Consider This Talk: Chosen Family & Alternative Kinship with Dr. Eli Shef

Dr. Elisabeth Sheff is one of the nation’s leading experts on sex, gender, relationships, and sexual minorities; and is the foremost U.S. academic expert on polyamory, and the personal, legal, and health issues regarding polyamorous families. In her talk on the Curious Fox Consider This stage, she shares a brief history of the “traditional family” and explains why this ideal is an outdated illusion. 

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Consider This 2018: Screwing With Creative Boundaries with Midori
Consider This 2018: Screwing With Creative Boundaries with Midori

Why do we stop playing when we “grow up”? Can we introduce the curiosity, imagination, and fun of play into our sexual relationships? How can we incorporate some of the thrill, danger, and excitement of games like tag and hide & seek into our kink lives?

Curious Fox Presents: Crafting Your Path with Jacqueline Misla
Curious Fox Presents: Crafting Your Path with Jacqueline Misla

Design the map for your unique path. None of us came with an instruction manual. The path to happiness is not clear or easy. But what if there was a framework for personal discovery and growth? What if you could plot the course from where you are in your life to where you want to be? What if you could design a map to craft your unique path in life and love? Join us as we explore the pathway to tapping into our needs and desires, identifying the barriers that get in the way, and building relationships and lives that are uniquely designed around our individual needs.

Curious Fox Presents: Monsters and Shadows with Midori
Curious Fox Presents: Monsters and Shadows with Midori

Part workshop, part deep dive, part storytelling from Midori. You can create your own masks of power and desire. Engage in this challenging conversation as Midori shares strategies of creating and exploring erotic fantasies that could thrill you gloriously. Be brave, take the challenge and try the exercises – it won't be comfortable but it'll be fun.

Consider This 2019: Porn Panel
Consider This 2019: Porn Panel

Thomas Whitfield, Mahx Capacity and Alison Falk discusses about porn.

Consider This Talk: Chosen Family & Alternative Kinship with Dr. Eli Shef
Consider This Talk: Chosen Family & Alternative Kinship with Dr. Eli Shef

Dr. Elisabeth Sheff is one of the nation’s leading experts on sex, gender, relationships, and sexual minorities; and is the foremost U.S. academic expert on polyamory, and the personal, legal, and health issues regarding polyamorous families. In her talk on the Curious Fox Consider This stage, she shares a brief history of the “traditional family” and explains why this ideal is an outdated illusion.

Consider This Panel: Toxic Masculinity
Consider This Panel: Toxic Masculinity

What is toxic masculinity and what can we do about it? To watch the whole panel by Akil Apollo Davis, Bex Caputo, Gethin Aldous and dozens more like it, support us on Patreon!

Consider This Panel: Censorship
Consider This Panel: Censorship

If sex is used to sell everything, why is it censored as a topic of conversation?

Workshop: Pleasure Mastery & Erotic Blueprints™ with Jessie Fresh
Workshop: Pleasure Mastery & Erotic Blueprints™ with Jessie Fresh

What is your Erotic Blueprint™ is? There are 5 types, which are a unique map to your arousal: Energetic, Sensual, Sexual, Kinky, & Shapeshifter. Each blueprint has very specific turn-ons, turn-offs, superpowers and challenges.

Workshop: Set Up Your Non-Traditional Family for Success with Diana Adams
Workshop: Set Up Your Non-Traditional Family for Success with Diana Adams

What legal options do we have for setting up your own non-nuclear family structure? Internationally-renowned attorney for LGBTQIA, polyamorous, and non-nuclear families Diana Adams facilitated a workshop on legal options for polyamorous or multi-parent families, platonic co-parents, sharing a household and finances beyond a married dyad, Assisted Reproductive Technology, options for unmarried couples, and methods to create intentional unconventional marriages.

Workshop: Emotional Intelligence as Erotic Wisdom with Shadeen Francis
Workshop: Emotional Intelligence as Erotic Wisdom with Shadeen Francis

Erotic wisdom is the inner knowledge we all possess about our sexual desires, our sensuality, and our capacity for romance and love. While the dominant narrative around eroticism is that it requires mystery, it is also true that it is fueled by a deep understanding of our emotional inner world in order to lead us to pleasure.

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