Noemí Casquet

Noemí Casquet (Sabadell, Spain|Sabadell, 1992) is a Spanish journalist specialized in sexuality and travel, she created new audio-visual formats and she is a divulgator onYoutube, Instagram and TikTok. Moreover, she is one of the directors of Santa Mandanga, the first explicit platform for sexual and affective education. She began her career writing a blog (2011- 2014), in 2019 she published her first book Mala mujer; la revolución que te hará libre, a guide to sexual freedom, and in 2020 the first novel of her famous erotic trilogy Zorras, Malas and Libres was relised. 
== Biography ==
Noemí Casquet was born on 7 February 1992 in the city of Sabadell, Spain|Sabadell (Barcelona, Spain|Barcelona). She has a degree in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with a specialisation in digital journalism and specialising in sexuality. She focuses her studies on sexual anthropology and ancestral sexualities such as Tantra and Tao, and on non-normative sex-affective relationships. Her work as a journalist is focused on new journalism. 
She spreads the word on digital platforms such as Youtube and Instagram, explaining techniques on sexuality, new models of relationships and various aspects considered taboo by society, such as drugs or menstruation. Her main goal is to break the structures of the social system through activism.
== Career ==
Noemí Casquet's professional career began in 2011. She begins to collaborate in a blog where she addresses topics such as philosophy, humanism and sexuality. This prompted her to open her own blog in 2011 called De todo y nada, in which she talked about sexuality, until 2014 when she finished the project. That same year Casquet was the official reporter for the Barcelona Erotic Salon. At that time she also started to collaborate with various communication media until today. 
During 2013 and 2015 she was a pornographic director and producer. This catapulted her directly to learn a lot of things about sexuality and to know how to deal better with this kind of topics since she had more experience. Between 2013 and 2014 she was also a television presenter of sexuality programmes in Mola TV and 25tv channels. In 2014 she created Sex Riders, a television format whose aim was to travel around the world by motorbike discovering the sexuality of each country. This project died in 2018, but she assures that one day she will take it up again.
In 2017, she began to spread information about sexuality on YouTube and Instagram where has seen over the years how her work has been censored and denounced on both platforms. In 2018 he created Totoyo, a communication agency dedicated to personal brand management and corporate branding, which was closed in 2019. In the same year, Santa Mandanga, the first sex education platform and school, of which she is co-founder and director, was created.
To continue the work done by Casquet, she has a fairly extensive background of studies, training and work. She has been in the world of free sexuality for several years. As a result, she has managed to write four books. Her first book called Mala Mujer; La revolución que te hará libre, which goal is to achieve the sexual re-education of women, breaking with established systems. A year later she positioned herself as a novelist on the national scene, reiventing the genre of erotic novels with the triology Zorras, Malas y Libres. 
=== Mala Mujer; La revolución que te hará libre (2019) ===
Noemí Casquet's first book, Mala Mujer; La revolución que te hará libre(Bad Woman; The revolution that will set you free), was published in April 2019. This book is an illustrated guide on female sexuality that addresses different topics, such as the labels that currently exist on gender identity, menstruation, sexuality, anatomy and female self-pleasure. It also analyses the different models of love and criticises romantic love. Ten editions have now been published. 
=== Zorras, Malas y Libres (2020) ===
In July 2020, Casquet published the first instalment of the trilogy: Zorras (Bitches). In it, she narrates the experiences that Alicia has together with Diana and Emily, who decide to form a club, El Club de las Zorras (The Slut Club) and fulfil their three sexual fantasies. In this first volume, the protagonists live experiences around BDSM, squirt, sex toys, Tinder and swinging. Currently the fourth edition has been published and has topped the list of best-selling fiction books in Spain. 
In September 2020, the second part of the trilogy was published: Malas (Bad). The protagonists travel to Ibiza and experiment with Tantra, orgies, a lesbian festival and non-monogamy. Finally, Libres (Free), the conclusion of the trilogy, was released in November 2020.
== Themes and motifs ==
The main themes Noemí Casquet focuses on is sexuality and sex. She explores all the corners of sexuality and through activism and divulgation she tries to break the taboos that society has imposed. She says she wants to help people to liberate and discover themselves without fear or prejudice. And many times also giving information that they have never had the opportunity to learn before because sexuality, and also sex, are like hidden topics which have not been so openly discussed until now.
Casquet often talks about the types of relationships between people, especially non-normative sex-affective relationships. She believes in and defends non-monogamous relationships where there is neither affective nor sexual exclusivity. For her, polyamory is an opportunity, not an obligation, and it is easy to manage as long as there is knowledge on all sides. It is always about communicating, caring and informing.
She considers herself a feminist but she is very critical within the movement because it is not only about cisgender women. The discourse must be inclusive, to take into account all genders, realities and diversities. So in its criticism and dissemination, she holds as a fundamental pillar the gender and the reality of each person.
Another motif she defends is the feminine self-pleasure and the connection of the woman to herself. And she also disseminates information about menstruation and the menstrual cycle. They are two subjects considered taboo and sometimes difficult to find information on, so the aim is to put an end to this society that perpetuates so many clichés. 
The sexual anthropology is a subject that fascinates her, especially has an interest in ancestral sexualities. She is based on Tantra and Tao, two ancestral traditions that integrate sexuality as an essential part of the process of human evolution. They share a path of self-knowledge and personal transformation through the body, from the knowledge of the most intimate anatomy. She divulges topics such as the retroejaculation, squirting (or female ejaculation) or multiorgasmia, which although they are seen as something new, were already studied in the 4th century B.C. in these mystical currents. So she bases her discourse on sexuality on these two ancestral sexualities. 
Casquet also focuses on travel and sexuality. Every community in every corner of the world has its own traditions, practices, knowledge and experiences of sexuality. She is interested in discovering and enriching each other, that’s why her passion is travelling and getting to know new realities. 
== Reception and impact ==
Noemí Casquet has been criticized a lot for talking about sex in a nonconventional way and to include in her divulgation themes which are not usually taken into account in speculation about sex (polyamory, ancestral sexuality, BDSM etc.). The main critic she received is about the fact she is not a sexologist, moreover, she complained often about the prejudice a woman who talks about sex has to suffer and about the attempt to invisible people who investigate these themes.
Her popularity grew up gradually but there were some key moments like the interview in April 2019 at the TV program of Movistar+ La Resistencia in which she was criticized for the lack of taboos. On several occasions, she denounced how some interviews, even if they gave her visibility, did not involve the opportunity to truly talk about the topic she studied because the interviewers are more concerned on reinforcing the prejudice on these themes or making jokes.
One of the main source of visibility for Noemí Casquet was Instagram, nowadays her Instagram account has more than 2 Millions of followers, however, it was really hard for her to archive this: her first account (37.000 followers) was closed without explanation and without the possibility to have it back and she lost not only photos but also the texts she wrote thanks to her investigation; the second account was closed as well even if there were not explicit sexual content. She had to obtain the verification to avoid losing the third one, however, she still has to avoid saying certain words. For these reasons, she has criticized Instagram and, in general, for the censorship around sexual education.
Category:Spanish journalists