It wasn’t easy being Green… Until… Now!

Join sex and relationship expert Reid Mihalko of ReidAboutSex.com as he moderates an amazing lineup of panelists (see below) to discuss EcoSex Practices!

Panel Title: EcoSex Practices
Time: 9:15-10:45 pm
Date: Saturday, June 18th
Location: All events will take place at the new Center for Sex and Culture (CSC) at 1349 Mission Street (between 9th and 10th), San Francisco, CA.
Panelists and Moderator Bios: Below

Read all about the Exosex Symposium II: SexEcology! HERE.

Panelists:

DR. JOSEPH KRAMER: Somatic sexologist Joseph Kramer is director of The New School of Erotic Touch, an online resource to support erotic practice. Joseph believes that most adult sex education classes are scams. Self-proclaimed sex teachers and erotic healers have been getting away with offering expensive spiritual hand jobs and communal group gropes for too long because of the incredible hunger for erotic embodiment in folks today. One of the benefits of this severe recession is that ineffective sex educators who don’t have a clue about how people actually learn sex are in economic crises. (Thank you, Darwin.)

Joseph Kramer trains professional Orgasmic Yoga Coaches and Sexological Bodyworkers. His specialty is somatic learning theory–how people learn sex. He teaches communal exploration trainings for embodied men so they can experience and learn how to benefit from erotic trance states using Taoist Erotic Massage. More information at www.eroticpractice.com and www.eroticmassage.com.

DR. SHARON MITCHELL: Dr. Sharon Mitchell spent 25 years in the Adult Entertainment Industry as an actress, appearing in over 2000 movies, as a dancer performing in venues all over the world, and she has produced and directed over 42 movies. Mitchell received her PH.D. in Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. California. She then went on to complete her residency in Los Angeles, California at the AIM Healthcare Foundation which she founded and directed for many years. Dr. Mitchell is currently taking time off to enjoy the pleasures and sensuality of gardening at home.

Dr. Sharon Mitchell will be presenting “The Ecstasy of Gardening” on the EcoSex Practices panel.

JENNIFER J. REED: Jennifer J. Reed is a doctoral student and instructor in sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She specializes in environment and health as well as sexuality and gender issues. Jennifer is the mother of three beautiful adult children – two born of her womb and one later of her heart – and recently witnessed the amazing birth of her first grandbaby. She worked as an erotic dancer for fifteen years while raising her children. Jennifer is certified in various energy healing techniques after facing her own personal health challenges. She helped found a successful alternative healing arts center for youth and families in Ohio which just expanded to Florida. Jennifer identifies as an ecosexual and is an avid social justice activist. She feels fascinated by how social issues that many take for granted today are actually “socially constructed” rather than “natural” in origin, meaning that they can indeed be changed!

Reed will present “Can the Ecosexual Movement Help to Reintegrate the Human-Environment Rift?” on the Theories of EcoSex Panel.

STEFANIE IRIS WEISS: Stefanie Iris Weiss, MA, is the author of nine books, including her most recent: Eco-Sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable (Crown Publishing/Ten Speed Press, 2010). The first book about ecosexuality, Eco-Sex explores the day-to-day realities of going green between the sheets, covering everything from green courtship to green sex toys. Stefanie has also written about the quarter-life crisis, women’s issues, dating and relationships, health and wellness, the divinatory arts, and more. Find her on the web: ecosex.net, facebook.com/Ecosex, and @EcoSexuality on Twitter.

Stefanie Weiss will present her work at the symposium via Skype just before the EcoSex Practices panel.

Panel moderator:

REID MIHALKO: Reid Mihalko of www.ReidAboutSex.com helps adults create more self-esteem, self-confidence and greater health in their relationships and sex lives, no matter what their self-expression of those happen to be.

From his rated-PG/PG-13 workshops (Cuddle Party, Speed-Flirting) to the rated-R (Iron Slut Sex Educator Showdown) to his explicit, NC-17 rated, Show-N-Tell sex education workshops (where audiences get to watch, take notes, and ask questions), Reid’s workshops have been attended by close to 30,000 individuals from myriad walks of life, orientations, relationship styles, countries and religions. Known for his charisma, wit and emphasis on integrity, Reid travels the country teaching, coaching, consulting and collaborating on fulfilling his mission: Create more self-esteem, self-confidence and health for adults in and out of the bedroom.

