By Eve Rickert and Carrie Jenkins Early this month, Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship announced that unmarried romantic partners of Canadians would be allowed to cross the border and, after quarantining, finally see their loved ones. For many, this is desperately welcome news. The headlines proclaimed “tears of …
By Anna D. Hirsch, MFA, MS with LiveLikeLove Sex and sexuality geeks are the people who make a habit and even a career out of studying sex and sex culture, and sex savvy communities have become increasingly well versed on the subject of pleasure as an epicenter of healing and …
By Bob Hannaford with Naughty Events Years ago, when Tess and I started looking into swinging, we had no idea how to find other people “like us”. We started in AOL chat rooms and talked to more fake people, kids and married men, pretending to be couples than we ever …
By Joel Gleason Without going into detail, several years ago I assisted a client of mine who had planned on putting on a large event in a major U.S. city in September 2020. His organization wanted to purchase event cancellation policy. Fast forward to Spring 2020. With the COVID-19 pandemic, …
By Libby Sinback We are up to four Google Docs going between my household and my partner’s household. That feels like a lot, and also there may be more. We are using the docs to share our household procedures for coming home from the grocery store, whether or not we’re …
By Russell J. Stambaugh, PhD What is Taste of Kink? It is an educational program run twice at AASECT, Annual Conference in Minneapolis and again in Denver. A three-hour fundraiser for AASECT, it conferred three continuing education credits (CE’s) that count towards AASECT Certification and other professional licensing requirements. The program …
By RUSSELL J STAMBAUGH, PHD DST CSSP This document is the product of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom’s (NCSF) Educational Outreach Committee chaired by Susan Wright, and consisting of Tess Zachary of APEX, Matt Connolly, Western Region Polyamory Advocate and myself as Professionals Advocate. The social distancing behaviors (we …
By Russell J Stambaugh, PHD DST CSSPIf a ban on CE for touch is not needed for CE reciprocity with APA, why is it important to have? Here is my understanding of the reasons AASECT has given for this policy: Touch is overstimulating. Traumatized and neuro-atypical trainees might be overstimulated …
By Russell J. Stambaugh, PhD, DST, CSSP The Power of Touch: A casual perusal of Western mythology suggests that it is scarcely possible to overestimate the power of touch. Sleeping Beauty is entirely overcome by a mere pin prick and awakened by a single kiss. A frog is transformed back …
Guest post by Anne More, Licensed Erotic Blueprint Coach – The Erotic Blueprints™ are amazing for transforming our sex lives – and they are about so much more than sex! They helped me know and love myself as I am (a big Shapeshifter™!) After working with them daily for over …
