If you were a lesbian couple, where would you think to go to learn about "navigating the medical world as a lesbian couple, communication between the birth and non-birth mother, changing desires, and 'donor dads.'"?
Perhaps your local sex toy store?
No, not the one under the overpass with the blocked up windows and purple neon sign staffed by creepy ex-cons. Your local feminist sex toy store. The kind whose atmosphere is described as "like a shoe store except for the displays of lube and vibrators," sports an extensive how-to library, and hosts public educational and social events.
In this case, Brooklyn's Babeland store, to be exact, which is hosting a discussion of lesbian parenting next Wednesday, April 29, as part of its ongoing "Sexy Moms Series." (Similar events also happen at Babeland's West Coast stores.)
Wedensday's event will feature Lauren Abrams, a community health center midwife from Park Slope, who will speak about her experience as a lesbian partner raising two children and Babeland co-founder Claire Cavanah, who will about her experience as a single lesbian mom. Young kids are welcome; a corner of (kids) toys will be available.
The monthly series, which is billed as "a night for moms looking to put the zing back in their sex lives.
We’ll discuss issues relating to desire, body image, making time for
sex, and what it means to be a sex-positive family," is itself almost a year old. Past topics have included nutrition, sex and the new parent, and "sex, sanity, and sleep."
It makes more sense to me than discussing sex and parenting with doctors who don't know much about either or looking for help in the pages of Cosmo (kids? what kids?) or Parenting (sex? what sex?).
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