Erotic University Revolutionizes Adult Sex Education
For Immediate Release
Los Angeles, CA- The Center for Sexual Expression and Education knew that they needed to expand beyond their Los Angeles campus. Their solution was Erotic University: Freshman Year, the most ambitious, technically sophisticated, and revolutionary approach to adult sex education ever attempted. They created a computer based virtual campus, incorporating the latest research on learning, the latest software technology, and an environment in which learning is fun. It teaches everything from basic sexual mechanics to how to have a career in the adult industry. Published on CD for PC computers, it seamlessly updates itself across the Internet to offer new features every month.
“We conceived the idea for a virtual campus seven years ago,” EU president and founder Jeff Booth says, “The problem was that the technology simply did not exist to create what we envisioned. It was only in the last couple of years that the technological pieces fell into place.”
The development of the Virtual Campus interface and the initial content took over two years, incorporating over 50 software programs, hundreds of 3D models, nearly half a million words of original text, and hundreds of thousands of lines of computer code.
Having looked at a lot of research on how people learn, they decided that instead of taking a linear approach to education, they wanted to create something that was very experiential, exploratory and fun, much like sex itself. Students explore a virtual campus, patterned after what it would be like if there really were a large university dedicated to teaching about sex. Among the 25 departments there is a student union, health center, library, and all of the other amenities you would expect on a large campus, all visualized through 3D software.
The classes feature a virtual classroom and instructor, from the point of view of a student in the class. Click on the notebook on your desk to page through the tabbed class workbook. Each class has a lab that promotes learning through interactivity. At the end of each class, you can take the final and get graded. It includes 12 classes, and students can purchase and download additional classes. These downloadable Extensions Classes incorporate video, text, and interactivity, and are created with their proprietary class development tools. These tools allow anyone with a video camera, a computer and something interesting to teach about sex to create and sell a downloadable, copy-protected virtual class.
There is a lot of variety in the included classes. In the Social Sciences department, you can take a class on swinging. The Journalism department includes a class on how to become an adult journalist. In the Radio, Television, Video department you can take a class on feature films made before the restrictive 1934 Production Code, and see many rare video clips and production stills that include a surprising amount of sex and nudity. The Sex and the Bible class in the Philosophy department includes an elaborate interactive adventure where you travel around the world solving puzzles to discover why Christianity developed so many negative attitudes about sex.
Jeff Booth points out that, “One of the important concepts was that learning not be limited to our more structured virtual classrooms. You can go to the health center and read pamphlets on health topics. In the Massage Center, the massage therapist is reading a book on seducing with massage, which you can click on and read. There are books on shelves in many of the environments that you can click on and read. You can go to the pool at the Student Union and learn about underwater sex toys and sex under water. The Sexual Skills Center includes the Holographic Kama Sutra, providing interactive stereoscopic 3D views of sexual positions from all sides and top and bottom. Besides updating the presentation of classic sexual positions with modern technology, it also updates the types of positions, including group sex, sex furniture, and positions for those dealing with pregnancy and disabilities.”
One of their top goals was to ensure that the Virtual Campus is a fun place to explore. Every department contains hidden puzzles to figure out. There is a Pub in the Student Union where you can go and have a conversation with Marie, the bartender, who converses with you using artificial intelligence. There are games to play in the Arcade and in the Recreation Center.
“One of the things I am proudest of is the library,” says co-founder Kris Booth. “There are currently over 100 books in Microsoft eBook format. Our Sexual Heritage in Print Project seeks out books from the past that may now be difficult to find, and turns them into freely distributable eBooks. Along with the classics of erotica and many of the most censored books in history (including the first literature in English ever charged with obscenity), there are many unusual items, such as our own compilation of the little known bawdy writings of Mark Twain.”
The virtual campus also places an emphasis on preserving and restoring erotic art, and combining that with education. The Visual Arts department contains over 1200 images of erotic art from throughout history. Each one was extensively image processed to restore fading colors and remove scratches and age blemishes, returning them closer to what they looked like when originally created. In the basement students can explore the labyrinth, and the only way out is to click on the various paintings on the walls and correctly answer the questions using what they learned in the galleries. Each correct answer provides a clue on how to find the exit
The Virtual Campus is too big to fully describe. Besides taking classes, you can visit the campus theatre and see a screening of some of the oldest existing explicit films and erotic cartoons, you can get involved in a half dozen departmental projects covering everything from censorship to a psychological experiment in guerilla sex education, you can read the uncensored version of the campus published SexinReview.com, featuring reviews and articles on adult products, you can visit the Pub and learn how to make sex themed cocktails, or drop by the career center and learn about careers in the adult industry.
According to Jeff Booth, they have big ambitions: "Through exploration, interactivity, and exposure to an environment that promotes a positive and expansive view of sexuality in all its amazing diversity, our goal is nothing short of revolutionizing the way sex education is taught."
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For additional information, review copies of the virtual campus, or interviews with Jeff Booth, contact:
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