Feature: This Sex Educator Offers a Purity Culture Dropout Program

Feature: Sexuality Professionals Series: An Interview with Erica Smith

Articles I’ve written:

• Bend and Snap: Sexuality and Gender Identity

• The Keystone State’s Next Generation of Queer Leaders

• Speak Up: Identifying Rape Culture in Everyday Conversation

• Creating Welcoming Gym Environments for Trans and Gender Nonconforming Athletes

• A Clear Understanding of Consent, in Sexual Situations and Beyond

• Gender 101 and How to Be An Ally

• Why Not Having Children is a Valid and Healthy Choice

• Reconnecting With Your Sexuality After Sexual Assault

• I Don’t Regret Believing Jussie Smollett. Here’s Why.

• Sex Should Feel Good: A Pleasure-Positive Guide for Teens

• What Do Teens Want to Know? FAQs from Teens, Part 1 – Am I Normal?

• What Do Teens Want to Know? FAQs from Teens, Part 2 – Who Am I and What Should I Do?

Articles that feature me:

• Don’t Blame Oral Sex: This is the Real Culprit Behind HPV-Related Cancers

• Teenagers Having Sex Isn’t Inherently Bad or Harmful - Here’s Why

• What Men Can Do in a Post-Roe America

• 9 Experts Share their Thoughts & Tips on Sex & Dating in the Era of the Pandemic

• What is Asexuality?

• Does Size Matter? Dispelling the Cultural Myth that is Bigger is Better

• How to Masturbate (and learn more about yourself while you’re at it)

• Under the Covers: A Roundtable Chat About Sex When You’re Chronic

• We Need to Clear Up TikTok’s Misunderstandings About Touch-Me Nots

• 16 Ways to Make Your Masturbation Routine Even Hotter

• Why Foot Fetishes are so Common and How to Explore Your Sexual Interests with a Partner

• Simply Put, The Practice of ‘Virginity Testing’ is Unethical

• Become a Oral Sex Pro with these 25 Expert Tips

• War on Sex Ed: 5 Ways to Have Safer Sex for National Pubic Health Week

• How To Be The Kind of Parent Your Teen Feels Comfortable Talking To About Sex

• God Wants You to Be Thin (and Other Lies the Evangelical Church Taught Me)

• What Does It Actually Mean to be Sex Positive?

• How to Enjoy Masturbation More

• 6 Signs You Might Have Sexual Shame, and How to Overcome It

• When You’re Queer, What Does it Mean to Lose Your Virginity?

• Pen15 Gets Real About Vagina Shaming

• Why Some People Are Into Period Sex

• Can Masturbating Really Boost Your Immune System?

• Sex Industry Professionals Are Being Denied COVID-19 Relief Funds

• What is Coronalingus?

• How to Talk Dirty Without Feeling Fake

• How to Reeducate Yourself About Sex & Pleasure As An Adult

• Attn: You Can Be A Bisexual Dyke

• The Best Sex Toys to Help You Masturbate

• How to Talk Back to Locker Room Talk

• We need to support transgender youth in distress

• 11 Things You Learned About Your Vulva That Were Totally Wrong

• Tips for Finding a Healthcare Provider Who’s an LGBTQ+ Ally

• Sex In The Water: The Complete Guide

• Should You Swallow Semen? Here’s the Truth

• Sex Education in Schools: Here's What Your Kid Is Learning

• 15 Best Sex Education Books and Resources for Kids by Age

• Some People Are Choking Their Partners During Sex — Without Asking First

• Why Are Rainbows A Symbol Of LGBTQ Pride? Everything You Need To Know About The Rainbow Flag

• Can Men Sharing Their Experiences With Abortion Make It A Better Experience For Everyone?

• The Evolution of a Bisexual: My Road to Embracing Sexual Fluidity

• The Teen Sex Recession Is a Myth

• Bullies Targeted Me For Being Bisexual - Here's What I Wish I Knew Then

• What To Do When a Tween Comes Out as Gay

• You Need an STD Test. Now You Can Get a Massage With It Too.

• Why Are Some People with Vaginas Scared to Finger Themselves?

• Ian Somerhalder Learned About Sex By Spying On His Brother — Here's What This Says About Our Sex Ed

• How to Stay Safe While Dating and Hooking up on Vacation

• The rise of sex education on Instagram

Podcast Interviews:

• This is (Not) About Your Body - on sex education for folks leaving highly controlling religious scenarios. This episode deals with purity culture and its impact.

• Kids or Child Free - how conservative religious values influence and enforce broader societal ideas about gender, sexuality, and the importance of having children. The episode also talks about Erica's choice to be childfree and the joyful life she has built without kids. 

• Your Therapist Needs Therapy - about how growing up in purity culture is harmful, how the religious right is hypocritical, and why comprehensive sex ed is so important.

