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Orgasm Talk Draws Crowd at Harvard
The Harvard University Crimson ^ | Friday, May 06, 2005 | VICTORIA KIM

Posted on 05/08/2005 9:23:15 AM PDT by rface

Certain topics seem to strike a chord with Harvard students—human rights, politics, and female orgasms.

Last night, over 200 students of all genders and sexual orientations lined up outside a jam-packed Adams Lower Common Room to attend a seminar on female orgasms.

Matie E. Fricker—a representative from the “sexuality boutique” Grand Opening—arrived with two plastic tub-fulls of sex toys, books, and safer sex supplies.

“You’re going to hear a lot about (crude reference to sexual intercourse deleted by rface) tonight,” she announced to the crowd.

During her two-hour presentation, Fricker criticized negative social perspectives on female orgasms and said there is a scarcity of terms for female masturbation in contrast to the hundreds for male self-pleasure.

“If you’ve never felt one, do it,” Ficker said. “Some people say it feels better than the Red Sox winning.”

Alexander J. Tennant ’08 said after the meeting that the taboo surrounding the female orgasm is problematic.

“It’s a shame that our society looks down upon female orgasms,” he said.

Holding a puppet vulva in one hand and a dildo in another, Ficker described the different parts of the female genitalia and demonstrated different ways to give the female body pleasure.

She also emphasized the importance of protection, introducing the students to a variety of equipment such as male and female condoms, and dental dams.

“Safer sex is hot sex,” said Ficker, who has been a safer-sex educator since 1996. “Once you get over the hump of incorporating safer sex in your life, it’s worth it,” Ficker told the crowd. “Empowerment is sexy.”

With her uninhibited talk about female orgasms, students soon became comfortable with the topic and started freely tossing out questions.

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Another student asked her advice on condom brands, and Ficker suggested using Japanese condoms because they are thinner and safer.

“We could all use a little schooling on this stuff,” Virginia L. H. Schnure ’05 said.

Tennant said that he “learned a lot of techniques that will be very helpful in the future.”

One of the organizers of the seminar, Jenna M. Mellor ’08, said that females also need to learn about the topic.

“There are a lot of girls who aren’t orgasming,” said Mellor, who is also the special events coordinator for the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS).

“Female orgasm is something that affects everybody. It’s a great way to procrastinate, to relax, to get to know people, and yourself,” Mellor added.

“All women should orgasm as much as they can,” Max J. Warren ’08 said. “A sexually satisfied world is a peaceful world.”

The event was co-sponsored by the Association of Black Harvard Women, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance, Latinas Unidas, and RUS.

—Staff writer Victoria Kim can be reached at vkim@fas.harvard.edu.


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: academia; diddlers; perverts; pervs; wierdos; zappa
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early in the article, the speaker's name is refered to as Fricker --- but the spelling quickly changes so that the "r" is dropped and the spelling changes to Ficker. The later spelling is more approriate to the topic.

BTW --- the last paragraph references a group called RUS .... what is RUS?

1 posted on 05/08/2005 9:23:15 AM PDT by rface
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To: rface

"“It’s a shame that our society looks down upon female orgasms,” he said."

Oh heavens no. What I look down upon is your adolescent preoccupation.


2 posted on 05/08/2005 9:24:51 AM PDT by OpusatFR (I live in a swamp and reuse, recycle, refurbish, grow my own, ride a bike and vote GOP)
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To: OpusatFR

Must be some kind of Government grant involved here.


3 posted on 05/08/2005 9:28:00 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (BEWARE YOUR FREEPER IDs AND POSTINGS CAN BE FOUND ON GOOGLE SEARCH. HILLARY IS WATCHING YOU!)
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To: rface
Last night, over 200 students of all genders and sexual orientations lined up...

At Harvard? Let me see... I guess that includes about 100 genders and another 100 sexual orientations.

4 posted on 05/08/2005 9:30:27 AM PDT by C210N (-)
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To: rface

“There are a lot of girls who aren’t orgasming,”

Oh, we must call for the government to intervene in this emerging crisis! [sarcasm]


5 posted on 05/08/2005 9:31:16 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
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To: OpusatFR

"“It’s a shame that our society looks down upon female orgasms,"

Heavens, I've looked up at female orgasms many times............


6 posted on 05/08/2005 9:31:20 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: rface
“It’s a shame that our society looks down upon female orgasms,” he said.

This poor fellow must live on a different planet that the rest of us.

7 posted on 05/08/2005 9:32:09 AM PDT by rkhampton
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To: OpusatFR
What I look down upon is your adolescent preoccupation.

Don't forget mine.

8 posted on 05/08/2005 9:32:11 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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To: rface

My sister is presently attending a postgraduate programme in Chinese Language at Harvard. She was so thrilled and happy when she was accepted because she thought it was the most prestigious university in America.

Yes, I did warn her. I hope she isn't cringing at the moment.

