On this episode of the Asking for a Friend podcast, host Dr. Laura McGuire chats with sex educator, influencer, and content creator Jacob P. Kelley about queerness and sex education in rural America, their experiences in entrepreneurship, HIV outreach and prevention, and fighting stigma.…
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AFAF 7: Kink, Non-Monogamy, and Consent with Susan Wright
Posted on February 1, 2022On the season two premiere of the Asking for a Friend podcast, host Dr. Laura McGuire sits down with Susan Wright, executive director for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, to discuss defining kink and consent, eliminating fears around our sexual fantasies, and the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon.…
AFAF 6: Teaching Sexuality Education to Future Hispanic and Latinx Generations with Agnes Jimenez
Posted on August 11, 2021On the season one finale of the Asking for a Friend podcast, host Dr. Laura McGuire sits down with Agnes Jimenez, sexuality educator, doula, and Marine Corps veteran, to discuss her experiences growing up as a Puerto Rican lesbian in the military, how she found her calling as a sex educator, and how she’s actively fighting the generational stigma around sex and sexuality within Hispanic and Latinx communities. Agnes Jimenez (she/her) is a sexuality educator, is of Taina Afro-Caribbean descent,…
AFAF 2: Fat Sexuality with Hilary Wermers
Posted on April 13, 2021In this month's episode of the Asking for a Friend podcast, host Dr. Laura McGuire chats with sex educator Hilary Wermers about fatness, queer sexuality, finding pleasure, and the debate between body positivity and body neutrality.…
Skin Hunger: Navigating Disabled Sexuality in Quarantine
Posted on December 11, 2020By Jaxson Benjamin Author’s Note: This article space centers disabled sexuality because, for the most part, we are left out of the conversation. The narratives around disability and sexuality frequently regard us as partial, lacking in sexuality, or not whole people. Rewriting sexual scripts around disability means centering the lived experiences of people with disabilities. Does that mean that you if you don’t identify as disabled that you aren’t welcome here? You are very welcome, whether you live with a…
To Cecil: The Power of Being Out in the Classroom
Posted on August 8, 2018I went to college at UNC-Chapel Hill in the early 1990s. To my recollection, only one of the professors I knew was ever “out” in the classroom—we’ll call him “Cecil.” He and a woman colleague co-taught “Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World,” and I confess, I enrolled mostly because it had “gender and sexuality” in the course title. I wasn’t alone, either. A clump of us queer kids sat in the front row of that auditorium, eager to learn…
No, I’m Not Sleeping with Your Bisexual Boyfriend
Posted on September 20, 2017The last time Dan and I had spoken seriously was during our road trip out West where we spent three summer weeks crisscrossing national parks and mountain towns. The journey was our Americana rite of passage, as well as my graduation trip—Dan still had two years left to go, but I had finished undergrad just two months prior. Over a thousand miles away from home in Houston, we buried—or so we thought then—the rumors about each other’s sexuality, particularly mine.…