• The Divorcing Religion Podcast - sharing some of the experiences that helped me see the need for programs tailored to those recovering from Christianity and purity culture indoctrination.

• Thereafter - on sex education and The Purity Culture Dropout.

• Nights at the Round Table Part 1 and Nights at the Round Table Part 2 - on the negative effects that purity culture has on our sexual liberation. In the name of religion and what we've been taught by societal norms, have we lost the beauty and innocence of the Godly sexual experience?

• Sunday School Dropouts - about sex, comprehensive sex education and resources if you’re needing some remedial sex education after abstinence only or purity culture “sex education”.

• Good Girls Get Divorced - on purity culture and sex education (the sex education you never got!).

• Men, Sex & Pleasure with Cam Fraser - on purity culture and sex education, religious beliefs and anti-pornography, SWERFs and Christian extremists, and porn literacy

• The Bible for Normal People - on the harmful effects of purity culture and empowering adults who want to create a new sexual ethic for themselves.

• The Divorcing Religion Podcast - on the need for programs tailored to those recovering from Christianity and purity culture indoctrination.

• IT’S FINE. with Rachel Varkey - on the common blockers to having healthy sex and debunking common misconceptions from purity culture.

• Let It Matter - on defining sexual values and ethics for ourselves and the Five Circles of Sexuality.

• Appodlachia - on sex and purity culture.

• Cults, Magic & Misinformation - purity culture and "hysteria" as a sexist disease.

• Cult of Christianity - on sex and purity culture within the Christian faith.

• Sexy Biz Babe - on sex education or lack thereof, sex education for kids, purity culture, masturbation and sex addiction, abortion and women’s empowerment.

• Where Do We Go From Here? - on why sex education is more than preventing negative health outcomes, masturbation, sex toys and sex shops.

• Pastor With No Answers - on female sexuality, sexual behavior, casual sex and hook-ups, porn, sado masochism and much more.

• Cheers to Leaving! - on porn and porn addiction.

• The Manwhore Podcast: Sex-Positive Conversations - on slut-positive feminism.

• The Unity Project - on feminism, queerness, being a riot girl, and proper sex education.

• Sex Party with Dustin - the dangers of purity culture, what it feels to free people from it, changing Penn State University with the Sex Fair, and how racism changed abortion views.

• Mary’s Cup of Tea - on abortion, purity culture, and how to talk to people about sex.

• Birth Story - on sex, sexuality, sex in pregnancy and postpartum, initiating after babies, and how to talk to your kids about sex.

• Asking For Myself - on purity culture, religion, and sexuality.

• Pastor With No Answers - on human sexuality, the benefits of regular masturbation and the conundrum between valuing feminine freedom and power, while hating their objectification.

• Honeydew Me - on what purity culture is, how it impacts our sex lives, and concrete steps for quitting.

• Bad in Bed - on the adverse effects of growing up with purity culture, how it specifically effects queer people, as well as advice on how to identify and unlearn its harmful messaging.

• Profane Faith - on sex and sex education

• Happily Together - on why we’re so afraid to talk about sex, the purity movement and purity culture, porn and sexual education.

• Sex Ed with Tim - on disrupting what you believe sex should and shouldn't be, and purity culture.

• Health: It’s Personal - on sexual health, sexuality and how purity culture impacts all of us every day.

• Woman Being - on porn and purity culture

• A Tiny Revolution - on purity culture and how we can all heal from our sexual shame shit.

• Waking Parent - on choosing or not choosing parenthood

• ShrinkChicks - on reecovering from the effects of purity culture, dress codes in schools, abstinence only sex education and how abortion became a central part of American politics.

• Deconstruct - on rewriting your Purity Culture History

• Unchurchable Podcast- Navigating sex and reclaiming sexuality post purity culture

• After Adult- on purity culture, navigating sexual health, sexual shame, porn as sex ed, and the state of sex education in schools.

• Thanks, It’s the Trauma- on masturbation, sex after 40, purity culture, "sex addiction," sex education, pornography, fatphobia, gender and sexuality.

• Conjuring up Courage (formerly Redefining Health and Wellness) with Shohreh Davoodi - on sexuality myths, purity culture, and healing

• Conjuring Up Courage with Shohreh Davoodi- Pride Panel 2020

• She Thrives Radio - on healing from purity culture and how it relates to diet culture

• God is Grey- on the five circles of sexuality, and abortion among Christians

• Parenting Forward with Cindy Wang Brandt- on parenting after purity culture

• For Your TMI- on queer sex education and having a hysterectomy

• Queer Ambition- answering sex questions

• Self Love Beauty- on the importance of pleasure in self-care

Other:

Interview with Dr. Carol Bernstein on Sirius XM’s Doctor Radio (no link or download available)