“We didn’t talk about sex in our household,” Penda N’diaye, the founder of Pro Hoe, shares over coffee in the garden of a Brooklyn coffee shop. As a kid, born and raised in Denver, Colorado, N’diaye learned storytelling and how to express herself through dance. Being onstage made her feel the most at home, the most connected to her body; it made her feel powerful enough to show others who she wanted to be in that moment. After attending New York University Tisch School of the Arts, she toured the world dancing with choreographers like Bill T. Jones and Kyle Abraham and working with musicians like Robert Glasper. She was living the life she’d trained all her life for, then her true calling came to her a few years ago, when she was home for Christmas and her mother told her to go on Amazon and buy a vibrator. Her mother knew she was single and not having regular sex. (We’ll get back to this in a sec.)"