FISHBOWL MAGAZINE AUGUST 2021

August 2021 - FISSUE #155

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Seth Shugar

Put your Past in the Past page 9

Phöenix Lazare new album “Gold” page 3 now available

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On Our Cover

Phöenix Lazarenew album Gold Phöenix Lazare masterfully melds the intimacy of folk

Sidestepping a professional recording studio

music with alluring pop melodies on Gold, a self-produced

altogether, Lazare began to create Gold at home

debut album that charts her personal journey navigating

in Nashville, where she lived for a time after

growth. A native of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia,

graduating from Berklee College of Music in

Lazare has charted a shimmering creative path through

2017 with a degree in song writing. Phöenix

Boston, Nashville, and Toronto and back, where she

finished recording the album at her family’s

completed the album.

home studio and in her own home studio,

“The writing and recording process has seen a

too,

lot of time and a lot of places. I look at this album as a

cultivating

a

comfortable

creative

atmosphere. Coming from a musical family,

transition - from girl to woman, from toxic relationships

Lazare has been singing ever since she

to healthy balance... digging through dirt to find the

could speak. At 12, her parents gifted

gold. It reflects where I’ve been and dreams about

her a classical guitar and almost

where I’m going.”

instantly she began writing her

Throughout its 10 original tracks, Gold introduces

own songs as she learned to play

Lazare as a down-to-earth songwriter who shows her

the instrument.

vulnerability – and willingly shares that emotional

Her father, electric guitarist

openness with others. Her musical inspirations range

Christopher Lazare, serves as

from Joni Mitchell to John Mayer, and like those

her duet partner on “Common

artists, she has created a warm sonic style that stays

Ground,” a powerful ballad

authentic to her songs.

written with Michael Martinez

That’s especially true on the title track to Gold,

in 2016 during a turbulent

a gleaming example of her brave lyricism and

American election cycle. The

compelling voice. “That song embodies who I am

album

as a person and who I am as an artist,” she says. “I

also

features

her

brother Atom Lazare on drum

wrote it about my fiancé, looking into our future with

set and her partner Justin Kelley

hope, almost as if through gold-tinted glasses.”

on electric guitar, as well as a handful of friends to round out the arrangements, keeping the vibe intimate and familiar.

Throughout the autobiographical album, Lazare mines her most formative experiences, such as an early breakup that guided her toward a better partner (“The Other Side”), or being used in a relationship (“Rubberband”).

Although Gold gathers glimpses of the last decade, it is Lazare’s keen ability as a producer and storyteller that makes this lustrous collection feel cohesive and complete.

“I look back on these songs as snapshots of my life, echoing experiences that ultimately made me a better person,” she says.

“The album is for a listener to get to know me - I know I got to know myself in the process. Whether through love, loss or finding faith, it is about growing from those experiences.”

Listen to the new album Gold, available everywhere now. Find more and connect with Phöenix at www.phoenixlazare.com. p h o to cred i t s t a s i a g ar raway

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SALT SPRING ARTS

July 21 — August 8 The State Of The World And The Feel Of The Earth Stefanie Denz, Jette Leimbigler, Sibylle Leimbigler & LeeAnn Norgard Curator: Stefanie Denz Two ceramicists and two painters inspired by their natural and social environment.

Jette Leimbigler’s tactile ceramics speak to weathered objects that have experienced the passage of time through rich texture and subtle glazes. LeeAnn Norgard’s fine porcelain biological ceramics show the intricacy and perfection of nature’s forms. Paintings include fairytalelike images by Sibylle Leimbigler, drawing on the landscapes of her native Germany as backdrops for the unfolding scenes. Stefanie Denz includes her own series which evoke place, its shadows and illusive theatrical figures.

