FEMININE SEX & SEXUALITY
Sheri Winston
CNM, RN, BSN, LMT
Wholistic Sexuality Teacher and Counselor
Founder & Executive Director of the
Center for the Intimate Arts
Sheri Winston is a medical professional, sexuality educator and author who is on a mission to transform our culture's attitudes about sex.
Sheri's Personal Mission Statement
I have a vision of a world where sex is normal and sacred, pleasure is valued, and intimate connection is honored and supported. My purpose in life is to be an agent of transformation and empowerment, especially around issues of sexuality. In service to my mission, I offer empowering erotic education based on accurate information, conscious connection and an integrated view of sexuality.
I am committed to deep integrity, personal responsibility and a reverence for pleasure. I delight in bringing more joy to the world and to supporting everyone in fully accessing their ecstasy and power.
Sheri Winston, Wholistic Sexuality Teacher What enables Sheri to transform her students' sex lives so dramatically?
- Her Diverse Background. Sheri has been formally trained as an artist, a massage therapist, childbirth educator, doula, registered nurse, certified nurse-midwife and gynecological practitioner. She has also extensively studied the sacred sexual traditions and holistic healing. The result is a uniquely integral approach that unites modern science, obscure anatomical knowledge, holistic perspectives and ancient esoteric wisdom. It's a combustible combination!
- Her Specialized Knowledge. Over two decades as a midwife and and gynecology practitioner, Sheri developed highly specialized and in-depth knowledge about female anatomy and sexuality. Students regularly hail her Women's Anatomy of Arousal class for delivering previously unknown anatomical information that totally lit up their sex lives. Sheri has a standing offer: if someone doesn’t learn anything new from her Maps class, they get their money back. Over the years, experts ranging from obstetrician-gynecologists to tantric sex teachers have attended. No one's asked for a refund yet.
- Her Teaching Ability. Winston's classes are universally hailed as fun, fascinating and transformational. Students remark on the depth and breadth of her knowledge and appreciate her ability to synthesize information into understandable and useful concepts and techniques. Hey: when was the last time you came from eating chocolate.
From Sheri Winston's "Juicy Bits Blog"
A Peek at Women's Anatomy of ArousalTuesday, October 27, 2009 at 12:17AM
What’s Really Down There May Surprise You!
Being an educated person, you probably think you have a pretty good understanding of both models of the standard sexual equipment, whichever version you happen to own or like to visit. It may surprise you to know that our accepted cultural ideas and images of genitals are missing a lot of really good stuff.
What’s Missing From This Picture?
Believe it or not, the majority of contemporary books and illustrations of female genital anatomy leave out most of the equipment responsible for arousal and orgasm. When these specialized sexual structures are omitted from the images and text, they’re also absent from our mental model. This limits your ability to access your full sexual potential—it’s kind of like a psychological chastity belt.
There is much more to women’s pleasure than the clitoris, and there’s more to the clitoris than meets the eye. This ultra-sensitive sweet button is only the tip of the female volcano, just one component of a whole network of erogenous structures. And we're not just talking the G-spot here. Women have an interlocking set of sexual pleasure parts, most of which are unknown or misunderstood.
In fact, women have just as much erotic equipment in their bodies as men do. That’s right. The female apparatus is equivalent in size to that of the male—it’s just not as obvious. Pound for pound, inch for inch, women have the same amount of the good stuff as guys.
Playing the Whole Instrument
Since we don’t know about all of these yummy parts, we’re operating with a limited mental model. It’s as if we’ve been trying to play the piano and make beautiful music but are only aware of a quarter of the keys. With most of the keyboard missing, we can still make lovely music, but the range is restricted.
When we discover the complete network of structures and understand how the connected system works together, it’s as if we now know where all the keys are (plus the foot pedals!). Then we can learn how to fully play our instrument and make a much wider, more expansive range of music. Some songs that seemed well outside our ability now become possible. We may not be able to play a Mozart sonata or have fifteen-minute orgasms right away, but we can see that it’s possible to get there.
It’s no wonder so many women face challenges in accessing their full arousal and becoming orgasmically proficient. They haven’t been using their whole instrument! When we don’t know what’s there, we don’t know how to thoroughly play with it and neither do our partners, whether they’re male or female. And of course we can’t teach them, if we don’t know ourselves.
When your mental model is congruent with your experience, the impact can be enormous. Often, it’s only in retrospect that you see what you were missing before. The power of having a mind map that matches your reality and accurately reflects your body and its abilities can’t be overstated—your sex life becomes full of new understandings of who you are and how you operate, a luscious tapestry of “Aha!” and “Oh my god!” moments.
For women to reach their full sexual potential, they need to discover this network of erogenous circuits. When that whole system is fully utilized, it becomes considerably easier for women to expand their arousal, access amazing orgasmic states and discover their deep and wondrous wildness. When you know all your parts and give them the attention they so richly deserve, your music can become a powerful symphony of ecstasy.
Pop Quiz About Female Genitalia
1. A penis is mostly made up of erectile tissue, enabling it to become bigger, harder and more
sensitive (engorged). Do women have erectile tissue?
2. Do women have (a) less erectile tissue than men; (b) more erectile tissue than men; or (c) the
same amount of erectile tissue as men?
