G-Spot Expert Deborah Sundahl Speaks

When it comes to sexuality, the G-spot and female ejaculation are two of the most misunderstood and maligned topics around. Stimulating the small, textured area inside the upper wall of the vagina has induced powerful orgasms and squirting for many aroused women over the years, but only in 2001 did the American Medical Association acknowledge the existence of the G-spot as the female prostate.

Fortunately, Deborah Sundahl is among the leading sex-positive educators working hard to increase awareness about this wonderful source of sensual fulfillment, intimacy, and healing. Heavenly moans, full-body bliss, and soaked sheets are within the reach of every woman, she believes.

A vulva massage is a powerful way to love and connect with the woman in your life. It is perhaps the most effective way to improve sexual health and pleasure. If you are having orgasms then vulva massage will help you have even stronger more fulfilling orgasms. Or, if your orgasms have been limited by injury or stress, then vulva massage will help you get them back. In this class, you’ll witness a live demonstration and learn the foundational skills and expert secrets for giving an exquisite vulva massage. For men and women.

Presented by Kirohn Bouris is a Certified Sexological Bodyworker and Tantric Instructor with a full time teaching, bodywork and coaching practice. He teaches the arts of erotic embodiment and intimacy through massage, breathwork, awareness, and sensual communication skills. He is passionate about creating safe, professional, erotic learning environments.

Stephanie Lafazanos has been studying sexuality and body, mind, spirit awareness and healing in-depth for over six years. She has trained in Tantra with local teachers and Master Mantak Chia of Universal Tao. She is enthusiastic about sexual education and has helped in the programming and delivery of sexuality radio programs at UBC, Open Secrets and Juice Box Radio. She currently teaches tantra workshops and runs Shakti Om- Training in Sacred Intimacy, teaching Tantric skills to those who want to open up to their inner lover physically, mentally and spiritually. Stephanie is a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner with a Bachelor of Kinesiology, a Thai-Yoga Massage Practitioner, a Qigong instructor and is finishing a 2 year program to be one of Canada's first 25 Certified Medical Intuitives.

Curtis Hoines

Painting has been a profound interest to Curtis since his childhood. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he began painting signs and murals at an early age of 12. Throughout school his skills continued to develop through art classes and self study. Realism and comic illustration using pencil and ink were his two favorite things to do.

Scarlett began her sexual career over 20 years ago, getting started as an exotic dancer right here in Vancouver. She strongly believes in openly expressing and celebrating her femininity, sensuality, sexuality and hospitality. It is this belief that has made her what she is today – an accomplished and empowered entrepreneur. 

Scarlett owns and operates a local escort service, featuring an interesting and diverse selection of attractive, personable, and open-minded women. All of the forward-thinking women that Scarlett has taken under her wing are pursuing various career and personal interests in addition to happily offering their sexual expertise. Scarlett’s sense of fun and adventure is pervasive, and the women at Scarlett’s House all benefit from her attitude. Her love for theatre means that setting up role plays and custom fantasies is a personal pleasure.

Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick created Passion and Power: the Technology of Orgasm after being inspired by a book on the history of mechanized vibration.  Both women are highly experienced film-makers, and have been honored with numerous awards and nominations for the past work.

Dr. Lori Brotto, psychologist and head of the UBC Sexual Health Lab has been busy making changes in hundreds of women’s erotic lives for a number of years now.

Dr. Brotto heads a research project that focuses on helping women achieve full pleasure potential in their sex lives. Brotto attests that the primary blocks for pre-orgasmic women are psychological rather than physiological. She points out that recent studies of male and female brain scans show that both sexes have many similarities in the throes of passion, which means some women may be misdiagnosed as having clinical psychiatric disorders that focus on lack of pre-sex desire.

