Erotic University: Freshman Year is officially launched!!!

This last weekend we had the official launch party. It started out with our popular Swinging 101 class, and afterwards we had a huge party with a Monte Carlo theme. There was a Strip Poker Tournament sponsored by our own World Strip Poker Federation, we had a topless blackjack dealer, and EU co-founder Kris Booth manned the sexy Challenge Craps game. It was a big success and an enormous amount of fun. You can read more about it on the official Erotic University Behind the Scenes blog.

Now our focus is going to be on creating classes with a wide variety of educators and a wide variety of topics. If you want to know more about presenting a class yourself, go here.

-Jeff Booth
 

Gunning For the Porn Industry

The President keeps reminding us of the terrorist threats we face every day, emphasizing the urgency of giving his administration carte blanch to do whatever they deem necessary. We’ll all sleep a little safer knowing the FBI is on the job. According to reports on XBiz, the FBI has formed sixteen four man teams of agents for the purpose of inspecting the adult industry’s 2257 records. These are required records proving that all performers are under 18, but the record keeping system requirements are so complex and Byzantine that no lawyer completely understands what is actually required. They were designed to be burdensome and create a tool to go after adult companies. These inspections apparently have nothing to do with the adult industry using underage performers- they don’t. They go to great pains not to, as child pornography laws make that really illegal and if it happened due to fake IDs on the part of the performer, they would have to recall and destroy every copy. It does give the FBI the regular opportunity to swoop down on a company and do warrantless inspections, looking for the slightest defect in record-keeping. The law requires full compliance with no wiggle room for good faith efforts, with a five year penalty in prison for each infraction. The 2257 law was enacted 18 years ago, but the very first inspection ever under a harsher version of the law have only now just begun.

A Porn Free Holiday?

Did you know that June 14th is a holiday? The officials in Pulaski Township in Pennsylvania certainly do. They have a law that prohibits businesses from being open on state or federal holidays. Why they should be allowed to have a law like that is a concerning question, but I also suspect that it is a law very selectively enforced. They used it to close the Adult-Land Triple-X store. The store’s owner is filing an appeal, claiming that he (and I suspect nearly everyone else) did not know that Flag Day was a holiday.

Big Problems

How do you tell your 300 pound wife that you’d rather she not have a site on the Internet featuring her nude? You don’t, according to Police Chief Tod Ozmun in Snyder, Oklahoma. No- she wasn’t arrested; she’s the police chief’s wife. The site was clearly not prosecutable. It created a huge scandal when word got out, resulting in the resignation of both the chief and the mayor. Now the local district attorney is planning an investigation, apparently because there is not a whole lot else to investigate in the small burb of Snyder, and considering her weight, this would be his biggest case.

Unbelievably Hard Up

I don’t think you can get any more hard up for a date than these guys. Three Wisconsin men are accused of trying to dig up a young woman's body so that they could have sex with her. Actually, they were charged with attempted sexual assault, but the charges were dropped since Wisconsin has no laws against necrophilia. Great. These are guys you really want back in the dating pool.

Someone I Never Thought I’d See in a Porn Film

Both Kris and I are fans of Jackie Chan. He’s extremely likable and one of the most astounding athletes we’ve ever seen. He does all of his own stunt work, including in the recently revealed but largely unknown porn film called "All in the Family". Chan admitted that he did the film 31 years ago when he was down on his luck and needed the money.

Someone Else I Never Thought I’d See Nude

A collection of photographs going on sale this week includes a 44-year-old picture of the 32 year old at the time Princess Margaret nude in a Kensington Palace bathtub. At least you can’t accuse the photographer, Lord Snowdon, of taking dirty pictures.

Swingers on the Defensive

The Schenectady Planning Commission held hearings to change the law to make hotels catering to swingers against the law. It appears that the law specifically targets the Union Street Bed & Breakfast. Laws that outlaw singer hotels could also outlaw any type of sex in a hotel establishment. Officials in Today is the day we may find out if a gentleman's club in Coopersburg will get cited for hosting a sex party. The Bed and Breakfast is fighting the law change. Coopersburg Borough officials have also acted to keep the Silhouette Showbar from hosting swinger's group "Club Kama Sutra." The Borough Council unanimously authorized its solicitor ''to pursue all legal remedies'' against the club. The club moved to the new location after their previous location was shut down by the state.

There are some clubs we do feel should be shut down, however. Swing clubs do not belong in residential neighborhoods where they bring in strangers and lots of traffic. Its just not good for the neighborhood. The latest bone-headed scheme to profit off of swingers in the comfort of their own homes was revealed on a news piece of NBC2. Christine Simmons of Cape Coral set up a web site for parties in her home. Thirty pissed off neighbors showed up at their door on the night of their last party, along with a news crew. The city is investigating.

Troglodyte Trustees Face Off Cave Porn

Western Wyoming Community College's trustees are fearful that reproductions of famous cave drawings featuring a nude woman and another featuring a nude man might corrupt youth entering the Archaeology department, so they are putting a hold on the paintings being hung there along with the others already hanging. The paintings are by artist Darryl Newton. One features a large nude women that symbolizes health, and another features a naked man dressed as a stag. They are horrified at the thought that schoolchildren on a field trip might see them. Good thing these clowns aren’t trustees for an art museum.

