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Who are we?
Curious Creatures believes in a world where personal empowerment, sexual freedom, diversity of expression, and spectacularly good communication skills are the norm. It's one thing to agree that, in theory, consent and communication and safety are important. Putting that into practice, however, is a little harder. We help you 'do the do'.

How?

• We run a wide range of sexuality and communication workshops (primarily in Melbourne Australia, also interstate).
• We run a monthly sex-party ~120 people strong, Curiosity, that is all about consent put into practice, and celebrating diversity. It's a more sex-positive world, in action. Read an external review.
• We host a sexuality podcast.
• We write sexuality articles.
• We speak.
• We run online courses.
• We offer private coaching.
• We teach consent coupled with hedonistic fun! We welcome everyone, teach them to respect their own and others' boundaries, and help them develop their sexuality at their own perfect pace.

Curious Creatures has been running for six years, and has educated thousands of people in sex-positivity.

roger butler

Rog has been creating and facilitating Curious Creatures' 15+ sexuality workshops for six years. Prior to this they facilitated well over a thousand workshops across various industries.

They're easily one of Australia's most prolific sexuality workshop facilitators. Their training includes Process Oriented Psychology and group facilitation, coupled with extensive sexuality education.

They were brought up white, middle-class, mostly heterosexual, and male. In addition to that lineage, they now identify as kinky, tantric, polyamorous, queer, and very, very curious!

All photography credit Emmy Morgan Brown.

speaking ENGAGEMENTS

• Melbourne Writers Festival, "The Death (and Rebirth) of your Sex Life", August 2018, with Dr Linda Kirkman.
  
• Society of Australian Sexologists, "What Good Kink Practice can teach us about Communication, Consent, and Empowerment", August 2018.
  
• ​The Age newspaper, "About Last Night", 2017.
• Festival of Really Good Sex, various workshops, 2016.
• ABC Television and Netflix, "Luke Warm Sex", 2015, as specialist.
• Celebrating Sexuality Festival, various workshops and performances, 2013.
• Pleasure Salon Melbourne, "For the Love of Men", 2012.
• Pleasure Salon Melbourne, "The Year's Best", 2012.
• Huffington Post Live, "10 Things I Wish I'd Been Told About Porn", 2012.
  

curious creatures team

dr linda kirkman

curiosity co-host
& sex counselor

Dr Linda Kirkman co-hosts sex-party, Curiosity, and is also its overseeing counsellor.

She's a sex therapist, sexuality educator, and relationship researcher with a PhD on wellbeing and alternative relationships.

Linda's been a counsellor in schools, women’s health and universities for over 25 years.

Linda is available for interviews, speaking engagements, and can be commissioned to write articles. Her expertise includes advocating for awareness/respect for diversity (sexuality, gender, lawful sexual expression), and wellbeing in alternative relationships. Book her.

Read:
Linda's papers & presentations.

You can find more about Linda at lindakirkman.org

sair gryphon

co-facilitator
& 'adminatrix'

 Sair Gryphon serves Curious Creatures in an administration and marketing capacity, and writes articles. They also co-facilitate workshops.

They were raised massively sex-negative, and have embraced sex-positivity as a path of healing, world-shattering discoveries, and (wait for it!) fun. They currently identify as queer, ethically poly, kinky, genderfluid, and a member in good standing of the worldwide community of humans. None of this is fixed in stone.

Sair is available for interviews, speaking engagements, and can be commissioned to write articles/poems/satire. Their expertise includes heartful relating, exploring sexuality mindfully, and the journey of embracing diversity (in self and others). Book them.

Read:
*Sexuality workshops and play spaces lubricated my gender fluidity (Archer)
*What I learned about myself at my first sex-party (MamaMia)

tess

curiosity co-host
& co-facilitator

Tess co-hosts sex-party, Curiosity, and regularly co-facilitates Curious Creatures workshops.

They co-created Accessible Little Sex Games with Rog.

Tess is an occupational therapist with a deep passion for sexuality in neurological rehabilitation and disability (in community and clinical settings).

They are determined to enable all humans to explore sexuality, sexual expression and embodiment regardless of/including persons with injury, chronic illness, differently abled bodies and neurological conditions.

Tess is available for interviews. Their expertise includes rehabilitation and sexuality therapies with neurological, spinal cord injury, cardiac, pulmonary, musculoskeletal & chronic illness clients and making sexual exploration more accessible. It also includes kink, and expanding sex-positive culture. Book them.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Dossie Easton (San Francisco)
Author of 'The Ethical Slut',  'The New Topping Book', 'The New Bottoming Book',  'Radical Ecstasy', and  'When Someone you love is Kinky'
"Recently I was privileged to share a day of teaching with Rog, and to enjoy his expertise at facilitating group experience. In this instance, he skilfully transformed a group of participants mostly unknown to each other into a community, and welcomed the diversity of experience in sex and gender that enriched our weekend intensive.  As a teacher, Rog always shines brightly, offering a series of participatory exercises facilitating communication about identities and orientations that affirmed everyone’s life choices, and were also downright fun."