Lecture draws packed crowd to Russell House Ballroom Wednesday
Marshall Miller doesn’t think sex education works very well.
“What do you do in driver’s ed?” Miller, the co-author of “I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide,” asked with a smile during a lecture Wednesday of the same name. “You learn how to drive. Now just think about that ... If you were taught driver’s ed the way you were taught sex ed, you wouldn’t have learned anything about how a car actually works, like where the gas pedal is or how to work the headlights.”
Such was the tone of Miller’s presentation with Rachel Dart in the packed Russell House Ballroom, which replaced the awkward diagrams and admonitions of middle school sex education with something more bold and uninhibited. The event was hosted by Carolina Productions.
Rather than focus entirely on the raw mechanics of the reproductive system, the program distinguished itself by focusing more on the pleasure aspects of sex.
Its subject matter honed in on the benefits of women being comfortable with climaxing and masturbating, as well as being comfortable with their bodies.
Dart and Miller used a wide array of presenting techniques -— from movie clips to humorous anecdotes of the speed bumps they hit on their road to sexual enlightenment — in an attempt to relax the crowd’s inhibitions and create a more open-minded environment.
The production also often interacted with the audience members to gauge what they had heard about female orgasm and other aspects of sexuality in order to confirm — or refute — them.