Last night, students had the chance to experience sex education in a fresh and funny way at the J-Spot sex talk.

The J-Spot is a sex education talk hosted by Jay Friedman, a certified sex educator, graduate from Cornwell University, former disc jockey, food writer and creator of How to Be a Better Lover, a peer sex education program for men, by men. He tours college campuses around the world, and is a multi-year nominee for the National Association for Campus Activities’ “Lecture of the Year” award.

The even was hosted by the Union Activities Board and took place in Stewart Theater at Talley Student Center.

Opening with a story to get the crowd going, Friedman received a lot of laughs from the audience, something he was hoping for.

“Sex is fun to talk about, and it’s okay to have fun and laugh about it … our sexual learning is lifelong as well … we have a natural desire to learn about sex … and enjoy sex,” Friedman said.

Friedman is not just an educator, however; he has stories of his own. Being a “sexpert” was not in his initial plans.

“I was in a relationship with an unexpected teen pregnancy, and it shifted everything for me. I started doing some volunteer work for Planned Parenthood, and here I am 27 years later, doing work I never expected … I want to help other people avoid the situation,” Friedman said.

Friedman touches on a wide variety of subjects, including more controversial political viewpoints.

“Students like the lecture because it’s more breadth than depth. It covers a lot of issues in a short amount of time. I always say there’s 3 P’s; prevention, pressure, and then I also talk about the political and cultural climate related to sex which I think differentiates me from most speakers since that’s a little controversial,” Friedman said.

Wherever he goes, he says he generally has a lot of positive response from audiences.

“That keeps me going. The comments that people tell me after the lecture or email me afterward about how this changed their relationship or made their sex life better,” Friedman said.

While Friedman appreciates the praise he does receive, he points out that not every campus or group of people is as receptive to his ideas being presented.

“Occasionally there are people that strongly object to the work that I do and they come to campus to be affirmed in what they already believe, instead of coming with an open mind to be challenge by new and different ideas,” Friedman said.

The lecture serves as a way for Friedman to educate college students on what they might have missed out in earlier sex education, and he urges students to get involved in sexual and sex education rights.

“[There is this] real strong conviction I feel that what I do matters. I am trying to get people to have healthier, happier and more pleasurable relationships, but I am trying to make them more activists and how the government is coming after us in our sexual lives. We all need to seek out and not take those rights for granted,” Friedman said.

The main components of the lecture included the three conditions Friedman requires before having sex, the three pressures men feel about sex, sex tips, sexism, homophobia and other politically charged topics. There was even a part about how favorite foods relate to sex and an excerpt from a Scandinavian sex education video that was censored in the United States.

“I’m a food science major, and so food and I related very closely. Every time I see those foods now, I’m going to think of the sexual references that he made … The pizza’s my favorite, for the half and half [compromise] thing,” Ricky Smith, junior in food science, said.

In closing, Friedman emphasized the importance of sexual education and rights.

“I was invited tonight to shake you up … to urge, beg, and plead for you to learn and talk more about sex,” Friedman said.