1. What kinds of colleges and groups have hosted
The Female Orgasm program?
2. Does this program work at a women's college? How
about a school with mostly male students?
3. What kinds of students tend to attend The Female
Orgasm program (male, female, heterosexual, gay/lesbian/bi/trans?)
4. Our school is quite conservative. Would The Female
Orgasm be appropriate for us?
5. We are bringing The Female Orgasm to campus. What's
your advice about publicity?
6. When students hang up the publicity posters and
wear the publicity buttons and t-shirts around campus,
other students ask them what the program is all about.
What's a short answer that will be easy for them to remember
and will convince other students to attend?
7. We're excited about bringing your program to campus!
We think the topic is important, but we're a bit concerned
that the title "The Female Orgasm" may make
some people uncomfortable. Do you have ideas for ways
to advertise the program using a different title?
1. What kinds of colleges and groups have hosted
The Female Orgasm program?
All kinds! We've presented The Female Orgasm on conservative campuses and liberal ones, at women's colleges and mostly-male ones, at Ivy League colleges, private and public universities, community colleges and four-year schools, universities in the heart of New York City and in rural schools surrounded by farmland, from Maine to New Mexico, Washington state to Florida, and Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, and Wisconsin, too -- a total of 35 states and counting!
We've been hosted by a wide variety of groups including
student activities boards,  programming councils, women's
centers, GLBTQ groups, peer educator groups, offices of
student activities, student life, residence life, counseling
and psychological services, health services, academic departments,
sororities and fraternities, social justice groups, diversity
groups, and others.
We've also presented The Female Orgasm as part of special
programming weeks such as Sex Week, Romance and Responsibility
Week, Women's History Month, Valentine's Day Week, Love
Your Body Week, Sexual Health Education Week, Pride Month,
and many others. It's also been part of a college comedy
series, as "Late Nite" programming, as part of
an academic lecture series, and as a keynote at a GLBTQ
college conference.
2. Does this program work at a women's college? How
about a school with mostly male students?
Yes to both! Among women's schools, Wellesley College has brought the program in three times, and Smith College twice, always to rave reviews.
The turnout at Douglass College, the women's college of
Rutgers University, was triple what the organizers told
us they expected. We find that at women's schools the the
interactive, conversational parts of the program work particularly
well, since often there is a already a high level of comfort
talking about women's sexuality.
The program has also been a hit at schools with predominantly
male student populations, including the Maine Maritime
Academy, Polytechnic University, Lawrence Technological
University, and SUNY Institute of Technology. At
the Wentworth Institute of Technology, the advisor to the
Wentworth Events Board wrote to us afterwards, "It
was our largest audience ever for an event we did not make
mandatory." A student organizer at the SUNY Institute
of Technology, which brought the program in two consecutive
years, pointed out that in addition to attracting lots
of male students to the program, The Female Orgasm drew
more women to the room than were generally ever seen in
one place on campus -- a bonus for student groups trying
to plan events that appeal to the women on campus as well
as the men.
3. What kinds of students tend to attend The Female
Orgasm program (male, female, heterosexual, gay/lesbian/bi/trans?)
Student and staff organizers frequently tell us how impressed they are by the diversity of audience members who attend this program. The subject attracts both female and male students -- at a typical co-ed school, we find the audience tends to be about one-third male. This is definitely NOT a program that appeals only to women or is primarily for guys. Women of all sexual orientations (heterosexual, lesbian, and bisexual women) love the program, as do heterosexual and bi men. Gay male students attend sometimes and tell us, "I don't date women, but here's my chance to learn something about this subject without getting up close and personal." The content of the program addresses issues relevant to people of all genders and sexual orientations.
4. Our school is quite conservative. Would The Female
Orgasm be appropriate for us?
We've presented The Female Orgasm at many colleges
where students and staff members told us in advance that
the campus tended to be conservative, and the response to
the program has been very positive. We are always willing
to work closely with organizers to strategize about the publicity
and content of the program. Staff who have attended the program
say it's tasteful
and appropriate. We'd be happy to share letters
we've received from a variety of kinds of schools that have
hosted the program, and we also can provide references you
can speak to directly. Also, see the question below about
ways to advertise the program in more low-key ways, without
using the word "orgasm" in all the publicity.
5. We are bringing The Female Orgasm to campus. What's
your advice about publicity?
To get started, we have some great program
descriptions you can put on your website, in
the school newspaper, or on materials you create, along
with some images you can use (a button image and a photo
of us) here.
We usually mail you your complete publicity package about
3 weeks before we'll be arriving on campus -- it will contain
your 5 free t-shirts, 30 11x17 color posters, photocopyable
posters and table tents, 10 free buttons, and any additional
extra t-shirts or buttons that you ordered from us. You
should also receive our Orgasmic Publicity Ideas sheet
-- we usually send that to you by email and again in the
publicity package. If you'd like to receive publicity materials
from us sooner, just let us know! 
6. When students hang up the publicity posters and
wear the publicity buttons and t-shirts around campus,
other students ask them what the program is all about.
What's a short answer that will be easy for them to remember
and will convince other students to attend?
Tell them to say it's a funny educational program that
really is all about female orgasm. That's really all they
need to say! It's a good idea to make sure that every student
wearing an "I love female orgasm" t-shirt or
button knows to say this -- and also be sure they know
when and where the program is taking place so they can
tell people that information, too!
7. We're excited about bringing your program to campus!
We think the topic is important, but we're a bit concerned
that the title "The Female Orgasm" may make
some people uncomfortable. Do you have ideas for ways
to advertise the program using a different title?
Yes, many schools have done so. We'd be happy to provide
you with a list of titles and approaches that other schools
have used that have gotten great turnouts using more "subtle" publicity.
Give us a call or an email to request the list -- we'd
be happy to strategize with you. (We also provide all colleges
that book The Female Orgasm with a comprehensive list of
great publicity ideas!)
General FAQ
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