Behind the Scenes

I have not written in this blog for over a year. Part of the reason is that it is called Behind the Scenes, and after the LAPD vice squad raid on the building we held our classes in, the owners sold the business. Besides our classes, the huge 30,000 square foot building had an erotic art gallery, adult video and photo shoots, and special events with erotic themes. LAPD decided that a sex positive facility such as this was not going to be on their turf, so the usual problems with inspectors and raids began. Once that happens, it is pretty tough to stay in business, unless you can afford the huge legal bills to fight them. So, without a facility, we did not have any behind the scenes to write about. Instead we focused on the 2.0 release of the Erotic University campus software.

That would have been our next big push, were it not for my being diagnosed with one of the strangest diseases I have ever heard of. It caused random, inexplicable, and sometimes debilitating pain. It would soon manifest a new symptom, one I did not expect, one that would result not just in losing months of work, but in actually destroying months of work.

The condition is Fibromyalgia, or FM, which affects the brain. It is poorly understood and 90% of the people who get it are women. It has an almost endless list of symptoms, including chronic fatigue, and pain of just about every kind. It is not real pain, and by that, I mean not caused by any specific problem in the part of the body where you feel the pain, but it feels real. Over time, I have come up with names for the different types. The stabbies, which can feel like anything from a bee sting to being stabbed. The worst is the sensation of a needle stabbing you in the eye. There is the ball crusher, which is fortunately rare and unfortunately feels just like what it sounds like. There are times when a section of the skin feels like it has been burned. There is muscular soreness in large areas of muscle, which is much of the time. The various pains can feel like anything from a sprained toe to a heart attack. It can come without warning, last seconds to hours, and then disappear. The pain does not get less, it just disappears in an instant.

FM can be a condition of heightened sensitivity, and there are times when being touched is unbearable. This totally sucks at swing parties. It can be hell on your sex life. Fortunately, this does not happen often.

You can learn to deal with chronic pain. The fatigue was tough, though. But I was not evenly remotely prepared for what has been dubbed Fibro Fog. It is far more insidious than it sounds.

Yes, you can be in a fog, confused, not really present, and not functional at all. I’ve lost time, hours just disappeared. I went to one swing party in a bit of a fog and had trouble recognizing people that I knew. We left early.

The really insidious part is that you can be in a minor fog where it makes you stupid, but at the time, you think that what you are doing makes perfect sense. Some of my friends have pointed out that this is a little like working under the influence of drugs. You think what you are doing is great but later you see it is total crap. Never having used recreational drugs, I don’t know, but with Fibro fog you do unbelievably stupid things. Like put dishes away under the bathroom sink. It makes sense at the time.

It is even worse when you are doing software development. How about spending two weeks updating hundreds of files, but never bothering to save them?  Or saving files in what now seems like random places? Or writing code that has nonsense in it, and even though you thought it worked at the time, it obviously does not. And this went on for months, with me not realizing just how badly I was messing everything up. Sometimes things would be done perfectly, other times it was just random nonsense. And I had no idea.

I was focusing primarily on updating the campus software, but I also picked up some Web design work. It came to a head when I did a site for a client that had a critical date to coincide with a television show. The client called the day after the show, upset that things on the site were not working. I am methodical, and have systems where I check each thing as I go. Key elements did not work, and when I looked at the underlying code, it had weird garbage characters in it. How could that happen, and even worse, how could I think that I tested it and not caught it? It was then that I realized just how bad things had become. I had to stop all work for both myself and clients.

It is now many months later. After trying many drug combinations, I have what seems to keep the pain levels down enough to function, and keep me sharp. I have developed systems to cope, I am better able to tell when a fog hits, and it lasts a very short time when it does thanks to the meds.

I have spent the last two months meticulously going over every piece of the campus to correct the errors I introduced. It is a tedious process, but I am almost done and we will have version 2.0 officially out the door in a few weeks.

As I am more active again, I’ll actually have stuff to write about, focused on behind the scenes of creating adult sex education programs and all of our interactions with the adult industry, swing clubs, the BDSM community, sex educators, and many other topics.

I am very grateful that I have come as far as I have in gaining more control over my life. I have seen many people who are quite debilitated by this condition. I am grateful for all of the friends who have been helpful and supportive. When I took the big step of going to the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas this last January on my own, I had friends on speed dial living in Vegas and working the show floor who were there to help me at a moment’s notice.

