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It takes a village {of vibrators} to raise a pleasure-positive sex writer & educator. My workshops & writing would be nothing without these educators, writers, publications, and sex toy creators & vendors donating their time, creativity, sex toy floor models, space & listening ears to the better-sex cause. Please continue the cycle by supporting them!
learn.
HEY EPIPHORA. The snarkiest & most reliable of sex toy reviewers. Also the woman behind the creation of this here website.
TRISTAN TAORMINO. Her book Opening Up is Yana’s all-time favorite and her relational bible. Yana wants to be Tristan.
CHARLIE GLICKMAN. His book The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure is promoted & referenced at many-a-workshop taught by Yana. Charlie also trained Yana in all things sex toys and anatomy when she was just a baby-sex-educator at Good Vibrations in 2008.
CAROL QUEEN. The reason Yana travelled to San Francisco. To intern at Carol’s Center for Sex & Culture. Carol’s progressive sex educational programming & attitude blew Yana’s mind. Carol connected her to Good Vibrations and her love of sex education and the rest is history.
read.
THE VALLEY ADVOCATE. The V-Spot & Yana’s writing career simply would not exist without The Valley’s favorite alternative news & arts weekly.
CURVE MAGAZINE. The nation’s best-selling lesbian magazine & regular publisher of Yana’s lesbian/queer sex writing.
THE TOAST. Feminism & humor site. Publishers of Yana’s favorite article she’s written to date, Clopen Relationships.
AUTOSTRADDLE. Girl-on-girl culture experts!
HEY EPIPHORA. Where sex toys go to be judged.
THE SEX LETTERS PROJECT. A blog of real letters written by ordinary people discussing what they wish they knew about sex when they were teenagers. Accepting submissions from YOU!
VVATTHEFUCK.TUMBLR.COM. Outright, inclusive sex advice from a queer femme sex educator.
THE JADED MATRON. A blunt & unimpressed trans woman writing about sex.
BOOKS ON MY BEDSIDE TABLE
On polyamory & open relationships…
- OPENING UP by Tristan Taormino
- MORE THAN TWO by Franklin Veaux & Eve Rickert
On orgasms!
- COME AS YOU ARE by Emily Nagoski
- THE SECRETS OF GREAT G-SPOT ORGASMS & FEMALE EJACULATION by Tristan Taormino
OH MY SENSUALITY SHOP. Northampton, Ma. | A female-friendly sex toy shop where 18-year-old Yana bought her first dildo EVER.
Now Yana’s main cheerleading squad, nearly all of the sex toy floor models Yana teaches with come from Oh My’s selection & their comfortable, open shop is Yana’s main workshop space.
(Also, the ONLY place Yana buys lube in The Valley).
SHE BOP. Portland, Or. | A female-friendly sex toy boutique for every body. Yana worked here!
THE PROGRESSIVE PLEASURE CLUB. | A club of brick-and-mortar, queer- and woman-owned sex toy shops selling carefully curated selections of safe & quality sex products.
GOOD VIBRATIONS. San Francisco, CA. | The groundbreaking sex toy store to start all female-friendly sex toy stores. Yana’s first ever sex toy selling gig