2012- Year in Review
2012 was quite the year for this sexologist. The year started with me producing my own web based sexology reality show, and ended with me hiring someone to run Feminique full time so I can be a full-time sexuality speaker and writer. In 2012, I completed some major career milestones; I presented a sexuality workshop at Harvard University, remodeled my sex shop, had a line out the door for Free Vibrator Day, finally got to do sexuality related humanitarian work, and finished my Ph.D., making me the only person in the world with a bachelors, masters, and doctorate in human sexuality. In 2012 I revealed Tyler is my boyfriend’s blog pseudonym, and revealed his real name to be Ryan when I told the crazy story about how we intervened on a domestic violence/attempted sexual assault happening outside our bedroom window. I spent a lot of 2012 trying to do damage control on 50 Shades of Shit. But the biggest story of 2012 for me was that 2012 was politically both the War on Women and the War on Sex, and how I worked so hard to make people aware of all the atrocious things that were happening out in the world. Here’s a recap of the best, and the worst of 2012.
I conducted 104 paid speaking engagements in 2012. Of them there were 6 private consultations, 58 in-home parties, 16 community workshops (conferences, political groups, non-profits, etc) and 24 college workshops on 16 different college campuses with a total of 2,801 people across 10 states and 1 Dominican Province hearing my sex-positive message in person.
My blog received 45,929 page views from people from 154 different countries (including 26 people from Kuwait, and 2 people in Gibraltar! I love this! I love that someone in Botswana and someone in Bhutan read my blog this year. Super cool!). Of those 45,929, 1,311 have read every. single. post. this year. WOW, I’m flattered. EVERY SINGLE POST! People have discovered my blog in different ways, including my website, facebook, or links posted on other websites. However, most people (18,191 to be exact), happened upon my blog while doing a google search. Here are 25 examples of the search terms used in 2012. Note: these are the actual phrases that people typed into google which lead them to coming across my blog, spelling errors and all. I just wanted to give you an idea of what people are out there googling. (bold is search term. The italics is my commentary)
- christian sexologist
- jill mcdevitt is ugly (gee, thanks)
- jill mcdevitt orgasms 51
- where did jill mcdevitt get her masters? (Widener University)
- according to sexology…fucking mother is normal (hmmm. Define “normal”)
- employer demands sexological testing (be alarmed!)
- how to fuck a sexologist
- in a sexologist point of view how to make any woman sleep with you by touching them (in a sexologist point of view, don’t go around touching women without permission)
- is anal rape harmful for young boys (YES!)
- free vibrator day west chester, pa (my favorite day!)
- dry humping pleasurable for women? (YES!)
- is “an old lady with a sagging boobs” considered discrimination?
- feminist wedding vows
- dentist sex tumblr (?)
- what is the science behind squirts during sex
- proof of quadratic formula (I’d love to know how this search term led to me…)
- what can a young girl do about being catcalled on the street (I hate that this has to be a question)
- “golden showers” in main stream movies
- can you tear your clitoris during labor
- happier with labia tucked in
- women reposting be so proudly about their voluptuous genitalia that provide a lot of orgasm
- we girls have won! your beloved asshole named tosh is going down because the sick fuck of him made fun of rape. you should never joke about rape because a girl lost her innocence to
- victims sexual abuse research into masturbation with wire clothes hangers
- west virginia secluded sexual cabins
- how to ask a clerk for condoms
These were my top 5 most read blog posts of 2012. Read them at the link if you haven’t already:
1. Christmas Shopping While Feminist, November 30, 2012
2. Joe Paterno: Because Somebody Had to Say It, February 20, 2012
3. Sex, Magazines, and the American Prude, March 30, 2012
4. What a Real Man Looks Like, May 7, 2012
5. Getting Naked for Episode 4 of My Reality Show, May 30, 2012
I also created and posted 42 videos on youtube in 2012, with a combined total of 2,564,381 views this year. These were my top 5 most viewed videos of 2012. Watch them at the link if you haven’t already:
1. “Kama Sutra Positions 101” in-home party with sexologist Jill McDevitt
2. Sexologist teaches classes on Fellatio, Female Orgasm, Pole Dancing, and MORE!
3. “Fellatio 101” in-home party with sexologist Jill McDevitt
5. Shit People Say to Sexologists (my favorite!)
While I’m a first generation facebook user (I’ve been using it since 2004), 2012 was the year I really latched on to facebook as a tool to spread sex-positivity. Blogging and youtubing is great, but facebook is my fav. I posted 1,669 status updates (that’s averaging 4.5 per day) and had 2,743 friends on my sexology page in 2012. Here were the most popular statuses:
Photo status with most likes:
This photo with the caption “victorious” (275 likes)
Photo status with the most comments:
This photo with the caption “and then there’s this guy” (54 comments, May 7, 2012)
Word status with the most likes:
I worked as a certified poll watcher this morning and before I ended my shift, I got to witness a 99 year old woman, who was born in 1913, cast her ballot. When she was born, women weren’t even allowed to vote. Got a little misty (174 likes, November 6, 2012)
Word status with the most comments:
overheard from a group of men walking down the street, reading my sexy Halloween advertisement on the sign: “sexy Halloween costumes? Yeah right. If she went out wearing something like that I’d beat her ass when she got home.” I go run out to make sure I heard that right, so I yell down the street “excuse me” to get their attention but they were out of ear shot. A different guy getting into his car asked if everything was ok. I told him what they said and why I didn’t appreciate it. He said “yeah… well have a good day!” (133 comments, September 27, 2012)
I was featured in the news 34 times in 2012 with a combination of radio, TV, newspaper, and online media reporting, reaching a combined 4,494,511 people (yes, I looked up the Neilson ratings, listener ratings, and circulation numbers for all 34 entities). Here’s my list of the top 20 sexuality related news stories in 2012, in no particular order.
- Crappy “BDSM” erotica becomes one of the bestselling books of all time.
- Obama supports marriage equality
- Binders full of women
- Hysteria, a film about the history of the vibrator, is released.
- Only men are allowed to testify before congress about birth control no co-pay mandate.
- Chick-fil-a makes homophobic comments. Shit storm ensures.
- 2012 national election results in three additional states legalizing same-sex marriage.
- A record number of abortion bills are written in congress, including forced vaginal penetration of the patient with a ultrasound wand.
- Sandra Fluke is called a slut by Rush Limbaugh for advocating contraceptive coverage. Shit storm ensues.
- Record number of women, and first openly gay person, elected to US Senate.
- Teenagers Amanda Todd and Felicia Garcia, slut shamed to death.
- Sandusky is convicted of child rape, Paterno dies, and later alleged to be active in covering up the Sandusky child rapes.
- Susan G. Komen organization stops funding breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood over politics. Shit storm ensures.
- Michigan representative is chastised for saying the word “vagina”.
- Daniel Tosh made a rape apologist remark
- Todd Akin made a rape apologist remark.
- Richard Mourdock made a rape apologist remark
- Tom Smith made a rape apologist remark.
- Roger Rivard made a rape apologist remark.
- Well, to keep the list at 20, suffice it to say that a whole lot of candidates running for public office in 2012 made rape apologist remarks.
If you’re counting, between my in person workshops, blog, youtube videos, facebook posts, and media interviews, I’ve reached 7,110,365 people in 2012 with my feminist, sex-positive message that sex should be fun and pleasure is good for you! Help me reach more in 2013 by sharing my posts, videos, and news stories on your blog, facebook, twitter!
jill@thesexologist.org
