Ashley Manta Joins in the Superhero Sex Shop Tour Fun!

Big news folks! As of this morning the Superhero Sex Shop Tour has (what I am calling) a Special Correspondent. The lovely and talented Ashley Manta is moving cross-country (apparently that is just what us sex geeks like to do!) and is going to do some sex shop visiting on the way! I’m so excited to have someone so awesome collaborating with me on a project that I care about so deeply! Welcome aboard Ashley- thank you so much for joining in!

Ashley’s itinerary is here. Follow her on Twitter at @ashleymanta

JoEllen Notte is a writer, speaker, and mental health advocate whose work explores the impact of depression on sex and relationships. Since 2012 she has written about sex, mental health, and how none of us are broken here at The Redhead Bedhead.

JoEllen has led workshops nationwide on sexual communication, navigating consent, having casual sex kindly, and dating as an introvert. She has toured sex shops, spoken at length on dildos, and even started a sex school but she is happiest and most effective when writing and speaking on behalf of quiet people who have sex. Check out her video series on attending conferences as an introvert and her extensive writing on sex and depression.

JoEllen has spoken at Clark College, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, the Guelph Sexuality Conference, Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit, and the Playground Conference

JoEllen’s first book The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression & The Conversation We Aren’t Having was published by Thorntree Press in March 2020. Her new book In It Together: Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family was published by Thornapple Press in March 2023.