Ashley is a trained sexual health educator and an advocate for inclusive, queer, pleasure-focused sex ed. As a young person, she had very little sexual health education, but has a vivid memory of a textbook with pictures of STI’s (STD’s, at the time) making the rounds around her Grade 10 classroom. This is why she starts each presentation for young people with the clip from Mean Girls, quoting the gym teacher who states “Don’t have sex because you’ll get pregnant and die.” to drive home how harmful fear-based education is.

In her 20’s, Ashley was a Hanky Panky party rep and loved being invited into people’s homes to talk about sex toys. Like all home party businesses, the circle of people wanting home parties got smaller and smaller and eventually closed.

As a wellness coordinator at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, BC, Ashley was able to start an on-campus pleasure products shop, offering sex toys to students (and staff) at affordable prices, with a side of education. And lube. So much lube.

Ashley loves teaching people about their bodies and their partners bodies, and what pleasure and consent and bodily autonomy should look like in all types of relationships.