Regards, Ivan


9 posted on 05/08/2005 9:34:06 AM PDT by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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To: rface

Alexander J. Tennant ’08 said after the meeting that the taboo surrounding the female orgasm is problematic.

What taboo?


10 posted on 05/08/2005 9:34:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: rface
Dr. Smellie: With the greatest pleasure. Gentlemen, (gesticulating with his smoldering cigar) look closely at the female peculiarities of this cadaver. I direct your attention to this thing she has got, at the apex of the labia minora. Look carefully, and you will find it situated there, just above the urethral meatus. That, gentlemen, is the organ known as the clitoris. Its solitary function is to generate sensations of the most unbelievable pleasure during the act of procreation. (Groans. Loud cries of protestation and disbelief. A gentleman vomits upon the floor.)

Mr. DeWitt: My wife hasn't one of those! (Exclamations of general assent.) Furthermore, I think it incumbent upon a gentleman to state that no lady who is a lady would own to having one! (Ejaculations of indignant disdain. Cries of "Hear! Hear!" More general pandemonium, coupled with murmurings of "blasphemy.")

Dr. Smellie: Order, gentlemen! Order! We must have order!

Mr. Blough: Whisky all around!

Dr. Smellie (pointing to the aforesaid): Sir, let me hear another sound from you, and I shall order the watchman to eject you from the premises!

Mr. Blough: I beg your pardon. Did you address that remark to me?

Dr. Smellie: I did.

Mr. Blough: Sir, this is an insult.

Dr. Smellie: So let it be. I do not give a carthorse's crap. Your infernal levity is disrupting these proceedings!

Mr. Blough (coming down a bit): Sir, it was only my intention to lighten the sombre humour of this assembly, and lend a bit of harmless mirth to an otherwise drab affair.

Dr. Smellie: Ha-ha. Ha-ha. Ha-ha. There. Are you content?

Mr. Blough: I . . . I . . . that is, to say . . . sir, I am content. (Sulkingly takes his seat.)

Dr. Smellie (unruffled): I continue. The organ known as the clitoris. Presently, to this miniscule, yet potent structure, the good Professor shall apply the terminals of the Galvanic Oscillator. You will observe, gentlemen, the effect. Professor Butt . . . (Dr. Smellie turns the crank, as his associate applies the wires. Sparks fly.)

The Corpse (starting from the table with a shriek): Oh God, I'm coming! Oh God, I'm coming! (The electrodes are removed, and the corpse sinks down again, inanimate. The process is repeated several times, each time to the same effect.)

Dr. Smellie (to the gaping multitude): Gentlemen, this is no humbug.

11 posted on 05/08/2005 9:34:55 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: rface

Toy's last name.


12 posted on 05/08/2005 9:36:06 AM PDT by Old Professer (As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
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To: rface
“There are a lot of girls who aren’t orgasming,”

Not for lack of effort, energy, and enthusiasm on my part.....

13 posted on 05/08/2005 9:36:21 AM PDT by longshadow
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To: rface
“Female orgasm is something that affects everybody. It’s a great way to procrastinate, to relax, to get to know people, and yourself,” Mellor added.

Dare I ask how someone with such convoluted thought processes can be considered "educated"?

Regards, Ivan

14 posted on 05/08/2005 9:36:51 AM PDT by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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To: MadIvan

I thought I read a post where you were leaving FR???


15 posted on 05/08/2005 9:37:35 AM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: MisterRepublican

“There are a lot of girls who aren’t orgasming,”


May be the first time I've heard this word as a verb... :)


16 posted on 05/08/2005 9:38:52 AM PDT by Hand em their arse
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To: rface

I was persuaded to remain.

Regards, Ivan


17 posted on 05/08/2005 9:39:15 AM PDT by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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To: rface

Orgasming? I didn't know orgasm was a verb.


18 posted on 05/08/2005 9:39:54 AM PDT by Poser (Joining Belly Girl in the Pajamahadeen)
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To: OpusatFR; MisterRepublican
“It’s a shame that our society looks down upon female orgasms,”

What the hell is he talking about?   I look down on them, I look up at them, I'm happy and I get no complaints. 

 

19 posted on 05/08/2005 9:41:18 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: Lazamataz
"What I look down upon is your adolescent preoccupation."

Don't forget mine.

Mine neither. As for that nonsense about there not being as many names for female masturbation as there are for male? Well a 5 second google search turned this up. These are a few of the tamer ones:

Paddling the Pink Canoe

Parting the Red Sea

Pearl Fishing

Play Poker

Play the Clitar

Play Couch Hockey for One

Rolling the Dough

Teasing the Kitty

Testing the Plumbing

The Virgin's Release

Tickling the Taco

Tiptoe Through the TwoLips

Two Finger Taco Tango

20 posted on 05/08/2005 9:47:35 AM PDT by JoeV1 (Democrat Party-The unlawful and corrupt leading the blind and uneducated)
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