Hannah Witton

About

Hi, welcome to my website! I’m Hannah, a 20-something northerner living in London and slowly losing my accent. I make a whole bunch of different online content mostly about sex and relationships, books, navigating life in your 20s, work and pleasure. I’ve been making videos on YouTube since 2011 and created the webseries, The Hormone Diaries, in which I document the process of my coming off The Pill and learning about periods, hormones and contraception. You may sometimes see me appear on TV and radio shows talking about feminism, body image, sexuality, and gender, amongst other topics.

I studied history at the University of Birmingham and specialised in sexual history with my dissertation being about Victorian sex manuals. And so I wrote my own sort of sex manual. In 2017 I published my first international book, Doing It, a young adult non-fiction education and advice book about sex and relationships.

I also host of the weekly podcast by the same name, Doing It, in which I chat with differnt guests all about sex, relationships, love and bodies.

I’ve suffered with the inflammatory bowel disease, Ulcerative Colitis, since I was 7 years old and in January 2018 I underwent emergency surgery to have my colon removed and now I live with a stoma (I poo into a bag). Since then a lot of my content is about IBD, living with a stoma and raising awareness about the many people living with chronic illness or invisible disabilities.

I work as an Ambassador for leading sexual health charity, Brook.

And most importantly, I am a Hufflepuff.

  • I really need to stop scheduling big brain power and creative work on Friday afternoons because after 2pm my brain just shuts down. Any other freelancers like this? Have you been able to craft the perfect work schedule to the ebs and flows of your brain functions? Teach me your ways ☀️ trousers #gifted from @lucyandyak
  • Am I the only person who reads the Mario Kart track “Cheep Cheep Beach” as “cheap cheap bitch” but I still pronounce it “beach”? It brings me a great source of joy when I’m playing it 🐟🐟🐟
  • Dear Plans 📝 #DearJune⁣ Oops doing my final Dear June post on 1st July. I’m an obsessive planner, so much so I worry about spending too much time on planning and not enough on actually DOING. ⁣ ⁣ There’s a certain plan I’ve been flirting with for a while but in my mind it’s so huge I’ve done nothing. But this week I’ve taken first steps and it’s starting to become something tangible - I can see, touch, smell and taste the plan rather than just think it. ⁣ ⁣ So instead of just flirting with this potential plan I’m going to be fondling, sniffing, licking and staring it straight in the eye to see if it’s truly something I want. We shall see... ⁣ ⁣ Thanks everyone who participated in #DearJune! What kind of planner are you? (lol that sounds like the answers will be “bullet journal”, “diary”, “digital calendar” 😂)
  • AD Guess what! We're all getting older and our bodies will change. But that doesn't have to negatively impact your sex life, if your sexual wellness is something that's important to you. I've teamed up with @TENAWomen as part of their #Ageless campaign to raise awareness and break the stigma around intimacy, incontinence and ageing. Our bodies change, but we don't have to. 💛⁣ ⁣ Check out the video on my YouTube channel all about some of the unrealistic expectations of sex that movies and tv shows give us (spoiler alert: there's less peeing in movies than IRL!) And in that video I also talk about the #Ageless campaign and the importance of doing our pelvic floor exercises! 🍒 #AD
  • Dear Letting Go 💌 #DearJune ⁣ I was immediately reminded this morning about my 22nd birthday party where I dressed up as Elsa and made my sister, Leah, dress up as Anna (even though personality wise I’m an Anna and she’s an Elsa - I’m the big sister though so...) ⁣ ⁣ Anyway, it was gonna be this light hearted Let It Go, get it? post but then I realised that the only photos I have are ones on Instagram (I had to screenshot this) and basically if it’s not on Instagram I don’t have those photos anymore because I went through a phase of not paying for storage and would just MASS DELETE photos. ⁣ ⁣ My digital photos are one of the only parts of my life that aren’t organised and I just don’t know where to start. But in the mean time, I have to let go of the fact there are so many memories/photos that are just gone because I wanted to save like £1 a month on storage (????) and I thought I could put my faith in platforms like Instagram to keep my photos safe (trust no-one). ⁣ ⁣ Boring question - but how do you organise your photos/keep memories? ⁣ ⁣ Tomorrow’s #DearJune prompt is Plans 📝
  • Dear Sunsets 🌅 #DearJune ⁣ Normally I rave about how much I love British summers and the sun not going down til after 10pm but in lockdown when I’ve watched some TV, read my book and feeling “done” for the evening at 9pm, I just wish it was dark outside so I could go to bed guilt free. Or not feeling like I’m missing out on a “normal” summer. Anyone else feeling this?⁣ ⁣ This picture was the gorgeous sunset in Animal Kingdom, Disney World back in January.⁣ ⁣ Tomorrow’s #DearJune prompt is Letting Go 💌