Quickies
Main Stage Hall - 20-30 Minutes
1,000 people with vulvas masturbated for science...here's what happened
12:00 PM
This talk explores the groundbreaking Magic Wand Wellness Study - the first intervention study to examine how a pleasure product can impact overall quality of life. With over 1,000 participants (72% LGBTQ, 32% gender expansive, ages 18–84), the findings reveal that daily masturbation can significantly improve body image, confidence, stress levels, sleep, and more. We’ll dive into the data and unpack the broader cultural and public health implications, including how pleasure can - and should - be recognized as a powerful tool for wellness.
PresenterMake Love Not Porn: Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference.
12:45 PM
Maple Syrup shares about her journey as a MakeLoveNotPornstar. She reveals how both watching and sharing videos of unscripted sex, in all its glorious, silly, beautiful, messy, reassuring humanness is changing the way we have sex and experience pleasure. Her talk will be followed by a brief Q&A about how to get started with sharing your own videos on makelovenotporn.tv.
PresenterPerimenopause isn’t the beginning of the end of your sexy self - it’s the start of a new era. Sex and Pleasure Educator Luna Matatas explores how our changing relationship to our bodies and desires can be an opportunity to redefine your pleasure. Join this session to understand how shifting bodies and brains impact our desire, arousal and body confidence. This session will bust myths, explore pleasure practices and build skills to get curious about erotic creativity and sensual living. From sex toy joy to reclaiming your sexiness - Luna has got you covered. Come for the lube tips, stay for the liberation.
Pleasure in Perimenopause
1:30 PM
PresenterSexual Confidence & Intelligence: The New Power Couple
3:00 PM
True sexual confidence isn’t about performance, technique, or fitting into someone else’s fantasy - it’s about knowing yourself so deeply that your pleasure becomes an unshakable source of power. In this bold, playful, and transformative talk, sex and intimacy coach Serena Haines reveals how sexual intelligence - the ability to understand, communicate, and adapt to your erotic self - can ignite every part of your life.
With warmth, humor, and science-backed insight, Serena will guide you through the art of reading your own body, embracing curiosity over judgment, and cultivating confidence that radiates far beyond the bedroom. You’ll discover how erotic adaptability is the secret to lasting passion, resilient relationships, and a fully expressed self - no matter your age, relationship status, or body’s changes over time.
Get ready to leave turned on by your own life, armed with tools to claim your pleasure as both your birthright and your superpower.
PresenterHot & Hurting: Disability and Chronic Pain in an Erotic Body
3:45 PM
Our bodies carry so many stories — of touch, of longing, of ache, of joy, of pain, of limitiation. For those living with disability or chronic pain, pleasure can sometimes feel far away, hidden behind layers of management, adaptation, or exhaustion.
This workshop is an invitation to come closer.
Closer to expanding your capacity for sensation - the positive and not so positive.
Closer to your own pace and your own sense of possibility.
Closer to the erotic self who has always been here, waiting to be met with tenderness and curiosity.
Through guided somatic explorations, gentle invitational conversation, and practical hands on tools, we will explore how pain and pleasure can exist in the same body, the same breath, the same moment. Together, we will honour the ways our bodies love, create, and connect — not in spite of their differences, but because of them.
PresenterSexual Communication and Radical Consent
4:30 PM
Consent isn’t just a checklist—it’s a conversation. In this session, we’ll unpack what “Yes” and “No” really look like, and the many shades in between. Instead of the usual consent talk, we’ll reframe it through its roots: from the Latin con (with, together) and sentire (to feel). Consent literally means to feel together - and that changes everything. Through stories and everyday examples, we’ll explore how consent shows up in our daily lives and how that deeper understanding can make intimacy clearer, kinder, and a lot more human.
Sabrina Baldini
PresenterWired for Desire: How Tech Shapes our Sex Lives
5:15 PM
Dating has gone digital - but are we more connected, or just more confused? In this panel, we’ll dive into how dating apps, social media, and shifting norms are changing the way we approach sex, love, and everything in between. We’ll talk situationships, swipe fatigue, and the weird mix of intimacy and performance online. Plus, with in-person events making a comeback, we’ll explore why face-to-face connection still matters - maybe more than ever. Whether you're navigating modern romance or just curious where it's all headed, this is a real talk about the future of relationships in a tech-saturated world.
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