Aug 11 — Aug 29, Opening & Artist Talk Aug 12 | 5 PM Title: This Land — Artworks in Monochrome Sarah Hyams Sibéal Foyle, Anna Gustavson, Esme Hendrick-Wong, Jim Holyoak, Juliet Kemble, Juliet Kemble & Lucas Wolf Statement: This Land — Artworks in Monochrome, is an exploration of our environment in its most essential, pared down form. Bringing seven diverse artists together with a limited colour palette, we see aspects of land in its bare bones and a conversation which is personal and relatable. For some artists monochrome is already a predominant choice, for others, they are stretched to explore working with this intentional limitation, through painting, enamel and jewellery, and hand-dyed textiles.

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August Offerings Tuesday, August 10 Some very special community members have been meeting each week and dancing together for quite a few years. Over the last year some of the group moved online and more recently they have taken their dance outside, using Silent Disco Headsets.

Unfortunately due to lack of fundraising from the various Island organizations last year the program ran out of funds to support Shauna Devlin, who has been offering movement classes to the community since 2014. Shauna decided to try a Gofundme fundraiser and very quickly the community supported the cause, including a very generous donation from Country Grocer, raising enough to cover all costs until December!

From Shauna: “the healing benefits of dancing together are massive. Being and moving together we learn to understand not only ourselves but each other in a deeply profound manner.

Dancing exercises not only the body but the heart, mind and soul.

When we use facilitated free dance, where there is no getting it wrong or right or steps to follow, we are able to access collective joy, something that all beings have a right to experience. We are building stronger communities everytime we dance together.”

Shauna is a Dance Temple DJ, 5Rhythms Facilitator and founder of Dance Your Ability, providing dance space for kids, elders and everyone in between. danceyourability.com shauandevlin.net

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Poetry of Prayer Online on Zoom 7 to 8:30 pm

Poetry can not only speak of the holy but also address the holy, in words that are at once poetry and prayer. Join us for an evening of prayer poems, of sharing words that address the divine. Poems from all traditions are welcome, as well as those from no particular tradition. You are welcome to bring a poem to read or just to listen to poems brought by others and share your response. The evening will be facilitated by Salt Spring poet Brian Day. Please register at staroftheseassi@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link.

Donations for participation in events are welcome.

Sexual Assault Response Program Launched July 15th Islanders Working Against Violence (IWAV) is pleased to announce the launch of its Sexual Assault Response Program. Sexual assault survivors on the Southern Gulf Islands can now access a free, coordinated emergency response by a team of professionals.

This free, confidential program is available 24/7 via a sexual assault response line (250) 931-7712 or toll-free 1-833-946-1706 Within 7 days of an assault, survivors of all genders, aged 13+, can access the emergency response. This includes telephone or in-person sessions for emotional and practical support and information about medical services and criminal justice processes.

Survivors can have IWAV staff accompany them at the hospital for medical support or the RCMP to report the assault.

Survivors of sexual assault can receive support to discuss options, information, safety planning, and get referrals to other service providers—available weekdays during business hours.

Ongoing counselling is available to youth and female-identified survivors of recent or historic sexual assault.

Survivors are always in charge of how to proceed and when to end support. Their safety and comfort is always prioritized; and they’re listened to, respected, and believed.

For more information: iwav.org/sexual-assault-response-program

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Communion

at the Salt Spring Gallery July 23 - August 11 Olga practiced Aboriginal law for many years before returning to her love of the human figure in visual art. In 2010, she exhibited in her first juried art prize show in Ottawa, and has been exhibiting her figurative work ever since. In 2016, she moved with her husband to a high forested hillside on Salt Spring Island and set up her studio sur-rounded by towering Douglas fir, enormous-leafed maple, and sinuous arbutus trees, with eagles soaring by at eye-level.

“Salt Spring Island changed me. I see myself primarily as a figurative artist, but once I began entering the forest, listening to it, feeling it around me, something moved within me. I felt the same passion I feel for the human figure, but on a different level: an an-cient kinship. There is, in the forest, a presence of masculine and feminine and the in-between, in a slowly unfolding drama that sometimes quickens. For the first time in my life, I wanted to paint the landscape - right there, in the moment, in it. And so began my plein air landscape painting, which I believe is an extension of my figurative practice.”

