Education, Updates
I Read a Thing Podcast – Gwyneth Paltrow, Yoni Destroyer
Let’s talk about vag-steaming and the lack of sexual-health knowledge that Gwyneth Paltrow exhibits despite her quest to peddle “sexual-wellness” products. I join Emma and Jolie for a fun episode on I Read a Thing Podcast. Read More
Education, Updates
How to Sext Properly – VICE
Let’s play a love game – one where you tell me exactly how you want your junk caressed after quarantine. Sexting is flirtation at its peak. Our faces hidden and our deepest perversions unveiled, we’re both dressed and undressed simultaneously. Just as other senses can be heightened when one is restricted, sexting excites our… Read More
Education, Updates
The Wrong Fight: How New Sex Trafficking Laws are Threatening Sex Education and Therapy – Webinar
The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) bills were passed in April 2018 and were purported to be an attempt to decrease sex trafficking. But it didn’t. Learn why. This one-hour webinar is available for purchase on InstituteforSexuality.com Did you know that your ability to provide… Read More
Articles, Education
Since the COVID 19 crisis started, my sex drive has been so low
Q: Since the COVID 19 crisis started, my sex drive has been so low. I want the connection but I don’t have the libido I did. How can my partner and I find intimacy and sexual connection when I just don’t want to have sex like I used to? A: Stress is one of the biggest… Read More
Updates
Oh Joy Sex Toy – Lucky Devil Eats
Sex education cartoonist Erika Moen is a friend of Strange Bedfellows podcast AND a patron of the Portland area strip clubs. Read Erika’s review of the world-famous Boober Eats Drive Thru Tent, featuring myself, Toxic and some of your other faves from Lucky Devil Lounge (pre-pandemic!). Read More
Interviews, Updates
For Portland Sex Worker Elle Stanger, Being Stuck at Home Means Balancing Porn With Parenting – WW
WW presents “Distant Voices,” a daily video interview for the era of social distancing. Our reporters are asking Portlanders what they’re doing during quarantine. Elle Stanger is a stripper, sex worker, educator, writer and podcaster. She is also a mother to an 8-year-old daughter. And as far as she’s concerned, none of those titles are… Read More
Articles
I’m A Parent Making Porn To Make Ends Meet During Covid Quarantine
For some of us, porn-making and digital work are our only real option to provide for our families right now. I have been a stripper for the last 11 years, one who merely dabbled in webcam and porn-making ― until, that is, coronavirus quarantines and shutdowns closed Oregon clubs as of March 16, eliminating… Read More
Articles
Support Your Local Sex Worker
In the midst of this COVID pandemic and worldwide lockdowns, more of us are staying home and keeping company with our cells, laptops, and tv screens. Which means more porn watching and digital hookups. In this springtime of social distancing, even mainstream media sex-education experts began recommending folks to masturbate and engage in online and… Read More
Blog
When “Chivalry” is a Mask for Coercion
Standing outside a downtown bar and a gal beside me shivers and a man offers his coat and she says: “No, thank you” but he’s disregarding her No, and so she says it five more times in various polite ways. And he’s insisting because “chivalry” and he’s taking it off and taking steps closer as… Read More
Articles
On Partners Who Dislike Sex Work
As a longtime public stripper, I often receive contact from other women in the adult industries who are navigating dating and sex work and experiencing jealousy from their partners. What follows is two examples of folks who recently wrote to me and feeling unsupported and invalidated by their boyfriends. Question 1) My boyfriend went to… Read More
