Elle Chase, CSE, CLC, ABS
Elle Chase (she/her) is known as an influential thought leader throughout the sexual health community. She has been trained by some of the most respected and renowned programs in the U.S. and is a multi-certified sexologist, sex educator, and life coach.
Elle was the Founder and Director of Education for the Los Angeles Academy of Sex Education, which was an organization that provided sex education classes, taught by leaders in their field, for the community at large.
Elle is the author of the highly regarded Curvy Girl Sex: 101 Body-Positive Positions to Empower Your Sex Life, and her writing has appeared in publications that include Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Huffington Post.
As a sought-after expert and frequently quoted news source, her insights have appeared in international media and press, including The Today Show, Nightline, The New York Times, USA Today, The New York Post, and on some of the world’s highest-rated podcasts and radio shows, like Sex with Emily, Savage Lovecast, and Loveline.
On film, Elle’s personal story of sexual self-discovery is chronicled in the documentary, “Inside Her Sex” by Sheona McDonald for Canadian Public Television (CBC).
In addition to her coaching work, Elle is also known as the creator and curator of the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning sensual images blog LadyCheeky.com (NSFW), which was named “#1 Porn Site for Women” by Cosmopolitan and Huffington Post, and referenced, recommended, and lauded by the likes of Nightline, The New York Times, USA Today, Glamour, GQ, Redbook, Allure, Brides, and many more.
Elle firmly believes that comprehensive and inclusive public sex education is a responsibility and a right. To help that become a reality, she serves on the advisory board of EducateUS, an organization laser-focused on advancing progressive sex education policy and implementation across the country.
Elle coaches her clients through deeper intimacy, erotic embodiment, pleasurable sex, and a more empowered relationship with their bodies through a trauma-aware, social/racial justice-informed, LGBTQIA+ affirming, feminist, and intersectional lens.
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When people ask me how I became a coach,
I always say, “It’s a long story”
… and here’s the abbreviated version. Without warning, while watching a passionate love scene on True Blood, I suddenly broke down hysterically crying. I felt an untenable deep longing and grief pour out of me, and at that moment, I recognized an unexplored truth about myself that I had pushed down my entire life. I had never experienced passion. I had never identified myself as a sexual being at all and furthermore, never had pleasurable sex. I had to know what passion felt like and discover my sexual and sensual self. Japanese Buddhists have a word for what was happening to me, “satori,” which means “sudden enlightenment and a state of consciousness attained by intuitive illumination.”
Compulsively driven, I was consumed with my new goal. Soon I was learning how to flirt on Twitter of all places, left my marriage, and started writing, researching, and exploring eventually culminating in a passionate love affair where I was finally discovering all I had been seeking.
Part of my sexual exploration was creating a sexy Tumblr page (back when Tumblr was relevant). I would curate gifs and images that really spoke to my sensual self, what I felt deep in my bones to be an empowered, authentic expression of passion, desire, and pleasure. It was just for me and my lover to enjoy … until all of a sudden others discovered what I was posting and the theme seemed to resonate with them too. To my surprise, I was getting emailed with questions about sex. It dawned on me that I had created a powerful tool that had the ability to stir sexual curiosity (maybe even a satori) in others. As I began to research fact-based answers, and dole out empathetic encouragement, I fell in love with (and saw a need for) pleasure-inclusive sex education …. and the rest is history.
In my past life (before sex education and coaching), I had a variety of experiences. I helped run a successful multimillion-dollar production company, I trained as a stage actor and was a stand-up comedian, I was a luxury travel coordinator for the Fortune 100 and celeb elites, I was a professional make-up artist making celebrities beautiful for the red carpet, I even made custom hats for Tracy Ullman - how random is that?
If it’s not already obvious, I am one of the many walking examples of how life doesn’t always end up the way you think it will. One minute I was married, planning a family, and running my own company, and the next minute I was a sexually adventurous divorceé, curating a porn site, writing erotica, and teaching classes about how to feel sexy in a body that you don’t like. The point is, what happens more often than not, is that many people discover there’s no one path where they’re always moving forward toward one particular goal that will make them a happy and fulfilled human. Since we were born, we’ve been inundated with the expectations our family and the world have for us. But, at some point, we need to make a vote for our own life … one that values our own goals for happiness.
There are people out there who want to make space for the zigzags and the swirls of life and want to get more comfortable with uncertainty and not knowing what they want to do “when they grow up.”
Those are my people because I am one of those people.