“Communion,” at the Salt Spring Gallery July 23 - August 11, is an intensely personal testament to Olga’s relationship with the forest.

The landscapes are all painted outside, in an act of communion with the forest. They mark the changing colours throughout the day and the play of light from one moment to the next, The heat of the sun, and the coolness - even cold! - of shade in the same spot as a cloud passes by. The buzz of the ground bee, the wasp on patrol at the same time each afternoon, the chirp of the tree frog, the gang of chickadees grazing the artist’s shoulder. The shrew scampering over her foot. The sudden crash of a dead tree branch from on high.

The fir needles dropped onto her palette. These are all present all at once in the layers, textures, and mixtures of Communion.

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Tree Stories

Oil Paintings by Cheryl Long August 13-September 1 at the Salt Spring Gallery of Fine Art Opening reception: August 13th 5-7 pm This last year in painting has been all about trees in their different phases of life-stumps, driftwood and those still standing tall in the forest.

I found Port Renfrews’ beach of epic driftwood to be full of stories waiting to be told. On my first visit, camping on the beach, a misty, full-moon night allowed me to get to know the giant, mysterious forms that congregated together, like actors on a stage.

I was intrigued by the tales these pieces of driftwood could tell... centuries lived as saplings and trees, so still and peaceful before finally collapsing into the stormy Pacific where wild weather carried them out to sea, and finally back to land. I imagine that, like very old people, their characters become more pronounced with age, and their stories become clearer to those who care to see.

This show also features some beautiful old cedars from Bromley rock near Princeton and Ruckle Park on Salt Spring Island. These powerful characters inspired me to explore their subtleties of shape and colour, and how they support and nurture the life around them.

Last but not least, I turned my attention to stumps. Simultaneously surrendering to the earth, yet still reaching for the heavens, the majesty of stumps reminded me of my own human condition. I may be grounded, but my spirit still yearns for transcendence.

My goal as an artist is to express the Power and Grace I perceive in the landscape. Even though nature is both complex and subtle, my hope is to weave seemingly chaotic movements of colour and form into one unified expression on the canvas.

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Josselin Brain and her team at Salt Spring Car Rentals know how to see the island.

For a short ride, start by heading up to Fernwood to get comfortable with your scooter then around to Southy Point, carry on down Sunset Drive where there, riders will find so many beautiful farms and properties. Circling through to Vesuvius and then back to town. Traffic is slower on this route and it is very scenic... Everyone loves it.

Have a little more time on your hands? Carry on through Ganges towards Fulford Harbour. Josselin usually suggests taking the main road, even though it’s pretty busy getting up the hill and out of town, it’s worth it to go past the beautiful wineries. Then after a visit to Fulford Village, travel down Beaver Point Road, jump in Stowel Lake to cool off then carry on to Reynolds Road to the famous goat cheese farm, then carry on to the bread shop and finish at Ruckle Provincial Park (Nice way to pick up cheese and bread for a picnic there). You’ll also see an array of great farm stands with local veggies along the way.

Coming back she recommends turning up Stewart Road and then heading right to Beddis, or back along Cusheon Lake and then back to town.

Many people renting scooters and a car love this tour. There is of course the wineries, brewery, cidery which most people want to visit but Josselin recommends buying a bottle for home as scooting or driving and drinking don’t mix.

