In Heather's words:
Heather Corinna is the founder and Editor of Scarlet Letters, Scarleteen and Femmerotic. Her written work has appeared online in numerous venues since 1997, and in the print anthologies Viscera, The Adventures of Food, Aqua Erotica, Zaftig: Well-Rounded Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Shameless: An Intimate Erotica and forthcoming pieces in Penthouse and Girl Play. Her work in sexuality information and activism has hailed accolades from Adult Video News to the Illinois Library Association, The City Pages to Playboy, and from the Boston Phoenix to the Kinsey Institute. She is also a model & photographer, artist and designer, a poet, a trained classical, jazz and folk musician, a sex educator and a former kindergarten teacher. She lives in Minneapolis with an extensive zoo, a pug, and a stunning androgyne, and has performed the medical miracle of living for over 32 years on coffee, cigarettes and stubbornness.

undie girl: Teen sexuality is something we talk about a lot around WACKYJAC -- if you could give us a recipe for empowering young women around their sexuality, what would that be?

Heather: Stop focusing on teaching young women how to say no, and start focusing on teaching them how to say yes. Yes to their sexuality, yes to their boundaries and limits, yes to their sexual identity, whatever it may be, yes to their sexual health and their love of their bodies, yes to those things which move them, yes to what makes them feel whole. There's really no need for so many "no's" when you learn to say yes in to the right things, and sexuality shouldn't be experienced in the negative -- when it is, one misses out on an awful lot.

undie girl: Tell us about what it's like merging Wicca and Buddhism.

Heather: They're not as different as they might seem. For me, the biggest adjustment was doing away with entities, which was the part of Wicca that personally, just never really fit for me, save seeing them as natural archetypes. otherwise, "As it harm none," really is the underlying message of both Wicca and Buddhism -- both seek to recognize what suffering is, and to help one live a life that is as free of suffering as possible, in both experiencing it oneself, and in working to keep from making others suffer. Both very much look to the nature world for inspiration and harmony; both focus on compassion and respect for oneself and others.

undie girl: Do you remember your first pair of undies?

Heather: I'd be amazed if I even HAD undies until well into my childhood. Nearly all of our clothes were hand-me-downs, but given my mothers aversion to germs (she's an infectious disease nurse), my guess is we'd likely have gone without rather than wearing underpants that couldn't have been sanitized to within an inch of their life.

undie girl: What were the last pair of undies you bought like?

Heather: Sheer aqua mesh boy-shorts with cabbage roses all over them. I'm of the more-is-more school of underpants.

undie girl: What’s your favorite thing to do in your undies?

Heather: Jump on the bed in them. It's my favorite thing to do out of them, too.

undie girl: What kind of statement can undies make?

Heather: I'd say that depends on how much sleep you're not getting.

undie girl: Have you ever sworn off of wearing undies? Can you tell us why?

Heather: I go alfresco a good deal of the time, namely because by virtue of working in a home office, I hardly get dressed to begin with, but tend to have several uniforms of pajamas I rotate. Plus, less undies = less laundry. However, I will attest to feeling a good deal peppier in fun underpants.

undie girl: Have you ever had an argument over undies?

Heather: Only when I've stolen pairs that weren't mine. And I'd say that's fair.

undie girl: Has anyone made assumptions about you because of your undies? What were they? How did that make you feel? How right were they?

Heather: You know, most people close enough to me to be in the position to make assumptions about my undies have generally assumed I'd like them removed at some point. And more times than not, they've been right.

undie girl: Finally -- sex, spirit, power, and freedom -- how do all of these play into your life? Do they fuse? Do they fight? Tell us a story.

Heather: My personal life goals are all about union. I've found that those elements rarely battle within myself, and instead live very harmoniously, but are often put to conflict in culture, as the perception is that they are conflicting. But they don't need to be: sex need not conflict with the spiritual if your sexual practices align with your spiritual beliefs, and if when they don't, you simply find what you need to adapt to make that work. And freedom and power need not conflict if the sort of power you're harnessing is power-within, rather than power-over.

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