For three years, the Center for Sexual Expression and Education presented classes in downtown Los Angeles using the Erotic University name. Now Erotic University exists as a virtual online campus, but there was the real thing at one time. This archive contains remembrances and photos from those very fun times.
To celebrate the announcement of our virtual campus version of Erotic University, we held a very fun evening at our downtown Los Angeles campus. The virtual campus, of course, never got off the ground at the time because of the onset of my neurological problems that would sideline me for the next several years and delay the official opening of the Erotic University Virtual Campus by more years than I could have imagined. At least it is finally here, and I also have great memories of what was a slightly premature celebration:
It started out with one of our most popular classes: Swinging 101. This is an opportunity for couples to learn from experts about how to get started in swinging, how to meet people, how to find clubs and parties, and all the basics to get started.
After that, it was on to Monte Carlo Night, where some 125 couples joined us for a fun evening of dancing and games. Having our campus in an actual movie and television studio (which has done so much to support us) works out great. They have an entire functional large night club set where people could gather, dance, and socialize.
The owners of the studio also went way above and beyond the call of duty. When we said we wanted to have an area for a topless blackjack dealer, and a strip poker tournament, they said great. Then they actually built two complete adjoining rooms decorated like a casino- one for poker and one for blackjack. These were complete with poker and blackjack tables, chips and other gambling equipment, plush seating, tapestries on the walls- everything. Fully furnished and decorated to look like upscale gambling rooms. It’s pretty cool when you have huge prop rooms you can pull whatever you need from and a crew that can build whatever you need.
As it turns out, though, our blackjack dealer never showed up! Amazingly, one of the women in our Swinging 101 class mentioned that she had been a professional dealer, and that yes, she was willing to get into the spirit of things and help out. She was great! She knew how to deal, kept things fun and moving, gave out lots of prizes, and had lots of people coming to her table to gamble and/or enjoy looking at her breasts. A big thank you from us, and a big box of goodies will be on the way in the mail as an additional thank you (we know she likes sex toys so we will send her enough to keep her busy for awhile). She really saved out butts!
Another big thank you to Ken (our poker dealer), and his wife, for making our Strip Poker Tournament such a success. This was sponsored by the World Strip Poker Federation (wspg.org), an international organization for competitive strip poker play that we made up when we were developing our virtual campus.
At the time I did want to develop the World Strip Poker Federation into something real, albeit humorously exaggerated in its serious intent. There was a web site and everything. That went by the wayside with the double whammy of my illness and our losing our venue.
Ken is a great friend, and one of the managers at the facility is also a good friend, and as it turns out, the two of them had been friends from several years back and had lost touch. Kris went and introduced them not knowing they already knew each other, and they were very happy to be able to reconnect. It was a great evening for all concerned.
Lots of couples participated in the Strip Poker tournament. I was busy coordinating things, so I was only able to poke my head in a few times, but there were always happy, semi-clothed people in there having a great time. Ken has trouped the boards as a professional comedian, so he knew how to keep them laughing as he kept them stripping.
The lovely co-founder of EU (and my wife) Kris was in charge of the Dice Game, which was in still another room dedicated to just this game. It was a big enough room for lots of people to gather. The Dice Game is very simple. Normally, you roll the dice with about 50/50 odds of winning. Since we had so many prizes (over $3500 worth, not including the big prize for the Strip Poker winners), Kris decided to let everyone skip the first step and become a winner- if they accepted the challenge. Basically, you roll the giant dice, and then in order to win the prize you must do the challenge that matches the number you rolled. The challenges were:
2. Win just for your good looks
3. Fake an orgasm
4. Flash the room
5. Get completely naked
6. Demonstrate a sexual skill of your choice
7. Get completely naked
8. Demonstrate your kissing skills
9. Flash the room
10. Demonstrate your seduction skills
11. Do a sexy dance
12. Win just for your good looksOf course, they can always choose not to accept the challenge and not win the prize. The key to games like this is to give people the option of not doing anything, and to leave what they have to do open enough so that they can go as far as they feel comfortable. Almost everyone accepted their challenge and walked off with a prize.
It was very sexy to watch. Since this was a couples event, they always had the opportunity to do some of the challenges with their partner, but since Kris really likes women and we had some real beauties there that night, she was thrilled that so many of them asked if they could do 6, 8 and 10 with her. She loves kissing girls.
It was a great, sexy event, but very tiring for us. We were busy packing all day getting ready to move to our lovely new home (we move next week), so it is a crazy busy weekend. We got home by 2 am, but we also have an afternoon swing party to attend on Sunday. We may have packed a little too much into the weekend- but we don’t want to be all work and no play. Okay, maybe a lot of our work is play. Life is good.