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Legion Branch 92 Entertainment Schedule August 13th Superfeather (outside under the tents) 7:30 August 14th Karaoke 7:30 August 20th The Seiche (outside under the tents) 7:30 August 21st Rough and Tumble 7:30 August 28th Karaoke 7:30

23rd Annual Music Under the Stars at The Tree House Café starting at 6pm Sun, Aug 1 - Tom Hooper

Mon, Aug 2 - Renee Layla Tue, Aug 3 - Naomi Kavka Trio Wed, Aug 4 - TBA Thur, Aug 5 - Valdy Fri, Aug 6 - Duck Creak Sat, Aug 7 - Superfeather Sun, Aug 8 - Tom Hooper Mon, Aug 9 - TBA Tue, Aug 10 - Vargo Wed, Aug 11 - Kurt Loewen

MOBY's Daily Live Entertainment 1 Sunday Dave Roland and Tom Boler (6-9pm) 2 Monday Ange Hehr (6-9pm) 3 Tuesday Joana Leite (6-9pm); Trivia (730pm) 4 Wednesday Vixx (6-9pm); Music Bingo (730pm) 5 Thursday Marianne and Rose (6-9pm)

What’s Happening

on the Rock

August Live Entertainment Thur, Aug 12 - Kurt Loewen Fri, Aug 13 - Doug and the Buds Sat, Aug 14 - The Fabulous Flakes Sun, Aug 15 - Tom Hooper Mon, Aug 16 - Mike Ohman Tue, Aug 17 - The Seiche Wed, Aug 18 - Mike and Margo Thur, Aug 19 - Julia Beattie Fri, Aug 20 - Marianne Grittani Sat, Aug 21 - Brent Shindell

6 Friday Sharon Bailey DUO (6-9pm) 7 Saturday Morien Jones (6-9pm) 8 Sunday Dave Roland and Tom Boler (6-9pm) 9 Monday Ange Hehr (6-9pm) 10 Tuesday Joana Leite (6-9pm); Trivia (730pm) 11 Wednesday Vixx (6-9pm); Music Bingo (730pm) 12 Thursday Ange Hehr (6-9pm) 13 Friday Ange Hehr (6-9pm) 14 Saturday Carolyn Mark (6-9pm) 15 Sunday Dave Roland and Tom Boler (6-9pm) 16 Monday Ange Hehr (6-9pm) 17 Tuesday Joana Leite (6-9pm); Trivia (730pm) 18 Wednesday Vixx (6-9pm); Music Bingo (730pm)

Sun, Aug 22 - Tom Hooper Mon, Aug 23 - John Herbert Tue, Aug 24 - TBA Wed, Aug 25 - TBA Thur, Aug 26 - K-Tones Fri, Aug 27 - Billie Woods Sat, Aug 28 - Farm Team Sun, Aug 29 - Tom Hooper Mon, Aug 30 - TBA Tue, Aug 31 - TBA

19 Thursday Ollie Happyness (6-9pm) 20 Friday Caleb Hart (6-9pm) 21 Saturday Buck Dodgers Band (6-9pm) 22 Sunday Dave Roland and Tom Boler (6-9pm) 23 Monday Ange Hehr (6-9pm) 24 Tuesday Joana Leite (6-9pm); Trivia (730pm) 25 Wednesday Vixx (6-9pm); Music Bingo (730pm) 26 Thursday Morien Jones (6-9pm) 27 Friday Morien Jones (6-9pm) 28 Saturday Morien Jones (6-9pm) 29 Sunday Dave Roland and Tom Boler (6-9pm) 30 Monday Ange Hehr (6-9pm) 31 Tuesday Joana Leite(6-9pm); Trivia (730pm)

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Congratulations to the 2021 Parallel Art Show (PAS) Finalists Judit Navratil

