Celebrating one year of this newsletter
Grateful for this journey with you
Hey horny readers! We’re celebrating one year of this newsletter! I am so grateful for you. If there’s anything that you could do to support this publication (other than subscribing, of course), it’s sharing it with people who you think would also want to be hilariously informed. Please click on the button and send Adult Sex Ed to someone you know!
Next week, I’m kicking off a fresh year and announcing some new benefits for paid members. I’m also announcing upcoming Adult Sex Ed Live Shows in both NY and LA!
Adult Sex Ed comedically challenges why we think what we think about sex. In case you’re new, I’m Dani Faith Leonard, a comedy writer, film producer, and performer. In 2018, I started a comedy show called Adult Sex Ed and launched this newsletter last year. Each week, I take a fun deep dive into a topic that I’ve been researching. Want to know more? Read the whole description on substack here.
Ready to get a little bit smarter? Ok! Let’s go!
ONE YEAR!
As I wrote in the intro, we’re celebrating one year of this newsletter. The gift I decided to give myself is the gift of not researching and writing this week! Here’s some behind-the-scenes info:
Each newsletter takes me about four hours to write and design, not including the time I spend choosing a topic and researching. Recently I’ve been working on a documentary (it’s not sex-related and I can’t wait to tell you about it!), so it’s hard to find the time! In the next year of this venture, hopefully I’ll finally learn to batch a few topics in advance.
The research isn’t straightforward! Especially for the history topics. The internet usually holds a very basic and/or revisionist version of history and I have to make time to plug the holes.
This substack grew out of a live comedy show that I’ve hosted since 2018. Next week, I’ll announce upcoming dates, so stay tuned!
Earlier today, I posted the top five emails that I’d want someone to read on instagram. I chose these five because they were so much fun for me to research, and important to read for different reasons. Here they are:
The history of birth control is so much fun for me because when women invented it, it usually worked, and when men invented it, it was poison. Like Lysol (seriously, you have to read it).
Words matter and the evolution of slang is a great tool to determine cultural attitudes over time.
Moving on to current events, back in November I wrote about the creepy Speaker of the House (in the U.S.), Mike Johnson.
This newsletter explored the online anti-p*rn movement, which features strange influencers and conspiracy theories.
Lastly, there are so many problematic gurus around today. I did a deep dive on John Harvey Kellogg, who invented cornflakes, hated chronic masturbators, and shot gallons of yogurt into his own ass everyday.
I’m looking forward to starting fresh next week and kicking off another year! Cheers. Thanks for plugging the holes in your education with me.
—Dani
Read all past newsletters here!