Sue Johanson is finally retiring and I say it’s well deserved!
For those of you who are not familiar with Sue Johanson, she had a call-in TV show back when I was a teenager (and perhaps back when YOU were a teenager) called the Sunday Night Sex Show. It was quite entertaining. I still remember when a bunch of us were sitting downstairs in my parents basement and we were flicking through the TV channels and stumbled upon this fairly older woman talking about sex. To a teenager, it was mindblowingly hilarious but at the same time, this probably educated a lot of us in matters we were too afraid to talk/ask about.
Everyone’s favourite part of the show was probably her toy chest (although Wikipedia says it’s called her “Hot Stuff Bag”…I don’t remember that) but I personally loved when she would pull out these little wooden figures (like the ones artists use to pose into different positions) and she would….pose them into different positions! Hilarious.
My fondest memory of Sue Johanson is when we were watching it one night and she was talking about activities you can do in the bedroom and she had this one thing she called “Hide the Weenie.” We were all bewildered and wondered what this was all about. A year later, Sue Johanson made her way to Queen’s University for a Question/Answer session and Eric rushed over to the room and asked her the question and he shared the answer with us the next time we all got together. I always have a good laugh when thinking about Eric rushing over to ask that question.
I actually saw Sue Johanson on The Hour a few months ago and it was quite entertaining. However, I’m pretty sure she mentioned that she was only airing her show in the United States now as she felt that Canadians had enough sex education over the past generation and that there was a severe lack of it in our neighbours to the South.
That being said, if you want to see her final show ever, it is airing this coming May 11 (day before Mother’s Day people!). I don’t know if Canadians can still get the show anywhere or not, but if we can, please let us know!
Thanks to Sue for all the great years of educating people on sex.
4 replies on “No More Sex For Sue”
Hide the weenie is played in the water (i.e. bathtub, whirlpool, hottub…) not the in the bed.
Having intercourse underwater is dangerous for women because the vagina can become filled with water and, combined with the actual intercourse, can create a great amount of pressure inside the woman which can cause injuries, to the point where the woman would be unable to carry a child.
and I thought that hide the winnie was another term for intercourse!
isn’t may 11 mother’s day?
Clearly some people still needs some sex Ed by Sue!