My wife and I typically make a big deal out of Halloween every year. In our early twenties, when Kris and I were both working as magicians, we always worked on Halloween, and not always together. After we stopped performing, we decided to always keep Halloween in our hearts and do it right. Once we got into swinging and started having parties, our annual Halloween party became legendary.
This particular year, though, we had just moved into a new home, and realized there was no way we could get everything out of boxes plus get all of the decorations up in time. So, we decided to make Halloween an EU event instead. We would start out with a class on sexual alternatives for couples, then move on to a big sexy couples only Halloween party. Here is what I wrote about that event:
We host our EU classes in a huge 30,000 square foot studio. The owners of the venue also provided the space for the Halloween event. They have a huge prop department, and they went all out in decorating for the event, creating a walkway through a cemetery with animated ghouls that popped up.
The party itself took place in a fully functioning set of a nightclub. It is not a real nightclub- it is never open to the public, but it has everything a nightclub has- bars, serving areas, tables, dance floor, lighting effects. It can be dressed in many different ways and has been used in movies as a restaurant, bar, etc. For this evening it was dressed as a strip club, with several stripper poles.
There were certainly lots of sexy costumes at the party. Since there was basically no restrictions on just how sexy, some of them showed off a lot of skin, and others showed off pretty much everything. And, of course, quite a few women could not resist the dance poles (including a couple of obvious professional dancers), and they managed to wind up without anything on at all.
I had to do a lot of promotion for the Erotic University events. Here is a recounting of my experience going on Playboy Radio:
This evening, I was a guest on Playboy Radio’s Nightcalls with Ginger Lynn and Christy Canyon on the Sirius Satellite Network. It was a fun segment, but definitely one of the more unusual radio interviews I have done.
I walk into the studio and Christy is already topless. I’ve done a lot of radio interviews, and the last thing you’d want to see during most of them is one of the idiot adolescent shock jocks topless, so this was a pleasant change. I missed the lead-in, but apparently it is wet and wild night, which has something to do with Ginger pissing into a diaper. I missed the setup for that, and I am not completely sure that I was all that unhappy about missing the setup for that. The first thing they asked me was if I would use some latex polisher and rub it into Christy’s latex corset while she was wearing it.
Now this is all fine and well, but makes it much more difficult to do an interview and discuss the wonders of Erotic University classes. I talked about the uniqueness of our live classes and the amazing movie studio venue we have to do them in. At one point Ginger asked me to rub Christy’s breasts, which I did, but I think I might have lost the thread of the conversation for a moment.
The subject got onto our massage classes, and Ginger asked me if I would massage Christy. I pointed out that I was not the instructor for the class, and Christy says, “Oh, so are you dissing me?” “Not at all,” I replied, “I just didn’t want to oversell myself.”
She came over and I quickly realized that massaging two of her most accessible areas, her ass and her breasts, would make it impossible for me to do a good job with both the interview and with her respective parts. And, frankly, my ego came into play. Here was an opportunity to impress a porn star with my skills, and there is just not a lot you can do with breast and ass work when someone is standing and while you are trying to do an effective interview.
I decided to go with my strengths. “What usually works as a good place to get started is with the feet. I get a lot of practice with this, since my wife can have an orgasm from a foot massage.” So, for pretty much the rest of the interview, I worked on Christy’s feet. Clearly, I could not give it my full attention, but I think I did okay. Afterwards she said that in a quieter less distracting environment she probably could come from one of my foot massages. True or not, it was a nice little stroke of the ego which I appreciated.
I have no idea where they came up with our class list, as it was a couple of years old, so I had to kind of steer around that. I talked a lot about our live classes and of course, what it is like to be an incredibly lucky fellow who gets to travel around having sex adventures with his wife and call it research.
Of course, I also tried to be funny. At one point, I mentioned how easy it was to get distracted with all of the things going on, so Ginger suggested instead of using my head I should talk from my dick. “I would,” I replied, “But it has a very high squeaky voice, and its just embarrassing.”
I had a good time, but usually I am more in control when doing an interview. In this case, though, they were clearly in charge and steering the bus, and my job was to enjoy the ride. An afternoon involving naked women is always a plus in my book (although it is much more difficult to answer questions as they were dressing and undressing).
I found both of them very gracious hosts. I’d met Ginger Lynn before when I had the opportunity to visit the set where she was directing her very first adult video. She did a great job, making everyone feel welcome and keeping everything running like clockwork. I very much enjoyed meeting Christy, who was very warm and friendly. All in all, it was one of my more pleasant radio interviews.
