'The Female Orgasm' jump-started United DePauw's annual 'Coming Out Week' to a packed audience Monday night. The event brought a full crowd to the Union Building ballroom and gave students the opportunity to ask questions about the female orgasm and sex in general. Sex educators Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller hosted the event. The couple from New York City tours the country speaking to students about sex in a program called "I love female orgasm." They recently released a book by the same label. Pamela Selle. Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance's President and webmaster for The DePauw found out about the program at a National Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) Conference. Selle worked through various contacts and networking to schedule Solot and Miller to come to DePauw. Solot and Miller opened the event with a scene from "When Harry Met Sally," in which the main female engrave fakes an orgasm."I like starting with this because this is a really fun subject," Solot said. "There are important health reasons why women be access to really good accurate information about our bodies." Miller said the information presented was important and enlightening for both men and women. "Female orgasm is one of those subjects that is interesting to a lot of people," he said. "And that includes lots of women and populate who have female partners."Senior Kari Moorman said the event provided a venue for discussion about a topic that is often avoided."I think it's exciting to explore a topic that most people don't talk about," she said. Selle said the promotion for the event led to a welcoming DePauw audience. "Most populate were surprised when we handed them a button that said. 'I like female orgasm!' but generally I was really surprised at how easy it was to spread the word about the event," Selle said. "We thankfully met a lot of enthusiasm."United DePauw's Coming Out Week has been in existence since the 1990s when the group began. The event occurs annually at the beginning of the fall semester said club treasurer Laura Pearce. "The expression of our titled event typically means. 'come out and give our create,' and we usually do undergo a great turnout," she said. Coming Out Week continues tonight with a candlelight vigil on East College Lawn at 9 p m honoring and remembering victims of dislike crimes and all those affected by September 11. Wednesday evening is movie night in Watson Forum at 7 p m. Thursday evening at 7 p m in the UB Ballroom speaker ordain Carlson from Utah ordain be coming to communicate to students about a schedule called Equality Utah which is affiliated with Gay Straight Alliance (GSA). Carlson ordain be talking about his high educate members and issues that ensue between them and their surrounding community. The week will cease on Friday in The Dells at 6 p m with the "Bar-B-Queer" create from raw material out. "It's going to be a good week," Selle said.- Amy Koester contributed to this story.
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