“So, what does your family think of your job?” This is question I get a few times during my workweek. It’ll come out while I’m helping customers decide between lubricants, at the register stamping Good Vibes loyalty cards with the word “sex”, or sometimes even in conversation between my fellow SESAs. And for me (and
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The Sex-Positive Parent: A New Resource from Airial Clark
At Good Vibrations, we know how important sex education is. And we also know how hard parents work to juggle protecting kids from information that they aren’t ready for while also giving them what they need to grow into sexually healthy people. Many of our Sexy Mama writers have talked about how they’ve walked that very
Sex Is a Skill, Like Riding a Bicycle
I have been doing sexuality education workshops since 1989. In one particular workshop, I focused on the idea of sex being a skill. One participant reacted very strongly against that idea. It was as though sex and sexuality could not possibly be anything other than natural or innate. I’ve been thinking about this reaction for
Sadie Says … A-Train, A-Play
Sometimes I glimpse my mother inside of myself; I might see her face in mine when I round the corner into the bathroom, my lips fixed just so. Sometimes I’ll hear her in my voice, inside the very timbre of my words, and marvel at how they echo the sentiments I once considered fatalistic –
Laughter in the Bedroom
I attained a two-day Laughter Yoga Leader training last weekend. The brainchild of Dr. Madan Kataria, a Physician from Mumbai, India, launched the first Laughter Club at a Park on March 13, 1995, with merely a handful of persons. Today, it has become a worldwide phenomenon with more than 6000 Social Laughter Clubs in about
