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Sex City and CIUT Fall Membership Drive—November 10, 2015! Listen in to Sex City on Tuesday November 10 between 11pm-midnight as the whole crew of Dorianne Emmerton, Louise Bak, Sophie Delancey, Jon Pressick, Cordelia Huxtable and our awesome techs Oren and Brett celebrate our station CIUT 89.5FM and The Sound of Your City Campaign! Twice a year CIUT hosts a membership drive to raise funds for the many different initiatives the station embarks on to bring the diverse world to your ears through community radio. We are honoured that we get to talk to you, every week, about the many …

Sex Community

Sex City’s Playground 2015 Special

November 5, 2015

It was a pleasure to welcome Stephen Biggs, Nikki Thomas, Mistress Isobel and Judi Siklos to Sex City this week to talk about this year’s upcoming Playground Conference. All were fascinating to talk to and you will do yourself a big favour if you can make it to their presentations at the conference! LISTEN HERE

Sex Health

My Latest on Cara Sutra! “Movember: Sexual Health Education With Prostate Pleasure Workshops”

November 5, 2015

Movember is upon us and I hope people with prostates, and those who care about them, are considering both getting checked out and trying some prostate pleasure! I had the honour of teaching a couple workshops on prostate pleasure during past Movember campaigns—both teaching and learning during them. Check out Movember: Sexual Health Education With Prostate Pleasure Workshops

Sex News! I Love It!

Sex News! I love it! November 1, 2015

November 1, 2015

The Porn Business Isn’t Anything Like You Think It Is 15 Comments Polyamorous People Are Tired of Getting We Made Up Canadian Sex Positions And Asked People To Draw Them Cocks & Bonds: That Time I Considered Hiring a Sex Worker as a Man With Disabilities “I’m A Guy” The Weed Pipe That’s Also a Dildo How Ten Months Of Monogamy Has Changed Me I’m Always the Wallflower at the Orgy A Few Simple Realities of What It Really Means to be Pansexual Why It’s Okay To Pay For Sex The Game Is Rigged Sex and Psychedelics Monogamous couples at same risk from …

Sex City

My next Sex City—Playground Con Special!

October 30, 2015

My next Sex City is one of my favourite shows of the year, highlighting one of the sex world’s great events—Playground Conference happening November 13–15 in downtown Toronto! This year, I will be joined by special guest host Stephen Biggs on TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 at 11:00PM ET on CIUT 89.5FM to speak with three awesome folks who will be presenting at Playground: Nikki Thomas is a former sex worker and self-described “tuition whore” who started in the sex trade at age 26 to pay for her education. A University of Toronto alumna with degrees in political science, sexual diversity studies and psychology, she …

Sex Health / Sex Writing

A Rose By Any Other Name: Sensual Scents—My Latest Sex Senses Article on Cara Sutra!

October 28, 2015

This month we’ve moved on to the third in my series on sex and our five senses: smell. Check out A Rose By Any Other Name: Sensual Scents Smell is a divisive sense—especially when it comes to sex. Some people have very strong reactions to different scents and can be either immediately turned on or completely turned off at the faintest whiff. And what we do find scentually appealing greatly varies among different people. Also check out the two previous additions to this series: Reach Out: The Sexuality of Touch Listening In: The Sounds of Sex

Sex Stories We Love

My Latest Sex Stories We Love on Kinkly: Alone With Your Thoughts, Kinky Knights and More!

October 28, 2015

This week’s edition of Sex Stories We Love on Kinkly has a wide variety of topics. And that’s what’s great about sex! There are always new things to discuss and discover. This time around I found stories with the themes Unlikely Lubes, Kinky Knights, Appreciating Amy, Just Hit Five Knuckle Shuffle, Alone With Your…Thoughts and A Change Is Coming…Out. Check out this week’s Sex Stories We Love!

Sex News / Sex News! I Love It!

Sex News! I love it! October 25, 2015

October 25, 2015

This Is the Porn You Get at a Sperm Bank On Tinder, Off Sex Find Your G Spot (or Have Fun Trying) Straight Men Discuss Their Attraction to Trans Women in New Doc The Time I Told My Grandmother I’ve Been Using Her Name to Make Porno The Secret Sexual World Of America’s Renaissance Faires Sharing Sexual History Is Risky Sex ed for adults Heirs to the Sexual Revolution The Game Is Rigged 10 Complaints Sex Therapists Hear All The Time Amy Schumer: Let’s Talk About The Way We Talk About Women And Sex Why People Pleasing & a Strong Sex Drive is …

Sex Stuff

New Pleasure Panel Review on Cara Sutra! Linx Hopping Hare Vibrating Cock Ring

October 23, 2015

I’m still surprised I’d never really tried a cock ring before…and I regret that time missed! Read more on how I was quite pleased with this assignment for Cara Sutra’s Pleasure Panel with this review of the Link Hopping Hare Vibrating Cock Ring.

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Sex News! I love it! October 18, 2015

October 18, 2015

Playboy to end publishing nude female photos Learning to Practice Consent as a Straight Woman Guess What Our Ancestors Used For Sexual Lubrication? Master Dominic tells us what it’s really like to be a male dominant The “Bro Job”: Why “straight” men have sex with each other 10 Sex Toys With Ridiculously Ancient Origins Alabama Walmart Mistakenly Stocks Gun Counter With “Gun Oil” Lube Author Neil Strauss talks to the Star about falling asleep at orgies, sex addiction, monogamy and fatherhood A woman’s right to say ‘meh’: being sex positive won’t guarantee you an orgasm How I Earned My Porn …

Sex Writing

The Sexual Seen: Does This Sweet Potato Look Like a Vulva To You?—My latest on Kinkly!

