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The Redhead Bedhead: Sex Educator JoEllen Notte
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11 January 2013

Steubenville, Bullying and a Culture of Rape

When we allow bullying to go unchecked we make rape culture okay Watching the Steubenville case unfold I have been brought back to my childhood. As a ten year-old in

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08 January 2013

Why Good Sex Shops Matter

and How I’m Going to Help You Find Them Someone recently got snarky with me when I called a shop “sex positive”. Their take on it was “no sex shop

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04 January 2013

My 2013 Sex Toy To-Do List or Dildo-palooza 2013

  Happy New Year! Something I’ve had so much fun with the last couple weeks has been all the different Best Sex Toys of 2012 lists. As I unleashed my

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31 December 2012

#PeopleThatMadeMy2012: My year-end lovefest

Here’s one of my favorite stories ever. On September 7, 4 days after the first anniversary of my father’s death, I had the last hearing I needed to go to

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29 December 2012

She Bop – Portland’s Sex Positive Wonderland

The following is a completely true story: On July 1, 2012 my brother and sister-in-law loaded my two favorite cats into carriers and embarked on a two- week cross-country drive to

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21 December 2012

12 Days of Christmas Contraception: A Birth Control Christmas Carol

Hey folks! I’m reporting to you live from my folks house where I am basking in the cozy holiday glow. That’s right, I said basking, it’s happening. Anyway, the other

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18 December 2012

Sexual Geography: Sexual Activity and Satisfaction by City

So, I spent last weekend in Portland, OR as part of my recently-started quest to find my new home. This got me thinking about how sex lives differed from city

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14 December 2012

Santa’s Sack of (Sex) Toys – The Naughty List

So, earlier this week with “The Nice List” we looked at some quality products and higher end toys that seemed likely to please and also likely to last, they were

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11 December 2012

Santa’s Sack of (Sex) Toys -The Nice List

Awesome gifts for not-so silent nights I love this time of year! Twinkly lights, crackling fires, everything smells like cinnamon- so much awesomeness. What I don’t love are all those

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06 December 2012

Abortion Exceptions are Bullshit

Why fighting over who should be allowed abortions undermines us all You know your party’s in trouble when you read this:A: The rape guy lost. B: Which one? — ABFoundation

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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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