Female Genital Mutilation and Other Things I’ve Been Sexoholic About Lately
It’s been a crazy week and it’s only getting crazier. I have 11 scheduled events over 14 days. One of the days “off” was Thanksgiving (I cooked for 8 hours, I hardly call that “off”) and the other two days I deliberately took off after my last blog post and everyone yelled at me that I needed a vacation. I agreed and Tyler and I have long weekend plans in West Virginia. We’re leaving this Sunday.
If that’s not enough, I’m in sexoholic mode. I reflected on the goals I made 3 months ago on my birthday for things I wanted to happen in my 26th year, and so far have only accomplished one- publishing a book. Now that’s nothing to sneeze at, but I’m not even close to fulfilling the others and this makes me crazy. But now, in sexoholic mode, I have new list of things that I’m crazily wanting to accomplish.
1. Write another book. I know, I know. I’m ridiculous.
2. Design a handful of new workshops for colleges and one new in-home party topic. I know what I want them to be about but I’m struggling on what to call them. I want one on male sexuality. I was thinking “The ______ Penis”, with the _______ being something that begins with a “p” because I like alliterations. Another topic, more of a discussion format, on crisis pregnancy centers. Another for business and marketing majors called “The 21 Year Old Entrepreneur”, as a motivational how-to with my personal experience of starting a company at that age. As for the in-home party, I want to make it a party version of the popular new “Sex: Am I Normal?” But it needs a _____ 101 name to fit with the others.
3. Do sex ed/sexual rights advocacy work abroad, where I would go to a rural developing nation and do either HIV education, or what I’d really like to do, education around Female Genital Mutilation. There’s a lot to think about- including safety, finding a reputable organization, and of course finding funding. If I held a fundraiser event and raffled off products to raise money for me to fly to Africa to volunteer- would you attend? Just trying to see if this is something that’s realistic getting sexoholic about or not.
4. Finish my doctorate, but don’t get me STARTED about how neurotic I’m being about this. I’ll update you on that after I process my thoughts a bit more.
Lots of “this is my life” moments have happened at the 11 straight sex workshops, and I’m sure there will be many more as I finish this week. Stay tuned for that post.
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