Sex Tips to Stay Green with Stefanie Iris Weiss

Thursday, April 19th, 2012, at 7 pm

Babeland SOHO
43 Mercer Street
New York, 10013

Occupy Your Sexuality

Thursdays at Noon in Liberty Square

It’s 2012, and some want to revert our culture back to the 1950s (or maybe even the 12th century). The anti-women, anti-choice, and anti-sex forces are coalescing to take away our rights to occupy our own bodies. In response to this onslaught of hate, fear, repression, and misogyny, Occupy Your Sexuality, in concert with COOLS (Cultural Occupation of Liberty Square) will offer a series of facilitated talks and workshops for those that want to fight back against the war on women. We’ll empower ourselves with copious amounts of pleasure, creativity, and all out FUN. The personal has never been more political: the American Spring will wake up not just our minds, but our bodies and libidos.

M15: Occupy Your Sexuality: How should Occupy defend reproductive rights and the the right-wing assault on women’s sexual freedom? Come to a brainstorming session that will unleash the creative power of the Occupy movement to address one of the most pressing problems of our current moment. (This is opening day for Occupy Your Sexuality, an ongoing OWS workshop in Liberty Square every Thursday.)

Facilitated by Stefanie Iris Weiss, author of Eco-Sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable (Crown Publishing/Ten Speed Press, 2010). A Huffington Post blogger, author of nine books, teacher and lover of Occupy, Stefanie is helping to curate the Occupy Your Sexuality sessions. Follow her on Twitter at @ecosexuality. For more info, visit ecosex.net.

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oin GatherGreen subscribers and a team of sustainable loving experts. A host of speakers will educate and enlighten you. Stefanie Iris Weiss, author of “Eco-Sex” comes from New York to speak to us about the many facets of going green between the sheets. You will be delighted, inspired and educated about how to make your love life more sustainable.

Receive a copy of Stefanie’s book “Eco Sex”. Receive a month supply bottle of Hot Rawks, an organic herbal superfood injected Aphrodisiac supplement designed to enhance your sex life. Learn partner massage techniques , and about aphrodisiac herbs from TheShaman Shack. Even get your own custom blend. Hear from“Vanishing of the Bees” director Maryam Henein about the birds and the bees of eco sex. How to create your own Pusanga or “Love Potion” from the Amazon. Vegan aphrodisiac recipe demo by Just ‘N the Raw. Raw Vegan Aphrodisiac Chocolates by Gaia Alchemy available for purchase. Food also available for purchase. Peruse GatherGreen approved merchants like Izabella Miko, offering sustainable loving oriented products. Read More…

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Tar Sands Action/ Josh Fox from JFOX on Vimeo.

Read the interview here.

We all sext. Susan Lipkin’s research shows that people from their teens to their seventies are sending provocative photos and other titillating texts to consenting partners old and new. Single people do it, married people do it (with their actual spouses), and yes, adulterers do it. It’s just 21st century flirting, and for all its drawbacks, it brings the rush of endorphins that we crave before or after a tryst. (For teens, it’s another story.) Our online intimacies certainly have major implications for the way we relate one-to-one with other human beings. But for adults, it’s not scandalous, it just is.

Yes, Weiner is incredibly stupid for risking his career on this. Men in powerful positions tend to think they can get away with anything (see Vitter, Ensign, Edwards, Spitzer, Larry “Wide-stance” Craig, Foley, etc.) But let’s peek between the sheets and see if something else is at play here. Our culture is at once the most sexually repressed and hyper-sexualized nation on Earth. This entrenched Puritan ethos is so prevalent that most of us are running 18th century software in our brains when it comes to sexual mores. We may be revealing more in public, showing more T & A on the teevee, but it seems that the guilt gene is still in charge of our reactions to naked body parts and perceived perversions. It’s still not okay to be gay. People regularly refer to sex workers as “hookers” (even some feminists I know do this.) It’s 2011, and our collective sexual maturity is at the level of a twelve-year-old boy. And it seems to be getting worse, not better.

This incident and the many that have come before speak to our obsession with the power of the penis. Maybe now that we’ve seen Weiner’s weiner up close and personal, we can grow up and get over it. Penises are nice, necessary, and serve a variety of functions. But they shouldn’t run men’s lives, nor should they by extension run our media. Imagine if women’s orgasms were paid this kind of attention? (My theory: we wouldn’t have waged wars of choice twice in one decade if the clitoris got half as much attention as the penis does.)

Hypocrisy and sexual repression are, apparently, a heady, irresistible mix to the media. The afternoon that Weiner’s surreal press conference hit the airwaves (shown on every local channel in NYC, not just the 24 hour cable networks), we should have been talking about the five soldiers who died that morning in Iraq or the state of the economy.

Weiner has been a real hero on the left. Despite his recent, extremely moronic behavior, he’s proven to be incredibly smart and indispensable when it comes to standing up for the little guy. (I agree with him on just about everything but Israel.) Without him, Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy and Dennis Kucinich, we’d have no voice in Congress. And his voice has been the loudest, the most insistent. We can’t let this profoundly stupid slip-up ruin a champion of our cause. I trust his district will reelect him, because New Yorker’s are not so easily scandalized. He may even be Mayor someday. But this frenzy is precisely why Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are salivating right now: they think that one of their enemies has been taken down of his own volition. Do we want them to get a win here?

Secrets and lies exist because people are afraid that their fantasies and desires are dirty. So what if we tilted the paradigm and communicated our real needs to our partners? What if we didn’t get married for the wrong reasons? What if we taught children that their body parts aren’t naughty? What if we opened our minds and created more space for ALL kinds of sexuality? What if we got behind Marriage Equality? What if we stopped being so fake and so righteously religious? The first thing that would happen is that our sex lives would improve. There wouldn’t need to be any “good wives”. We’d never be rocked by a sex scandal again, wasting precious air time and resources on a non-story.

It just takes a little consciousness-raising, and it starts with your relationship to your own body. I hate to break out the old “fear versus love” canard, but it’s appropriate here. This is our chance to make the personal truly political, starting in our bedrooms. We’ll get more pleasure, and change the world in the process.

1. Surprise your partner with an environmentally-friendly intimate gift. Look for rechargeable sexual well-being products that are made of body-safe and eco-friendly materials, and comply with the world’s most stringent standards, including RoHS, WEEE and REACH.

The we-vibe is a new one that has been getting all the ladies talking. It’s encased in lead-free, phthalate-free, 100% medical-grade platinum silicone and uses a long-lasting rechargeable battery—plus the manufacturing and distribution operations are carbon-neutral. That’s an orgasm we could get behind!

2. Rub down with homemade eco-massage oil. Your s.o. so deserves it! Check out Stefanie Iris Weiss’ critically acclaimed enviro-sexual bible, Eco Sex, to find recipes to brew up homemade oils from natural materials.

Read more: http://www.sheckys.com/2011/05/14/5-ways-to-have-greener-sex/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=no-boys-allowed