One woman has shared how she went from an aspiring nun to a sex-positive entrepreneur dedicated to helping people achieve powerful and frequent orgasms.
Katie Enright is the founder and CEO of the cannabis lube company Laviniaa surprising career choice for a devout Catholic who once contemplated celibacy in the Church.
She gave up on her plans to become a nun after falling for a man and prayed to God for guidance, but to this day she still considers herself a Christian.
“I actually think I’m doing God’s work now more than ever,” she told DailyMail.com of the community she nurtured through Lavinia.
Katie Enright went from an aspiring nun to the founder and CEO of the cannabis lube company Lavinia
“I actually think I’m doing God’s work now more than ever,” she told DailyMail.com about helping people achieve their best orgasms
Enright grew up in a large Catholic household in Chicago’s western suburbs, the sixth of seven children. Her parents were open and loving, which made her religious upbringing a positive experience, filled with “much light and much love.”
“It was actually the most ideal situation to grow up in a religious family,” she explains.
Good planned to remain a virgin until she got married, and her mother would talk to her about the “excitement of the wedding night” during their sex conversations.
Her devotion to her faith only increased in college, where she took an active role in the school’s spiritual groups. She also served as the social president of her sorority, despite not drinking alcohol or having sex.
“I was really embarrassed to tell people how religious I was… It was just so unheard of for someone to become a nun,” she said.
Enright wanted privacy when she considered joining a monastery and made the decision to study abroad in Ireland in her early twenties.
She was assigned to live in a dorm with four girls and four boys, representing six different countries, including a Frenchman she called “Francois.”
Enright said she and Francois “under normal circumstances” wouldn’t have been friends, but they eventually fell for each other.
Raised in a Catholic family in Chicago’s western suburbs, Enright considered becoming a nun when she traveled to Ireland to study abroad in her twenties.
He would wake her up with breakfast in bed and write her love notes while they lived together, but he respected her boundaries and kept their romance innocent.
“It was just such a wild experience because it’s like here I go from deciding whether to become a nun to the most romantic situation I’ve ever heard of,” she said.
After leaving Ireland, she flew to Rome to make her final decision to become a nun.
Enright fell for a French man she called “Francois” before leaving for Rome to make her decision to become a nun
She was confused and didn’t know what to do when she went to the Sistine Chapel to pray for guidance.
She knew she wanted to be a wife and mother, but she felt obligated to devote her life to her faith until she had what she described as a “conversation with God.”
“I was praying and God said, ‘Well, what do you want for your life? And I said, ‘Well, I really want to be a wife and a mother,'” she recalled. do that.” And I was like, “But what if no one becomes a priest or a nun?” And he said, “That’s not your job. That’s not your problem to worry about.”
Enright said she finally felt free to move on with her life knowing that God had helped her make her decision.
Francois drove from Belgium to Rome to pick her up, and they traveled all over Italy together before going their separate ways.
She was on a new path, but she was still “super intimidated” by sex and embarrassed that she had less sexual experience than her younger friends.
“I literally started taking all these webinars, all these classes, and before I knew it, I kind of became a sexpert,” she said.
After praying to God, she abandoned her plans to live a celibate life and shifted her focus to learning everything she could about sex – including making her own cannabis lube
Enright’s homemade lube was so popular with her friends that she received a Ph.D. chemist to help her find the “perfect ratio of THC and CBD” and launched her company
But even with all her new knowledge, she never imagined she would start selling cannabis-infused sex products.
Enright was training for her second marathon when she tried a cannabis balm to treat her pain.
Lavinia’s Oh.Hi is a silicone-based cannabis lubricant intended to enhance sexual pleasure
“Within three minutes of putting it on, my back pain was completely gone, and the same with my knee,” she said. “I was like, ‘Holy cow, this really works.'”
While continuing to research the health benefits of cannabis, she found a blog post on how to make a weed-infused lube that is “good for making babies.”
There is research shows THC – the main psychoactive compound in cannabis – can increase sexual pleasure and improve the ability to have an orgasm.
Dr. Kristina Collins, a board-certified dermatologist, explained about the Lavinia website that THC administered directly to the vagina or anus can increase blood vessel dilation and blood circulation.
This can lead to “increased sexual arousal, heightened perception of touch and improved orgasm.”
Enright was excited to put cannabis lube to the test, but she couldn’t find a recipe or product that wasn’t made with coconut oil, which breaks down latex condoms and can cause vaginal infections.
Enright is also working on a sex education platform to combat abstinence messages associated with a religious upbringing
“Just having a place where people can come and talk to someone about sex and not feel so alone and not feel uneducated or ill-equipped, I think it’s really important,” she said.
She started experimenting in her kitchen, pouring cannabis into a silicone lube to make her own batch.
“Then I tried it, and I was like, ‘Holy f***, this is great,'” she said. “I was a bartender at a very trendy bar in West Hollywood at the time, and I would give it to my regulars (and) my co-workers as an act of love without a second thought.”
Enright was starting a shift one day when a man walked in and asked, “Hey, are you the weed lube girl?” and offered to buy some.
“As soon as he said, ‘I totally buy it,’ I thought, ‘Oh, this is a business. This is something I have to pursue,” she said.
Good hired a Ph.D. chemist and went through 25 different formulas before finding one that was the “perfect ratio of THC and CBD.”
After the launch of Lavinia, she was surprised to learn “how many women haven’t had orgasms.” She recalled talking to a woman in her 50s who had never climaxed with herself or a partner.
The company has plans to expand its product line to include pre- and post-sex gummies and “anal shooters for more fun during anal sex.”
She is also working on a sex education platform to combat abstinence messages associated with a religious upbringing.
“Just having a place where people can come and talk to someone about sex and not feel so alone and not feel uneducated or ill-equipped, I think is really important,” she said.