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4 Dating App Lessons From My Past to Help Your Dating App Future

Looking around on social media, it looks like a lot of my vaccinated friends are getting ready to head back into the dating world. Personally, I’m in no shape to

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Celebrate 25 Years of Fun Factory With 1996 Prices!

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I Thought Porn Wasn’t For Me. Here’s How I Learned Otherwise

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3 Ways To Use The Internet As Your Sexual Communication Wingman

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Ergonomic Vibrators: What They Are and Why It Matters

Quick! Picture a vibrator! Now describe it. I’ll bet you thought of words like sleek, sexy, curved, or maybe even modern but how about ergonomic? Ergonomic might not be the

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Seriously, Stop Gendering Sex Toys

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Seriously, Don’t Yuck Each Other’s Yums

Don’t yuck my yum. If you have spent any time in the sex positive world, odds are you have heard some variation of this phrase. The exact wording may vary

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Here’s The Thing About “Porn Sex” vs “Real Sex”

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Make Your Home A Sexy Haven (without buying stuff)

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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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