Trailblazing Women Empower Others to Embrace Their Sexual Health

Women empower each other, knowingly or unknowingly. I don’t know about you, but I want solid and supportive voices around me. I love Serena Williams’s quote, “Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.” When I create a new project, I want to hear the voices around me of the women who aspire to help, cheer, console, and revel in what I do. For the Purple Sex Journal, with its focus on sexual health and wellness, I asked women known in the sexual field to write an inspirational quote for the book. I wanted those women to empower you journal users, so you would feel the sensation I had when I asked them to stand with me for you, and they did.

Meet the Ten Women Who Empower Women and Inspire in Purple Sex

What does a sex toy designer, OB-GYN, Disability & sexuality educator, erotica editor, Sexuality Conference founder, Sex & Pleasure Educator, Sex Therapist, Sex-Tech Conference Founder, Personal Coach, and Sexuality Podcaster have in common? All these women added an inspirational quote to the Purple Sex Journal. And in case you don’t know, they all wear many hats.

They hail from all over the world-Canada, the US, Mexico, Scotland, and Ireland.

They are passionate about what they do for women’s health.

They all wanted to support you on your Purple Sex Journey. Here are the ten women.

Women Who Empower Women

August McLaughlin

August McLaughlin is a journalist, author of several books, and host and producer of Girl Boner Radio, named “one of the best sex podcasts you should be listening to in 2022” by Romper and one of the top feminist podcasts by Bellesa. Her articles and expertise have been featured in various publications, including Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, DAME Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Forbes, and Shape. She’s also a certified sex educator with expertise in eating disorders and ADHD.

Our paths crossed early in my writing career when we contributed to Best Women’s Erotica of the Year Volume 3. I followed her work closely and have had her as a guest on The Sexuality Space.

Melody Chadamoyo

Melody Chadamoyo is a personal coach and speaker who helps women discover their Feminine Elegance, a tender strength that harnesses grace and radiance, vulnerability and courage. Melody inspires women to pursue individual growth through her exceptional training and personal experience. She empowers her clients to build rich personal and professional relationships and live their lives to their maximum potential.

Melody hails from Ireland. During Covid, we met through Samantha Kelly, then of the Women’s Inspire Network in Twitter Spaces. We became fast friends and moved back and forth between our live shows, sharing intimacy, information, and connection with our audiences.

Rocio Pelayo

Creator of Reimagine Sexuality Technology conference- a tech conference where technologists, investors, business management services, & the sexual wellness industry come together to find solutions for their companies & products professionally while managing policies and regulations.

Rocio and I met through Twitter and our mutual connection with the CEO of The MON app. We supported each other in spaces, and I was a speaker at her Reimagine Sexuality Conference in 2022. We have also had the pleasure of meeting in person!

Laurie Mintz

Author. Professor. Speaker. Therapist and Researcher. In Becoming Cliterate (HarperOne, May 2017), psychology professor and human sexuality expert Dr. Laurie Mintz exposes the broader cultural problem perpetuating this gap and what we can do about it. By dispelling the lies, misunderstandings, and myths holding us back, Becoming Cliterate tackles personal and political problems. It replaces them with updated outlooks and practical skills needed to change our collective perspective on sex.
 

I have admired Laurie since her famous book, Becoming Cliterate came out. She has done much work with Dr. Lyndsey Harper on the Rosy App. As the erotica editor, I have enjoyed connecting with her.

Luna Matatas

Luna Matatas is a Sex and Pleasure Educator with over ten years of experience in sexual health and wellness internationally and locally. Her playful approach to sexuality draws on the creativity, confidence, and communication skills needed to fulfill our pleasure potential.

She teaches people how to build a better relationship with their bodies, practice empathy with their partner’s insecurities and needs, and how to get curious about their erotic imagination. Luna’s classes are trauma and equity informed and include pleasure topics like anal play to feminine dominance to how to have a threesome. Luna is the creator of Peg the Patriarchy, Meditate Medicate Masturbate, and Fuck Like a Goddess brands. She is the host of b-Vibe’s podcast all about anal sex, The Plug Podcast.

I have admired Luna’s work from afar! She is a powerhouse of information and sex-positivity. Her creativity and fun aspects of teaching are the hallmarks of her work.

