My Visit To As You Like It

My Visit to As You Like It

Last Friday I took a trip down to Eugene to visit As You Like It, a shop that has been on my Superhero Sex Shop list since back when they existed only online. They opened their doors in January but this was the first time I was able to get down there and I wasn’t disappointed. I found a lovely, welcoming shop full of fun toys, local products (including their own brand of body butter and massage oil) and owner Kim Marks a badass environmentalist who is devoted to continuing, and furthering, the industry’s trend towards eco-friendly sexuality.

More on all of this later. Today, pictures:

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.