Hello All, On July 17 at 2:00 p.m., I'm appearing on a teleseminar produced by Evolver.net and realitysandwich.com.  It’s called an Evolver Intensive, and is titled "The Sexual Evolution: How to use advanced techniques of ecstasy to improve your love life and reach higher states of health and happiness."  I'll be interviewed by the fabulous Jamye Waxman, who Wired.com dubbed "the nexxxt generation of sex educator," and I'll be talking about what else?  the clitoris.  Go to this link to get details about the seminar and the other stellar participants, Candida Royale, Barbara Carrellas, and Patricia Taylor.

Here's the link for full information on the entire series:  http://www.evolverintensives.com/Evolver5.  There's a discount available to my friends.    Discount Coupon code:...

Dell Williams Honored at Swedish Sexuality Education Conference

At a conference on sexuality education in Sweden on November 26, Dell Williams, the founder of Eve’s Garden, told the story of how she decided to start the first-ever feminist sexuality boutique.  The three-day program over Thanksgiving included feminist professors and young scholars from Scandinavia, Europe, Africa and the U.S.    

Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender Studies at Linkoping University and conference director, is writing a book on feminist sexuality boutiques in Europe and thought it was important for Dell to talk about founding the Garden to underline the differences between the feminist model and mainstream sex toy shops.

In her presentation Lykke pointed out how shops founded on the Eve’s Garden model differ from mainstream shops that present themselves as merely “women-friendly.“  The mainstream shops include products that appeal to women but not much...

Grand Opening of the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health Censored by Pawtucket, RI Mayor in Response to Anonymous Email

By Rebecca Chalker, author of The Clitoral Truth and articles on sexuality and women’s health.

The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health, new non-profit educational organization focusing pleasure and sexual advocacy issues, was scheduled to hold its Grand Opening in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on Saturday, September 26. The Center’s Director is Megan Andelloux, a graduate of the University of Rhode Island (1997) and a Certified Sexuality Educator of the American Association of Sexuality Education, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and a Board Certified Sexologist by the American College of Sexologists.

Last week Andelloux, learned that the Pawtucket City Council had received an anonymous email “warning” about the Center’s opening and premier event. “I was then informed that without proper zoning and event licenses, I would be arrested if I held the event in Pawtucket,” she says. “Although I had landlord approval and the building is zoned for retail, business, entertainment, and office use, I was told that I had to get a special zoning application for ‘education’ and approval,” which typically takes up to two months. She had to scramble to find alternative space in which to hold the Grand Opening event and retained a...

Here is the link to my recent article on Alternet on female genital cosmetic surgery.

http://www.alternet.org/sex/141479/the_%27perfect%27_porn_vulva%3A_more_women_demanding_cosmetic_genital_surgery/

Please post or forward to anyone who might be interested.  Rebecca

This dynamic four week online siminar covers the following.  For more information and to sign up, go to www.clitoraltruth.com. 

Cells copulate in the primal stew, randy chimps make peace and love with sex, and corpulent Ice Age figurines tease,  titillate, and mystify.  Agriculture arises, the patriarchy evolves, but goddesses rule and sex is the central sacrament of early literate cultures.  The intensely masculinist Greeks institutionalize pederasty, imprison wives and daughters to assure paternity, both adore and abuse prostitutes, claim birth as a male attribute, and use sex as an instrument of domination.  The Hebrews blame women for sin, claim birth for men, and designate motherhood as the only appropriate role for women.  The early Christians debase the body, see pleasure as spiritually corrupting, and define sex as shameful.  The medieval church takes control of sexuality through confession and limits its legitimate pursuit to reproduction.  Nonetheless, sexuality flourishes outside of the Church’s reach in castles, brothels, and bathhouses. Enlightenment philosophers focus on sexual differences, declaring that women are disabled by menstruation and pregnancy, and deny them education.  Freud dismisses the clitoris as a child’s plaything, favoring the vagina as women’s sexual destiny. ...