Month: December, 2009

Heather Corinna Doesn’t Eat Man Soup

Posted by Nikol on 12.17.2009 @ 6:08 pm
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First things first. I am dancing. Right now I am doing a little dance. Yes, it makes typing hard. It helps that I have a little song to go along with my dance. The song is “I got to talk to Heaaaaather! I got to talk to Heaaaaaa-eh-eh-ther!” It’s bound to be a big hit on the iTunes.

Heather
If you don’t know who I am talking about, Heather Corinna who in our opinion ought to win an award in every category of award winning from best web site to cutest nose scrunching is the boss lady over at Scarleteen.com, a site that has been around since 1998 and contains a crapload of information about sexual health, relationships, and often the politics of teen sex.

The thing about Ms. Corrina that strikes me the most is that she may have a passion for what she does, but she’s one of the most pragmatically passionate people I have met. Even when things aren’t rosy and bright, she’s on top of her game. for example, Scarleteen is in desperate need of financial support and she’s still got a sense of humor about the teens she is doing outreach work with.

I asked her a few questions about her work and even her playtime. I would also very much like to try her stuffing. (Which is totally not a euphemism.) Take a look.
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I am sure you have answered this a billion times, but why did you start Scarleteen? Was it personal?

Before I started Scarleteen, before I worked on the web at all (as well as during), I was a Montessori classroom educator. The way things work with the Montessori model is that we base what we teach (we Montessori-heads prefer “guide” though) and how on what a student either asks for, or what we observe they’re drawn to. And that’s basically the same way Scarleteen started and has been done since.

In 1998, I was operating the first adult women’s sexuality hub online (at scarletletters.com, which has sat dusty since Scarleteen ate my life), and started getting sexuality questions in my email from teen women. I would have loved to refer them to a website just for them, but there wasn’t anything to send them to at the time. So, at first, I began just by posting and answering their questions, but they kept on coming. So, by the end of ‘98, I put up a subdomain on that same site for the teens and younger women.

A year after, we got the Scarleteen domain, a year after that, the message boards, and it grew very fast, and has kept on growing as I’ve raced to keep up with it, no easy task for a site with 25K in viewers every day and far more than a few question-askers. :)

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NYC Sex Blogger’s Calendar

Posted by Nikol on 12.14.2009 @ 1:30 pm
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Nikol looks at the engine

Last year I decided that I would wander beyond the dairy land and out to the east coast to try to make some connections in New York City. While I was there I met many amazing people.

I got to live with
Audacia Ray. We even had an It’s Complicated. It was the best It’s Complicated I have had to date. (and I am a pretty complicated woman)

I got to spend some time with Viviane who taught me what dim sum was all about. It turns out I prefer to know what I am putting in my mouth, but at least I had the experience.

I lived in BedStuy where the bodegas were plentiful and Lee Judah Isserow and I made lots of fun short films. He even taught me how to use a camera.

I met the friend collector Emily May, who is doing her part to make sure we don’t have to get heckled on public transport, Sean & Jess who even produced a short in which I got to act, and I got to spend time with my dear Allison who has been a friend to MTSS for years now and even decorated my apartment with pink streamers for my 30th birthday.

And one of the many interesting things I got to do was work with photographer Paul Sarkis to be in a calendar with all proceeds going to benefit Sex Work Awareness. I got to be a model for a day and I think we even ate at Fuddrucker’s to celebrate. Very sexy, that. And in the end I got to be a part of one of the sexiest calendars I have ever seen.

So, if you need to keep track of 2010 and your cubicle needs a little dressing up, pop on over to the site and buy a calendar. Take a look at the models. Check out the SWA site as well as the sites of all of the blogger/models.

This will be a fun way to celebrate 2010!

Blue Movies Episode 1

Posted by Guy on 12.11.2009 @ 8:28 pm
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We’re no strangers to porn and comedy over here at MTSS. Blue Movies is a KoldCast web series that mixes both.

“A film student named Tom Fischer finds himself accidentally placed in an internship at Pornamount Pictures - one of the San Fernando Valley’s most prolific pornography studios.”

Nikol and Her Son Trast Talk Teen Sex

Posted by Guy on 12.07.2009 @ 1:00 pm
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Nikol and her eldest son Trast talk about MTSS and where kids find information about sex in Time Out New York Kids.49ftx240nikol

Where do most kids your age get information about sex?
Trast: Basically, scattered sources. Some kids get it from their parents and some get it from inappropriate places.
Nikol: They did see movies in school a couple of years ago. Everyone laughed when they talked about boners. Kids at Trast’s age really don’t talk about it much to each other.
Trast: It’s kind of a sensitive topic.

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