I was too embarrassed to walk into the store

I was too embarrassed to walk into the store

Even as a health educator, buying my first toy felt impossible. At age 20, I became a sexual health peer educator at Lehigh University, about 80 minutes from where I grew up in Pennsylvania. The program was run through the health and counseling center, and we were trained to go into dorms and classes to teach and facilitate conversations about safer sex. I started in the fall of 1993, when the focus was on something called Outercourse…

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Give Yourself a Hand …Being Vulnerable for National Masturbation Month

Give Yourself a Hand …Being Vulnerable for National Masturbation Month

May is National Masturbation Month! However, back in March, I had the opportunity to deliver a talk on masturbation at San Diego State University. The event was organized by the Student for Public Health club and was open to any student interested, although we had to limit attendance to 100 students because we had 100 free vibrators to distribute to the attendees!

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(Trying to) Feel Sexy Again at 48 - New Personal Podcast

(Trying to) Feel Sexy Again at 48 - New Personal Podcast

I am a sociologist and sex expert. And last August, as a single woman at age 48, I realized I had lost my mojo. So I challenged myself to try to find my sexiness again (or reinvent it?!). I recorded my thoughts and happenings over a 7-day time period…and turned it into this vulnerable, raw, and humorous story-telling podcast

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Diddle Diddle Little Clit

Diddle Diddle Little Clit

This is an ode to personal sexual pleasure and when a female finds and appreciates her clitoris for the first time! AND...this is what you get after Dr. Jenn spends 10+ weeks of sheltering-in-place alone, with only 7 weeks of ever playing a ukulele!

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Guided Meditative & Mindful Masturbation Video for Women - with Erika Lust Films

Guided Meditative & Mindful Masturbation Video for Women - with Erika Lust Films

I was thrilled to be asked by Erika Lust Films, a feminist visual erotica company out of Barcelona, to create a video version of my Meditative & Mindful Masturbation for Women guided session. And since May is National Masturbation Month, I’m part of their focus on a month of self-pleasuring activities and education.

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