New Blogs this week from our Sexy Mamas include:

Always Aroused Girl: Bedroom Revision

Urban Gypsy: Squeezing it all in

Christen Clifford: Sexy Mama Take #2 – Babeland Giveaways!

Seattle Mom Blogs: Moms Like Sex Too

In Brooklyn, Babeland is proud to sponsor and would like to invite all moms and non-moms of the Park Slope area to attend:

The Second Annual Edgy Moms Reading and Cocktail Party:

Tales of Motherhood without Sanctimony.

Join seven notable and notably edgy writer-moms for a fun reading over a much-needed cocktail in honor of Mothers Day. From single moms to sexy moms to moms who let their kids ride the MTA alone; these writers will shock, amuse, and entertain you, and they won’t make you eat your vegetables before you get dessert. Enjoy a totally un-Hallmark way to celebrate the mother in your life. Babeland will be offering goodie bags at a raffle as well as coupons for all attendees.
Admission free and open to all

Readers of the night are:

Amy Benfer, essayist and Salon writer who became a mom at sixteen

Louise Crawford, The Brooklyn Paper’s Smartmom and editor of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn

Christen Clifford, writer/performer of Off-Broadway’s hit show Babylove: True Stories about Sex and Motherhood

Michele Somerville Madigan, poet and blogger, Fresh Poetry Daily

Sophia Romero, blogger, The Shiksa from Manila and novelist, Always Hiding

Lenore Skenazy, controversial New York Sun writer, who let her 9-year-old take the subway alone

Louise Sloan, author of Knock Yourself Up: A Tell-All Guide to Becoming a Single Mom

Amy Sohn, novelist, Run Catch Kiss and My Old Man, Park Slope ruckus rouser

The Montauk Club
25 8th Avenue between Lincoln and St. Johns Pl. in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Thursday May 15th
7 p.m.: Cocktails (cash bar)
7:30 p.m.: Reading

It’s difficult to be sex-positive and not be aware of Dr. Annie Sprinkle, PhD. Now at age of fifty-three, Dr. Sprinkle has worn (and combined) many hats: sex worker (porn starlet, model, dancer, prostitute), sex-workers rights activist, multi-media artist, writer, and a sex educator holding a PhD in the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. With a life so rich and full of accolades, and packed with adventures ranging from high kink to oceanic tantra, one may expect that Dr. Sprinkle would be taking some well-deserved R & R.

Think again: when the fire to create (and educate) burns, it will burn until you draw your last breath.

As a prolific artist, Dr. Sprinkle has collaborated with luminaries ranging from seminal Fluxist, Willem DeRidder, to groundbreaking feminist performance artist, Linda Montano. Her newest collaborative project, Love Art Lab, draws on her feminist and conceptual art background and understanding of convergent social issues, while infusing it all with the colorful, sexy fun that she has become known for.

From the Love Art Lab website:

We, Elizabeth M. Stephens and Annie M. Sprinkle, are an artist couple committed to doing projects that explore, generate, and celebrate love. We utilize visual art, installation, theater pieces, interventions, live-art, exhibitions, lectures, printed matter and activism. Each year we orchestrate one or more interactive performance art weddings in collaboration with various national and international communities, then display the ephemera in art galleries. Our projects incorporate the colors and themes of the chakras, a structure inspired by Linda M. Montano’s 14 Years of Living Art.

The Love Art Laboratory grew out of our response to the violence of war, the anti-gay marriage movement, and our prevailing culture of cynicism. We hope the Love Art Laboratory will help make the world a more fun, sexy, tolerant, love-filled place.

Choosing this year to focus on the color green, the couple will be celebrating their 4th wedding on May 17th. In renewing their vows of love, Dr. Sprinkle and Ms. Stephens will add complementary promises to honor and cherish the Earth. Open to the public, the couple requests that guests attire themselves in green (whether it be formal, costume, or sculptural) for the ceremony; and, oh, what a ceremony it will be! Including over 70 participants (from artist Linda Montano to porn legend Veronica Hart), the event details are as follows:

Gather & Green Hors d’oeuvres: 2:30-3:00pm.
Ceremony Performance: 3:00-5:00pm.
Green Cake & Bouquet Toss: 5:00-5:30pm
Where: In the Shakespeare Glen, University of California Santa Cruz
Wedding Themes: Love, Compassion, Environmentalism, and the Earth.

Since I regrettably am unable to attend, I’d like to take a moment to offer my Mazel Tov to the brides. I’ll be keeping you both (along with the Earth) in my thoughts.

Find full details on the Love Art Lab at www.loveartlab.org
Visit Dr. Annie Sprinkle at www.anniesprinkle.org
Visit Ms. Elizabeth Stephens at www.elizabethstephens.org

If you’ve never watched Talk Sex with Sue Johanson on late Sunday evenings on the Oxygen network, you only have this Sunday night to catch up. Sue announced this week that she’s going to retire, leaving the world short one septugenarian sex educator.

Sue’s show is a call-in show and she gets every question known to personkind. As a sex educator, it’s always fun and interesting to hear another person’s answer to a question you’ve gotten before. Sue is a nurse, so she knows her anatomy and she manages to combine both grandmotherly caring (“oh honey, you probably don’t want to stick that in your ass”) and a ‘been there, heard that’ attitude that is comforting and normalizing. I’m really going to miss having her around – and hearing the call-in questions every week.

I can’t recommend enough that you check out the last episode. Find a friend who has cable and loves sex toys and catch her before she’s gone. There are also some awesome clips on YouTube (of course!). I particularly like this one where Sue debunks the necessity of deep throating and gives some great tips for oral sex.