"The Female Orgasm"

I guess The Vagina Monologues are so 20th Century. These days, those of us who prowl about the sacred halls of education have to deal with giant "I (heart) Female Orgasm" posters lining the walls and printed in bold, sans serif fonts on our female students' chests.
The Female Orgasm (TM) is an organization that visits campuses to deliver what is apparently the opposite of a chastity talk.
According to its Website:

Sex educators Marshall Miller, Dorian Solot, and Melissa Lopez present funny, smart, honest lectures, trainings, and keynotes about sexual health and responsible intimacy, safer sex, female orgasm, GLBTQ issues, and more.

The site also spends quite a bit of time defending itself from puritanical fears that it is crude or tasteless by offering a page of testimonials from College administrators professing to have found the lectures to be on the up-and-up.

That might be true, but it doesn't do much to alleviate the professional and/or social awkwardness that a teacher encounters while trying to hold a mature conversation with a student wearing a shirt with the word "orgasm" on it.

Comments

[Matt]

I notice that they have added a new letter...GLBTQ. We should hold a poll for what letter comes next.

[PeterTerp]

I'm going to put my money on P.

[Rosa de Lima]

Peter,

I agree it will be P for either Pansexual or Polysexual. It's a real label! I'm not clever enough to make this stuff up. But seeing as how they are two completely different identities, the GLBTQ community should be inclusive and add two P's. It has a nice ring to it... LGBTQPP or GLBTQPP

[PeterTerp]

Make that three P's...the P I had in mind was Polyamory (which is like Polygamy, only it doesn't require marriage)...which seems a new buzzword that keeps cropping up. But maybe polysexual is the same thing as polyamory?

You know, I'm not sure this is really a fit conversation for Lent...but I bet will will boost google hits to the blog!

[Matt]

After that they will try to rearrange the letters so that it spells something horribly related. The "backronym" as it were. I completely refuse to speculate. In fact, I shudder even thinking about it.

[Serena]

It's hysterical how desperate some people are to avoid the existence of a woman alive who knows she has the chance to choose chastity. What are they afraid of? I know some say there are teeming mobs of men roundabout trying to punish women for being sexual, but it's still hard ot say that without laughing, it's so clearly opposite real life, so I still have to guess what the screaming pushers of sex-everywhere-for-all are worried will happen if they take a break. I just know how angry some individuals get upon meeting a chaste woman. As if deprived of something they were entitled to.

[PeterTerp]

I suppose we could conjecture all the psychological conflicts in such people, Serena.
There's probably a layer of guilt in there -- wanting to justify their own choices by encouraging others to make the same mistakes.
That might be a little too cynical for me to say, though.
To give the people the benefit of the doubt, I would concede that they react to statistics on premarital sex the same way environmentalists react to statistic on arctic sea ice.
People are always pulling out statistics saying that people who take "chastity pledges" are one of the highest risks for contracting diseases, since they aren't usually "prepared" when they make mistakes. It might not be that the people you are describing are upset about chastity as such as they are upset to think about how powerful the pro-chastity ideology still is, and how that ideology is threatening the lives of young people (in their imaginations, at least). Environmentalists get all angry when they hear someone quote statistics against man-made global warming because they imagine that anyone spouting such nonsense has been duped by the big, mean, self-serving capitalists. The pro-safe-sex people are infuriated perhaps less with an individual's choice, but because they think an individual who chooses chastity has been duped by the big, mean, self-serving Church. It makes them angry to see what they think is brainwashing.
The real problem is that they can't see how they might have been brainwashed themselves.