Sex with Sue: not your grandmother's sexucation

If it were up to Sue Johanson, Fanshawe students would never forget to work the choda.

Locating the choda was just one of the many helpful tidbits of knowledge sex-guru Sue Johanson shared with over a thousand Fanshawe students during a sexual awareness nooner.

After waiting in line outside the J-gym for almost an hour, students were handed free condoms, K-Y lubricant and question cards as they walked in the door. While some laughed and examined the K-Y with their friends, others secretly stashed them away in their backpacks in hopes that they might get to use the condom on Friday night.

 Sue Johanson“One of the hardest things you will ever do is learn about sex,” began Johanson, who is best known for her television show, Sunday Night Sex Show, which airs on the W Network.

For 15 years Johanson has been lecturing to Fanshawe students about oral sex, Chlamydia, the G-spot, anal penetration and everything in between. Her shock tactics, intense facial expressions and almost offensive hand gestures first come across as comedic, but on second glace it is obvious her intentions are purely educational.

“Sex education starts in grade nine. For some kids that's too early and for some that's too late,” Johanson said in an interview before the show. She went on to explain that the educational system leaves no room for in-depth dialogue on controversial issues like masturbation and homosexuality.

She also mentioned she saw the pro-life demonstration in Forwell Hall, which featured to-scale plastic fetuses at various stages of a women's pregnancy.

“[Abortion] is an option and kids should know about it,” said Johanson, who thought females shouldn't feel guilty or shamed into thinking abortion, is wrong.

“Abortion is not the end of the world. It's the students right to know more about it.”

With students filling the gym and overflowing onto the floor, Johanson began lecturing about the differences between male and female perception of sex and genitalia.

“It takes about five minutes for a baby boy to discover he has a penis,” Johanson said as she imitated a newborn boy playing with his penis. “It takes another five minutes of playing with it to discover it feels goooood.”

After Johanson acted out the average teenage girl's horror of using tampon for the first time, a very grossed-out male spectator sitting near me turned to his female friend and said, “Guys have it so easy.”

She gave the guys in the audience a crash course in the female genitalia, describing the female reproductive system diagram teachers show in high school as a moose coming though the bush. While the girls in the crowd were humored with Johanson's impression of the helicopter-motion teenage boys make with their penis in the locker room.

“We all know how sensitive a penis is. All you have to do is look at it and it goes KABOOM,” she said as she stood at attention.

Johanson told the crowd that the clitoris has twice as many nerve endings than the entire penis. She also proved that size really doesn't matter because only a portion of the vagina has nerve endings.

She even admitted that she has made mistakes when it came to educating her own children.

“It makes me furious we didn't teach you about masturbation,” Johanson said. “We adults have the colossal audacity to wonder why we have such a high teen pregnancy rate.”

Getting an honest, educated and accurate answer is the beauty of Johanson's live performance. She even gave a legitimate answer to the submitted question; “What are the health risks of giving my girlfriend a Dirty Sanchez?”

Johanson popularity skyrocketed when the Oxygen network began playing reruns of her Canadian call-in show in the States. American fans not only wanted more, they wanted to call in, so “Talk Sex with Sue Johanson” was developed for cliental south of the border.

Johanson, known as Sue Jo in the States, is a sexual phenomenon there and has appeared on Letterman, Ellen, Conan O'Brien and her grandmother-like appearance has even been featured on the side of New York City buses.

But Johanson believes Americans are far less educated and a lot more gullible when it comes to sex, than her original Canadian audience.


She said the American sexual educational system is very basic and most grown adults lack the basic understanding of sex. An American caller once asked Johanson if her teeth would get whiter if her boyfriend ejaculated into her mouth.

If there is one thing Johanson is not, it's judgmental. From the innocent and naïve to the sexually charged dominatrix, Johanson answers all of their questions in a way that is informative and hilarious.