Who knew?

Via College Fix:

How can bagels build your sexual stamina? What can ramen teach us about sex in college? These are vital questions that Jay Friedman, a self-described “gastronaut,” discusses in his presentation to college students called “Sexy Feast.”

But he’s not just appearing before sex-positive eating clubs.

Friedman will address the entire incoming class of the University of North Dakota for Welcome Weekend in late August, at the invitation of the Student Involvement and Leadership Office.

The Seattle-based freelance writer and restaurant critic will speak as a “sex education” expert, according to the Welcome Weekend schedule.

Friedman’s promotional website describes him as “the real deal—the only professionally certified sex educator exclusively touring the college lecture circuit. Nobody does it better. And he’s been at it for over 20 years.”

It notes he is certified by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and is a “multi-year nominee as ‘Lecturer of the Year’ by the National Association for Campus Activities.” (Inexplicably, his full bio leaves out his alma maters, Cornell and the University of Vermont.) […]

The following week, Friedman published “Spice, Sex, and Censorship” in a local arts and culture website, The SunBreak, where he interrupts an article about a spice store to go off on a tangent about sexual mores and the importance of sex education.

Describing store customers who are “repulsed” by more exotic spice combinations, Friedman argues that people who stick to salt and pepper “have a strict recipe for life … believe in sex for procreation only” and live their lives “in fear of falling off the edge.” Hence they seek “refuge in rules and regulations.”

He continues with the theme, saying people who keep their spices simple are the driving forces behind “anti-gay, anti-birth control, anti-sex education sentiment.”

They are “anti-sex and anti-pleasure, with such sentiment sometimes turning hostile,” Friedman writes. Never missing a chance to mention that he’s a sex educator, he continues that “I’ve endured angry confrontation, received hate mail, and faced vitriol that’s escalated to the level of death threats.”