Erika Lust is the founder of the groundbreaking ethical porn company Erika Lust films. Erika and her husband Pablo, are founders of The Porn Conversation, a company that provides guides for educators and parents to discuss and teach porn literacy to kids, speak here about how they discuss their work with their children; what ethical porn is; and how porn viewers can make better choices about what porn they consume.
Read MoreThe Sex Ed explores sex, health, and consciousness in the digital age. Liz Goldwyn leads a sex positive discussion with adult film star and author Nina Hartley and burlesque queen and author Dita Von Teese. Both prominent figures in their respective fields, each have helped demystify the fetish world for wider audiences and open up healthy conversations around sexuality
Read MoreFounder Liz Goldwyn sits down with Girlboss and journalist Tierney Finster to talk about sex, health and consciousness.
Read MoreWriter, filmmaker and founder of The Sex Ed, Liz Goldwyn, hosts an evening of conversation with Dr. Kate Lister, owner of Whores of Yore–a living archive of sexual history, and sexual anthropologist Betony Vernon, as they gather with guests to discuss erotic dress and accessories.
Read MoreWatch Liz Goldwyn, writer, filmmaker and founder of The Sex Ed as she hosts a discussion with artist Genevieve Gaignard and curator Essence Harden at the inaugural Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles. Presented by MatchesFashion.com.
Read MoreHow can we celebrate sex in ways that emancipate our desire from feelings of shame? Can pleasure, power and porn be redefined as a means to teach us about sex and connection?
Watch filmmaker and founder of The Sex Ed, Liz Goldwyn, in conversation with award-winning, international indie adult filmmaker, Erika Lust, moderated by journalist and editor Danielle Kwateng-Clark.
The trio address the responsibility of representing female sexuality across creative mediums, while reframing the dialogue around pornography and gender equality.
Read MoreWe are elevating our consciousnesses by connecting to Mother Earth. In this essay, Lei Wann, Director of Limahuli Garden and Preserve on the island of Kauai in Hawaii—one of the five National Tropical Botanical Gardens in the world—helps us honor our connection to the Earth and explore the mythology of nature and sexuality.
Read MoreWhen speaking about reproductive issues, it’s unnecessarily exclusive to always say “pregnant women” and never say “pregnant people.” It’s not just women that are affected by these policies.
Read MoreSex launched my journalism career (in a good way!) Although I earn a majority of my living writing about sex, and do so all the time, I’ve hardly ever written about my own sex life. The last time I read something I wrote about my own sex life aloud was in the 11th grade when I read a spoken word poem about all the Smirnoff-scented oral sex I had performed the semester before for a huge assembly of students and staff.
Read MoreMy first real job was as a paid intern for Planned Parenthood. I was 13 and hadn’t gone “all the way.” I was working in the office at the Santa Monica clinic in Los Angeles in the thick of STD testing with anti-abortionists picketing outside—plunged into the deep end of my “professional” sex education.
Read MoreHaving multiple orgasms, stop faking orgasms, and solutions for difficulty with orgasming.