Welcome to SMEX ED, the digital magazine dedicated to teaching you the shit you should have learned in school. My name is Amanda King & I am the creator behind SMEX ED.
My goal with SMEX ED is to bring educational, fun, creative, and mind expanding articles about sex, kinks, fetishes, and all thing considered “taboo” that really shouldn’t be. To bring these conversations about that are happening behind closed doors; to the forefront of the stage.
Yes, sex is a large portion of SMEX ED Magazine, however, we will be addressing a variety of topics that encompass all things: relationships, communication, self confidence. Because sex is so much more than just two people getting naked and fucking. Sex is about intimacy, connection, pleasure and feeling safe with your partner.
The reason SMEX ED is so important is because people shouldn’t feel ashamed of pleasure, be living in fear of their bodies, and constantly questioning whether or not what they are experiencing is “normal.”
Many people are being forced to have these conversations in secret all because society can’t handle a little bit of kinkiness with their morning coffee. The lack of education around sex, the fact that society deems it “taboo” is causing millions of people to feel isolated in their sexual desires. SMEX ED wants to normalize these topics so that our readers feel safer and less alone.
Imagine what it would be like to feel safe in your body? To allow it to feel every ounce of pleasure that it was built to experience? To be able to communicate to your partner what you want and desire, not just on a sexual level, but on a soul level? This is what we are hoping to bring you with SMEX ED Magazine.
Every single day as a Sex Educator, I receive messages from these misinformed adults and we can’t entirely blame some of them for their level of ignorance. The fact is, no one is having these discussions in a public form and it makes sense why they aren’t. Sex has always been a “taboo” subject that makes a lot of people in this world very uncomfortable even though it shouldn’t. But the amount of religious, societal, generational condition that is placed on the subject makes every one afraid to ask the questions that they desperately need the answers for.
That is why I created SMEX ED, to bring forward educational pieces that answer these questions for our readers because you deserve the right to know. You deserve the right to recognize it is all normal. You deserve the right to feel safe in your body.
Why We Chose The Name SMEX ED
To understand the name SMEX ED, I need to give you a little background information. In December of 2022, my Tik Tok account, the.amandaking, was permanently banned from the platform due to “sexual exploitation and nudity” community guideline violations (CGV).
Overnight, I lost access to my 100,000 followers on the platform that I was helping educate about their bodies, sexual expression, and teaching them to become more confident within themselves.
Every piece of content I put on that platform was purely educational and contained absolutely NO nudity and even though my content was purely educational, my account was permanently banned. After over a month battling the platform via email (because there was no other option) they fully stopped responding and I had to start a new account from scratch.
Because of the CGV on social media platforms, sex educators’ content constantly gets slammed with CGV and their accounts get shut down. Even certified sex educators, such as Madeline Gregg, who has over 1 million followers and is verified on Tik Tok’s platform, gets slammed with CGV as well. Check out the video below where we both discuss our struggles as Sex Educators on the platform. The video below is my stitch of her original video, but just click her name and you will be able to see her full video as well.
In order for your content not to be censored or hit with a CGV, creators have to change educational terminology to ridiculous words to “hide” what they are discussing. For example:
- Sex = Smex
- Penis= Smenis
- Clitorious = Smitorious
- Anal= Smanal or An@l
- Masturbation = smasturbation
- Penetration= smentration
- and so on and so forth
Get the drift? Educational words need to be disguised because society deems them “inappropriate” or “vulgar.” Words found in medical documents, journals, studies, needing to be transformed because society can’t handle how it makes them feel.
Therefore, I named the magazine SMEX ED as a big FUCK YOU to social media platforms CGV and the constant censorship of its sexual educators/creators.
SMEX ED will be a safe space for writers to educate readers from a completely uncensored point of view.
Messy Inspired Action
The idea for this magazine came to me in a dream. Go ahead and roll your eyes at that ridiculousness, but it’s the honest truth. After I made the decision to bring this magazine to y’all, I wanted to get it out to our readers as soon as humanly possible.
Over the last month, the team of SMEX ED has been behind the scenes putting this magazine together to get it to you all for a March release date. It is messy inspired action at it’s finest, folks.
Saying that, as you are reading this magazine, it will be far from perfect. There will most likely be spelling/punctuation/grammar mistakes. The formatting may be off on some pages versues others. We ask that you give us a little grace and kindness with this first issue.
This is a trial and error process that will take my team and I time to cultivate the perfect experience for y’all. We ask for your patience, while also extending a massive THANK YOU to all of our readers for being here with us throughout our very messy, chaotic, and most importantly beautiful journey.
Welcome to SMEX ED
Class is now in session.
Written By: Amanda King
Email: amanda@smexed.com
Website: http://www.fierceasfucktribe.com
Facebook: @amanda.king.108
Instagram: @the.amandaking
Tik Tik: @audaciousaf
Snapchat: @the.amandaking
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