Naming the Erotic (NTE) was born from a conversation between two friends at a party, one of those late-night conversations where both people seamlessly fill in each other’s thoughts before they are spoken. We started talking about how so many “sex positive” conversations still revolve around performing sexuality like a competition for the best story, and how limiting that can feel when pleasure, intimacy, and connection are so much more complex, messy, and expansive than that. Simply affirming each other in that moment made us both feel more seen, understood, and confident in our relationships to sex and our bodies.

That conversation eventually turned into a shared commitment to relearning sex outside of shame, expectation, and rigid narratives and sharing that journey publicly. From there, NTE evolved into a creative sexual health platform dedicated to making conversations around sex feel more honest, accessible, playful, and liberatory.

At its core, NTE is about creating a world where everyone not only knows how to access pleasure, but is guaranteed the right to it.