So things are looking up after a long hard slog, and I look forward to writing about the interesting things going on.

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, but 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. 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.

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. It was also clearly not a good venue to talk about the amazing technology of our virtual campus, or about the political issues affecting us (see the last blog entry), or other more serious topics. 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 in a sincere way rather than the way of waitresses at Raisins (that South Park episode was on tonight).

So, life continues to be interesting, and I’ll keep posting on this blog with all the latest.

A major cog has been put in the works of Erotic University plans. The city of L.A. has interjected itself. First, a little background.

We were at a party last Saturday, and Kris decided to give the Sybian another try. It had been a few years, and the person operating it was not all that experienced the last time, so she was not all that impressed. This time, the woman knew what she was doing.

A Sybian is a machine that looks like a saddle. It has multiple attachments, and a remote box with separate controls over vibration and rotation. You ride on it, usually with someone else at the controls. Kris tried the dual attachment, with both a dildo and an anal probe. She came really hard.

Keep in mind that this took place with a number of people watching. It takes a little practice to get used to having people around watching when you are having sex. We have both done a lot of this over the years through our involvement in swinging, and so we are quite comfortable having sex with other people around. That is not the case for most people though, which is one of the reasons it is difficult to find non-porn stars to appear in sex education videos. All of the companies making sex ed videos have the same problem.

We thought we had come up with a great solution to finding people. We were able to get access to private events where couples could come and socialize, and there were areas in which they could have sex while other people watched. Most of the people at these events had sex with the person they came with. What better way to find couples for our videos than through those who attended these events and got comfortable in front of other people? It seemed like the perfect solution. I also think it is very healthy to see other couples having sex as it demystifies sexuality and you learn a lot from watching how real people interact sexually.

Now the city of Los Angeles has shut down these events. These are not events that you can just walk off the street and come into. You have to come as a couple and be over 21. The city has declared that these events were held without the proper “sexual encounter license”. So, how do you get such a license? You can’t.

Sure, if you could just walk into an event like this, I suppose people could encounter it accidentally and be offended. Of course, that was not possible. You’d have to do some serious searching to get invited. So what reason does the city have for shutting them down? Even if the laws on the books apply, we all know that the city has limited resources, so why go after this while meth dealers continue to peddle their wares within the same part of the city? How much did it cost for the undercover officers (who had to come in pairs) to infiltrate these events? Sure, its fun for them to be there, but in reality, I’ve talked to a few vice cops who have dealt with issues like this and they would much rather be going after serious crimes instead of the activities of consenting adults done at a private venue.

Was it a coincidence that they came in and shut it down the weekend before the election? Probably, since I saw no news stories about it. But still, elections are about our freedom to choose as American citizens, and that freedom should also include whom we choose to socialize with and how.

How can it be that we allow torture, but do not allow people to see other people having sex? How can it be that you can go to an arena and watch men sometimes literally beat each other to death in boxing matches, even bring along the kids, but an environment of open sexuality limited to consenting adults is forbidden?

Now the arguments move to the lawyers, who will insist that the city’s antiquated laws do not apply. In the meantime, an important venue for Erotic University and our plans for educating adults about sexuality has been denied to us. In this case, everyone is a loser.

We 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 make a big deal out of Halloween. Once we got into swinging and started having parties, our Halloween party became legendary. You can read about our parties on the Sex in Review site (http://www.sexinreview.com/toys/halloweenparty.htm).

This year, 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. Start out with a class on sexual alternatives for couples, then move on to a big sexy couples only Halloween party.

As readers of this blog know, we host our EU classes in a huge 50,000 square foot motion picture studio. They 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.

It is interesting that Halloween has been evolving into a much more adult event, with tons of companies offering sexy Halloween costumes. A Google search turned up more than 500 recent articles on the topic on the different news sites and newspapers (the New York Times even ran two articles about it). USA Today reported that Internet searches for “sexy Halloween costume” are up 400 percent over last year.

According to a pre-Halloween National Retail Federation survey, about 60 percent of consumers planed to buy Halloween costumes this year, and it is being reported in the media that at least half of those costumes are sexy ones. I guess people are realizing that a sexy costume is much more likely to get you laid than a scary one.

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.

We did not have time for dinner beforehand, so after the party we stopped off for something to eat. It was interesting to note that while not perhaps as outrageous as some of the costumes we saw earlier in the evening, sexy costumes for both men and women seemed to be the rule for party revelers from other parties wandering in for a late night snack.