Kenna Barradell - Pender Island Denys James Susan Benson

Kazmear Johnston

Doreen Palme

Terri Bibby

Garry Kaye

Pamela Plumb

Judy Chappus

Jane Kidd

Eve Pollard - Pender Island

Leslie Corry

Mimi Lamarre

Elaine Potter

Stefanie Denz

Bob Leatherbarrow

Karen Reiss

Frank Ducote

Liljana Mead Martin

Rosie Schinners

Seb Evans

Heather Martin-McNab

Murray Siple

Sibéal Foyle

Patrick McCallum

Michela Sorrentino

Mimi Fujino - Pender Island

Gillian McConnell

Kim Stewart

Anna Gustafson

Peter McFarlane

Melanie Thompson

Ute Hagen

Amy Melious

Judith Walker - Pender Island

Diana Hayes

Larry Melious

Nancy Walker - Pender Island

Martin Herbert

Bernadette Mertens-McAllister Nicola Wheston

John Hoyle

Karin Millson

Mel Williamson

Susan Huber

J Robert Moss

April Winter - Mayne Island

John James

Carol Narod

Dan Zak

PAS Exhibition Opens September 26 ArtSpring Gallery Open Daily: Sunday, September 26 - Sunday, October 17, 2021 SSNAP Finalist Exhibition open September 24 – October 25

Follow the

The Salt Spring National Art Prize presents

The

PARALLEL

artshow 2021

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The Salt Spring National Art Prize

The 2021/2022

SSNAP Exhibition

the

Sweet Spot with Seth Shugar

Put Your Past in the Past In his poem “Faith Healing” the cynical British poet Phillip Larkin writes, “In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make by loving others, but across most it sweeps as all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.”

Larkin was wrong. That something cures. In fact, that many things cure.

Internal Family Systems therapy can do it. So can EMDR and many other evidence-based therapies that gold-standard research has proven can not only cure the “that” that Larkin addresses in his poem – i.e. feeling unloved – but many other forms of trauma.

How? Prior to the ground-breaking research of McGill neuroscientist Karim Nadir, it was believed that memories were basically like books in a library: each time you remembered something, it was like taking a book off the shelf, reading a page, and then putting the book back. If, years later, you removed the same book and read the same page, the contents would be the same.

However, recent research in the field of memory reconsolidation has radically upended this view. As Boston University neuroscientist Steve Ramirez explains, “It turns out, memory is not at all like putting a book away in the library of the brain. It’s more like bringing up a file on your computer and constantly modifying that file.”

In order to modify painful memories, however, neuropsychologist Bruce Ecker explains that three things must occur: Reactivate: First, you need to access the original emotional learning as “a visceral emotional experience” by briefly reactivating the images, feelings, sensations and negative beliefs you experienced then. For instance, if, as in Larkin’s poem, you felt unloved, you might call up a memory of crying alone on your bunkbed in your rocket-ship pajamas.

Repair: Second, to unlock the synapses in your memory circuits and make them susceptible to being updated by new learning, you need to identify a “mismatch” experience that contradicts the original emotional learning. You might do this by, for example, imagining the current you walking right into that room where the younger “unloved” you is crying and then showing and telling them how deeply loved they are.

Sound like wishful thinking?

Ecker emphasizes that while “the new learning must feel decisively real to the person based on their own living experience… new experiences that are imaginary can be effective for creating new neural circuits because the emotional centers of the subcortex hardly distinguish between perceptions arising externally versus internally.”

Repeat: Finally, before your synapses relock, you need to reenact and repeat the new learning experience.

Does this change the past? No. But it does change the way the past is encoded in your neural networks.

And that is something that cures.

The Absolute Book

by Elizabeth Knox

Mishka’s

Book

Reviews with Mishka Campbell

How do you describe the indescribable? How do you review a book that seems to defy categorization? How do you solve a problem like Maria? I’m just kidding, as that last question clearly has no solution. But I’ll do my best to attempt an answer to my first two queries.

The Absolute Book is a six hundred and something-page behemoth of a tome. It begins with a sort of a thriller vibe and for the first thirty pages or so, you think you’re reading a tragedy. There’s an act of violence, and one of revenge, there’s a family at the centre of it all and their people are painfully grieving; a family who seem to be of a fallen aristocracy, the kind of family who own land, and mysterious antiquities. Honestly, I was immediately hooked. This book could have been some sort of epic that spanned generations and was a bit gothic and a bit grim and I would have been content to give it 5 stars and to move on to my next read. But. BUT. This book took a turn. A sideways, magical, astonishing turn, and for your poor jaded reviewer who truly hates how predictable so many books can be, it was an abrupt departure of the very best kind!

