Our Fun, Friendly, Sexual Selves

This very fun, laid back, and extremely informative workshop was one that I will probably never be able to forget, even if i tried. Kathryn Ssedoga, the main speaker of the workshop, did an absolutely amazing job helping all of the women apart of this session learn more and become more appreciative about their female parts. She carefully explained to us a matter of different true FACTS of our own bodies that more than half of the women in the session did not already know about themselves. I was glad to witness the many smiling and relaxed faces leaving the room once the session was over.
Kathryn gave us a quick agenda of everything that she had taught us, including the true definition of sexual health, a detailed explanation of the female anatomy, true facts of feminine hygiene, our own g-spot, masturbation, orgasms, and toys, projects based on these topics in London, Ontario, and helpful resources as well. The first vital statement that she made to us was "how we talk about each other is as important as what we talk about." Then she went over 'what is health?' and 'what is sexual health?' The "ingredients" for healthy sexuality were as follows:
- Being able to communicate about your feelings
- Understanding STD's and how to prevent them
- Access to good health care, birth control, and STD help.
- Finding relationships based on respect
- Understanding and being able to make the right choices about reproduction
- Being able to talk to friends who can help you make good decisions about your sexual life.
Okay, so maybe some of these items seem like a few things that you have already have heard once, if not, many times before. Well, does any health teacher you've ever had told you how you can better pleasure yourself during sex? Kathryn then went into great explanation about female parts that are pleasurable to women, and how to make the most pleasure out of those parts. Why are these facts ones that women are not readily available to? Why are there brilliant women with lots of education privileges that have no idea about any of these facts? Why does the system hide these facts away from women? Women are taught to stay away from sex, not to become more pleasured by it. Why does this happen? Kathryn went into even greater description with use of great visuals, including a puppet, pictures taken out of a coloring book that everyone in the session received to color in themselves, a book with different female parts to understand how different and still healthy we all are, videos that we watched from online, and just by her telling us more of her own experiences as well.
Kathryn taught us how to really keep ourselves clean, (very oppositional to common knowledge,) and even gave us information from real gynecologists that want to help just as much as she does. She went over which toys are safer to use than others, and even the myths and beliefs about shaving and trimming. At the end of the session, there was still much information to go over, after already learning so much. Kathryn handed out free condoms, free female condoms, (and taught us how to use them and how beneficial they can be,) and even gave us other fun sexual inventions made for a better tasting and much safer female-favored oral sex. Who would not want to take advantage of such valuable advice? Many women walked into this workshop being much more unconfident and uncomfortable than they did once they walked out. If this woman was ever able to teach a course on the matter anywhere in this country, I would definitely be one of the first to sign up for the class. I secretly wanted to stay after the workshop had already ended, however like all good things, this session had to eventually come to and end. I had no idea what I was heading in for at the start of the workshop, but I am never happier that I was lucky enough to attend and learn as much as i did.