Kick It Up a Notch: Taking Sex to the Next Level with Tristan Taormino – Sunday, March 21st 7:30p $25

From her popular columns and website to her videos and lecture series, Tristan has garnered raves for her unabashed straight talk about sex. Now, you can hear it from the sexpert herself! Whether you’ve been in a relationship for six months or six years, Tristan will discuss what happens when the honeymoon is over and real life begins to set in. She’ll cover a variety of topics, including how to: let go of the myths of what sex should be like, improve your erotic communication skills, add something new to the mix, explore dirty talk, fantasy, and erotic role playing, try anal pleasure and penetration, utilize sex toys,lubricants, and other erotic accessories. This unique and intimate class will be a supportive, non‐judgmental environment where you can ask questions and openly discuss your sexual issues and goals. Join Tristan as she takes you on a tour of all you need to know to have healthy, adventuresome, mind‐blowing sex.

Tristan Taormino is an award‐winning author, columnist, editor, and sex educator. She is the author of four books: Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships, True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion, Down and Dirty Sex Secrets and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, winner of a Firecracker Book Award and named Amazon.com’s #1 Bestseller in Women’s Sex Instruction in 1998. Tristan is series editor of sixteen volumes of the Lambda Literary Award‐winning anthology Best Lesbian Erotica, an annual anthology published by Cleis Press. She runs her own adult film production company, Smart Ass Productions, and is currently an exclusive director for Vivid Entertainment. She was a syndicated columnist for The Village Voice for nine years and is the former editor of On Our Backs, the nation’s oldest lesbian‐produced, lesbian sex magazine. Tristan has been featured in numerous magazines and has appeared on CNN, HBO’s Real Sex, NBC’s The Other Half, The Howard Stern Show, Loveline, Ricki Lake, MTV, Oxygen, Fox News, The Discovery Channel, and on over four dozen radio shows. She lectures at top colleges and universities including Yale, Brown, Columbia, Smith, Vassar, and NYU, where she speaks on gay and lesbian issues, sexuality and gender, and feminism. She teaches sex and relationship workshops around the world.

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