What is All About Intimacy?

All About Intimacy is a short series of discussion-based workshops centering around personal experiences of love, sex, friendship, and intimate relationships more generally. It arose from a philosophy café focusing on the role of sex in our lives, and how it is integrated or compartmentalized into the rest of our lives.

 These events are fundamentally structured through conversation. 

There are no expert educators – we’re all working this out together and learning from each other.

 There are facilitators who are really good at making conversations like this interesting and exciting.

Most of the time will be spent in conversation: some in small groups, some in a larger group. There will be chances to find the people who share your interests, and chances to meet lots of new people of all sorts. 

Why Talk About Intimacy?

What's Your Story?

We all live with a set of expectations and norms that guide how we make sense of intimacy in its various forms, including sex, love, and friendship. These can often be invisible to us, even as they guide us. 

Taking time to look at the assumptions that may be going unnoticed can be really fun, potentially transformative, and a way to bond and get to know other people. We can reflect on the ways our relationships have been guided in the past, and maybe find ways to change them moving forward.

Talking with others about this can be fun, exciting, and transformative

The possibilities of where and when we can talk about intimacy are often limited.  

We want to expand these possibilities by creating a different kind of space that fosters collaborative exploration, curiosity, and connection. 

Talk with people like you, and also people different from you

There’s no “right” sort of person for this event. You’re welcome if you’ve spent lots of time talking about things like this, but also if this feels very new to you. You’re welcome whoever you are: whether you’re queer, straight, trans, poly, monogamous, kinky, vanilla, slutty, traditional, adventurous, asexual, religious, nervous, introverted, extraverted, any combination of the above… or something totally different.

Some Things to know: 

These are 2SLGBTQ+ friendly events. 

We welcome and encourage attendance from those whose gender and sexual identities are marginalized and whose experiences of intimacy in all its forms are underrepresented and often misrepresented

We will be inviting you to talk with others, in small groups, about your personal experiences of intimacy, sex, love, friendship, and connection. 

You never have to share more than you are comfortable with in any conversation. We aim to make the space safe and comfortable, and expect that all attendees work to do the same for others and themselves.