Couple explores orgasms using humor, Harry Potter
Carrie Knific
Issue date: 3/21/07 Section: The Inside
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Sex educator Dorian Solot showed the toy to an audience of mostly women at "I Love the Female Orgasm," a sex information session with her longtime boyfriend Marshall Miller. Using the broomstick, along with other products like massagers, Solot wanted to show that vibrators can be versatile.
The event, which took place Monday night in the Curry Student Center West Addition, was part of Sex Week 2007, sponsored by the Resident Student Association. Solot and Miller, a couple trained in sex education, met at Brown University in 1993. They travel to campuses around the country to discuss topics like sexual orientation and making healthy sexual decisions.
But Solot said one topic is particularly popular among students.
"The female orgasm is definitely my favorite subject to talk about. It's really fun and we get so many questions on this topic," Solot said.
The information session began with Solot sharing her story as a breast cancer survivor, illustrating the importance of being comfortable with one's body. Solot said she was lucky to have detected a lump on her breast leading to her diagnosis of cancer at 26. She has since been in remission for several years.
The talk lessened the stigma that normally comes with the topic of the female orgasm, hitting upon its importance and the struggles that come along with getting and giving them.
For a brief time the audience was divided by sex, when Miller led the male members into a room upstairs so they could talk about the subject privately.
Male students said the private discussion was helpful.
"It was empowering - it dispelled some of the stigma around the topic," said Martin Hough, a middler psychology major,
Hough said Miller led a Q&A session about how women experience orgasms and what men should do. Advice ranged from pacing to using lube.
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