partnership Formula TM, a program designed to turn con ict into connection and sex that gets better with each passing year.

Yuri Kotke

Yuri Kotke is a Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Sex Educator and Therapist resident in São Paulo, Brazil. Since a very young age, Yuri has tried to understand the mysteries of the body and sexual pleasure. Going rst through Performance Art as a Theatre Bachelor, Yuri discovered Sexological Bodywork and traveled to the other hemisphere to take the training in Canada.

Yuri believes sexual pleasure and connection is our birthright, our shared heritage, and something we all can access with the right tools. He, together with Paula Fernanda Andreazza, helms the Latin American Institute for Somatic Sexology, a business with the intention to assist the sexual awakening of Latin America through body-based practices and loving, nonjudgmental support for all bodies, orientations and identities.

Jing Jing Wang

Jing Jing Wang is a queer, intersectional feminist, and Chinese American. They spend their time making all forms of art, building community, and loving. Instagram @jingshiwang01