Jake

Jake is a sexual wellness educator and facilitator whose work explores the intersection of pleasure, embodiment, self-awareness, and human connection. With more than a decade of experience in teaching and facilitation, he is known for creating structured, approachable experiences that help people develop a deeper understanding of sensation, arousal, pleasure, and contact.

Central to his work are two practices he has developed: Mindful Masturbation, an embodied approach to self-pleasure rooted in attention, curiosity, and awareness; and Nude Wrestling: Conscious Contact, a framework developed through facilitated nude wrestling that uses physical contact, intensity, play, and vulnerability as opportunities to practice awareness, communication, and choice.

His broader practice draws on sensory mapping, pleasure mapping, pleasure–sound connection, and fetish embodiment. His work with pleasure and sound explores vocalization as an authentic extension of sensation rather than performance, while his fetish embodiment work creates space to explore desire, fantasy, and expression through embodied experience.

Jake works with male-identified individuals across sexual orientations and experiences, both individually and in group settings. His facilitation style blends humor and accessibility with a genuine reverence for the work. He creates environments that encourage curiosity over performance and incorporates optional hands-on guidance when appropriate to help participants explore unfamiliar territory with greater confidence and awareness.

Jake holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees and is certified through the American Board of Sexology as a Holistic Sexologist and Device Specialist. He has taught and facilitated with organizations including MMX NYC and Hit Me Up NYC and works with individuals privately and through The Bare Collective, which he founded.

At the center of his work is a simple idea: pleasure is not only something we experience, it is something we can learn to understand.