Earlier this week, Debby Herbenick (sex educator and researcher extraordinaire) emailed me and the MySexProfessor team about her amazing new tumblr project: MakeSexNormal.tumblr.com. She wrote: “It kept hitting me that sex is so compartmentalized that it makes it tough to talk about sex in the regular everyday ways we talk about driver’s safety, hand washing, love, and other issues related to health and humanity. A phrase kept...

What, or who is a Sex Geek? And what is ‘Sex Geekdom’? Before the term entered my vocabulary, I probably would have thought a sex geek was someone who knows things like the exact time code of each sex scene in the Alien Triology. Or perhaps someone who submitted a lot of Being Human erotica to sites like fanfiction.net. The thing that’s great about Sex Geekdom is that I might not have been entirely wrong – I just might...

Here’s a selection of photos from last Friday’s Sex Geekdom Saturnalia Party. Special thanks to: Ultrahedonist and Karyn for the excellent decor, baked goods, and general party planning Stephen for generously hosting a bunch of sex geeks in his home Louise and D.Vice for providing sexy party bags and the raffle prize To all our guests for taking the time to celebrate with us! Enjoying a drink in the garden Alaina, the...

Back in the day, before Sex Geeks or Christmas had even been invented, there was Saturnalia: the Roman festival honouring the deity Saturn. Because Saturn was a god of agriculture, Saturnalia-style partying was meant to evoke a primitive past of social equality, where people didn’t work, but lived spontaneously and directly off the land. The way the ancients did it, Saturnalia involved the temporary overturning of everyday social norms: drab...

Here’s my dream: Sex Geekdom branches all over the world so that wherever sex geeks might move or travel, they always have a community of like-minded folks with whom to connect, laugh, and celebrate. If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, read on! A friend of mine I know from my early peer education days recently asked me about starting a Sex Geekdom branch in New York City and asked if I could help her. I said, “Of course...