A few weeks ago, I had the extreme pleasure of doing a podcast and interview with a sex ed dream team: trail-blazing octogenarian Betty Dodson and her business partner, Carlin Ross. I was first introduced to Betty as a 1st year graduate student, when we watched her Self Loving group video; I’ve been in awe of her radical sex ed techniques ever since. As online educators and bloggers, we decided to do a discussion (my first in podcast form, and boy, was this whole thing new to me!) on sex education on the web: the topics we like talking about in our respective blogging and where people can find comprehensive sexuality education online (besides Babeland and DodsonandRoss.com, of course!). The great thing about three women sitting in a room together and talking about sex is the vast differences between how they experience their sexuality and express it to others. It’s really inspiring to have such a conversation with amazing experts and learn so much in the process! Thank you to Betty and Carlin! Here is my interview with them:

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As some of you may have already seen on the news and across the blogosphere, professor John Michael Bailey of Northwestern University is in a lot of hot water over a live sex demonstration that occurred in an optional lecture for his human sexuality class. In some of the first articles I found released regarding the incident, though, it wasn’t very easy to figure out what exactly had happened. One author referred to “penetration with a sex toy,” though did not disclose what sort of sex toy it was. Another referred to the toy as a “f—saw,” I would assume for shock value, but didn’t mention what the purpose of the public penetration was, except to say the motorized toy was “kinky” and therefore fell under the topic of the lecture.

I have to admit, after about a half hour or so of online research, I couldn’t really say that I knew what really went on in this classroom. The coverage felt as unsatisfying and as ineffective as a censor’s floating black rectangle over a pair of breasts. I had an idea of what the story looked like, without the actual details.

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