Porn House Goes Mainstream Publishing

Entertainment Group, the worlds leading adult film company, will create three new titles for ReganBooks, the popular New York City publishing imprint. This is a follow-up to the success of How to Have a XXX Sex Life: the Ultimate Vivid Guide, published in 2004 and now available in paperback.  No word yet on the titles and subjects.

Erotic University Events

Erotic University Presents

An Erotic Halloween Adventure

(For Couples Only)

This is an educational experience for couples.  The evening kicks off at 7:30 pm with a special class:

Couple Explorations

Traditional monogamous sex in the privacy of your bedroom can be great, but there are other options to explore: swinging, voyeurism, exhibitionism, sex toys, playful bondage and much more. This couple taught class provides an introductory overview and explains how to explore these options safely and comfortably with your partner.

After the class, EU founders Jeff and Kris Booth will personally escort you to one of the biggest and sexiest couples only private Halloween parties in town. Locker rooms will be available for changing into sexy Halloween costumes (as sexy as you want- no rules). Warning: While the class will explain the basic rules for this type of party, you should understand that you will be exposed in real life to many of the things discussed in the class. While any participation on your part in any activities is strictly consensual with no pressure in a safe environment, you may (and probably will) see open displays of sexuality and exposed body parts.

Click here for more information.

National Events

Sex and Romance Expo, September 22nd - 23rd, Columbus, Ohio

An expo open to the general public showcasing everything to do with sex, romance, sensuality, and body image. Vendors, seminars, entertainment, and contests.

AdultCon 11 , September 23rd and 24th, Los Angeles
A two day adult convention providing you the opportunity to meet adult internet models and adult stars and see the latest in adult videos, products, and services.

Folsom Street Fair, September 24th, San Francisco
An outdoor street festival catering primarily to the gay community with an emphasis on leather and fetish.

Photozella, September 30th, San Francisco
A rare photographic opportunity on a nude beach for models and photographers.

Oral Parity

According to Johns Hopkins University Professor Jonathan Zenilman, both adults and the teenagers who come to his clinic are engaging in much more oral sex than in 1990. For men and boys as the beneficiaries, it's up from about half to 75 to 80 percent; for women and girls as beneficiaries, it's risen from about 25 percent to 75 to 80 percent. The interesting trend there is the bump up in equality, with both male and female giving on the rise to equal levels.

3 Times Longer and Still Short

Research in the U.S. indicates that a new drug could prolong sexual intercourse by more than three times the duration previously experienced. Of course, this is designed primarily for premature ejaculators who typically finished intercourse in trials in less than a minute. This drug still does not bring them up to the depressing average recorded by Johnson and Johnson in 2005 (based on a sampling of over 1500 couples) of just 7.3 minutes. The study on dapoxetine was published in the recent issue of The Lancet.

Watch Out For the Pregnant Pause

It has long been thought that childbirth can effect a woman’s long-term sexual functioning, but a new study sheds some new light on the issue. According to a study by Dr H. J. van Brummen published in a recent issue of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the biggest predictor of a woman’s sex life after having a baby is the sex life she has before having a baby. The study found that women's sex lives one year after childbirth were unrelated to the type of delivery. Women who weren't having sex at week 12 of pregnancy were 11 times more likely than others to be sexually inactive one year after childbirth. In all, 94 per cent of women were having sex a year after giving birth.

A New Drug for Another Type of Pause

Thomas Y. Ito, Mary Lake Polan, Beverly Whipple (of self-pleasuring fame), and Aileen Sontag Trant are publishing a study in the Oct/Dec 2006 issue of the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. They evaluated the effectiveness of the nutritional supplement ArginMax in enhancing female sexual function. It contains L-arginine, ginseng, ginkgo, damiana, multivitamins, and minerals. I am always a little skeptical about products like this, so it is nice to see some actual science being used to evaluate it. It was a double-blind placebo controlled study, and showed significant improvement in increased sexual desire, increased frequency of sex, and overall sexual satisfaction over the placebo. While there was some improvement in sexual desire in post menopausal women, the biggest improvement was found in pre and  perimenopausal women. It is beginning to look like it might be a good alternative to hormones for women entering menopause.

A Coming Miracle

Vibrators have long been known as an excellent tool for helping non-orgasmic women learn how to have orgasms. A newly designed vibrator may be able to give orgasms to people for whom achieving orgasm is especially difficult- those with spinal cord injuries.

Researchers at the B.C. Institute of Technology have come up with eight prototypes of a vibrator for male and female paraplegics and quadriplegics that will go into clinical trials next month. According to a 2004 survey of 681 spinal-cord injured people in the United States, paraplegics ranked regaining sexual function as their highest priority, even above improving bladder and bowel function. While the brains of those with spinal cord injuries may not be able to feel touch, the souped up performance of these vibes can be an effective form of stimulation. They use technology similar to the high frequency devices used to medically retrieve sperm to enable disabled men to become fathers.

Variety is the Spice of Orgasm

A recent Australian study indicates that women who have sex with other women or do more than just have straightforward intercourse are more likely to have orgasms. What the study really showed is that standard intercourse just does not do it for most women. They need sexual variety. The more sexual practices a women engages in the more likelihood she has of orgasm. The study, published in the latest Journal of Sex Research also included the shocking statistic that of the sampling of 19,000, only 25 percent of the women had received oral sex in their last encounter.