October 16, 2015

This piece was ridiculously fun to write! Many thanks to Dr. Stephen Biggs for contributing thoughts on how and why we sometimes see sexual images in everyday things. And if I do recall, that sweet potato also tasted damn good. Check out The Sexual Seen: Does This Sweet Potato Look Like a Vulva To You?

Sex Writing

Sexy Circuitry Overload! The 15 Sexiest Robots in Movie History

October 14, 2015

Do Robots, Cyborgs and Androids push all of your sexiest buttons? Check out my first contribution to Future of Sex—The 15 Sexiest Robots in Movie History! Do you agree with my list and rankings? Do you think different cute cyborgs and ravishing robots should have made the cut?

Sex City

NAKED HEART – The LGBTQ Festival of Words on Sex City!

October 14, 2015October 15, 2015

I was delighted to host a very special edition of Sex City highlighting one of the most exciting new events to hit Toronto in years! I spoke with some of the participants in the first annual Naked Heart—The LGBTQ Festival of Words organized by Glad Day Bookshop! Lambda-awarding winning writer Jeffrey Round is one of the organizers of Naked Heart and he’ll tell us how this event came to be and about his workshop “Pitch Perfect” Debra Anderson is also an award-winning writer who will lead the workshop “Hardcore Hearts” exploring themes of queer love, loss, & desire Kristyn Dunnion …

Getting Sexy at Canzine—October 17!

October 14, 2015

I’ll be at Canzine—one of my favourite events of all time—this Saturday! Come pick up a copy of Best Sex Writing of the Year, my ridiculous Choose Your Own Sex Adventure books and some sexy pins! Canzine Saturday October 17, 2015 1pm–7pm Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West FREE!!!

Sex Stories We Love

My Latest Sex Stories We Love on Kinky: Awesome Appointment, Shroom Zoom, & More!

October 14, 2015

This week’s Sex Stories We Love, things get a little silly, but also a little serious. But isn’t that just like sex a lot of the time? I’ve got stories on awesome appointments, rollin’ a not-so fatty, shroom zoom!, restritive art, working out a bind and hoping for straight x’s! Check out my latest Sex Stories We Love!

Sex Community / Sex Events

Eroticize, Educate, Explore—The Arts of Sex Writing—October 28!

October 11, 2015

Eroticize, Educate, Explore—The Arts of Sex Writing Sex is one of the most diverse topics that writers and readers can explore. Through erotic fiction you can lose yourself in a sexy and sensual scene full of rich and raunchy imagery. Sex education writing can enrich you with new information that is both thrilling and essential to understanding our needs and desires. And through non-fiction sex writing, you can learn about the issues that are shaping societies changing views of sex and sexuality—and the personalities who are driving that change. Please join three industry leaders Andrea Zanin, Carlyle Jansen and Jon …

Sex News / Sex News! I Love It!

Sex News! I love it! October 11, 2015

October 11, 2015October 9, 2015

Adult-Themed Pop-Up Books Find Humanity in Awkward, True Sexual Encounters (NSFW) Sexual activity causes physiological changes in the body that increase women’s chances of getting pregnant 9 Best Sites For Free Erotica, Because Porn Doesn’t Cut It For Some Of Us Sex Education Really Doesn’t Begin Or End In High School Has Erotica Become the Beige Granny Panties of Romance? We Gave Up Masturbation For A Month And It Completely Changed Us Sex Laws Gone Wild: The Most Shocking Sex Laws from America and Around the World This Is When You And Your Partner Will Have The Best Sex HALLOWEEN …

Sex City

My Next Sex City—Oct 13—Naked Heart LGBTQ Lit Fest!

October 8, 2015

My next Sex City is a special show devoted to Naked Heart—The LGBTQ Festival of Words! The outstanding new event will feature over 100 outstanding queer writers and thinkers over the weekend of October 16-18 at various venues in Toronto. Joining us will be one of the organizers and two participants! Lambda-awarding winning writer Jeffrey Round is one of the organizers of Naked Heart and he’ll tell us how this event came to be and about his workshop Pitch Perfect Debra Anderson is also an award-winning writer who will lead the workshop Hardcore Hearts exploring themes of queer love, loss, & …

Sex Community

My latest on Kinkly—Hanky Code 101!

October 6, 2015

I’ve long been fascinated by the Hanky Code (you can check out my re-imaging as nifty little lapel pins here), so it was a lot of fun to write about it for Kinkly! Check out this primer to an intricate sexual indication system, Hanky Code 101!

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Sex News! I love it! October 4, 2015

October 4, 2015

The Best Sex Tips You’ll Ever Hear — From a Man With No Penis OMFG Teach Your Kids Accurate Names for Body Parts Already Inside the Secret World of Arab Playboys This Just In: Men Watch Porn The Greatest Lamp Is A Butt Lamp That Turns On When You Spank It Can Porn Stars Have A Race-Based “Sexual Preference”? ‘The Muppets’ and sex: What you need to keep in mind On Loving a Bisexual Man Recognizing the Unique Challenges in the Bisexual Community The Sexual Challenge This Dominatrix Has For You I went undercover on Ashley Madison to find out …