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The Red and Black / Finals • Monday, March 19, 1990 • 3
HERE IT COMES !!
National Orgasm Week: The climax of spring break revelry
By i.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
Stress levels will skyrocket this
week as students partake in all-
night study sessions to prepare for
those do-or-die finals. But Roger
Libby, sex expert and former Uni
versity professor, hopes students
will reserve some time for all-night
sessions of another sort in cele
bration of National Orgasm Week.
Libby has proclaimed a National
Orgasm Week for the past three
years to bring attention to the posi
tive aspects of sex. He feels the
benefits are being eclipsed by ex
tensive media attention to Ac
quired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome.
“If you handle things right,
using condoms and spermicides,
the risk of diseases is taken care of
and people can have a great time
getting into sex,” he said.
There’s just so much death and
gloom in the news about sex,” he
said. “I’d like to remind people how
great it is to be intimate with each
other and to really experience plea
sure.”
Libby, who taught sexuality
courses at the University in 1973-
74, doesn’t advocate promiscuity
but does strongly encourage safe
sex practices.
Appropriately, Libby will spend
National Orgasm Week in Daytona
Beach, Fla., among the throngs of
beer-swigging, bikini-oogling high
school and college spring breakers.
During this time, he and a side-
kick — a five-foot-six-inch voice-ac
tivated stuffed animal called
“Roxanne Ribbit the homy toad,”
will distribute 10,000 condoms and
lubricant samples.
Speaking of those beer-swigging
spring breakers, Libby points out
that he tries to discourage from
heavy drinking and smoking.
“I think people should be fit and
it’s better to be into exercise and
sex than it is to drink and smoke
constantly," he said.
The prophylactics and lubri
cants Libby distributes are do
nated by the manufacturers, but
all other expenses come from the
sexologist’s own pocket.
“I'm not a wealthy person,” he
said, “but I feel so strongly about
this I’m willing to put forth the
funds to make it happen.”
He said expenses for National
Orgasm Week run about $1,500.
Once the week is over Libby, a
self-proclaimed “concerned lib
eral, won’t cease his crusade for
sexual pleasures. He has started
the National Organization for
Sexual Enthusiasts. Members of
NOSE will be kept abreast of
sexual issues, including birth con
trol and safe sex practices, by a
newsletter published by Libby.
“I’ll publish information that the
media seems too conservative or
disinterested in printing - kind of
a liberal view of what’s up in the
world of sex,” he said.
‘There is a method to my mad
ness,” he said. “The bottom line
comes down to people caring about
each other and being intimate with
each other and sharing.”
Libby travels around the
country speaking at 30 to 40 col
lege campuses a year. He is a fre
quent guest columnist for USA
Today and has appeared on several
talk shows, including those hosted
by Oprah Winfrey, Sally Jesse Ra
phael and Morton Downey.
The single Atlantan is multi-fac
eted in his experience. He performs
at Jerry Farber’s Comedy and Jazz
Club in Atlanta and in additon to
the University has taught at the
University of Massachusetts and
Syracuse University.
And as if all that weren’t
enough, Libby has written several
books, including a college sexuality
textbook which was awarded Book
of the Year by the American Asso
ciation of Nurses.
Libby said he entered the sex
field on the advice of his parents
who told him, “Go into the field
that excites you the most.”
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