The Tuesday night sex show
Janette Roy

I bet you thought bigger was better. I bet you thought you were the only one who has never had an orgasm and was wondering how you could have one.

On February 2, Sue Johanson, host of the popular Sunday Night Sex Show on wtn, came to Laurier and helped dispel a lot of the myths surrounding sex.

Sue is "On Tour with LifeStyles Condoms," speaking at campuses across Canada. She believes that "[students] have some basic knowledge about sex and a whole lot of unanswered questions.

"They deserve straightforward answers, not a lecture, not preaching, just the facts." On the Sunday Night Sex Show, Sue hardly flinches, staying hard and fast on responding with facts, hoping to help people lead better sex lives.

You may feel uneasy confronting an older woman with your most intimate situations but she’s no stranger in this field. In 1970, Sue, a.k.a. the Sex Lady, opened the first birth control clinic in a North American high school.

She then began teaching sex education. Over the last three decades, she has talked to more than 50,000 students in high schools, colleges and universities across Canada.

For 13 years, Sue Johanson was the host of Sex with Sue, a call-in advice show on Q107 FM in Toronto. Along with the Sunday Night Sex Show, her columns appear regularly in MENZ magazine and the Toronto Star.

She has also written three books, received the Canadian Organization of Campus Activities, Speaker of the Year Award for the past five years and in 1990, she was honoured with the Excellence in Education award by OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education).

When confronted with a question about her age and how often she has sex, Sue answers that she’s old enough to have three children and two grandchildren and that she has sex, "whenever she can."

She began the night explaining the mentality of young men and women and how impressionable they are about their sexuality.

She says that guys are used to admiring and touching themselves whereas girls don’t because they’re told it’s wrong. Parents promote this kind of behavior.

Sex education was even worse for our blooming sexuality. What you were shown in sex education were diagrams of male and female genitalia from the inside.

The only picture you saw of the male genitals from the outside were of a flaccid penis. This is not what the sixteen year old male is dealing with however.

You didn’t even see pictures of what a female looked like. That is why we don’t have language for the female system. Sue said many girls came to her saying they had a problem, "down there."

She also talked about faking orgasms. To her, this is the biggest problem because it happens so often.

When you are faking, you are leading that other person to believe they’re doing everything right, when they’re obviously not.

Either you keep faking and hope they do something right eventually or you have to come clean.

Sue highly recommended masturbation. This is the only true way to orgasm, by yourself and with other people.

This way, you know what feels good and when you get in the sack with someone, they don’t have to play guessing games. This takes the pressure off both of you.

She informed us that most guys already have a head start in that department but she was directing this advice mainly towards women, with comments like, "Don’t turn on the shower, let the shower turn you on," and, "There’s got to be some use for beanie babies."

She informed the crowd that she carries many packets of condoms, both male and female with her all of the time and she suggested we do the same.

The Sunday Night Sex Show is obviously on Sunday nights at 11 p.m. on wtn.