Of course, most of the articles I perused had a negative slant. Halloween has emerged as an opportunity for people to embrace and celebrate their sexuality. For some people, that makes Halloween the most frightening of holidays.

We were at a party over the weekend, one that we considered a “straight” party, although at the time I realized just how different our view of things is from most people. We go to a lot of adult industry parties and a lot of swing parties, and things can get pretty wild. They are highly sexualized environments, so to us, a straight party is one where no one has sex. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

This party had a lot of burners in attendance. A burner is someone who has attended Burning Man, an art festival/community event held in the middle of the Black Rock desert in Nevada at the end of August. It is an amazing event in that an entire city appears in the desert filled with artists, hedonists, and non-traditionalists. It is an alternative community where the normal rules of society do not necessarily apply. The nudity and sexuality taboos are not quite so stringent, and conformity is not considered a noteworthy choice. It is an interesting event (learn more at burningman.com), and the people at the party were quite interesting.

There was a terrific band (Jed’s Dead), drummers, a man who set himself on fire (no harm done- he was a stuntman covered in pyro gel), and fire dancers. There was also Captain Erotica & Jupiter with their Erotic Ice Bar. This is an interactive sensual beverage experience. Essentially, alcohol flows through a block of ice luge. To consume the chilled beverage, you need to bend way over. While doing this, the two bar hosts offer you the choice of being stroked with a soft toy or whipped with something a little less soft as you drink from the glowing block of ice. . You choose from the “Naughty” or “Nice” sides (or both) and have the kinky toy of your choice used on you while you take a shot from a large glowing block of ice. A number of imbibers chose to do this in the nude, making for an interesting visual spectacle. You can learn more about it at:

http://captainerotica.typepad.com/captainerotica/2005/12/_the_erotic_ice.html

We watched part of this while soaking nude ourselves in the Jacuzzi, and while swimming in the warm pool. Swimming pool use is year round in the very temperate San Fernando Valley where this all took place. I remember thinking that there were probably not a whole lot of other places in the country where an event similar to this would take place, and once again I was grateful to be living in L.A.

The Erotic Ice Bar closed up with a very erotic whipping of the topless Jupiter by Captain Erotica with her hands tied above her. He had very good technique.

Amidst all of this was a man that both Kris and I have come to know and like a lot. He is very bright, good looking, creative, and talented. He was in a sexless marriage for many years, then went right into another relationship where he was not really getting what he needed sexually. Now he is enjoying being single and the experimentation and freedom that it offers. Now he has the opportunity to find out what he really wants.

Part of what we are doing with Erotic University is educating people about the importance of sexuality in relationships. We have heard the stories from so many women and men who have been in marriages where the sex fizzled out early on, and yet they stayed in that relationship for much longer than they should have. We are sexual beings, and sex is an important part of existence. When we shut down our sexuality, we shut down part of what it means to be alive.

Sex is also a very important part of the bonding process, and when the sex dies, in many cases the relationship has died. The couple just does not realize it yet. Keeping an active sex life going does take some effort, but it is critical to a successful relationship. It ties us together in powerful ways.

The real key is education. You need to know what the possibilities are first before you can really know what you want sexually in a relationship. Waiting until you are already married before having sex is playing Russian roulette. Sexual chemistry is an amazing thing, and you can’t know if you are sexually compatible until you actually have sex. After getting married is a little late to discover this.

Only an ignorant society would advocate this, and yet, the official U.S. government guidelines on sex education insist that abstaining from marriage before sex is the only acceptable option. We are fighting an uphill battle against ignorance about sexuality and human relationships that is not just widespread, but officially sanctioned and taught by the government.

Good sex makes for better relationships and better marriages, which makes for a stronger society. Good education about sex is important to building a strong society.

With the Erotic University Freshman Year launch party last night, plus the fact that we just bought a new home and are in the process of moving, you’d think we would take Sunday off as the traditional day of rest. However, all work and no play makes your EU founders a dull boy and girl, so it was off to an afternoon football swing party.

Since EU presented the popular Swinging 101 class, we were off to practice some of what was taught. Actually, I was thinking it was more of an opportunity to visit with friends and socialize. I was pretty tired.

This party was to commemorate the opening of football season, and present an afternoon of games on the big screen. The theme was a little lost on me. I completely lack the sports gene. I know nothing about football except that when a football game finally featured something I really enjoy, a bare breast, tons of people complained and the FCC went into a panic. I much prefer seeing breasts to large-shouldered men smashing into each other.

