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.
No kidding Max.
Did anyone ever feel like killing somebody right after they got laid?
Very well said and 100% true!
Some things have to just come naturally or they're no fun at all.
Not at my house.
Nam Vet
["It's a shame that our society looks down upon female orgasms." Sigh. Ain't it the truth. I've never had one.]
If you did, you'd have to upgrade your screen name by one number.
Ain't that the truth!
> If you did, you'd have to upgrade your screen name by one number.
LOL
By more than one, I think ;-)
Plus it keeps them busy, so they don't go shopping!"
Mark
"We have folks on our faculty who spend their lives writing books about this stuff. "
Forgive me, Dear FReepers for this ever so obvious one but I really can't resist the temptation.
Those who can, do. Those that can't, teach."
I've never had a female orgasm either. I'd like to think I caused one or two.
“There are a lot of girls who aren’t orgasming”...
There are a lot of air-head academics who aren't grammaring, either.
My wife tells me the key to orgasm is to talk during sex. I told her that's what all those 900 number calls were for.
BWHAHAHHAHA!!!
RUS
Really Ugly Students
Fricker the "flicker"!
You left out
Beat the Beaver
Glad to hear it.
You are so right. Think-tanking and over-analyzing sex is the product of sexually-dysfunctional people that don't understand it's God-given beauty and simplicity. Nothing like those that don't 'get it' lecturing us.
~ Primus
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