Students filed into the D. P. Culp Center’s Martha Street Culp Auditorium last Thursday, Sept. 30, to the music of a playlist of “female O songs.” A diverse group of women and men gathered to hear Marshall Miller and Jocelyn Benson present “The Female Orgasm,” a program in which sex education embraces stand-up comedy. Upon proper introductions being made, Miller and Benson took the stage and addressed the evening’s cell phone policy.

“Most speakers get up here and tell you to turn your cell phones off,” Benson joked with an air of sexual innuendo, “But tonight we’d just like to ask you to turn them over to vibrate.” The auditorium roared with laughter, and the laughs kept resonating off the walls all night.

Benson addressed the topic head on with a recount of her first orgasm. “Men have orgasms,” Miller chimed in. “The male orgasm is pretty common. But the female orgasm is an elusive beast. Tonight we’re going to stalk the female orgasm.” Benson stepped forward again and explained that the discussion would begin with one of their favorite movie scenes. A clip from “When Harry Met Sally” popped up on the projection screen with immediate recognition from the audience. Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) sat in a diner discussing Harry’s philandering and the possibility of his partners’ faking of orgasms. “Get outta here,” Harry says, and thus Meg Ryan’s famous scene of faking it ensues. The audience howled as Ryan slapped the table and attracted the attention of everyone in the diner with moans before suddenly ending her demonstration with a smile brought on by a point well made.

Miller and Benson returned to the center of stage as the lights came back on and began their presentation on real female orgasms.

“This stuff isn’t taught in high school sex ed class,” they said. “All those classes teach is that sex is bad; they teach girls how to say ‘no’ to sex. So sometimes it can be a little confusing when a girl decides she’s ready to say ‘yes.'”

After a discussion of how best to achieve a female orgasm, the duo announced that the audience would be split up by gender for further talking.

The women stayed in the auditorium with Benson, and the men exited to the Culp Center foyer with Miller.

The women took the talk to a more personal level, sharing orgasm stories and preferred sexual activities.

The men identified sources of sexual knowledge, whether correct or flawed.

Pornography was perhaps the main thing identified that misled guys on the road to feminine satisfaction.

After about 20 minutes of individual group sessions, the assembly came back together in the auditorium. Benson went through a list of better ways to achieve orgasms that the females had made, and Miller recapped the misinformation portrayed in porn.

The presentation closed on with the unveiling of a favorite “toy” of the speakers.

Miller uncovered a Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 vibrating broomstick, produced by Mattel until it was pulled from the market for obvious reasons.

Miller proceeded to read some reviews of the product, including, “My 17-year-old daughter loves it as much as my 12-year-old,” and “They play for hours on end in her bedroom.” The audience left after Miller and Benson wished them “a happy life and lots of orgasms.

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