3. Women’s erectile tissue is located (a) in the renowned and ultra-sensitive clitoris; (b) in a
number of different interconnected but separate genital structures; (c) in other yummy body parts,
such as the nipples, lips, earlobes and nostrils; or (d) all of the above.
4. All female orgasms require and result from clitoral stimulation. True or False?
5. Is the G-spot real? Do all women have a one?
6. What’s all this stuff about squirting? Is female ejaculation really real?
7. There is more to the female Erectile Network then the clitoris and the G-spot (aka the
urethral sponge). True or False?
Vaginal Ecology: An Owner's Guide to Care and Maintenance
excerpt of an article by Sheri Winston
Vaginal Ecology
Vaginal ecology is the study of the environment and its interactions. By understanding the ecology, you can better handle your vagina, and keep her happy and healthy by supporting the natural systems. When, despite your best efforts, the normal balance is disturbed and you get a vaginal infection (vaginitis), knowing how your ecosystem works can give you the power to remedy the situation and restore your environment.
Take an interesting and affordable online class like the one below.
The Fountain of the Goddess - The Learnable Art of Female Ejaculation
Learn the skills to pour forth the sacred Amrita or Nectar of Life, as female ejaculate was known in ancient India. Starting with the anatomy we shall discover where the fluid comes from and then learn the skills to call it forth. In this hour and a half online class, master teacher Sheri Winston reveals the anatomical secrets not even medical professionals know about female ejaculation -- and how you (or your partner) can come to enjoy squirting!
Sign up for a class at http://intimateartscenter.com/online-classes/
Here's an excerpt from Sheri's "Juicy Bits Blog"
Designer Vaginas are All the Rage - But Will You Be Raging Afterwards?
Monday, November 16, 2009 at 01:44PM
Vaginaplasty by any other name would still sound awful—a “trim job?” A “tidy, tighten and tuck?” Would you prefer a spiffy “vaginal rejuvenation?” Perhaps a beefier G-spot would augment your sex life? Bothered by having misplaced your hymen—no problem, you can have a surgical revirginisation! (Whoever said you can never return to innocence apparently didn’t have a good plastic surgeon). And, of course, there’s the increasingly popular partial excision of those pesky protruding inner lips. For more and more women, surgery seems to promise the cute and perfect genitalia of their dreams.
But why are women flocking to doctors to have their genitals redesigned? Didn’t Mother Nature do a good job?
Here are some of the classes offered in the "Intimate Arts Curriculum"
Awakening Your Pelvic Power - Priming the Pelvic Pump
Revitalize your sexual and vital energies in this unique program of specially designed movements and exercises. Starting with a short and simple explanation of the muscles and structures of the pelvis, with an emphasis on the pelvic floor, we follow with a session of movements and exercises that integrate visualization, breathing and energy work to improve flexibility in the pelvic region, increase awareness of the wonderful potential of the pubococcygeus and associated muscles, and awaken pelvic energy. Love to revel in the power and prowess of below.
Getting Off On Going Down & Giving Head
Porn fantasy? Impossible dream? No, it’s a learnable skill! Give fabulous oral pleasure and learn how to get off on it! In fact, you can learn to come from anything! Start with learning basic Hands-Off Self-Arousal skills, than learn to use them while pleasuring others.
Birth & Sex: The Ecstatic Journey (A Sex-Positive Midwife’s Insights into the Original Mystery)
An integral view of the vital and fundamental relationship between birth and sex.
Sex doesn’t just get the baby started. It isn’t just an act that occurs behind a locked bedroom door. Sex is part of who we are, the vital life force, and the manifestation of creation energy. As birth-workers, we need to understand and appreciate the profound and fundamental connections between these two facets of sexuality. Labor and birth share the same equipment, as well as a similar electro-chemical and neurobiological milieu. Both are altered states of consciousness and psycho-somatic-spiritual journeys.
Find out how you can attend a class at http://intimateartscenter.com/wholistic-sexuality-curriculum/
The clitoris is just the tip of the volcano. Women have a largely unknown network of structures responsible for arousal and orgasm that even most medical professionals don’t know about. This leaves women trying to discover their sexual potential without accurate guides. Sexuality teacher, nurse-midwife, and gynecology practitioner Sheri Winston has put the missing pieces together, creating the first-ever accurate, integrated maps of women's anatomy and sexuality. This fun, sexy, empowering guide combines lost knowledge with ancient and modern sexuality information to illuminate every woman’s secret paths to fabulous, orgasmically abundant sex.
Achieving Orgasmic Proficiency
Here are some suggestions from Women's Anatomy of Arousal for women about how to become orgasmically proficient -- in other words, able to have an orgasm whenever you want.
- Honor where you are in your journey. Wherever you are, it's totally okay, and since this is all learnable stuff, there's no need to despair.
- Make a personal commitment to expand your arousal paths -- and to do it on your own, not with a partner.
- Practice your basics -- a lot! Get really good at using your triad of breath, sound and movement to pump up your sexual energy.
- Play with your toys. For many women, the easiest path to orgasm involves the use of an additional tool -- a vibrator.
- Play and practice without an agenda other than exploring your own pleasure. Generally speaking, plenty of practice without pressure will yield orgasmic results. When you can travel to your orgasmic destination every time, you've developed orgasmic proficiency.
Once you've got this down, you can make to the next stage of mastery, which involves being able to have bigger and more orgasms -- and even to have them without direct genital stimulation!