Orgasm 101: brings the “oh yeah!”

feature 2, Hannah Martin, Campus Life - By Hannah Martin on Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 03:17

Sex educators Rachel Dart and Marshall Miller came to Villalobos Hall on Thursday, Feb. 3 and gave an informative presentation for both women and men alike. The show originally started out as a basic sexual education program. They informed us about the importance of female pleasure during sex and how girls can obtain the female orgasm, whether alone or with a partner.

As a young teenager, sitting through a school-sponsored sex education program might not teach you much more than the fact that a girl has girl parts, a boy has boy parts and they work together in a forbidden, taboo activity called sex. Students may also be taught that it should never be engaged in until marriage and that the risks far outweigh the pleasure of the act. Sometimes students are not even taught about sexual pleasure.
What is significantly left out in sexual education is how to make your sexual partner feel good. What is even more so rare, especially in the pornography industry and many other means of sexual media, is female pleasure. What can be extremely prevalent is a focus on male pleasure, the ideas that men are dominant over females sexually, and the idea that only men masturbate, that the elusive female orgasm is almost completely overlooked.

The presentation was funny, informative and ultimately brought the audience together, with the object of fully removing the awkwardness of talking about sex. Was the idea of the program misunderstood?

“Some people are taken aback by the title,” Miller said. “But then they understand that it is for education.”

The show was separated into male and female groups half way through the show to discuss issues specific to each gender.

“Before I saw this presentation, I didn’t know that achieving female orgasm was such an ordeal,” first-year Ben Thompson said. “I found much of the advice very helpful and learning how to be more sexually communicative.”

On behalf of the ladies, junior Deborah Wahnich said, “I thought it was funny, and it seemed more like a comedy thing. I thought it was nice that they separated the girls at one point, because some girls found it difficult to open up. I thought it was really nice how they did mention books and alternative resources for people that had been abused sexually.”