Anne Hooper is an inspirational promotor of sexual exploration.  She believes sex is on of the best ways to achieve a state of bliss. In the mid 1970s Hooper began work at Penthouse Forum magazine, as an editor. Soon after, she began to write articles on sex and sexuality, paving the path for a career as a sex counselor. During this time, she also collaborated with Eleanor Stephens to found the Women's Sexuality Workshop (a program that offered sex-focused group therapy for women). Inspired by experiences at the Workshop, Hooper published The Body Electric, a highly-regarded consideration of female sexuality. The Body Electric was the beginning of a long line of books on love, sex, marriage, committed relationships, divorce, children, popular psychology and yet more sex.

Dr Betty Dodson encourages people everywhere to embrace themselves for all that they are. She believes that to sexually liberate ourselves we must explore our own bodies, firstly on our own, and then with our lovers.

The acclaimed author promotes sex-positive, exploratory attitudes. Dr Dodson always urges both women and men to learn to appreciate their physical idiosyncrasies, and to follow their desires regardless of prescribed gender-roles or sexual ideals. She has said that “if we all talked honestly about what's really happening in our sex lives, we'd realize that we're all normal because it's…about diversity”!

redwordsaid is an audio production company that creates high quality audio erotica, tailor made for women. Using only original material, these sexy stories combine spoken words with sound-scapes, sounds of sex, nature, and man and woman. This audio art is designed to be listened to while wearing headphones, in a space where one can fully and privately sink into the experience. These explicit stories place you - the listener - as the main character. Events are told as if they are happening to you in the moment: you are the center of attention.

Behind every unique story is the faceless Sayer.

Petals is a documentary about the creation, book publication and art exhibitions of the stunning photographic studies of Nick Karras, a series of exquisite pictures of forty-eight vulvas. Showing June 16th at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Read more about it here.

Richard Beck Peacock is the director of the documentary Petals – Journey into Self-Discovery. He was an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Cinema Department at Palomar College, San Marcos, California. where he taught documentary filmmaking and screenwriting. He is the author of The Art Of Movie Making: Script To Screen (Prentice Hall, 2001), co-author of Learning To Leave: A Woman’s Guide (Warner Books, 1993) as well as several screenplays including Magnetic North. His previous documentary film is Men And Childbirth. He now lives in Victoria B.C., Canada.

Early on, Peacock recognized the brilliant photographic vision of Nick Karras and encouraged him to publish his work. At the same time Peacock started to make a video record of the creative process and cultural conflicts Karras encountered when producing a body of photography that, by its nature, was bound to come up against basic cultural taboos.

Tabi Fondapetting’s greatest passion is to encourage women toward sexual empowerment, self-love and authentic sexual expression. Her journey began over ten years ago with the study of gender and sexuality in her BA and in MA studies and continued throughout her career as a Professional Researcher. In recent years, Tabi’s love of sass inspired her to explore the world of Burlesque. Through Burlesque, Tabi found an abundance of ways to support others in their own sexual expression.

Tabi is a self-described lover of “femininity, sass and all things sexy” who loves to perform the bump and grind. When not doing a shimmy or shake you can find Tabi sharing her passion with others by teaching them classic burlesque moves or how to create tasty pasties.

Who is Mantak Chia?
As a master of sacred Taoist practices, author and instructor Mantak Chia aims to share his spiritual secrets with Western readers and students in a way that is easy to understand and demystified. As a young man, he was taught the most sacred and closely held Taoist practices over a period of five years. Having also studied Western physical anatomy, Master Chia has been able to combine Eastern philosophies with Western culture and teaches people around the world to use the principles of Taoism to gain better health and sexual wellness.

Who is Nina Hartley?
A registered nurse turned porn star, Nina Hartley has performed in over 600 adult films and is an outspoken sex-positive supporter of the adult film industry. Her first experience in adult entertainment was as a dancer in a strip club when she was in college, but she didn’t start dancing just for the money. For Hartley, it was always about the sexual experience. After graduating from nursing school, she went into adult video full-time and never looked back.