In January 2002 reruns of the show began to be replayed to American audiences on Oxygen Media.[2] The recorded program was very popular, but American viewers missed the opportunity to call in and ask their own questions.[2] The U.S. version of Sunday Night Sex Show, called Talk Sex with Sue Johanson, produced especially for American audiences, debuted in November 2002 on Oxygen.[2][6] Talk Sex with Sue Johanson was divided into several segments, all covering the following topics: sexual life, love and relationships. Call-in segment included viewers' live calls with questions being answered by Johanson with discussions on a variety of sex topics. The show also included a sex quiz, a sex poll where viewers could vote via the internet and see the results at the end of the episode, and included important sexual news and information.[citation needed]
Talksex With Sue Johanson
In both shows she answered people's questions about sex in a no-nonsense way and often used dolls, dildos and phallic-shaped objects to illustrate the answers she gave, which is talked about in a recent documentary about her life called Sex with Sue.
"I just called to ask, when my girlfriend and I have sex, either with a dildo or with her fingers, when I'm getting ready to have an orgasm I often have vaginal farts," explained one caller. "I was wondering, is there any way to stop doing that?"
"Now, Lisa, Lisa: think. He is putting his penis in your rectum, right? That rectum has feces in there," she explained. "Feces are loaded with bacteria. Now he's gonna pick up some of that bacteria on his penis, right? And then he's gonna have intercourse with you, vaginal intercourse and he hasn't washed his penis and he wasn't using a condom."
"I want to find out if I am over-sexed," said one caller. "I'll tell you, I'm 82 years old. I have a male friend that is 67 and he's got a 12 incher. I still work right along with him and I still have my climax. And I'm 82 years old. Am I over-sexed?"
"My two boyfriends have been wanting to have a threesome with me for a while and they want to have both their penises inside of my vagina at the same time," explained one caller. "And I'm wondering how I can get them both to fit and if there are any positions we could try?"
The documentary, which airs Oct. 10, was a collaboration between Jane and Canadian director Lisa Rideout, which came together after Jane began capturing conversations with her mother on video in 2016 as a way to preserve some of her memories.
Sue Johanson is a popular sex educator and former host of the TV program "Talk Sex with Sue Johanson" on Oxygen. In this week's Wisdom Watch, Johanson, 78, talks about her decades-long career as a sex expert, and also weighs in on debates about sex education for kids.
Sue Johanson has been talking about sex and teaching about sex for more than three decades. One of Canada's top educators, she received the prestigious Order of Canada in 2001. Americans know her as the former host of "Talk Sex with Sue Johanson" on the Oxygen network, and she's with us now. Welcome, Sue.
MARTIN: I think people in this country know you mainly as a person who deals with adults and talks to adults about their sort of various issues, but I'm wondering if you think the two are related? Is the reason that there's such an interest in adult sex education is that somehow or other, they don't get it when they're kids? They don't get it when they're younger?
MARTIN: This is still very controversial in the U.S., the idea that teenagers particularly can get birth control without parental consent or any reproductive services without parental consent. (unintelligible) the different attitude?
Ms. JOHANSON: But, you see, the thing is that teens are not going to get parental consent to have sex. If your daughter asked you if she could have sex with Jimmy Joel, would you - would she? No. There's no way. She's out in the back forty doing it and not using birth control or not practicing safer sex. So we've got a problem right away. Anybody who's old enough to ovulate, to menstruate, to be involved in a sexual relationship is old enough for effective birth control. And pulling out, it was not a method of birth control.
MARTIN: But there are those who say that, when you remove parents from the equation, you're giving kids an opportunity to not have the kinds of values discussions that people feel that they really should be having with their parents. If parents should have an opportunity to talk to their kids about what they think sex is for, what circumstances under which they should be happy, just to impart their values, and that when you have clinics and places like that, that kids can have access to without the parents, that gives them an out without having those conversations. What do you say to that?
