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Spend your holiday gift money on sex toys!
All toys*, DVDs, calendars, and holiday cards will be 25% off on December 27, 28, and 29th. Get 'em while you can, it's a first come first served sale on in store items only.
* harnesses and leather stuff excluded.
December 27th 11-7
December 28th 12-5
December 29th 11-6

The Bring a Bag and Save campaign was a huge success! Most of you chose not to take a bag over the past few months, cutting back our bag usage by about 80%. For the rest of 2008, we'll donate 5 cents to the Venus Envy Bursary Fund every time you just say no to a bag!

Health Canada is warning consumers not to use Eros Fire, a product promoted to enhance sexual performance, as this product may pose serious health risks.
For more information check this article from Health Canada.

A night where the arts community comes together to support Canadians for Choice.
Looking to have a cheeky-good time and support a great cause? Come out to Safe Sex in the City 2 – annual event celebrating healthy sexuality and pro-choice issues in Canada in support of Canadians for Choice. A great showcase of local artists will welcome you to Arts Court on Thursday December 4th.

Fantastic acts will help you have a good time including the wonderfully talented spoken word artist Doretta Charles, the wondrous filmmaker Pixie Cram, awesome local indie band the Weathermakers…and more! There will also be a DIY nipple tassle table with the help of Melanie (from Spins and Needles)!

Hosted by Excedera.

Thursday December 4th — TONIGHT
8-11pm
Arts Court Studio – 2 Daly Avenue

Wheelchair accessible. The wheelchair entrance is to the left of the main entrance at 2 Daly Avenue

$10-$12 tickets available from November 14th at:

Venus Envy (cash only) 312 Lisgar St. (@ Bank)

Mother Tongue Books Bank St 1067 Bank St. (@ Sunnyside)

Divergence Movie Night presents "The Believers"
Built around the world's first transgender gospel choir, Transcendence Gospel Choir, The Believers is an unprecedented documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, gender, and religion. It follows their shaky beginnings—a heartwarmingly chaotic, cacophonous group unable to agree on much of anything, arguing over appropriate wardrobe and learning to sing with transitioning voices—through their transformation into the polished, award-winning choir and close-knit family they are today. Revealing the lives of the members and their personal struggles, it deals with how they reconcile their gender identity against a religious belief that changing one's gender goes against the word of God. The intimate personal stories shed light on the complexity of balancing social change, family history, religion and identity.
80 minutes
Tuesday, December 16th
Doors 7pm, movie 7:30pm at Club SAW, 67 Nicholas
Free admission, $5 suggested donation.
flyer: http://divergencemovienight.com

Queer Women Ottawa is hosting a social at Second Cup at the corner of Rideau and Dalhousie on December 5th at 7PM.

Later the group will go to the Lookout for drinking/dancing/etc so make sure to bring your ID.

Queer (lesbian, bisexual, and curious) women are welcome along with their female supporters.

For more information e-mail Kristina at founder@queerwomenottawa.net

Don't miss the Ottawa premiere screening of ORGASMIC BIRTH, a goundbreaking documentary film by Debra Pascali-Bonaro. A panel discussion with local birth professionals and consumers will follow. All funds go to Consumers Supporting Midwifery Care and the Mothercraft Volunteer Birth Companion Program.

Not suitable for children (babes in arms are okay)
Limited seating available. Tickets: $10 in advance.
Tickets at the door (if available): $15

Friday, December 5, 2008
7:00pm—9:30pm
St. Paul's University Auditorium
223 Main Street

Call 613-722-8642 or 613-721-1363 for tickets
or pick yours up at Milkface Nursingwear—385 Danforth Ave in Westboro
(behind Mountain Equipment Co-op).

Orgasmic Birth, a new documentary film by internationally respected educator, doula and birthing expert Debra Pascali-Bonaro, examines the intimate nature of birth and the powerful role it plays in women's lives when they are permitted to experience it fully. Orgasmic Birth asks women to reexamine what they think they know about giving birth and the potential it holds.

"Undisturbed birth is an integral part of women's sexuality and a widely neglected human right," states Pascali_Bonaro, who began videotaping births around the world more than five years ago. Her goal: to educate and inspire people to consider their options and the implications of the circumstances of birth for women's and babies' health and well-being. As Dr. Northrup cautions in the film, people have been "brainwashed" to view birth, not as a natural process, but as "an emergency waiting to happen."

Witness the everyday miracle of pleasurable birth, and its infinite possibilities, in this remarkable film and understand how different birth can be from what is so commonly expected in Canada today. The couples featured in Orgasmic Birth share a commitment to broadcasting the truth about the heights to which birth can soar. They candidly discuss their fears and reveal ways in which support and nurturing empowered them to labour and birth their babies safely and pleasurably.

Well known birth specialists who appear in the film include Christiane Northrup, MD, best-selling author and OBGYN; Ina-May Gaskin, founder/director of the Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tenn.; Sarah J. Buckley, MD, author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering; Elizabeth Davis, BA, CPM, co-founder and director of the National Midwifery Institute; and maternity care specialist Marsden Wagner, MD, former director of Women's and Children's Health for the World Health Organization.


Watch the web site for the air date this fall of a special feature about Orgasmic Birth on the ABC-TV news show "20/20."

For more information about the film, and to read or submit birth stories, please visit www.orgasmicbirth.com

Calling all lesbian-identified women,

Do you identify as a lesbian woman? Are you between the ages of 18 and 35? If so, you are eligible to participate in a research study on lesbian sexuality.

The purpose of the study is to gain an understanding of how lesbians describe their patterns of sexual response. The study will particularly focus on sexual desire, sexual arousal, and orgasm. Individual interviews will be held. Following the interview session, there will be a questionnaire. Don't be shy, you can be as personal or objective as you feel comfortable.

Participants sought for this study are women who identify as lesbian, aged 18-35, who are premenopausal and have oral and written proficiency in English. For participating in this study, you will receive a $10 gift card of your choice (e.g. Starbucks, Chapters, Blockbuster, etc…). Only 1-1.5 hours of your time are required for participating in the study. Participating in a study on lesbian sexuality may present you with an ideal opportunity to learn more about your own sexuality and sexual behaviours. You will also have the chance to contribute to an area of research that is greatly understudied.

If you are interested in participating in an interview, email Ashley Ronson (aronson@uoguelph.ca), to coordinate your availability. This research is conducted under the supervision of Dr. Robin Milhausen from the University of Guelph as part of a Masters thesis.

This series explores the emptiness of desire; the fragmented narratives and signs that we use to construct the erotic as functioning by virtue of the unsaid, where bare representation opens the door to the play of imagination and meaning. Using stencils, where text/images are created through use of empty spaces, and working on found objects (vinyls, wood, metal), my work is primarily an observation of the interdependent shreds surrounding us that we use to create stories of being.

We're looking for an artist to show their work in January and February, 2009. Please contact shelley@venusenvy.ca if you're interested.

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