Reid has been a featured speaker at dozens of conferences on relationships and sexuality and is a sought-after presenter and teacher at colleges and sex positive stores across the country.

Reid has been a writer and producer on a number of films and television projects about sex and relationships, and appears regularly in the media. He has also appeared on the Emmy award-winning talk show Montel, Fox News, VH1’s Scott Baio is 45 and Single, Showtime’s Penn & Teller’s Bulls**t!, Canada’s The Sex Files and SexTV, and the short-lived Life & Style, on NPR, Sirius’ Maxim Radio and Cosmo Radio, and in Marie Claire, GQ, Details, People, Newsweek and The National Enquirer, as well as media across the globe in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.

Follow Reid twittering as @ReidAboutSex.

Attend the entire weekend…

Conference/Symposium Dates and Times: June 17-19th
Friday, June 17 • 7-9:30PM • Free
Saturday, June 18 • 10:30 AM to 10:45 PM
Sunday, June 19 • 10:00-1:30PM
SexEcology Website: sexecology.org
EcoSex Exhibit and Symposium Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101961759894177&ref=ts

SexEcology Conference hits SF’s G[reen]-spot!

An entire weekend ripe with art and education! Come see Reid moderate the EcoSex Practices Panel Saturday night!

About:

Our Ecosex Symposium II is a public forum where art meets theory meets practice meets activism. We are Elizabeth Stephens, a UCSC art professor and environmental activist and Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., a former feminist porn-star, and pioneering ecosexologist.We will kick off this weekend with the unveiling of our “Ecosex Manifesto,” visual art exhibit with new collages, our ecosex wedding videos and ephemera, new photographs, and a wall text of our ecosex manifesto. Our art projects aim to inspire more love and appreciation for our Earth and environment.

We will be presenting five panels each with a stellar moderator and four diverse presenters. Eocsexual theorist and author of seminal text, Gaia and the New Politics of Love, Serena Anderlini, Ph.D. is flying in from University of Puerto Rico to present the keynote, What is Ecosexual Love? A Guide to the Arts and Joys of Amorous Inclusiveness. Good Vibration’s resident sexologist, Carol Queen, Ph.D., will be discussing The Sexology of Ecosexuality. Dr. Robert Lawrence, Ph.D. will explore The Ecosex Body. Also presenting is Madison Young, the award winning queer porn movie producer, an artist, and head of the Femina Potens Gallery. She will cover the Greening of the Sex Industry. Tania Hammidi will do a dance about conflict in the Middle East, genocide and olive trees. There will be a special “ecosexi-love-a-licious vegan raw lunch” created by Becka Shertzer’s Brazennectar & Mister Cream. Other presenters are Dylan Bolles & Sasha Hom, Amy Champ, and the legendary porn actress Dr. Sharon Mitchell who will share about the Sensuality of Gardening. The author of the book Ecosex, Stephanie Iris Weiss will be skyping in from New York for a panel on ecosex practices. Joseph Kramer, Ph.D. will share his experiences with somatic eco-sexercises. There will also be an open forum for participants to share their work and thoughts. And more.

Who is invited? YOU, your communities, artists, academics, students, activists, theorists, curators, ecologists, environmentalists, sex workers, art patrons, witches, nature nymphs, country folk, city folk, herbalists, historians, pagans, scientists, media people, and others. The opening night is free. The entire symposium weekend is just $35. No one turned away for lack of funds. (For NOTAFLOF tickets, email bethandannie@sexecology.org for details and to get on list.)

A San Francisco Arts Commission cultural equity grant plus support from the Queer Cultural Center helps make all this possible.

We are very serious about ecosex as an environmental activist strategy, and we promise this is gonna be fun. Join us!