Taryn Cornick has written a book. A book called “The Feverish Library”, about the threats books face: damage from insects, fire (both those set accidentally and intentionally), damp, light…the list goes on. She’s still recovering from the loss of her sister, but her first book is popular and it seems as though she might finally have some sort of a happy ending in store. However, Detective Jacob Berger is convinced that Taryn is in some way responsible for the death of the man who’s been convicted in the death of her sister. His suspicions get him so entangled in Taryn’s muddled path that their future becomes more intertwined than either could ever imagine. And then it gets weird. But weird in my favourite way. Seriously, this story has it all; Fairies, Demons, Gods, Princes; Even Odin and his Ravens make an appearance. There’s so much history, mythology, and suspense. It’s compelling and unusual and there’s some incredible characters. I wish I could do this curious, marvellous creation justice with my words but I think you’ll have to uncover its mysteries for yourself.

Seth is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Marital and Family Therapist and Board Certified Life Coach. He works with individuals and couples in private practice. You can reach him at sethshugar@.me.com or book a session at www.sethshugar.com

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artists is Salt Spring’s Connie Kuhns. Kuhn’s photograph called

The Salt Spring National Art Prize

“Canadian Farmhouse” will be part of the Finalists Exhibition opening on September 24 at historic Mahon Hall. She was surprised and overjoyed when she received the email notification, “Honestly, I’m a bit shocked, but I’m very, very happy. Thrilled, actually. And so very grateful to be a part of this island community.”

The 2021/2022

Kuhns, who has resided on Salt Spring for nine years says, “As

SSNAP

a photographer you always hope that what you are feeling in that moment is conveyed in some way to the observer. I guess I got lucky.”

Exhibition

Her photograph was taken on a country road in the Lower Mainland. con n i e k u h n s re n d e r in g by a r ti s t s te fa n i e d e nz

Salt Spring National Art Prize Finalists includes local artist Connie Kuhns Salt Spring Island continues to lead the way in support of Canadian

“The morning I took the photograph, I was out driving around on some back roads down by the Fraser River. Fog, Farmland. I went the wrong way, and there it was. It reminded me of an Andrew Wyeth painting, and at the same time, so very Canadian. So very humble.”

Finalists are eligible for ten awards, six selected by the jury and four selected by public vote. The Salt Spring Prize, known as The Joan McConnell Award and worth $20,000, will be awarded during the Gala Awards event on October 23, 2021.

Awards also include four Jurors’ Choice Awards, four categories in

visual artists…

Jurors of the Salt Spring National Art Prize (SSNAP) have selected

the People’s Choice Awards, and one artist from Salt Spring Island taking

52 finalists for the 2021/22 competition. The fourth biennial SSNAP

home the Salt Spring Artists Award. For the first time, online voting will

exhibition exemplifies the best in current Canadian contemporary art,

allow Canadians from coast to coast to select their favourite work for

offering artists from coast to coast a fresh opportunity to exhibit their

the People’s Choice Awards. Those attending the Finalists Exhibition will

work. Founding director Ronald T. Crawford says it’s gratifying to see

also be able to vote in person. Venue: Historic Mahon Hall, 166 Lower

the great response during a very difficult time and how many artists

Ganges Road, Salt Spring. Here are the key dates to note:

referenced the effects of the pandemic. “We’ve noted how the lock-

Here are the key dates to note:

downs may have directly or indirectly influenced the themes of many

September 24, 2021: Opening of Finalists’ Exhibition

works, and the way in which Canadian creativity continued to flourish.”

September 24 to October 25, 2021: Finalist Exhibition

A total of 1608 artists submitted 2756 artworks and one of those

Jen’ll Tell Ya Featuring Jen Redpath & Jessica Terezakis

SQUIRTING!

