“Can You Get a Shot of Them Humping?”
I have been INSANELY busy doing the edits for “The Crusade Against Sex: Subtitle No Longer The Pleasure Manifesto But Not Sure What It Is Yet” in preparation for it’s November 6 debut. I’ve also been busy concentrating this fall on promoting my sexuality workshops at colleges, so I’ve been very busy working with a videographer to film all my workshops and with a graphic designer to create campus flyers to advertise them. All three (book, videos, flyers) go through various stages of edits, and when they send me the latest and it’s my turn to respond with changes I would like, I get so into thinking about how to make the most out the piece of art we’re creating, I don’t always realize that for the book editor/videographer/graphic designer, who likely don’t often have sexologists as clients, my edit requests must be very bizarre.
Here is a list of some of the edit requests I have sent to these poor people:
“Can you get a shot of them humping?” (for Kama Sutra Positions 101 video)
“Can you swap the scene with the doggie style harness for the one with the sex sling?” (Kama Sutra Positions 101 video)
“Are there any other shots you got of the cups? They look like dildos on a counter, not penis straws” (Fellatio 101 video)
“At 1:19 in, after my voice over says ‘without jaw pain or having to swallow’…” (Fellatio 101 video)
“Could you take a shot where I’m asking people if they like dirty talk?” (Foreplay 101 video)
“Could you show more clips of the audience, maybe looking at the naked women?” (How to Feel Sexy Naked video)
“I was wondering if you could change it to when I say ‘labia minora’” (The History of the Vibrator video)
“I’m wondering if there is a more vulva-like peach image out there” (Female Orgasm flyer)
“Should I add a sex scene here?” (The Crusade Against Sex book)
“Should I keep this line in? I think it demonstrates that despite being a sexologist, I was pretty innocent and a prudish.” (The Crusade Against Sex book)
“I don’t know how I feel about this graphic dry humping part. My mother’s going to read this!” (The Crusade Against Sex book)
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