PARTICIPANT TESTIMONIALS
Further down please read teatimonials about mans workshops and individual sessions! 
Testimonials about orgasm-workshop for women:
 
"Heidi" 48 years old, nurse, Gentofte: Thank you very much for a workshop of a high professional standard and lots of warmheartedness. I worked with my inner convictions and attitudes towards my sexuality, and now I experience a greater openmindedness and freedom in my self. The weekend education and my own practice of getting an orgasm was a fantastic experience. Very beautiful, almost an initiation of becoming a complete women. I had given up on ever getting an orgasm, now I am very engaged in getting it again and again…… My partner was very happy with participating in the video evening; it gave us a mutual platform for our conversations and further play with our sexuality.

"Rose", 38 years old, magazine editor, Charlottenlund: Attending the orgasm workshop by Pia is the best gift I have ever given my self. On the second day, I already felt light, happy, feminine and attractive in a way I had never felt before. I felt like a child going to Tivoli Amusement Park, and I became even happier by the thought that this was my own Tivoli. Unfortunately I have spent my youth defining my sexuality through men – looking back; the most foolish I could have done, instead of defining my sexuality amongst likeminded women. On the workshop we were 5 women, and because Pia is very openhearted and caring, we very quickly established a confident mood, and as the most natural thing in the world we shared our most intimate experiences with each other. The workshop has given me the feeling of moving back in my own body, and I enjoy my body as ever before. The extra benefit is a lot of lovely orgasms. Thank you Pia for being you. You are a heartfelt person.

"Susanne", 35 years old, office assistant, Århus C: Dearest Pia, not a day goes by, without me sending you a warm and loving thought. The weekend in Århus and meeting you has most certainly had a decisive impact on me and my life, and for that I am deeply grateful. You have been a gift. A gift including tools, which I can use myself, and I do it very frequently. Pelvic floor exercises nearly every day, o-time (as I call it) several times a week. I have bought a vibrator (not Bettys model, but it works). And I now get conscious orgasms. Just some small warm waves. But they are there, and I am sure they will get bigger and more intense. I am more confident about my pussy now, I experience a lot of new things all the time, wonderfully and developing. I read a lot of books about sexuality and personal development. I have booked a session with your hypnotherapist Jørgen Eckert. Yes, lots of things are happening, and it is so wonderful. I am touched, happy and proud. This time I will not give up, and at the same time it feels scary and demanding. Sometimes I feel a little scared and left on my own. I miss your guidance, your warmth and your insight. I wish you live in Århus, instead of just teaching here sometimes. My cunt has gotten a name. I call it La Rubia, it is Spanish and means the red haired. It can also mean a little red pond fish and an Arabian golden coin. The clit I call El Rubi, Si! Once more a great thanks to you Pia, your are great!

"Dorthe", 35 years old, translator, Hillerød; I attended a lovely workshop with a bunch of wonderful women, with whom I now feel connected. My sexlife has improved very much, not only my sexlife but my whole life; this has a big impact on many areas. It is as if I have more energy, more surplus, I am happier, both for my self and my husband. Suddenly it is as if he loves me very compassionately and deeply – every day. It is better than I have ever dreamt of. (Every day means that he shows his love every day, f.ex. by kissing, hugging and just the way he looks at me with Christmas candles in his eyes lovely… And the physical sex, it is super, and more frequent than before, which is twice a week with him. Also I play with my self a couple of times a week, f.ex when he is not at home. Is this enough? Yes this suits me perfectly. I have three kids to take care of amongst many other things. But this lovely life I have now is thanks to the lovely workshop. It is because of the great sex, which he and I are like new lovers again.

