Resources2018-09-03T17:31:51+00:00

resources

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…

On orgasms!

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