Growing up, I was forced to go to a church I never liked. The scripture felt foreign. The people didn’t speak my language. The grape juice at communion tasted off. I didn’t feel God in me.  The sermons caused me to tune out.  I got bored. I wrote stories on the backs of offering envelopes. And as soon as I went to college and had a say over what happened on Sundays, I stopped going to church.

At a time when many women feel pressured to add sex to their Superwoman to-do list without feeling like they get much in return, Slow Sex by Nicole Daedone is a much needed and welcome invitation for women and men to strip down to the bare essentials of a woman's authentic sexuality so sex can fill her up, rather than deplete her. A must-read for any woman who hasn't fully accessed her orgasmic potential and yearns to more fully embody the intimacy and surrender a loving sexual relationship can bring to a woman's wholly healthy life." -- Lissa Rankin

How to Get Him to Take Out the Garbage (or, In Praise of Being Nice)

I teach female orgasm. More specifically, I teach a practice called OM or Orgasmic Meditation, which turns our idea about what sex is (and isn’t) on its head. It’s a practice where a woman lies down and her fully clothed partner—often but not necessarily a man—strokes her clitoris for fifteen minutes in a very specific way. Simple? Absolutely. Complicated? Whoa, baby. When I first introduce the practice at workshops, notepads start falling on the floor, necks get flushed, and I can barely find anyone who will make eye contact with me in the room.  

On April 27, 2009, after nearly a year of gestation, OwningPink.com was born. Within three months, we had grown into a vital, vibrant kick ass community (if you build it, they WILL come). In 2010, we relaunched the OwningPink.com website, shifting it from my personal blog into a community website that features not just my writing, but the writing of 40+ other gifted writers who are trying to change the world. We also grew the reach of Owning Pink on my book tour and cemented Owning Pink’s platform as the go-to site for those who are ready to take the next step towards being ALL YOU, ALL THE TIME in the safe haven of a loving community.

So if 2009 was a year of birth and 2010 was a year of expansion, what does 2011 hold for us?

This week, I’ve been busy with the California leg of my book tour. I spoke to a rowdy, vagina-friendly audience of 400 students at Sonoma State University, then 150 hooting, cheering, go-for-it girlfriends at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. So when I showed up Thursday night at the small, private University of Redlands (population 2400), I found myself feeling disappointed that there were only 63 quiet, shy, mostly silent students there.