Sept. 24, 2008
Students may be studying a wide range of topics this semester, but one thing is on everyone's mind - sex.
AS Presents will be hosting Dr. Drew Pinsky at 7 p.m. tonight in the Bell Memorial Union to lecture on topics such as sex, drugs and social diversity.
Known best for his roles as host of "Loveline" and "Celebrity Rehab", Dr. Drew has been giving advice in the public eye for the last 25 years. He started "Loveline" in college at University of Southern California School of Medicine, and soon the program grew into a late night talk show on MTV. The program is now a talk radio show that plays from 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays through Thursdays.
Sex influences nearly every angle of the media, and former Playboy TV producer Ross Dale has written a memoir exposing the dirty truth behind getting down and getting paid for it.
"Embedded: Confession of a TV Sex Journalist" follows Dale's 5-year journey through his exposure to gang bangs, fetishes and falling in love with an adult entertainment reporter.
The book was originally titled "Prep to Porn," a reference to Dale's whitewash educational background. Born in New York City, he graduated from the Groton School and received a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University, but doesn't consider himself "blue blood prep," he said.
Rarely did he see guys watching porn in dorm rooms or peeping through the pages of Playboy or Hustler magazines.
"I was more of a Victoria's-Secret-catalogue guy," he said.
In 2000, Dale took a job as a writer and producer for Playboy TV's "Sexcetera," a combination of HBO's "Real Sex" meets "60 Minutes," he said.
"I always wanted to write a book, so I kept a journal while I was working there and waited for a story to appear," Dale said.
Before doing the show, Dale felt he was above the people he was interviewing, but realized that they are real people with real lives and real jobs, he said.
This proved true when Dale met a man who attended his rival high school in Connecticut while produced a piece on adult babies, a chapter that Dale's editor thought was too gross to work into the book, he said.
"I found this guy in Texas that had a whole nursery - diapers, crib, everything," Dale said. "It reeked like baby powder and urine."
Being submerged in the sex industry opened Dale's eyes to many different forms of sexuality, but he admits his sex life is still pretty "vanilla", he said.
"As long as it's legal and it doesn't involve an animal, I've seen it probably twice," Dale said.
His advice for young co-eds interested in jumping head first into the sex industry is don't.
"Eighteen is too young," he said. "I think the age limit should be 21."
Dale also warns that porn is a very slippery slope, he said. He has seen girls get hooked on Xanax just so they can do anal scenes, which pay more than the average girl-on-guy scene.
"Don't do it on a whim. Do it for the right reasons," Dale said. "And don't get into it for the money."
Tickets for Dr. Drew are available at the University Box Office, sold for $5 for students and $10 for general admission. All patrons without Chico State ID must be 18 and over.
Kenna can be reached at entertainmenteditor@theorion.com
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