College Feminists Present: Sex Week 2008!
This spring at Northwestern, the birds will be singing and the bees will be buzzing because we are taking sex out of the closet
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***ALL EVENTS ARE FREE TO NORTHWESTERN STUDENTS***
Over 600 students have attended Sex Week events so far, and Sex Week has only half begun. Don't miss out on upcoming events.
When else will you get to meet a porn star with a PhD or hear about the intimate details of the female orgasm from an expert?
THURSDAY, APRIL 10th
Dr. Sprinkle is in!
Women's Center 3:00-5:30
Meet and greet artist/sexologist, Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. Stop by and visit with this unique wise woman in an intimate, informal setting.
You can:
-Receive a quickie sex life tarot reading from Annie
-Ask Annie any questions you have about sex, art, love, or whatever. No questions are off limits!
-Interview or just chat with Annie
-Just come say hello
-Have a cup of tea and peruse her books and DVDs
-Bring your work to share with her
-Ask Annie for advice
For over a quarter of a century, Annie Sprinkle has explored sexuality in all of it’s most glorious (and inglorious) forms. From her beginnings as a sexually curious sex worker to her evolution as a groundbreaking performance artist and sexologist, she has shared what she has learned through filmmaking, writing, photography, visual art, teaching workshops.
She’s done theater and performance art about her life around the world for twenty years.
You’re Worth It: Movie Night with Annie Sprinkle
Tech LR 5 7:00pm
Annie will screen her latest film, Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasm. It's an experimental documentary and poetic homage to the Big O featuring interviews with 26 orgasm experts. READ: Artistic sexually explicit documentary. This film explores how to tackle a subject such as orgasm as an artist, and is a collage of artistic work otherwise known as edu-porn or as an alternative sex film. The film is one hour, then there will be a fun and informative conversation. After you see this colorful, educational, thought provoking, sometimes sexy, film, you will very likely see your own orgasms in a new light!
Sex Week Carnival
Patten Gym 9:00pm
Come one, come all to the Sex Week Carnival. Step under our big top and try your hand at fun, kinky games cooked up by the fraternities… you might just win one of our many prizes from local sex toy shops or our sponsor, Trojan. Student groups will also compete against each other: the group with the most carnival-goers will win our grand prize! The Sex Week Carnival: all the fun of a sexually-charged circus… minus the carnies.
Co-Sponsored by the Interfraternity Council and Trojan Brand Condoms
FRIDAY, APRIL 11th
Talk Sex at the Rock
The Rock 12:00-3:00pm
Everyone has an experience with sex in some way, whether it is something they have done or something they have seen. Maybe your
experiences have been private in the past, but we are giving you a chance to make them public
anonymously. The many poems and stories you have secretly dropped in our boxes or written on the banners will be read
OUT LOUD because you should be PROUD to be the sexual being that you are.
Lisa Douglass: The Art and Science of Orgasm
Harris 107 4:00pm
Orgasm. What exactly is it? For a word that’s thrown around a lot, little discussion actually revolves around it. Dr. Lisa Douglass, a local expert on sex and gender, and author of The Sex You Want: A Lover’s Guide to Women’s Sexual Pleasure, will explain the all-too mysterious “O” in what’s bound to be one of the most intriguing and enlightening lectures of the year. Douglass will present both about the science on orgasm and the “art,” or practice of orgasm. Check out her website here.
Co-Sponsored by SHAPE
Annie Sprinkle, PhD: My Life and Work as a Feminist Porn Activist
Coon/Leverone Auditorium(Kellogg) 6:00pm
Annie Sprinkle will present an intimate, informal, show and tell evening. Sprinkle has devoted the past 35 years to passionately researching and exploring sexuality, from the sacred to the profane. She has documented and shared her findings through explicit films, photography, and sexuality workshops. For the past twenty years she has toured her controversial one-woman theater shows internationally to great acclaim. Annie will share some of her life's work, do mini-performances, and stimulate discussion with the audience. Annie was the first porn star to get a PhD, which she got at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, in San Francisco, making her a certified sexologist.
Sprinkle was one of the movers and shakers of the sex positive feminist movement of the ‘80s. Her work is often studied in performance art history, gender studies, and film studies. Currently her work is about love, queer relationship, breast cancer, aging and it explores alternative kinds of sexually oriented media through conceptual art.
Co-Sponsored by NU Choices, Women’s Center, Gender Studies, SHAPE, and Panhellenic Association.
X-Rated: The Truth About Porn
Coon/Leverone Auditorium(Kellogg) Immediately following Annie Sprinkle, 7:30pm
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a porn star? Admit it, you have. Come find out what it’s really like to work in the adult film industry with the people who really know. We’ve assembled an expert panel of directors, producers, business owners, and even active film stars to come talk and debunk myths about the industry, including Annie Sprinkle acting as facilitator. The panel will be available to answer questions from the audience, so now’s your chance to find out the truth about porn.
Staging Sex: Two Performances
McCormick Tribune Center 9:00 PM
These two NU student plays portray facets of sexuality which really put sex in the spotlight. The performances will be followed by a Q and A with the actors and directors.
“Etch: Stories of Love, Sex, and Desire”
Etch, Stories of Love, Sex, and Desire is a show which questions the internal and external influences that shape young adult desire through story and movement. Inspired by graffiti and the idea that intimate secrets can be shared so publicly, the ensemble uses real pieces of graffiti found around Evanston and Northwestern's campus to frame stories.
“On the Erotic: Nymphs, Muses and Mothers”
For as long as sexual images have existed in the media, popular culture has used them against women. The adage, sex sells, pervades female spaces and psyches now more than ever. This commercialization of sex takes power from women by placing them in various marginal positions including the nymph, the muse, and the mad mother. This short performance attempts to fuck the nymph, fuck the muse (so to speak) and embrace the power of the mother and the sexual female body.
Sex is everywhere, Sex Week is coming, let's get it on.