We’d gone about two hours into the party, which was a pretty mellow affair, when two of the women approached me from both sides; “We thought we might ambush you and take you off to have our way with you”.

This brought me back to the class the previous day where we discussed that it was pretty rare for a threesome opportunity to develop at a swing club, since it is a couple’s event and that would usually mean someone sitting by themselves waiting for their partner to return. Private parties are different, though, and it is more likely that such an opportunity will present itself. I mentioned in the class just how much I enjoyed threesomes and considered them a real highlight. Even so, they were not the most common thing at parties.

Tired as I was, I decided it would be foolish to miss this opportunity. We went upstairs to one of the private bedrooms.

Threesomes are a lot more work than twosomes. You have to pay a lot more attention, as you are usually trying to pleasure two people at the same time. You discover a lot of ways that your hand simply won’t bend.

This was my favorite type of threesome, where the girls were pleasuring each other as well as me. It’s a little more complex that way, but much more visually stimulating and more of a literal three ring circus of sex. There was some three way kissing that was really erotic.

I enjoy being a little dominant, but this time I just let them have their way with me and went along for the ride. With one girl sitting on my face and another sucking my cock, I felt hands caressing me but had no idea whose hand was where. It’s a little like being blindfolded, except you have a shapely ass to look at.

I did my best to give everyone equal attention. We finally collapsed into a heap. I was done for sure.

Except… There was a girl there that I had not played with in awhile. She is Persian and has the most beautiful soft skin- plus amazing breasts that are difficult to take your eyes off of. Plus she was wearing a cheerleader outfit to go along with the theme. She bent over to get some ice out of the cooler right as I was walking up behind her. I mentioned something about that being a breath taking sight and she reached around, pulled me closer, and wriggled her ass into my groin; “I was hoping I’d get your attention.”

We always seem to have these long sessions, in every position. This was typical, and I am feeling it in my legs today. I slept hard that night, and getting up Monday morning was agonizing. Still, it was all worthwhile, as I can feel that at Erotic University, we go beyond the academic, and really do practice what we teach.

To celebrate the official release of our virtual campus, Erotic University: Freshman Year, we held a very fun evening at our downtown Los Angeles campus. 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. We have actually held several tournaments, but they have all been private invitation only events. Even so, we crown the winners each time as international champions.

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 looks

Of 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 is 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.

Notice: This entry has explicit descriptions of sexual experiences. If this offends you, read no further.

The restarting of live classes in September begins with our popular Swinging 101 class on September 16^th. We are making a fun event out of it with tons of prizes. Those who attend will also have the opportunity to go with Kris and me to a very large swing club that same evening, where we are putting on an event co-sponsored by the World Strip Poker Federation. There will be gambling games for prizes and fun and all with sexy themes. It should be quite the party.

Kris and I have been actively involved in swinging for many years, and have written quite a bit about the topic as well as having appeared on many radio and television shows discussing it. We even got a very nice write-up in Los Angeles Magazine.

The virtual campus does contain a version of the Swinging 101 class, and the stand-alone virtual class will offer live video of an actual class as well as a guided tour of one of the largest swing clubs in the country. It will also have a new section on how to throw your own swing party.

We do throw pretty good parties, with guests coming from as far away as Canada, Washington, and Texas. We even got a very nice mention of our “legendary” parties on the sexuality.org site.

We have two big theme swing parties each year. Besides the Halloween party, we have the Tacky Tiki Luau, which took place this last weekend. As with the Halloween party, every room is decorated with a theme.

This party is notable for the excessive adherence to the Tacky aspect of the theme. It all begins with a six foot tall lighted palm tree out front leading to a ten foot Tiki themed archway and lit small tikis lining the drive. Guests have little trouble finding the place.

The living room at the front entrance becomes Hanauma Bay. It is lit with blue lighting, the walls are covered with a water print that makes them look like water, and there are fish all over the walls and hanging from monofilament. A small fan keeps them all in motion so they appear to be swimming. From the ceiling an inflatable girl is hanging wearing her snorkel gear and a Tacky Tiki t-shirt. She appears to be swimming on the surface looking down into the water.

Typically, this room is used primarily as a place for people to place their coats and belongings, as the beds will be used for other things. When I came in a little later in the party, though, things were really heating up in this room. Two couples were busily engaged on one couch, with several others sitting on the other couch quietly talking and enjoying the view.

