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Yana Tallon-Hicks

Yana Tallon-Hicks is a pleasure-positive sex writer and educator living in Northampton, Ma. where she teaches consent-based sex education to teens and college students. Yana received her undergraduate degree in LGBTQ studies and sex education from Hampshire College, worked at feminist sex toy shops Good Vibrations and She Bop, and has had sex on the brain ever since. She geeks out about lube, practices often to achieve perfection and just wants you to have an orgasm. Her written sexpertise has appeared in many national publications and can be found weekly in her sex column, the V-Spot.


Latest From Yana Tallon-Hicks
9 tricks to spice up your sext life
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What I learned about sexual pleasure by tapping virtual vulvas
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Intro to vaginas: 9 lessons for bi-curious beginners
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I’m bisexual and I refuse to leave the LGBT community
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How tech is reshaping male masturbation
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Can you be a feminist and like rough sex?
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