Hello Wonderful Readers,

I feel excited and quite nervous about sharing this update with you. Since launching The Intimacy Journal, I’ve learned a lot about how I want to provide value to you and live my mission to help the world be shamelessly sexy.

TL;DR

* All Misseducated Substack content will be 100% free from now on. This weekend I ungated 43 articles in the Archive. If you find a Comments section that’s still behind the paywall, please let me know, and I will remove it.

* I hope to keep publishing at a cadence of around 2 articles per month, but that could range from 1 to 4 posts. I enjoy publishing on Tuesdays, but will no longer be strict about it.

* From now on, I am implementing the “buy-me-a-coffee” model for my paid subscribers. I will no longer be creating any special paid subscriber content. I will not be offended AT ALL if you stop paying for your subscription because of this, or if you stopped paying in the past. Please feel free to cancel guilt-free right now. I am nothing but grateful to you! Thank you for whatever you were able to give.

* If you would like to keep contributing, you will be supporting a more shamelessly sexy world, helping me keep the lights on, and ensuring that my sexuality content stays free and accessible for everyone.

* This is what the Misseducated Subscription page now looks like (in $USD):

Come back for more! 💜

The Truth Of It All

I’ve realized that paywalling my content on Misseducated is no longer serving you, me, or my mission. It’s taken me months to actually implement this change because doing this scares the s**t out of me. But I’ve known for a while now that this is the right thing to do.

Firstly, I want to thank my existing paid subscribers. Over the last three and a half years, since I quit my corporate media job in New York, you have helped me build a new life for myself. You gave me my first few dollars of validation as a “professional writer”. You gave me the courage to keep going. Still, offering two tiers of content has always been extremely challenging for me as a one-woman show. Especially with the regular cadence that newsletters require, for too long now, I’ve felt guilty and stressed out for not delivering good enough content to you. Switching to a “buy-me-a-coffee” model allows you to still support a more shamelessly sexy world if you want to, and allows me the freedom to create the most impactful work that’s accessible to everyone.

Secondly, I’ve realized that to help the world be shamelessly sexy, I need to be a truly open book as a writer. I originally paywalled my more sexually explicit content. Maybe I didn’t want my dad and his friends reading that I like butt stuff. Or maybe I felt, like some sex-writer-worker, that people should have to pay to access these deeply personal details of my life. But as I’ve grown, I’ve come to the realization that I just don’t give a f**k. I want anyone, anywhere, to benefit from this blog if it can help them. Gatekeeping just doesn’t float my boat anymore, and I’m not going to live my life in arbitrary fear of other people’s judgment.

Thirdly, I’m enjoying productizing things my readers want a lot more than I thought I would. Creating The Intimacy Journal was SO much fun. It’s a standalone purchase that people can get if they want to deepen their practice, and I’m extremely proud of it. Energetically, I feel a lot more confident and excited to provide value to you through books and workshops than I do about consistently creating special paid subscriber newsletter content.

Fourthly (if that’s even a word?), I noticed that when I speak on podcasts, I’m sharing all the personal details that were behind the paywall on Misseducated anyway. Check out the 111 podcast episodes I’ve spoken on, with over 42 hours of episodes here. Those podcast listeners have had the full story, but I haven’t been offering the same to you. So I want to make your access to my content limitless. Additionally, while rereading some articles over the weekend, I rediscovered many ridiculous things I’ve written, which I hope you’ll find funny. I can’t wait for you to enjoy those stories fully, too.

The last thing that truly impacted my decision was a conversation I had recently with a male Misseducated reader. He said that while he likes reading my blog, he had really been curious about the article, “I Pegged My Boyfriend,” but had never read it because it was paywalled. That hit home for me. I thought: Why? In that article, I make some very important points about why we need to allow men to be able to show weakness and sensitivity. With the paywall, I was denying him the opportunity to explore his masculinity and preventing that article from reaching its full impact in the world. So, paywalls be gone!

For those of you who have been waiting patiently, here is a short list of my top five now-ungated articles you might enjoy:

* The 4 Categories of Porn I Watch, and Why

* I Pegged My Boyfriend

* My BDSM Test Results

* Why I Never Swallow Cum

* My Hard Biological Truth

You can check out the full list of 43 now-free articles below. Trust me, there’s plenty of spice and juicy details to go around!

That’s enough for now! Thank you for trusting me and for sticking along for the ride. I’m so grateful and excited for the next chapter. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions, concerns, or if you gain any new insights from reading one of the articles below. Hehe.

Sending love,

Tash

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The Full List of 43 New-Ungated Articles 🪅

* The 4 Categories of Porn I Watch, and Why

* I Pegged My Boyfriend

* My BDSM Test Results

* Love & Dreams

* The Strangest Date I Ever Went On

* Starting The New Year Off With A Bang

* On Top Of The World

* Sex In The London Library

* I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It

* Misseducated Update: What’s In The Works

* Welcome to the Misseducated Community! Please introduce yourself here so we can say hello :)

* Back To Where We First Met

* Why I Never Swallow Cum

* How To Keep Your Creative Dreams Alive

* I had casual sex.

* On Withholding Sex From Men

* Burnout and Book Cover Reveal!

* I finished writing my first novel! ✨✍️

* How To Make An Audiobook

* Peach Tulips: Almost Off To The Printers ✨ 📚

* When No One Comes To Mind

* Zoom Crush

* Girl Crush

* 💖 Sexico City 🌃

* 💖 Sexico City Update 🌃

* My Hard Biological Truth

* The Little Things

* Somebody to Love

* The 64 Traits of My Ideal Mate

* What I Learned Hosting A Sex Writing Workshop

* My Hard, Biological Truth, Part 2

* The scene that took me 13 years to write

* How to Overcome the Fear of Success

* Does Penis Size Matter?

* Liar, Liar

* The Wrath of Seeing Your Ex

* My Ego Stroke of a Lifetime

* How To Not Care What Other People Think

* The Dog Cage

* That’s all from Misseducated in 2024!

* My Sex Toy Collection Revealed

* Announcing: The Misseducated Sex Journal!

* My Week-Long, Creative Orgasm

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