Come as You Are (sex shop) explained

Come As You Are is a sex-positive sex shop located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1997 by Cory Silverberg as a worker-owner cooperative in the model of the United States-based Good Vibrations. The bricks-and-mortar store on Queen Street West closed in 2016, but opened a new location in Kensington Market in 2020.[1] Come As You Are has an educational and community-based mandate, to provide a store where people can access sex information and products.[2] The sex-shop worked for making sex toys more accessible for disabled people.[3]

Education

Come As You Are offers sex education, health workshops by sex-positive authors and educators, including Susie Bright, and others.[4]

The co-op also provides education outreach workshops to local community groups and universities. In 2013, Come As You Are won The Co-operators' National Co-op Challenge with a proposal to bring their educational outreach to communities across Canada.[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bednar . Olivia . 2019-02-01 . The best sex and kink shops in Toronto . 2022-12-31 . NOW Magazine . en-US.
  2. Web site: Your Local Neighbourhood Sex Shop Co-Operative: Come As You Are . 2013-12-06 . Sex Life Canada . 2013-12-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131210022123/http://www.sexlifecanada.ca/canada/national-sexlife-journal/your-local-neighbourhood-sex-shop-co-operative-come-you-are . dead .
  3. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/from-sex-shops-to-coaching-services-can-help-people-with-disabilities-explore-sensuality/article5532421/ From sex shops to coaching, services can help people with disabilities explore sensuality - The Globe and Mail
  4. News: Grainger . Lia . Workshops at Come As You Are with Susie Bright . Metro . Toronto . Metronews.ca . 2013-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131212155934/http://metronews.ca/voices/urban-compass-toronto/10984/workshops-at-come-as-you-are-with-susie-bright/ . 2013-12-12 . dead .
  5. Two Ontario co-ops win $25,000 in The National Co-op Challenge . The Co-operators . 2013-10-28 . 2013-12-06 . 2013-12-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131211211226/http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1249553/two-ontario-co-ops-win-25-000-in-the-national-co-op-challenge . dead .

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