Reid’s Saturday night panel…

Panel Title: ExoSex Practices
Time: 9:15-10:45 pm
Date: Saturday, June 18th
Location: All events will take place at the new Center for Sex and Culture (CSC) at 1349 Mission Street (between 9th and 10th), San Francisco, CA.
Panelists and Moderator Bios: Below

Conference/Symposium Dates and Times: June 17-19th
Friday, June 17 • 7-9:30PM • Free
Saturday, June 18 • 10:30 AM to 10:45 PM
Sunday, June 19 • 10:00-1:30PM
SexEcology Website: sexecology.org
EcoSex Exhibit and Symposium Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101961759894177&ref=ts

Panelists:

DR. JOSEPH KRAMER: Somatic sexologist Joseph Kramer is director of The New School of Erotic Touch, an online resource to support erotic practice. Joseph believes that most adult sex education classes are scams. Self-proclaimed sex teachers and erotic healers have been getting away with offering expensive spiritual hand jobs and communal group gropes for too long because of the incredible hunger for erotic embodiment in folks today. One of the benefits of this severe recession is that ineffective sex educators who don’t have a clue about how people actually learn sex are in economic crises. (Thank you, Darwin.)

Joseph Kramer trains professional Orgasmic Yoga Coaches and Sexological Bodyworkers. His specialty is somatic learning theory–how people learn sex. He teaches communal exploration trainings for embodied men so they can experience and learn how to benefit from erotic trance states using Taoist Erotic Massage. More information at www.eroticpractice.com and www.eroticmassage.com.

DR. SHARON MITCHELL: Dr. Sharon Mitchell spent 25 years in the Adult Entertainment Industry as an actress, appearing in over 2000 movies, as a dancer performing in venues all over the world, and she has produced and directed over 42 movies. Mitchell received her PH.D. in Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. California. She then went on to complete her residency in Los Angeles, California at the AIM Healthcare Foundation which she founded and directed for many years. Dr. Mitchell is currently taking time off to enjoy the pleasures and sensuality of gardening at home.

Dr. Sharon Mitchell will be presenting “The Ecstasy of Gardening” on the EcoSex Practices panel.

JENNIFER J. REED: Jennifer J. Reed is a doctoral student and instructor in sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She specializes in environment and health as well as sexuality and gender issues. Jennifer is the mother of three beautiful adult children – two born of her womb and one later of her heart – and recently witnessed the amazing birth of her first grandbaby. She worked as an erotic dancer for fifteen years while raising her children. Jennifer is certified in various energy healing techniques after facing her own personal health challenges. She helped found a successful alternative healing arts center for youth and families in Ohio which just expanded to Florida. Jennifer identifies as an ecosexual and is an avid social justice activist. She feels fascinated by how social issues that many take for granted today are actually “socially constructed” rather than “natural” in origin, meaning that they can indeed be changed!

Reed will present “Can the Ecosexual Movement Help to Reintegrate the Human-Environment Rift?” on the Theories of EcoSex Panel.

STEFANIE IRIS WEISS: Stefanie Iris Weiss, MA, is the author of nine books, including her most recent: Eco-Sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable (Crown Publishing/Ten Speed Press, 2010). The first book about ecosexuality, Eco-Sex explores the day-to-day realities of going green between the sheets, covering everything from green courtship to green sex toys. Stefanie has also written about the quarter-life crisis, women’s issues, dating and relationships, health and wellness, the divinatory arts, and more. Find her on the web: ecosex.net, facebook.com/Ecosex, and @EcoSexuality on Twitter.

Stefanie Weiss will present her work at the symposium via Skype just before the EcoSex Practices panel.

Panel moderator:

REID MIHALKO: Reid Mihalko of www.ReidAboutSex.com helps adults create more self-esteem, self-confidence and greater health in their relationships and sex lives, no matter what their self-expression of those happen to be.

From his rated-PG/PG-13 workshops (Cuddle Party, Speed-Flirting) to the rated-R (Iron Slut Sex Educator Showdown) to his explicit, NC-17 rated, Show-N-Tell sex education workshops (where audiences get to watch, take notes, and ask questions), Reid’s workshops have been attended by close to 30,000 individuals from myriad walks of life, orientations, relationship styles, countries and religions. Known for his charisma, wit and emphasis on integrity, Reid travels the country teaching, coaching, consulting and collaborating on fulfilling his mission: Create more self-esteem, self-confidence and health for adults in and out of the bedroom.

