Pure Pleasure (purepleasureshop.com)
Santa Cruz, California
Pure Pleasure’s mission is to provide a comfortable place where people can shop for sex toys as well as access resources to enhance sexual pleasure and well-being. They aim to promote sexual diversity, offering something for the pleasure that lives inside us all.
Self Serve (selfservetoys.com)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Self Serve is a sex-positive, health- and education-focused adult shop and resource center. They believe that sex is healthy and pleasure is good for you.
She Bop (sheboptheshop.com)
Portland, Oregon
She Bop is a Portland-based shop with a focus on female and queer-friendly sex accessories. Although the “she” is in their name, the store actually caters to all folks across the gender spectrum.
Smitten Kitten (smittenkittenonline.com)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Smitten Kitten is a sex-positive space where everyone is welcome. At this store, they’re not just really enthusiastic about sex, they actively work to promote an inclusive, shame-free environment where it’s okay to talk about all kinds of consensual sex.
The Stockroom (stockroom.com)
Los Angeles
If you want to explore your kinky side and not go broke, the Stockroom is here for you. The Stockroom is the original Internet source for quality sex toys online and has been selling to tech-savvy fans of kink since 1990. They are now in their twenty-seventh year selling sex toys, bondage gear, and restraints online, catering to the whole spectrum, from the curious novice to the extreme BDSM player.
Stormy Leather (stormyleather.com)
San Francisco
Stormy Leather is a leading manufacturer and retailer of distinctive, high-quality leather clothing and toys. For them, customer enjoyment is paramount. They continually strive for excellence in function, innovative design, and customer experience.
Sugar (sugartheshop.com)
Baltimore, Maryland
Sugar is a lesbian-owned, multi-gender-operated, for-profit, mission-driven sex toy store. They provide education and toys in a shame-free, sex-positive, fun environment to help people of all genders and orientations experience their own unique sexuality with shameless joy and passion.
A Woman’s Touch Sexuality Resource Center (a-womans-touch.com)
Madison, Wisconsin
A Woman’s Touch is a thriving woman-owned and — operated sexuality boutique. Along with the brick and mortar location and their online store, they also promote high-quality knowledge of sexual health, sexual education, and healthy pleasure.
BODY ADORNMENTS
Bodyartforms (bodyartforms.com)
They offer inspiring body art for every budget and style.
Body Circle Designs (bodycircle.com)
This site sells gorgeous body-piercing jewelry.
New York Adorned (nyadorned.com)
New York Adorned is a collective tattoo studio and jewelry store that believes in the power of individual creativity and collaborative effort.
Online Resources
I’ve teamed up with my colleagues, friends, and Urban Tantra Professional Training Program graduates worldwide to create a comprehensive sexuality resource guide with a little something for everyone. To access your free resource guide, go to barbaracarrellas.com/resources.
Index
A
Adrenaline
Affirmations
Afterglow, 16.1, 19.1
AIDS, pre.1, 3.1, 12.1, 12.2, 17.1, p5.1
Air (element)
Ajna
Allen, Dean
Anahata
Angergasms, 9.1, 9.2
Asexuality, frw.1, 14.1, 14.2
B
Back pain
Ball massagers
Bandler, Richard
Bateson, Gregory
BDSM
as consensual choice
myths about
safety and
sexual abuse and, 3.1, 24.1
Tantra and, itr.1, 1.1, 21.1, 21.2
Birth
Blissgasms, 9.1, 9.2
Blood sports
Body
attitudes toward
dropping into
Bottom breathing
Bouncing Pelvis exercise
Braingasms
Breath Energygasm
Breathing
changing
energy and
Erotic Awakening Massage and, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2
mouth vs. nose
power of
with someone, 3.1, 15.1
techniques
The Breath of Spring
Busy Belly exercise
C
Candles, 12.1, 12.2
Cathartic Meditation, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Cervix
Chakras
chants
etymology of
moving energy with
number of
sex and
sexual energy and
sounds and
vibration of, 4.1, 11.1, 15.1
first
second
third
fourth
fifth
sixth
seventh
Chanting
Chi, 8.1, 24.1
Childbirth
Circular Breath
Cisgender, definition of
Clench and Hold, 3.1, 8.1, 10.1, 15.1, 18.1, 19.1
Clitoris
finding
strokes for
Clothespins
Clothing, 12.1, 13.1
Club Relate
Cock Root Vibrations
Cock Shiatsu
Colds
Communication, 14.1, 20.1
Comparisons, avoiding
Compulsive sex
Condoms
external
failure of
internal (female)
Consciousness
Consent
in BDSM
meaning of
The Corkscrew stroke
Crown chakra
Crygasms, 9.1, 9.2
Cunnilingus, 12.1, 12.2
Cuttings
D
Dalai Lama
Dark Heart
Dark Tantra
Death, 17.1, 24.1
Dental dams
Dildos
Divine Drumming
Dodson, Betty
The Doorbell stroke
E
Earth (element)
Ecstasy
adrenaline rush vs.
benefits of
faux
finding real
pleasure vs.
Ejaculation
delaying, 3.1, 9.1
orgasm vs.
by women
Elements of nature, inclusion of
Elephant Massage
Emotiongasms
Energy genitals
Erickson, Milton
Erotic Awakening Massage
benefits of
breathing and, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2
connecting with partner, 18.1, 19.1
creativity and
ending, 18.1, 19.1
gender and
orgasms and
origins of
parts of
for people with penises
for people with pussies
setting up for, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1
for trans and gender-nonconforming people
unlimited possibilities of
whole-hand touching and
Erotic Playsheet, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4