Exciting! Educational! Sexy! Fun! Literary! Wheeeee!

Thursday, September 25th

• Book launch for Reclaiming Eros:Sacred Whores and Healers. Presented by Good For Her with reading from co-author Suzanne Blackburn. @ WonderWorks (79A Harbord Street) 7-9 pm. FREE.
• Cha Cha: A Night of readings and performances that celebrate female sexuality. Featuring Ann Cummings, Aisha Sasha John, janet romero-leiva, monica rosas, Dianah Smith and more. @ Cervejaria Lounge (842 College Street) 8pm $8. Check out their blog for more info. Sponsored by Good For Her
• Double D: 10 Years of Dacadence and Debauchery - A Women and Trans Bathhouse @ Club Toronto (231 Mutual Street) 8pm - 3 am $20 (sliding scale available).

Friday, September 26th

• Good For Her Workshop: Energy Sex Skills: Basics w/ Sheri Winston workshop @ Good For Her (175 Harbord Street) 7-9:30, $35
• Bi Bash: Join the Toronto Bisexual Network for a kick-ass party for bisexuals and our friends, showcasing local bi talent and performances celebrating bisexuality, featuring: Burlesque, Spoken Word, Musical Performances, Hula Hoop Dancing, Zombie Burlesque and more! @ Goodhandy’s (120 Church Street) Doors at 8, $8 (sliding scale available). Sponsored by Good For Her.

Saturday, September 27th

• Good For Her Workshop: Yin and Yang: Playing With Fire and Water w/ Sheri Winston. 11am - 1:30 pm @ Good For Her (175 Harbord Street) $35
• Good For Her Workshop: Shringar Ras: Celebrate the Sensuous w/ Veena Gokhale 2:30- 5pm @ Good For Her (175 Harbord Street) $35
• 28th Annual Take Back The Night march and rally. Presented by Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape. Grange Park (McCaul Street, South of Dundas) Rally 6 pm, March at 8:30 (march for women and children only). FREE

Sunday, September 27th

• Good For Her Workshop: Partner Yoga w/ Gill Kranias and Juno Stewart. 11am-1pm. @ Good For Her (175 Harbord Street) $75 per couple
• Good For Her Workshop: Reclaiming Eros: A Women’s Temple. 2:30pm - 6:30 pm. @ WonderWorks (79A Harbord Street) $40. Women only.

All through the past week I’ve been chatting with some of the awesome facilitators working on Sacred Sex Week at Good For Her (September 22-29 2008). We’ve already met the excellent Suzanne Blackburn, and the fabulous Jessica Yee, the fascinating Cheri Michael . Now, it’s time to meet the enchanting Veena Gokhale. She’ll be facilitating Shringar Ras: Celebrate the Sensuous! on Saturday, September 27th from 2:30-5 pm.

More with Veena after the jump!

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All through this week (and next!) I’ll be chatting with some of the awesome facilitators working on Sacred Sex Week at Good For Her (September 22-29 2008). We’ve already met the excellent Suzanne Blackburn, and the fabulous Jessica Yee. Now, it’s time to meet the fascinating Cheri Michael. In addition to working at Good For Her and taking care of our Art Shows, she’s also a facilitator of many workshops including Sacred Sex Starts With Me, Sexpression: Creating Your Sexuality Symbol not to mention Giving Great Head and The Sophisticated Handjob. Cheri will be facilitating as part of Sacred Sex Week on Wednesday, September 24th from 7-10 pm. Both newcomers to sacred sex and seasoned practitioners are sure to take plenty of new ideas away from this workshop.

More with Cheri after the jump!

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Good For Her loves the We-Vibe - a fun toy that can be used during lovemaking for the pleasure of both partners. The lucky woman on staff who took the We-Vibe for a Test Drive said that it was very different than anything she’d tried before and she just loved it! This toy has been flying off our shelves since, and the customer reviews have been positive as well.

And now our own, made-in-Ontario little sex toy that could is reaching the heights of Canadian celebrity! This great little news story appeared in the September 12th edition of the Ottawa Citizen, and has since been picked up across the country. Inventor Bruce Murison says that “It’s the perfect toy: there is zero maintenance, it’s wireless, high quality and you don’t have to change the batteries. There is no lead, plastic or phthalates. There are no straps and no fuss. You leave it plugged in when you aren’t using it.” (Read the rest of the story here.)

Good job We-Vibe!

All through this week (and next!) I’ll be chatting with some of the awesome facilitators working on Sacred Sex Week at Good For Her (September 22-29 2008). We’ve already met the excellent Suzanne Blackburn, and now it’s time to meet the fabulous Jessica Yee. She’ll be facilitating Aboriginal Power, Pleasure and Sex Positivity on Monday, September 22nd from 7-9:30 pm. It’s sure to be a fantastic, eye-opening workshop!

Here’s more with Jessica:

Can you tell me a bit about who you are and what you do?

I’m a young, proud, Indigenous feminist and a 22 year-old loud mouth Mohawk! I’m also the founder and Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, which basically means I work across North America on healthy sexuality, youth empowerment, and cultural competency. I define cultural competency to mean using the things we already have in our culture to stay healthy and examining what we used to do to live with our sexuality positively. I’m keen to work a lot with youth since it is us who are overrepresented in unhealthy statistics surrounding sexual health, like the higher rates of sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancy, and domestic violence, yet we are rarely included in any major programming decision that has to do with us.

Reproductive rights, anti-oppression, and violence prevention education work are also issues that are near and dear to my heart, that I have the privilege of working with other amazing organizations like Canadians for Choice, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Maggie’s: Sex Workers Organizing.

And after about 3am, I’m a writer! You can see me activisting it up on sites like SHAMELESS Magazine: For Girls Who Get It!, RABBLE.ca, Racialicious, and I also write in the Native community about sex in Turtle Island Native News, and the Kahnawake Eastern Door.

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Here at Good For Her, we get an astounding amount of new products in every week. Some we carry, some we don’t. Some we like, many we loathe. But it’s rare that a new toy comes along that completely blows our mind, and that is just what The Sasi has done. This toy is like nothing else out there, period. It vibrates, and has a lovely array of pulsation patterns, but that is not the main attraction. What makes this toy different is the rolling and undulating ball that moves along in a dizzying number of patterns all focused right on that delicious bundle of nerve endings that we (and most people) call the clitoris.

Fans of oral lovin’ are going to go nuts for this pleasure product - for the first time, a toy has made it possible to replicate the feeling of a perfectly skilled tongue gliding over your, ahem, intimate areas. The Sasi is also a smartypants, and will remember patterns that you like, and skip over ones you don’t. Oh, and to sweeten the deal, Good For Her will toss in a 4.2 oz bottle of Sliquid Organics Naturals if you purchase The Sasi in-store or online by September 30 2008. Decadent!