Some folks say squirting is like the Loch Ness Monster of sex.

Much like the infamous sea creature, it incites mystery and intrigue.

There are even ancient texts that describe squirting as the nectar of the gods and similar to the Scottish sea creature, there have been books movies made about it, though they are not as kid-friendly as Water Horse! Many claim to have heard about it and some have even experienced it.

So does squirting really exist? Let’s get the low down on what some experts say.

According to Dr. Zaviacic, a professor of pathology and forensic medicine, ejaculate fluid comes from the G-Spot. For people with uteruses it is a genitourinary organ embedded in the wall of the urethra. This organ contains glands which expel ejaculatory fluid into the urethral canal. Dr. Zaviacic claims that its proximity to the vagina that enables the expelling of fluid from pressure or contraction of

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October 23, 2021: Winners announced at Gala Awards Night

muscles around the urethra during orgasm. The area can be felt about an inch or so inside the vaginal opening through the upper wall of the vagina (think towards the belly button), it protrudes slightly and is subtly ridged.

Other experts like gynecologist Dr. Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible, have a different perspective. She states that it is physiologically impossible that the Skenes glands (the glands that are purported to expel fluid) would be able to produce the quantity that people describe, simply based on their size. Dr. Gunter also cites a 2015 study from the Journal of Sexual Medicine, wherein seven women’s squirted fluid (squirt?) was analyzed. The study found that there were small amounts of fluid from the Skenes gland in the samples, but the majority of the fluid was in fact urine.

Here’s the thing: Some folks have questioned whether squirting is real. The better question is, does it matter? If you’re having fun, it doesn’t really matter what the fluid is! The problem lies in our culture of sexual shaming, whether that be shaming about being extra juicy during sex or shaming people for not being able to squirt. Bottom line: Sex shouldn’t be about people feeling inadequate or weird.

Unfortunately, the way sex is often framed as goal orientated, focused on orgasm or squirting rather than on pleasure. When we frame sex in this way, we miss out on all the beautiful sensual experiences that happen along the way: the smoothness of skin, the scents, the feelings, which take away from the pleasure of the journey.

Take home message: Just like our friend Nessie, part of the excitement is the idea of exploration or the journey, and not necessarily the destination. If it feels pleasurable then you’re doing it right- enjoy it! If it isn’t your jam, there are lots of other things to try.

When it comes down to it, pleasure is really what is key, and we want to encourage you to focus on that, squirting or no squirting!

Until next time -

Stay Sexy Salty!

Scopes Brought to you by our own in-house astrologer who now goes by her numerologically correct name of “Ya Righta”

 Aries

 Libra

a synonym for sweaty. But we

you’ve ever had.

“Saucy!” should not be used as get it, it’s hot!

 Taurus

Next week won’t be the best

 Scorpio Don’t

trust

anyone

today.

The older you get the more

Stay inside until today is all

you’re starting to realise that

over and done with. Don’t

everyone else is an idiot.

trust this horoscope either.

 Gemini

If you can’t see what the fuss is all about this week, try thinking

Just don’t - okay?

 Sagittarius

Mars rising in your sign usually

about it from someone else’s

indicates increased conflict in

point of view.

life, but in this case it means it’s

 Cancer

You’re trying to live healthier, but you’ll continue refusing to give pasta.

 Leo

The worry you’re feeling is unnecessary... because you can’t avoid the line at Country Grocer.

 Virgo

You’ll finally learn you can’t run away from your problems, but you haven’t given up on escaping them by donning a

August and it’s hot as F*%#.

 Capricorn

Everything you are thinking about will end up getting lost in some sort of fuzzy logic.

 Aquarius

Sadly, it turns out that of all the people you’ve ever known, the only one who has your best interests at heart is still your mom.

 Pisces

The age you should be acting

clever disguise and hiding in

like is written on the soles of

the Saturday Market.

your shoes.

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