77-year-old Sue takes some time to talk about sex

Things got down and dirty with a 77-year-old in Forwell Hall during Sexual Awareness Dayz at Fanshawe.

The grandmother in question is Sue Johanson, Canada's foremost sexual educator and counsellor. For the last 30 years, she has provided frank and honest sexual education to thousands of Canadians through her lectures, radio programs and “Sunday Night Sex Show” on television.

Since 2002, Johanson's wisdom and experience have been available to American viewers on “Talk Sex with Sue Johanson,” a live phone-in program airing on Oxygen TV. “Talk Sex” also airs in Brazil, Israel, and in 20 European countries in five languages on Club TV.

Aside from her duties as a sexual educator, Johanson is a Registered Nurse, a mother and a grandmother. She continues to tour universities, colleges and special events, lecturing on sexuality and answering an assortment of audience questions that runs the range from anal sex to zygotes. After all of her success and travels, she still manages to keep true to Fanshawe after all these years.


This year's sex talk with Sue was a huge hit. Hundreds of students cramped into Forwell Hall in the Student Union Building to catch a glimpse of Johanson and hear her wild explanations of why certain things happen to our bodies.

She came on stage and immediately started to grab the microphone in a sexual manner that I have never seen done before by an older woman. She started-off by talking about the female reproductive organs: the labia majora, the urethra and the clitoris.

Johanson explained everything in great detail, making hilarious side comments like “good girls don't do that,” making reference to the fact that parents tell their children that masturbating is for dirty boys and that's it. She went on to talk about how women don't orgasm every time during sex, and that's normal. Johanson also emphasized the point that if you're having sex with a girl and she doesn't orgasm, you still have ten fingers and a tounge, so use them!

Then came the toys! Sue has TONS of sex toys! She had a bag full of vibrators and dildos, and was telling us which ones were good and which ones were not worth the time. Students meanwhile were howling and crying while Sue kept talking about anal sex and jerking off, as she held her dildo up to her mouth provocatively.

“This is the funniest thing I've ever seen,” said Jeff Stevens, a Fanshawe student. “I couldn't imagine my own grandmother up there doing this. I would die. Actually, she kind of looks like my grandma.”

With Sue getting on in her age, she is starting to not do as many shows at universities and colleges, but hopefully she doesn't forget one of the main colleges that she started off in from the beginning, Fanshawe. We will be waiting with open legs...I mean arms for her return.