Marla Renee Stewart

Marla Renee Stewart, MA (she/her) is an award-winning sexologist, author, and sexual strategist who runs her own sex education company, Velvet Lips. She is also a Co-Founder of the Sex Down South Conference. She has studied human sexuality for over 20 years and has given over 1000 workshops worldwide. She also has been featured on various media outlets, including Netflix’s Trigger Warning with Killer Mike and Love & HipHop Atlanta. She co-wrote her first book, The Ultimate Guide to Seduction & Foreplay, with Dr. Jessica O’Reilly, which debuted in April 2020.

Marla and I met through the process of being selected to present at her conference, Sex Down South. Covid got in the way of meeting in public in the real world, but her work is a delight and essential to the world.

Rachel Kramer Bussel

Rachel Kramer Bussel is a writer, editor, event organizer, and erotica writing instructor. She’s edited over 70 anthologies, including The Big Book of Orgasms, Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica, Dirty Dates, On Fire, Spanked, Please, Sir, and Please, Ma’am, and is the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year series editor. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Marie Claire, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle.com, Salon, Slate, Time.com, The Village Voice, and numerous other publications. Follow her @raquelita on Twitter and learn more about her writing workshops and consulting at EroticaWriting101.com.

 I had the pleasure of eating cupcakes with Rachel in Savannah in November 2015 when I started my sex writing journey. She was there for a book signing, and I had just started taking her course, Between the Sheets. It was a delight to be with her; I count her as one of my life’s most important and influential people. She’s been there since the beginning of my newest career chapter.

Lyndsey Harper

Lyndsey Harper, MD is a Board-Certified Ob/Gyn, Associate Professor of Ob/Gyn for Texas A & M COM, a Fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of women’s Sexual Health. Dr. Harper is the founder and CEO of Rosy. This award-winning women’s health technology company connects women with sexual health concerns with hope, community, and research-backed solutions. She has been named Forbes Top 53 Women Disrupting Healthcare, People Newspapers’ 20 Under 40, a Top Innovator in North Texas for 2020, and a DBJ Top Woman in Teach.

In the Fall of 2019, Rosy reached out to tell me that they had bought a company that I had written for. Now four years later, I’m Rosy’s Erotica Editor. In those years, I watched Lyndsey take a dream and position it at the forefront of women’s sexual health. She is driven to make a difference in women’s sexual health. I am happy to work with her to make that happen.

Robin Wilson-Beattie

Robin is a disability and sexuality educator, speaker, writer, and empowered presenter. She helps individuals, organizations, groups, schools, universities, and society learn how to #AccessBetter sexual and reproductive health in their environments.

Robin and I crossed paths as I looked for a disability specialist and sexuality for a referral. Her work is paramount to bringing equality into sexuality as she highlights the areas we miss in the sexual education world.

Tabitha Rayne

Tabitha Rayne has been told she is quirky, lovely, and kinky – not necessarily in that order or by the same person. She writes erotic romance and’ll explore any genre as long as there’s a love scene. Tabitha is the designer of Ruby Glow – seated Pleasure, a hands-free sex toy made by Rocks Off. She also has a passion for painting nudes.

Award nominations. Ruby Glow: Erotic Trade Only Most Innovative New Product 2016 nominee. Tabitha Rayne: Erotic Trade Only Best Erotic Author 2016 WINNER!!

She is the commissioning editor for the FrolicMe online porn magazine. Her novels are with Beachwalk Press. Her short stories are included in anthologies from Harper Collins Mischief, Cleis Press, Xcite, Oysters & Chocolate, Ravenous Romance, Burning Books Press, Velvet Books, and House of Erotica.

Tabitha and I initially met when I moved into the writing world and was writing to erotic memes online. She complimented me on a story, and the rest is history. I love everything about what she does for eroticism. Her creativity knows no bounds. When the Ruby Glow arrived, I knew she had a winner. Authors could type and get their pleasure in more than one way. It was so good I created a story called The Ruby Glow Treatment.

To Conclude, Women Empower Other Women

Each of these ten extraordinary women who empower women embodies the essence of empowerment, daring to chart new courses in the world of sexuality and women’s health.

They are united by a shared mission: to uplift, educate, and redefine women’s sexual health and empowerment. Hailing from diverse backgrounds, professions, and parts of the world, they converge at the intersection of sexuality, advocacy, and female empowerment. Their collective efforts encapsulate the spirit of collaboration and sisterhood.

Each, in their unique way, seeks to break down barriers, challenge stigmas, and create a world where women’s sexual health and pleasure are celebrated, understood, and prioritized.