ASHLEY
“THE CANNASEXUAL”
MANTA BY HEATHER DEROSE
Ashley Manta, also known as “The CannaSexual,” is on a journey to share information and help others throughout the world. Ashley created the word CannaSexual and trademarked it. It refers to anyone who mindfully and deliberately combines sex and cannabis to deepen intimacy and enhance pleasure, whether solo or partnered. Ashley says, “It has become a lifestyle brand and my professional nickname, ‘The CannaSexual.’ I am a sex and relationship coach, writer, and public speaker. I work with clients (individuals and couples) via Skype, and I work with VIP clients face-to-face. I offer online courses, I speak at colleges, conferences, and retreats, and my first book will be published in the second half of 2020. My mission is to inspire people to see the in32
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nate value in themselves and empower them to ask for what they want. I am having the best sex of my life, and it's a combination of confidence, communication, technique, and enthusiasm. I want that for everyone. Whatever is getting
IT HAS BECOME A LIFESTYLE BRAND + MY PROFESSIONAL NICKNAME, ‘THE CANNASEXUAL in the way of my clients having the best sex of their lives (however they define it). I help them find practical solutions, reframes, and workarounds. My public lectures
are part education and part motivational speeches. Someone, sometime in your life, may have left you thinking that you weren't enough or weren't worthy. I'm here to tell you that you ARE enough, and you are SO worthy.” Ashley wasn’t always a cannabis consumer and didn’t consume cannabis for the first time until ten years ago, while she was in graduate school working on her Masters degree in Philosophy. “I'd grown up being taught, like most kids of the 80s and 90s, that ‘marijuana’ was bad and so were the people who used it. That belief system was challenged by the fact that most of my grad school cohort and a few of the professors were enthusiastic consumers. The first time I smoked, I used a
