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Stop Calling These Things “Porn For Women” (Or Anyone)

Heads up: because I’m taking on an inherently gendered phrase (porn for women), today’s post is a smorgasbord of gendered language and references assumptions that are frequently made along the

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Thanks to SheVibe, I Grew Up To Be Wonder Woman!

JoEllen drawn as Wonder Woman, holding a sword, battling a monster with sharp teeth and glowing eyes that is rising up from under a bed text reads "JoEllen Notte Takes on The Monster Under The Bed" top of the images features the SheVibe logo

What do you want to be when you grow up? That age-old question that, frankly, took me until my mid-thirties to figure out for real, has always played a starring

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To Get The Sex You Want Online, Read The Damn Room

Back in the day the internet was a lawless land full of random message boards and chat rooms where people wandered around in the hopes of finding people who shared

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Get Great Deals On My Faves During Wand Week at Peepshow Toys!

So, if you’ve been paying attention, you may have noticed that I love wands. Let me say that again: I LOVE wands. A big hunk of my favorite toys list

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3 Ways To Use The Internet As Your Sexual Communication Wingman

I recently talked to my partner about how, once you’ve lived in sex positive world for a while, you start to forget that not everyone is comfortable talking openly about

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Review: Screaming O Charged Positive Vibe

So, it’s no secret that small vibrators are not my jam. Large swathes are my thing, small doesn’t get me there. But I agreed to give the Screaming O Charged

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6 Ways To Make Your World More Mental Illness Friendly

Life with a mental illness is frequently challenging. This can be exacerbated by the words, actions, and attitudes of the world around us. Simply put, the world is not a mental

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5 Tips For Being A (Kind & Classy) Casual Sex Rock Star

Casual sex seems to be more prevalent than ever. Now, I have good news and bad news about that. The good news is, it’s gotten way easier to find no strings attached

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A Slightly Cynical Sex Writer Does Valentine’s Day

I’m not going to lie to you folks, Valentine’s Day has never been my favorite and now that I’ve been in the sex writing game for longer than I was

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All The Times I Should Have Left My Terrible Therapist

For four years, 2007-2011, I saw a therapist mostly weekly with some periods of monthly visits when she thought I was “doing better”. Something that became very clear to me

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About JoEllen

JoEllen Notte is a writer, speaker, and mental health advocate whose work explores the impact of depression on sex and relationships. Since 2012 she has written about sex, mental health, and how none of us are broken here at The Redhead Bedhead.

JoEllen has led workshops nationwide on sexual communication, navigating consent, having casual sex kindly, and dating as an introvert. She has toured sex shops, spoken at length on dildos, and even started a sex school but she is happiest and most effective when writing and speaking on behalf of quiet people who have sex. Check out her video series on attending conferences as an introvert and her extensive writing on sex and depression.

JoEllen has spoken at Clark College, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, the Guelph Sexuality Conference, Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit, and the Playground Conference

JoEllen’s first book The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression & The Conversation We Aren’t Having was published by Thorntree Press in March 2020. Her new book In It Together: Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family was published by Thornapple Press in March 2023.

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