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If the adult industry’s studios and sex
toy manufacturers got together to create
the quintessential brand ambassador,
she would look a lot like Jessica Drake.
Gracious, well-spoken and thoroughly
diplomatic, she’s just the person to represent
an industry that still makes some people
uncomfortable.
As a contract performer, she’s been a
powerful spokesperson for Wicked Pictures.
On any given week, the adult star might be
somewhere on the road, speaking at public
events or promoting her Guide to Wicked Sex
educational movies and meeting fans at adult
boutiques.
But Drake recently embarked on a new
adventure: a “girls night out” gathering outside
the public arena of the university or the retail
store where the veteran performer could get
together with a group of women to talk about
sex—freely, candidly, without any judgment.
“Although I do many seminars and enjoy
speaking at universities, this is going to be
a unique event,” Drake said before her first
foray, which took place June 25. “Instead of
a workshop, this is going to be more of a
participation-driven roundtable discussion of
all things sex! No topic is off limits, and all
questions will be answered,” she said.
She test-drove the concept with a roomful
of women at the Cornell Winery, a rustic spot
in the Santa Monica Mountains. Women of
varying ages entered the group tasting room
in the back, clutching glasses of wine, not
quite sure what to expect. Trays of finger
food, including hearty doses of cheese and
chocolate—two of the key food groups at
female-focused events—were laid out on a
long group table, along with candles and a
decorative box into which the attendees had
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been asked to place slips of paper with questions
they wanted Drake to address.
Soft-spoken and articulate, Drake began by
setting some ground rules. One point was obvious:
the importance of respecting everyone’s privacy
and anonymity. The other, as Drake said puckishly:
“Don’t yuck our yum.” In other words, it takes
different strokes for different folks—and Drake was
there to talk about all of those strokes, from the
hardest to the softest.
A gorgeous blonde with enviably long hair and
even longer legs, Drake quickly had the crowd
charmed. One by one, she pulled questions out of
the box on the table and offered practical answers
to questions that she’s no doubt fielded many times
before.
Drake started off with foreplay, appropriately
enough, noting that when done correctly, a leisurely
warm-up session will improve sensitivity, decrease
the pain threshold and intensify orgasms. And
speaking of those climaxes, she noted, an estimated
85 percent of women orgasm from clitoral stimulation—not
surprising given that the “little man in the boat” is equipped with
8,000 nerve endings.
From there was a natural segue to self-love, with Drake
reassuring the ladies that it’s OK if they have more intense
orgasms through masturbation. “I’m the best I’ve ever had,” she
joked.
Soon the questions moved out of the box, with participants
asking about what was really on their minds. How to give a great
blowjob? Hands and mouth, yes; teeth, no—and plenty of spit
coupled with enthusiasm. What about anal? Do the prep work—
and Fleet enemas are your friend. Drake also provided visual
aids, using a realistic dildo to demonstrate blowjob techniques
and passing around various toys for the women to examine—
including an open bottle of her favorite lube, Wicked Sensual
Care’s Salted Caramel.
But most heartfelt was the talk about how to redirect a mate’s
energy if he’s too tightly tied to the tried and true. Faced with this
problem, she explained, it’s best to accentuate the positive—focus
on what he can do right rather than what he’s doing wrong.
With a dozen Guide to Wicked Sex titles under her garter belt,
Drake likely had the answer to most anything the crowd could
have thrown at her. But the technical information she provided
was far less important than the feeling of acceptance that filled
the space. One could hear the excitement in these women’s
voices as they realized that they really could ask anything without
the fear of even a raised eyebrow.
One woman in particular took the opportunity to explore in
some detail what made her tick sexually, trying to figure out why
clitoral stimulation just didn’t do it for her. After a discussion of
G-spot orgasms, it clicked for her: That type of climax was her
yum—and nobody was about to say there was anything wrong
with that.
To keep apprised of upcoming events featuring Drake, go to
GuideToWickedSex.com.
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suite, picking up a cellphone which a barely seen
this brand,” Tori added. “As a girl in this industry,
gentleman has left for her. She enters the suite’s
you’re surrounded by all these negative connotations
bathroom, locks the door, and emerges later carrying
and assumptions, and you’re not necessarily
a glass of whiskey—and throws the cellphone on the
portrayed in the most flattering light, and you’re
bed. The video concludes as the barely seen guy picks
constantly fighting that in your career, and I really feel
up the phone and is about to press “play.”
like I’ve gotten to a place where people are starting
Asked how he and his partners got the idea to use
to see me more for who I am as a whole person as
American porn stars in the first place, Tom explained,
opposed to just what I do on camera.”
“The traditional whiskey market is always about the
She added, “I feel like the elegance and sexuality
heritage of whiskey, about the careful production
that Tom speaks of is something that I’ve been
process, but we wanted to create a different aspect
pushing for for a long time, so I feel as though this is
to our whiskey. ... When you order whiskey at a
a good marker, saying that I have made yet another
bar, the bartender always talks about the product’s
transition in my career.”
careful production process, but we wanted to include
“If my fans should choose to purchase the product
something funnier and more college-like. After all,
and they see me at any event, I’d be happy to sign
we’re a couple of students combined with some
the box or take pictures with them,” Tori offered. “If
experienced vintners, so that’s our world: beautiful
they want to tweet to me about the product or instant
women and great whiskey.”
message me on Instagram about the product, I would
“I think that it’s an absolute honor to represent
definitely be very responsive.”
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