Curious Creatures: Towards a world that is sex-positive, more inclusive, and safer.
Where communities are educated and incredibly good at communication and consent.
Where individuals are empowered, liberated, and comfortably self-exploring.
Hello!
Thanks for your interest in Curious Creatures.
Over the course of 2024 we finished most of our activities, but we're still running our podcast, and you can still get our Consent Cards.
Curious Creatures was started when a friend and I wanted to share some information with friends about how to explore one's sexual interests in a psychologically and physically safer way.
Over ~12 years, I developed the business to the point where I was sometimes teaching 20 different workshops at a time, to over ten thousand people, and about twenty thousand enrolments in total. Without a doubt, Curious Creatures was the largest and most prolific in its field. It was also active interstate and internationally, with guest presenters, articles, public speaking, and its own podcast (with a listenership of around twenty thousand people).
The core messages throughout all activities have been around communication, relationship skills, sex-positivity, and self-development.
It has been wild. It has been an honour to hold space for so many of you, and I am very proud of us all. I have a solid sense of satisfaction, and I know from feedback that it's brought a lot of benefit. I have been told many times that people's lives have been changed, and leaders in the local sexuality scenes have noticed a measurable change in the way consent plays out thanks to the influence of Curious Creatures.
It's also been a supremely challenging sector to be a leader in; in this age of polarised social media politics and separatism, it's become almost a sport to take down leaders, especially sexuality leaders, and especially ones that present like me. This was a price I was okay to pay for a time, but it reached a tipping point, and I've chosen to stop front-line teaching and leadership.
The workshops I used to run included:
Psychology workshops (all very heavily influenced by, and with thanks to, Process Oriented Psychology)
- The Joy of Accusations (relationship conflict work)
- Community Dialog (group conflict resolution)
- Playing With The Cards You've Been Dealt (about rank, power, and privilege).
Sexuality workshops
- Fun Little Sex Games (really 'therapeutic little sex games').
- Adventurous Touch and Intimacy (the original workshop, about how to explore interests and taboos)
...and various others, all with the intention of imparting communication skills, consent as a model of getting your best possible experiences, and following yourself rather than external models of what you're meant to do.
I also started a radical play-space, aimed at building community and creating a learning environment for people exploring sexuality. In 2024 I sold this stand-alone event, which has been rebranded and continues to operate as 'Luscious'.
Our Consent Cards are effectively a sex-education on a card. There's a version for general sexual activities, and a version for kink activities. For the time being, they're still available.
I will be continuing my podcast, Curious Conversations About Sex, at least for the time being. I may do an episode soon with more detail around why I'm stepping down.
I won't be doing anything commercial in this same sector going forwards, but if I do other things that are relevant - such as 'train the trainer' workshops - I'll advise either here or via my old mailing list. You can contact me if you'd like to be on this mailing list.
Again, thanks for your support and interest over the years. It has been a spectacularly interesting world to share with you, and I'm so glad that a friend and I took that first step, 12 years ago, to offer to share a few things we'd learned. It was the best kind of slippery slope from there.
Love, Rog.
September 2024.
Thanks for your interest in Curious Creatures.
Over the course of 2024 we finished most of our activities, but we're still running our podcast, and you can still get our Consent Cards.
Curious Creatures was started when a friend and I wanted to share some information with friends about how to explore one's sexual interests in a psychologically and physically safer way.
Over ~12 years, I developed the business to the point where I was sometimes teaching 20 different workshops at a time, to over ten thousand people, and about twenty thousand enrolments in total. Without a doubt, Curious Creatures was the largest and most prolific in its field. It was also active interstate and internationally, with guest presenters, articles, public speaking, and its own podcast (with a listenership of around twenty thousand people).
The core messages throughout all activities have been around communication, relationship skills, sex-positivity, and self-development.
It has been wild. It has been an honour to hold space for so many of you, and I am very proud of us all. I have a solid sense of satisfaction, and I know from feedback that it's brought a lot of benefit. I have been told many times that people's lives have been changed, and leaders in the local sexuality scenes have noticed a measurable change in the way consent plays out thanks to the influence of Curious Creatures.
It's also been a supremely challenging sector to be a leader in; in this age of polarised social media politics and separatism, it's become almost a sport to take down leaders, especially sexuality leaders, and especially ones that present like me. This was a price I was okay to pay for a time, but it reached a tipping point, and I've chosen to stop front-line teaching and leadership.
The workshops I used to run included:
Psychology workshops (all very heavily influenced by, and with thanks to, Process Oriented Psychology)
- The Joy of Accusations (relationship conflict work)
- Community Dialog (group conflict resolution)
- Playing With The Cards You've Been Dealt (about rank, power, and privilege).
Sexuality workshops
- Fun Little Sex Games (really 'therapeutic little sex games').
- Adventurous Touch and Intimacy (the original workshop, about how to explore interests and taboos)
...and various others, all with the intention of imparting communication skills, consent as a model of getting your best possible experiences, and following yourself rather than external models of what you're meant to do.
I also started a radical play-space, aimed at building community and creating a learning environment for people exploring sexuality. In 2024 I sold this stand-alone event, which has been rebranded and continues to operate as 'Luscious'.
Our Consent Cards are effectively a sex-education on a card. There's a version for general sexual activities, and a version for kink activities. For the time being, they're still available.
I will be continuing my podcast, Curious Conversations About Sex, at least for the time being. I may do an episode soon with more detail around why I'm stepping down.
I won't be doing anything commercial in this same sector going forwards, but if I do other things that are relevant - such as 'train the trainer' workshops - I'll advise either here or via my old mailing list. You can contact me if you'd like to be on this mailing list.
Again, thanks for your support and interest over the years. It has been a spectacularly interesting world to share with you, and I'm so glad that a friend and I took that first step, 12 years ago, to offer to share a few things we'd learned. It was the best kind of slippery slope from there.
Love, Rog.
September 2024.