About Melanie

pagan singer and sexologist Melanie Crowombin in the recording studio
Melanie Crowombin

Melanie Crowombin is our website’s food and drink columnist as well as our resident sexologist. She has been a featured singer on all of the Crow Women albums. Although she now lives in Richmond, California, Melanie flies back to the nest when the time comes to record or perform with the Crow Women. She loves her milk goats.

Melanie’s blog posts:

Be a Sex Positive Pagan

Listening to Gaia Consort singing joyfully about sex as a positive act in The Rede, “An it harm none do what you will”, it occurs to me that this is sometimes easier said than done. In a sex negative culture with little EXPERT training in the ways of healthy seduction...

Bring the Rain

As a child I loved playing in the monsoon rains of my childhood home of Colorado, splashing in the puddles and helping the earth worms back to their dark earthy homes after they were washed out onto the street. As an adult I have also run out into the spring...

Gardening Spirit of Spring

As the light starts to noticeably return I start to think of spring and what I want to grow in this year’s garden. To get further into the mood as I pull out my seed catalogs and ooh and ahh over the beautiful pictures of vegetables, fruits and flowers, I...
pagan love heart in sand

Sexual Styles for Magical Connections

I recently wrote a blog post on sexual communication and thought I would follow it with something else near and dear to my heart: sexual style. It is a deeper form of understanding yourself and your lover to know what kind of energy you are craving and how you best...
sparkler heart as metaphor for pagan sex

Pagan Sexual Communication in Song!

I recently watched the film The Wicker Man from 1973, the extended version which includes the scene with the song Gently Johnny. I was struck with how sweetly the song conveyed a sex-positive attitude about seduction and sexual communication, as does much of the movie. As pagans we celebrate sexuality...