Ms. JOHANSON: You don't have a conversation. It's very difficult to talk to your own kids about sex. But you've taught your kids about relationships, about love, about intimacy in the way you react to your partner. So if you hug your partner, if you kiss your partner with meaning, not that peck on the cheek, goodbye dear, have a good day kind of a kiss, but a kiss that is a kiss, if you hold hands, that shows kids relationships, how you communicate with each other. That gives them their first idea about love.
And then, if they learned a little bit about sex in school, then they can start to put two together. Now, if you've got a close relationship with your kids, they will ask questions. And maybe some of the questions you would prefer them not to ask, oh, mother, do you and daddy do that? Oh, mother, that's gross.
Ms. JOHANSON: I have no idea. I had no idea that, in the whole of the United States of America, nobody else is doing that kind of explicit sex show, sex information, answering questions very explicitly using medical language but combined with what I call slanguage, which is street terms, not four-letter words, but language that people understand.
Ms. JOHANSON: Well, because it's different. It's the latest taboo. And so many, many women are very uncomfortable with it, very nervous about it, very fearful about it, and so they should be. And sometimes, I get questions from males who say, my girlfriend wants to try this. What do I need to know? I'm scared. Can I get a disease? Does it hurt? Can she get an infection, that kind of thing.
Ms. JOHANSON: Every single sex educator does emphasize abstinence. Please do not have sex. Now, I will never say until you are married. I will say please do not have sex until you know what you're doing, you like your own body. You can think ahead, plan ahead, get a good method of birth control. Never let sex just happen and be able to talk about it with you partner. That's the stumbling block right there, to be able to say to your partner, are we going to do it? Because if we are, we're going to use condoms right? This is not a choice. No condom, no sex. That's it, game over. Forget it.
MARTIN: Why, though, do you think it's so controversial, because you do both. I mean, on one hand, you're saying, for young people, you say, these are the steps that need to be in place before you go forward and start having sexual contact with other people. But other people say, gee, you don't - but you also will answer any question. If somebody wants to know how you have safe sex, you will tell them. Some people just think that's - you're telling people how to swallow the poison, as it were...
Ms. JOHANSON: Oh, right now, continuing to teach at universities. I did a university the other night with 6,500 kids, and I mean, it was absolutely wonderful. I just love teaching. And I'm goofing off a little bit more. I take the summer off and just, you know, pull up the draw bridges behind me.
The project began when Johanson's daughter, Jane, decided to capture her mother's memories with a series of home interviews. When she realized that she wanted to professionalize their chats, she hired a director and a documentary crew.
"She was able to just educate in a way that had humour that would be a bit shocking," said the younger Johanson, "so that people would then go, 'Oh, what? Did she just say that word? Did she just do this with her hands? Did she just put that on a dildo with her mouth!?' "
Johanson, a sprightly woman with a head of steely grey curls and glasses perched on her nose, was a curious figure on Canadian TV: a "grandma with a pottymouth," as her daughter describes in an interview with CBC News.
On the live call-in program Sunday Night Sex Show that started as a radio show and transitioned to television, Johanson answered pressing questions from a curious audience, tested sex toys from her "pleasure chest" and spoke frankly about sex with no filter to viewers from across the country.
Like Rideout, Thornhill grew up listening to Johanson, hiding under the covers with her clock radio. She says Johanson was the first person she encountered who normalized talking about bodies and sex in a casual way that many now do.
Though her TV show has ended, Johanson has no plans to retire any time soon. She says that she will continue to lecture at colleges and universities across the country, educating audiences about sex. She also plans to return to radio with a new call-in show sometime soon. Stay tuned!
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In November 2002, the Oxygen Network debuted the U.S. version of Sunday Night Sex Show, called Talk Sex with Sue Johanson. Airing every Sunday night at midnight ET, Talk Sex airs live, offering helpful guidance to U.S. callers on the sometimes uncomfortable topics of love, relationships, and sex.
In 1997, Johanson was inducted into the Janssen-Ortho "Hall of Fame." Her portrait is on display with other pioneers who have contributed to educating and informing the public about birth control and other areas of human sexuality. In 2001, she was appointed to the Order of Canada and won a Galaxy Award for "Best On-Camera Performance." 2ff7e9595c
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