Harvard University
May 2009
Harvard's Orgasm Seminar Presented by Dr. Sari Locker
Students crowded into Science Center C on Friday night, but instead of picking up syllabi, they grabbed free condoms and cupcakes frosted with images of vaginas.
The lecture hall was packed for the fifth annual Female Orgasm Seminar, organized by the Radcliffe Union of Students and led by speaker and sex educator Sari Locker.
Locker mainly focused on the importance of knowing one’s own sexuality rather than relying on what the media, pornography, or others say should feel pleasurable.
“It takes three things to know your own sexuality,” Locker said. “It takes knowing yourself, it takes knowing others, and it takes knowing about sex.”
Despite this serious-sounding message, Locker’s presentation was
interactive and interspersed with sexual jokes and innuendoes, drawing plenty
of laughs from the attentive audience.