I came in and sat next to a girl that I had had sex with just a few minutes ago. We both needed a break, but were certainly enjoying the “underwater” action across the room. One of the girls on the couch opposite us was a quite young and very attractive Filipina woman and first timer to our parties who seemed to go non-stop almost all night. She seemed to be in whatever room I was having sex in that evening. She was laying back while her partner gave her head. Right next to her were two very good friends of ours. She was sitting while he stood, and she sucked him off with a proficiency I had been lucky enough to experience a several times myself. It was a good show.

The den is the bird room, decorated with palm trees and birds. This is the main socializing and gathering place, and only on rare occasions does any sexual activity take place here.

The formal dining room is transformed into the Tiki Lounge, set up with tables against the walls for buffet style food service. This is a food place, not a sex place, although I think I was the one exception. There is a Chinese woman (her husband is Hawaiian) who reminds me of the strong funny and extremely attractive women that Jackie Chan seems to wind up with as co-stars in so many of his movies. She was new to our parties, and I was wondering if I had a chance with her. We do some product testing at our parties, and I had these new edible cock rings (made of similar material to what gummy bears are made out of). Without any prompting, she volunteered to help me test it, and wound up sucking me off in the kitchen as a group watched. She has been a favorite ever since.

My timing was right, as while checking on things I walked past her making out with a woman on the large play area in my office. My home office is about 12 feet wide by 20 feet long. I fill the room with mattresses, making a huge play space. This is the most popular area, and we dub it the volcano room and use red lighting.

She stopped me and asked if I would let her husband know where she was. She would reward me handsomely if I did. Being no fool, I found her husband, transmitted the information, and was back in a flash. The good deed was well rewarded, and I got to spend quite a bit of time with her. She has amazing breasts with large nipples that are very fun to suck, and she is on my short list of best in oral skills. She is also great fun to give head to as she is very enthusiastic.

One bedroom has the feel of a tropical island hut with thatched walls and bamboo, while another bedroom has a flower theme taken to excess with flowering vines, wreaths, and many vases filled with flowers.

We tend to limit the number of new people at each party, with usually no more than two couples who are new to swinging but were recommended by one of our guests. The reason is that it takes awhile to learn how swinging works, and newcomers typically make a lot of rookie mistakes.

One of the new women at this party made the classic rookie mistake- drinking too much. She did fine earlier in the evening, but later on she was clearly intoxicated. Now, you might have noticed that I have mentioned several ethnicities throughout this piece to illustrate that we generally get a very good mix at our parties. So it was quite amusing when she went up to one of our guests and asked him, “How come you are the only black man here?” He was taken aback at first, but then replied, “Because I won the contest.”

Developing Adventures With Kira as the lab for the Sex and the Bible class proved to be far more work than originally anticipated. It has some of the most complex 3D scenes in the entire project, and required some of the most in depth research (mostly because many of the assumptions I had going in were wrong).

The storyline involves Kira, an adventurer, on her search to find her missing godmother, physicist Elena Masters, author of the fictitious God and Science Reconciled. It takes you around the world, and you have to solve a number of rather ingenious puzzles (or let Kira solve them- she is a bit of a genius herself and the puzzles were designed by Elena with her in mind.) Besides having an adventure and solving puzzles, along the way you learn about some of the key figures in history who distorted what the Bible has to say about sexuality (and while The Da Vinci Code was part of the inspiration, I tried to do a much better job with the scholarship).

The name of Elena Masters as the missing physicist with an interest in Christianity and philosophy comes from two places. Elena is for Elena Lucretia Cornaro-Piscopia, a natural philosopher born in 1646. By the time she was 17, she could sing, compose, and play instruments such as the violin, harp, and harpsichord. She was an amazing intellect. She got her doctorate in philosophy at Padua University, becoming the first woman to receive a doctorate. They coined a medal in her honor there along with a statue, and there is a stained glass window of her at Vassar College. A reproduction of the center panel of that stained glass window can be seen in Lord Dudeney’s study (where Kira goes looking for Elena Masters).

The original Elena was fluent in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Chaldaic (ancient southern Mesopotamia), French, English and Spanish, along with her native Italian. She also had expertise in music, theology, mathematics, philosophy and astronomy.

