Cyndi Darnell (cyndidarnell.com)
Cyndi Darnell offers workshops and seminars on sexuality, orgasm, desire, libido, sexual communication, and integrating mindfulness with eroticism. Her private coaching sessions dive deep, developing the skills needed to create and sustain powerful erotic connections. She’s also a professional psychotherapist offering counseling (face to face and via Skype) for the full spectrum of human experience from sexuality and intimacy to relationships and grieving processes.
Eve Minax (eveminax.com or mistressminax.com)
Eve Minax, aka Mistress Minax and dubbed “The Approachable Pervert” by her peers, delights in nurturing erotic explorers toward sustainable and sensational intimacy. Lead staff instructor at www.sm-arts.com, Minax compassionately facilitates learning and growth within the vast realm of Tantra, kink, and BDSM. She also offers conferences, groups, and private and professional training.
Jaeleen Bennis — Bondassage (bondassage.com)
Jaeleen has designed programs, both online and in person, that instruct individuals/couples and certifies practitioners/trainers around the world in a uniquely sensual and provocative method of bondage massage.
Making Love with God — The Radical Art of Sex Magic (makinglovewithgod.co.uk)
These workshops and events bridge the artificial divides between sex and spirit, creativity and magic, and ritual and orgy. Creatrix and Celebrant Rowan also offer one-to-one psychosexual coaching and tailor-made ceremonies for the queer community.
Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson (tantrapm.com)
Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson, authors of the books The Essence of Tantric Sexuality and Erotic Empowerment: The Fundamentals of Tantric Sexuality, offer online and in-person Tantra workshops.
Maz Michael (lgbtqwellbeing.co.uk)
Maz Michael is a non-binary, trans identified person. They facilitate creative, exploratory workshops and one-to-one sessions on the body for gender nonconforming people as a source of fun and pleasure. They utilize costume, clothing, prosthetics, and conscious breathing to assist in this exploration. They are also a fully accredited professional, freelance psychotherapist, offering face-to-face sessions in Brighton, U.K., or via Skype.
Midori (fhp-inc.com)
Midori teaches workshops and deep-dive intensives focusing on the sustainable, creative, and compassionate alternative sex, aka BDSM. She founded and leads ForteFemme women’s dominance intensive, among others. Private coaching programs help explore ethical power and leadership from the bedroom to the boardroom.
Rebecca Lowrie — reAwaken Your Mojo (reawakenyourmojo.co.uk)
Rebecca is an international authority on conscious sexuality, intimacy, and self-awareness. She offers private, one-to-one sessions and programs for professional men who are ready to step into their powerful masculine sexuality and to embody, experience, and express their full erotic potential.
Seani Love — The School of Erotic Mysteries (seanilove.com)
Seani graduated from the Urban Tantra Professional Program in 2011 and has since gone on to win the prestigious title of Sex Worker of the Year (UK, 2015). He runs regular workshops on the healing and consciousness-expanding potential of sexuality, conscious kink, and BDSM across Europe and Australia.
Sexological Bodywork (sexologicalbodywork.com)
Founded by Joseph Kramer, Sexological Bodywork classes and sessions include a variety of educational modalities such as breathwork, conscious movement, touch, erotic massage, pelvic release bodywork, scar tissue remediation, and Orgasmic Yoga coaching. Certification courses are offered worldwide.
Tantra4GayMen (tantra4gaymen.co.uk; tantra4gaymen.com)
Jason and Ingo are dedicated Tantra teachers with many years of experience in offering workshops, deep-dive residential weeks, and celebration of love festivals in the UK, United States, and other destinations worldwide. Their ultimate goal is your personal freedom and liberation to celebrate life as happy, ecstatic, and free men.
Shopping
SEX SHOPS
ASLAN Leather (aslanleather.com)
Toronto
The ASLAN product line consists of high-quality dildo harnesses and BDSM play toys. They make toys to fit your fantasy. If you’re looking for leather with a personal touch and quality craftsmanship, ASLAN is a great place to go.
Babeland (babeland.com)
Seattle, New York
Claire Cavanah and Rachel Venning opened the first Babeland store in 1993 in response to the lack of women-friendly sex shops in Seattle. The store offers top-quality products, a pleasant place to shop, and, most of all, information and encouragement to people who want to explore their sexuality. The store’s popularity led to three more stores in New York plus a thriving and educational website.
Blowfish (blowfish.com)
Blowfish sells sex and sensuality products of every description, from the mild to the wild. Blowfish caters to all genders, persuasions, orientations, and varieties of relationships.
Come as You Are (comeasyouare.com)
Toronto
CAYA is the world’s only worker-owned co-operative sex shop and has a fundamentally anticapitalist and feminist approach to sexual pleasure, health, and education. As a co-op, they don’t profit from your purchases, and they only stock products that they truly believe in.
Condomania (condomania.com)
America’s first condom store grew into a sex shop with lots more than just condoms. However, condoms are still their first priority. Condomania is a great source for condoms of every imaginable size, shape, and style.
Good Vibrations (goodvibes.com)
San Francisco, various locations
Good Vibrations has been providing quality products, education, and information that promotes sexual health, pleasure, and empowerment for over three decades. They were the pioneers of the clean, well-lighted vibrator store, and they continue to provide a safe, welcoming, and nonjudgmental environment where customers can shop for sex toys, books, and movies, and attend workshops.
The Pleasure Chest (thepleasurechest.com)
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles
Since 1971, the Pleasure Chest has supported sexual growth and exploration by pioneering a sex-positive culture with an emphasis on education, enjoyment, and inclusivity. They offer a specialized shopping experience in a judgment-free environment, a huge variety of products, and the PleasurEd program: free weekly workshops open to anyone looking to expand their sexual education.