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The Redhead Bedhead: Sex Educator JoEllen Notte
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05 March 2017

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

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11 February 2017

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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02 February 2017

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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28 January 2017

20 Things You Might Not Know About JoEllen

When the urge hit me to write a “I bet you don’t know this about JoEllen!” post, I’ll admit I figured it would just be fun, frothy, and easy. For

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24 January 2017

Funding The Monster Under The Bed: Support Me On Patreon

This might get long. Here’s the tl;dr: I’ve launched a Patreon where you can support my work on sex and depression and help me bring my book, The Monster Under

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19 December 2016

2016 Best of Bedhead: Posts, Podcasts, Appearances & More!

I sat down to write my annual “best of” post and I was confronted with the fact that, compared to other years, I really didn’t write a whole lot in

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14 December 2016

JoEllen’s 2016 Favorite Things!

In the past my annual favorite things list was always a list of products, frequently featuring links to my reviews of said products. This year I tested and reviewed significantly

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15 November 2016

From Peepshow Toys: Partner PLUS Couples Toy Review

This is my first post since the US presidential election and it feels wrong not to acknowledge it. This election was about more than one side losing- that’s politics- this

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12 October 2016

What Apartment Hunting Taught Me About Relationships

Sometimes, we have patterns in relationships that we don’t really understand, or even see. I’ve long known that I find asking people for anything terrifying so I shy away from doing

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17 September 2016

All The Things To Love About DOXY: A Vibrating Retrospective

Stepping onto an elevator at Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit I was met by the smiling face of one of my all-time favorite sex educators who, after greeting me, reached out to touch

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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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