The Female Orgasm kicks off United DePauw's Coming Out Week
By: Lauren Clark
Issue date: 9/11/07 Section: News
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'The Female Orgasm' jump-started United DePauw's annual 'Coming Out Week' to a packed audience Monday night.
The event brought a full crowd to the Union Building ballroom and gave students the opportunity to ask questions about the female orgasm and sex in general. Sex educators Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller hosted the event. The couple from New York City tours the country, speaking to students about sex in a program called "I love female orgasm." They recently released a book by the same name.
Pamela Selle, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance's President and webmaster for The DePauw, found out about the program at a National Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) Conference. Selle worked through various contacts and networking to schedule Solot and Miller to come to DePauw.
Solot and Miller opened the event with a scene from "When Harry Met Sally," in which the main female character fakes an orgasm.
"I love starting with this because this is a really fun subject," Solot said. "There are important health reasons why women need access to really good accurate information about our bodies."
Miller said the information presented was important and enlightening for both men and women.
"Female orgasm is one of those subjects that is interesting to a lot of people," he said. "And that includes lots of women and people who have female partners."
Senior Kari Moorman said the event provided a venue for discussion about a topic that is often avoided.
"I think it's exciting to explore a topic that most people don't talk about," she said.
Selle said the promotion for the event led to a welcoming DePauw audience.
"Most people were surprised when we handed them a button that said, 'I love female orgasm!' but generally I was really surprised at how easy it was to spread the word about the event," Selle said. "We, thankfully, met a lot of enthusiasm."
United DePauw's Coming Out Week has been in existence since the 1990s when the group began. The event occurs annually at the beginning of the fall semester, said club treasurer Laura Pearce.
"The expression of our titled event typically means, 'come out and support our cause,' and we usually do have a great turnout," she said.
Coming Out Week continues tonight with a candlelight vigil on East College Lawn at 9 p.m. honoring and remembering victims of hate crimes and all those affected by September 11. Wednesday evening is movie night in Watson Forum at 7 p.m.
Thursday evening at 7 p.m. in the UB Ballroom, speaker Will Carlson from Utah will be coming to talk to students about a program called Equality Utah, which is affiliated with Gay Straight Alliance (GSA). Carlson will be talking about his high school members and issues that ensue between them and their surrounding community.
The week will culminate on Friday in The Dells at 6 p.m. with the "Bar-B-Queer" cook out.
"It's going to be a good week," Selle said.
- Amy Koester contributed to this story.
The event brought a full crowd to the Union Building ballroom and gave students the opportunity to ask questions about the female orgasm and sex in general. Sex educators Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller hosted the event. The couple from New York City tours the country, speaking to students about sex in a program called "I love female orgasm." They recently released a book by the same name.
Pamela Selle, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance's President and webmaster for The DePauw, found out about the program at a National Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) Conference. Selle worked through various contacts and networking to schedule Solot and Miller to come to DePauw.
Solot and Miller opened the event with a scene from "When Harry Met Sally," in which the main female character fakes an orgasm.
"I love starting with this because this is a really fun subject," Solot said. "There are important health reasons why women need access to really good accurate information about our bodies."
Miller said the information presented was important and enlightening for both men and women.
"Female orgasm is one of those subjects that is interesting to a lot of people," he said. "And that includes lots of women and people who have female partners."
Senior Kari Moorman said the event provided a venue for discussion about a topic that is often avoided.
"I think it's exciting to explore a topic that most people don't talk about," she said.
Selle said the promotion for the event led to a welcoming DePauw audience.
"Most people were surprised when we handed them a button that said, 'I love female orgasm!' but generally I was really surprised at how easy it was to spread the word about the event," Selle said. "We, thankfully, met a lot of enthusiasm."
United DePauw's Coming Out Week has been in existence since the 1990s when the group began. The event occurs annually at the beginning of the fall semester, said club treasurer Laura Pearce.
"The expression of our titled event typically means, 'come out and support our cause,' and we usually do have a great turnout," she said.
Coming Out Week continues tonight with a candlelight vigil on East College Lawn at 9 p.m. honoring and remembering victims of hate crimes and all those affected by September 11. Wednesday evening is movie night in Watson Forum at 7 p.m.
Thursday evening at 7 p.m. in the UB Ballroom, speaker Will Carlson from Utah will be coming to talk to students about a program called Equality Utah, which is affiliated with Gay Straight Alliance (GSA). Carlson will be talking about his high school members and issues that ensue between them and their surrounding community.
The week will culminate on Friday in The Dells at 6 p.m. with the "Bar-B-Queer" cook out.
"It's going to be a good week," Selle said.
- Amy Koester contributed to this story.
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