Reid has been a featured speaker at dozens of conferences on relationships and sexuality and is a sought-after presenter and teacher at colleges and sex positive stores across the country.

Reid has been a writer and producer on a number of films and television projects about sex and relationships, and appears regularly in the media. He has also appeared on the Emmy award-winning talk show Montel, Fox News, VH1’s Scott Baio is 45 and Single, Showtime’s Penn & Teller’s Bulls**t!, Canada’s The Sex Files and SexTV, and the short-lived Life & Style, on NPR, Sirius’ Maxim Radio and Cosmo Radio, and in Marie Claire, GQ, Details, People, Newsweek and The National Enquirer, as well as media across the globe in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.

Follow Reid twittering as @ReidAboutSex.

If video killed the radio star, will the internet be the death of somatic sex education?

• How does someone go from almost becoming a Jesuit priest to getting a group of strangers naked, releasing their sexual shame and embracing pleasure as a communal experience?
• Ever wonder who started the idea that gay men could gather for intentional, heart-felt, genital massages that lasted for hours instead of furtive, bathhouse quickies?
• What’s the connection between hand jobs and finger banging and spirituality?
• If sex is healing, how and what does sex “heal,” and do I have to be a shaman to do it?
• What’s all this talk about trace states, withholding orgasm, and heavy breathing?
• Who’s responsible for all these Certified Sexological Bodyworkers we’ve been hearing so much about and what is it, exactly, that they do?

Curious? Well, scroll down and watch!

Joseph Krammer/Reid Mihalko interview pt 1 of 2 from ReidAboutSex on Vimeo.

Joseph Krammer/Reid Mihalko interview pt 1 of 2 from ReidAboutSex on Vimeo.

This candid evening with erotic massage pioneer and somatic sexological educator
Joseph Kramer PhD was recorded Wed, Feb 24th, 2010 at
San Francisco’s Center for Sex and Culture

Whether you’re a sex history geek with a desire to trace movements back to their source or you’re simply looking to expand your own erotic sense of self, stop wondering and eavesdrop in on this intimate, one-on-one conversation.

ABOUT JOSEPH KRAMER: Somatic sexologist Joseph Kramer is director of  The New School of Erotic Touch, an online resource to support erotic practice.  Joseph believes that most adult sex education classes are scams. Self-proclaimed sex teachers and erotic healers have been getting away with offering expensive spiritual hand jobs and communal group gropes for too long because of the incredible hunger for erotic embodiment in folks today.  One of the benefits of this severe recession is that ineffective sex educators who don’t have a clue about how people actually learn sex are in economic crises.  (Thank you, Darwin.)  Joseph Kramer trains professional Orgasmic Yoga Coaches and Sexological Bodyworkers.  His specialty is somatic learning theory–how people learn sex.  His next Bay Area training is a communal exploration for embodied men starting Feb 27,28 in how to benefit from erotic trance states using Taoist Erotic Massage.  More information at www.eroticpractice.com.

ABOUT REID: Reid Mihalko of www.ReidAboutSex.com helps people create more self-esteem and greater health in their relationship and sex lives, no matter what their self-expression of those happen to be.

Reid has worked with thousands of individuals from myriad walks of life, orientations, relationship styles, countries and religions. Known for his charisma, wit and emphasis on integrity, Reid travels the country teaching, coaching, consulting and collaborating. He has been a writer and producer on a number of films and television projects about sex and relationships, and appears regularly in the media.

Reid has been a featured speaker at dozens of conferences on relationships and sexuality. He has also appeared on the Emmy award-winning talk show Montel, Fox News, VH1’s Scott Baio is 45 and Single, Showtime’s Penn & Teller’s Bulls**t!, Canada’s The Sex Files and SexTV, and the short-lived Life & Style, on NPR, Sirius’ Maxim Radio and Cosmo Radio, and in Marie Claire, GQ, Details, People, Newsweek and The National Enquirer, as well as media across the globe in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.