The surname Masters comes from Sybilla Masters, the first woman inventor whose name has been officially recognized. She was an American colonist and the first woman to receive a British patent, although it had to be given in her husband’s name as technically women could not get patents. She ultimately had two patents, one for corn curing and refining and another for a method of weaving hats and bonnets.

There was also was some personal change during the three months it took to create the Kira adventure. Our always sickly cat, Samantha, took a turn for the worse and quickly passed. I was against getting another cat until we moved (we are buying a new home right after the September launch date). A good friend mentioned that her girlfriend’s father had taken in a pregnant stray and was looking to find homes for the six kittens. She mentioned his name- Carl Ballantine.

Carl had done several 60’s televisions series (Al on Car 54 Where Are You?, Lester Gruber on McHale’s Navy), and endless guest appearances on many series, (and don’t forget playing Dr. Ivory in “The Revenge of the Cheerleaders”). I worked with him on several occasions when he did his hilarious Ballantine the Great comedy magic act. Kris always said that Carl was her second favorite magician after me (yes, I had a career for many years as an actor/magician/comedian). He did not do anything magical in the act, it was just a series of things going wrong, but his timing was impeccable.

I had many fond memories of Carl, as he was always exceptionally nice to both Kris and I, and even though I was still in my teens and early twenties and a relative newcomer to show business, he went out of his way to make me feel like a professional. I also remember his daughter showing up on several shows- she was very hot.

Carl was not exactly a young man when I worked with him. When we went to his house to look at the kittens, he looked pretty good for a man of 84, and he was anxious to be off to the track with some much younger friends. It was great to see that he was still very active.

We picked out a white kitten (they were all white so choosing was tough). We named her Bastet, as I was working on the Egyptian section of the Kira Adventure at the time. Bastet is an Egyptian goddess typically represented with the body of a woman and the head of a cat. She is a goddess of the home among other things, and is a gentle protective goddess (unless she needs to protect you). Bastet ceremonies often involved appearing before the goddess nude, which makes her a perfect goddess for the types of parties we have in our house (although typically the cats are locked away as few people appreciate a cold nose from an over-friendly animal during intimate moments).

Working on Adventures With Kira was the most fun I had on the entire EU project. The settings include an Egyptian tomb, a Roman Villa, a cathedral in Rome, A dungeon in Germany, and the opulent Lord Dudeney mansion in England.

The puzzles were inspired by several sources, and I had great fun putting them together. Martin Gardner, of Mathematical Games and Scientific American fame was an important source, and the St. Augustine puzzles were inspired by his article on the subject. The Egyptian puzzle also comes from one of his books. Another resource was Henry Ernest Dudeney’s amazing 536 Puzzles and Curious Problems. The British Dudeney is, of course, the inspiration for Lord Dudeney, and is perhaps the greatest and most prolific puzzle creator of all time, surpassing even the U.S. king of puzzle creators, Sam Lloyd (they were contemporaries and friends). There is also a puzzle that was inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci, which ties in very nicely with the storyline.

I have always loved secret panels that slide open to reveal hidden rooms, and there are many sliding panels in the game. One of them opens to reveal a cool visual optical illusion built behind the wall (and it works just as if it existed in real life). You might think it a bit outlandish to have such a thing, but it was inspired by a visit to the home of Jerry Andrus, the foremost creator of optical illusions in the world. He slid aside a section of his wall to reveal one of his original optical illusions. You have probably seen photos of his real-life version of the impossible box as a crate suspended by ropes. He calls his home the “Castle of Chaos”, and it is, with inventions and projects piled everywhere. He is amazing, and we saw him just a few weeks ago, and he is still going strong at 85.

There is a lot of striking artwork in Adventures With Kira. We have galleries of digitally restored classical paintings, including sexualized images of Mary Magdalene (with a spectacular recent discovery of a painting by Da Vinci, one of his few nudes), the many nudes of Adam and Eve, and a retrospective of prostitutes in art (which makes a lot sense once you learn about the Victorian era).

My favorite find, though was world maps from the 17^th and 18^th century. Nudity and eroticism were acceptable in the context of mythology, and this theme was a popular one for decorating maps during this time. I managed to round up several from well-known map makers such as Giovanni De Rossi, Pieter Goos, Willem Janszoon Blaeu and Gerrit van Schagen. All of these maps are extremely rare, and in high resolution so that you can zoom into them to see more detail.

This blog recounts the adventures in creating the Erotic University Virtual Campus and in running a rather uninhibited school for adult sex education.