The Sexual Education Presentation With Nancy and Devlin!

I woke up to a text this morning from my dear friend Janette: "I cant stop thinking about our sex ed. We should gather all the photos see if anyone got video and write a press release this summer." What Janette is referring to is a sketch comedy act we did for Western Washington University's "Condom Fashion Show" as put on by the Sexual Awareness Center. This is funny to me because Janette had never done comedy before this night but something was driving her to do it. Although she remembers differently it was her idea to brave the stage with me on this night. She was so nervous we had to down a beer beforehand which is really NOT LIKE JANETTE. However when we stepped on the stage she totally hammed it up and I had the funnest time doing this sketch with her and it sort of got me stoked on making people laugh again. I think she caught the comedy bug. Poor girl.

The show was absolutely a blast! The crowd had awesome energy thanks to a drag performance of Spice Up Your Life and an excellent rendition of Paparrazzi. Our sketch was two older women who used to be quite wild and free lovin in their younger days but are now a monogamous lesbian couple who bicker a little but are still madly in love. Their life is now about going around to schools and universities to give students an inclusive, informative and holistic sexual education presentation. I think we called it "Making Safe, Inclusive, Respectful, Communicative Sex Romantic, Sexy, Freaky and Fun with Nancy and Devlin."

We started off the show with Janette stepping on the stage and singing back to me offstage,

"Come to my window"

And then of course me stepping out and singing back to her

"Crawl inside, wait by the light of the moon."

"Come to my window."

"I'll be home soon. Hi I'm Nancy."

"And I'm Devlin!"

and so on and so forth.

Aside from making the crowd laugh which is sort of the main point in my book, being able to say a bunch of stuff about sex in that environment as a woman and as a Queer woman felt AWESOME. I've been thinking for a long time about how to tell jokes about consent and the lack of awareness of it while keeping it funny but also real. I had a bit of a moment where I realized this was more than possible. We had a competition to see who could put condoms on the fastest and called a guy and a girl to the stage. While I was listing off the rules the guy grabs the condom and his provided dildo and starts opening the wrapper. At this point I grabbed the condom away from him and said something to the affect of, "I didn't say go! It's called consent mister, try it!" The audience rolled with laughter in this way that I feel that the lack of visability of sexual assault and consent issues was like kinetic energy just waiting for somebody to say something to release the angst some. That's why I love comedy. It's so releiving when you feel you really get to laugh WITH a bunch of people over something that's been bothering you.

I also like that Janette disqualified both contestants because they didn't check the expiration date and opened it with their teeth! She was like, "No, I'm sorry, get off the stage now thank you." That was just really funny to me.

So I suppose if anyone like wants to sign us to an agency that will help us make thousands of dollars of University money to do our hillarious yet very well thought out sex training let me know. Or also we would probably just do our training for anyone anyway. High Schools? Unitarian Churches? Bachlorette parties? Bar mitzvahs?