Bios

FOUNDERS

Alyssa Royse  was married for a long time, from which she gained a best-friend, an amazing daughter and a lot of lessons learned the hard way. A writer by both passion and profession, she has worked in marketing, PR, education, theater and in the non-profit world. She was the founder of JUST CAUSE Magazine, an all-digital magazine dedicated to social change – before people knew what digital magazines were, making it an altruistic and unintentionally non-profit venture. Fast Company named her one of the top 50 entrepreneurs in the world, and PR News said she was one of the best PR professionals under 35. Her last boyfriends have called her intense, insatiable, controlling, hysterical, kinky, playful and silly, (often with the word “too”.) She’s a fitness buff, gardener, Burner, foodie and refuses to admit that she likes moonlit walks on the beach because that’s so damned corny. Alyssa co-hosts the the Progressive Radio Network show Sexxx Talk Radio with Lanae St. John, a one hour show about everything sex: politics, kink, relationships, health and anything else that comes up. You can read her personal blog at AlyssaRoyse.com.

Lanae St.John is a San Francisco Bay Area Sexy Mamas Blogger, Board Certified Sexologist and Sex Educator. Her work with clients normalizes conversations about sexuality between parents and children, while helping adults to discover a more sexually positive outlook. By teaching parents to nurture the budding sexuality of their children in ways that foster self-respect and acceptance for the totality of their personhood, she helps them raise children who become empowered, beautiful, strong, sexually healthy adults. Lanae also coaches couples and individuals on their sexual questions and concerns, helping them to optimize their sexual experiences and achieve healthy adult sexuality via a sex-positive approach to sexual education.

CONTRIBUTORS

Ationette Izzo writes about Authenticity in Action. Dr.  Izzo is a Sexual Behavior Specialist specializing in the integration and expression of sexual identity. She is an expert in human behavior—particularly involving sexuality and culture, and language and communication—primarily focused on applications involving military personnel, nontraditional lifestyles, and holistic wellness. She is a board-certified, sex-positive, kink-positive sexologist with years of personal experience in the both the military community (USMC) and leather community (particularly involving M/s relationships). … more…

Chauntelle Anne Tibbals, Ph.D. is a sociologist specializing in gender and labor issues. She has spent almost ten years researching the adult industry, working to complicate popular understanding of the adult business, its enterprise, and its socio-cultural significance. Her research has been published in numerous scholarly journals including Sexualities, Gender Work & Organization, Stanford Law and Policy Review, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. She is a Visiting Scholar in USC’s Department of Sociology and blogs regularly about industry issues at www.PVVOnline.com. …more…

Dr. Chelsea Holland is a Doctor of Human Sexuality based in Colorado. With her focus on sex education, sex counseling and writing she helps individuals, partners, and groups regardless of their sexual orientation, sexual interests, ability, and age with concerns and questions around their sexuality and relationships. Further, she uses her open-minded, sex-positive, and nonjudgmental approach to help individuals become aware and accepting of who they are, to learn to be authentic in society about who they are, and to learn skills that will help them develop and maintain positive relationships accepting of each individual’s authenticity.  …more…

Andi DeRoux is a Transsexual Female. She knew at a very early age that she was different, and was truly a girl inside the body of a young boy. She lived with this secret painfully buried inside for years, trying to fit in and be happy. Years later, in her 30′s after years of depression and a near suicide attempt, she was finally able to make changes in her life through determination, therapy, female hormones, and supporting friends & family, to finally become the elegant and happy woman that she is today. Her playful and happy disposition never reveals such a painful past. … more…

Megan Stubbs is a 2010 graduate of Grand Valley State University and holds a degree in Biology. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Education degree in Human Sexuality from San Francisco’s Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. Megan is a firm believer that knowledge is power and that comprehensive sex education is not only valuable to budding teens, but to all of society. …more…

Victoria Reuveni, aka Sexologist Vixenne, graduated from California State University-Northridge in 2010 with a Bachelors in Psychology and a minor in Human Sexuality. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Human Sexuality at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. …more…

Victor is a married (for a really long time) father of two who lives in the Midwest. He’s not a farmer, but he pretends to be. Really, he’s a super science geek, but he hides it under a facade of “All American Guy” that includes being really athletic, outdoorsy, boy-scout leadery and extraordinary grilling skills.

Vernoica Griggs  is a hope-to-be sexologist, “intactivist”, and an avid supporter of sex positivity. She is currently working toward receiving her Associate Degree with an emphasis in Psychology so she can transfer to a university to continue her pursuit in the study of human sexuality. She identifies as bi-sexual and her friends often identify her as a sex guru of sorts  who is bubbly, trustworthy, outgoing and has a super sex positive attitude! She is politically outspoken, sharp as a tack and, as the youngest member of our team, she’s who we turn to when we need to understand what’s going on with “kids” these days. You can, and should, follow her Tumblr blog, at ChronicVixen.Tumblr.com

Reverend Princess Mortenson (Aka R.P. Morty) is a very real person, even though that is not her real name. She is happily married in an open marriage, in which they each have secondary partners. She has been poly for years, and has many friends who are both polyamorous and monogamous. She has been talking about relationships since she could talk, is a school teacher in a major US city, where she also runs her own theater company and dances her ass off on a regular basis.

Ask A Mistress is keeping her name private for obvious reasons. She spent more than two years dating a married man, who was a business adviser to her, and was supposedly getting divorced the whole time. She still believes their love was real, but learned how destructive it is, to everyone and to love itself, to be surrounded by lies. As she opened up  to her friends, they continually told her they had done, or were doing, the same thing, which is why she wants to write about adultery.