PDX Pleasure Positive Professionals - April 2024
This is a networking event for folx to discuss the professional side of pleasure.
What is PDX Pleasure Professionals?
PDX Pleasure Professionals is a monthly meet-up to help support others in fostering positive growth & mentorship. Often, information in getting started in the career world of pleasure-positivity it can be overwhelming & sometimes gatekeep helpful information that can help us succeed & stay safer.
- Mixer: 7 - 8 PM
- Discussion: 8 - 9 PM
-- Presenter Amory Jane
About our Guest Speaker:
Amory Jane (she/they) is a sex educator, Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator, and She Bop's former GM and Director of Education. They have taught hundreds of sex and relationship workshops around the country and have been featured on Fusion TV, the BBC, Savage Lovecast, and in Playboy Magazine. AJ is also a mom, sex toy storage furniture designer (Amory.Design), and COO at Fractal Soul, a legal magic mushroom service center in Beaverton! She dreams of a world with less suffering, more pleasure, and liberation for all.
http://amoryjane.com/
Who is allowed to attend?
- Educators & Organizers
- Venue Owners
- Sex, Body, & Energy Workers
- Pro Dominatrices, Submissives, & Switches
- Bootblacks
- Furniture & Toy Builders & Vendors
- Content Creators
- Intimacy & Relationship Coaches
What if I haven't started out yet as a pleasure-positive professional, but I'm curious?
This is the place for you! We want you to be able to have a safer place for mentorship.
We will provide coffee & some light snacks!
About the Venue:
Hearth & Soul is located in North Portland. There is one stair to navigate to get into the house. Hearth & Soul is dedicated to spreading the mission of intersectionality & sexual pluralism.
About your Hosts:
Lady V
Lady V (she/her) is a spiritually & socioculturally driven sex-positive educator, community organizer & Professional Dominatrix. Prior, she served as the Program Manager for one of the few agencies in the world specializing in navigating sexuality & gender for people navigating intellectual/developmental disabilities.
Lady V has taught for conferences & sex positive venues across the US. She serves as an Advocacy Board Member for Sex Positive World & proudly helps facilitate their education as the Remote Education Coordinator. Lady V has also served the community by facilitating public health events.
She is an out, proud, & fierce-as-fire transwoman with a passion for empowering others. While hailing from Detroit, Michigan, she has settled in Salem, Oregon, where she serves as the majordomo for her leather family, the Atomic Army.
She hopes to inspire others to enjoy sex positivity from an authentic place, as well as embrace their spiritual place within sex positivity & find healing within it. You can view more of her work at http://TheLadyV.Net or Fetlife at @The_Lady_V.
Jamie Love
Jamie is the executive director of Sex Positive Portland; she has been hosting speed dating since 2019. She is polyamorous, queer, and kinky, with a love of shibari/rope bondage. She leads discussion groups and classes on relationships of all sizes, orientations, and dynamics. Her background is in communications, video production, and marketing; check out her YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/c/givenconsent) and or social media @JamieLove_PDX