"Helena", 34 years old, Odense: A free person…
When are you a free person? When you freely can choose what you want to do. Choose yourself, choose your own sexuality, attend a workshop for better orgasms, and become a freer person!! Become master of your own house - or more correctly; Become queen of your own temple! Ignorance, shyness, myths, modesty, un truthness, society norms, religion and many other emotional reasons, are reasons that many women do not know themselves and their sexuality. Pia Struck knows what she is talking about on her workshops. Use it or loose it! Use your sexuality or loose it. It is like learning a new dance. In the beginning it seems a little awkward, but it is very wonderful when the training succeeds and gives a lot of lovely orgasms. There are winners on both sides, both women and men. So it started. Love from Helena

Mille, 29 years old, child teacher, København NV: Dear Pia, Thank you for a lovely weekend, which I am very happy for. I have opened up for a new and very lovely part of my self. It is just the beginning of a lot of lovely experiences, and I look forward to explore my self even more. You are a skilled, deep and competent therapist, and with your love and understanding you make one feel welcome and safe. On a workshop like this, it is very important that all feelings and reactions are welcome, and you are able to make room for this. Ones sexuality is inevitably connected to the rest of ones emotions, and for me personally, it has started a lot of other development processes, which I had difficulty in wording and being conscious about before now. It has been emotionally moving and overwhelming, but also very nice, to become conscious of the difficult things….then it is also easier to do something about. I wish you well Pia. I am considering attending another workshop… so we will definitely see each other again, that is for sure.

"Jeanne", 37 years old, executive secretary, Greve: After attending Pia Strucks weekend workshops of orgasm training, not only has my orgasms become better; I have more desire for sex, and I feel more confident about taking the initiative to sex. Actually I have a completely new and better sexual life. Much of the improvement is due to Pia removing a lot of the “natural” or “social” limitations, that are closely connected to “a nice girl, who does not take the initiative to sex, she does not reveal her genitals and certainly she does not tell her husband, what and how to do, in order for her to get the optimal out of the mutual games. The nice, boring girl from the “goodgirlschool” has gone, thanks to Pia. I am freer in my thoughts and my desire, and I am not afraid to be unsexy or demanding. The way Pia has managed to help me in my development, is outstanding and I can warmly recommend all women, also the ones who are already orgastic, to attend. Pia has enriched my life with more than orgasms; she has also given me my love towards my self and my body, by expressing respect and love for her own. She is a good role model.

"Yohanna", 60+, churchassistent, Skåne, Sweden: It is now almost three years ago, since I first visited Pia. I will never forget it. We met at her therapeutic practice in Jorcks Passage. Walking through Strøget, the pedestrian street, up the stairs, and finding the right place, where the door was half open. Then Pia came and led me into a big room, painted in orange, which made a great impression on me and created a positive atmosphere. We had a conversation, and we didn’t needed many words between us before the restraints in me vanished and was shown in tears. That, which has been so hard for many years, was taken care of with emotions and generosity personality. I could tell about my sexual story before her, and she taught me with her experience and skills. It became the start for a new development in my sexual life to bigger freedom, and I am very grateful for that. I have been at hers several times since then in other regards and it has always been very teaching and giving. Pia. I wish you all the best in the future in your important work to release people’s sexuality.

"Karina", 45 yrs, counselor, Vesterbro: Dear Pia, thanks a lot for a wonderful, educational, warm, wet, electric, powerful and – last but not least – a lovely weekend. Sharing the happiness of females with other women was such a big and warm experience that I can’t find words expressing the experience. It has to be tried. Even though your homepages tell lots of things about how a orgasms-course works and what it consists of – the intensity and togetherness and safety by being together with each others sex and orgasms, some of the most lovely and most intense closeness I have tried in my life. During this I have cleared out so many things in myself, my attitudes towards former sexual experiences, morals, and assumptions on how other women look between their legs and perceive themselves and not least, how much we women have in common despite our outer differences and life stories. It was as if the angels were singing: life, desire, bliss – total synergy.
 A big confirmation to you Pia, you are a wonderful woman, your radiance of love, care, wisdom, understanding, acceptance and compassion has the effect on us that we feel safe, reassured and trust in your presence. You are truly a formidable woman of great emotional capacity – beautiful, grand – straightforward and natural.
 I still have a sense of floating on bliss after the weekend. I feel tired in a good way, relaxed and comfortable. People say that I look happy – and I am – a little more than I usually am. Several have asked what I have been doing in the weekend – but I don’t want to have to accommodate their reactions today, so I’ll wait fusing the bomb and tell what I’ve been doing until I get out of my great universe again. I enjoy my present condition and have no desire to share that with anyone today. I’m smiling to myself, while there are little light contractions from my vulva – wonderful little flushes of pleasure, trembling and an apprehension that there might be more. And I promise her that there will – she will never be disappointed anymore! Sweet Pia, We’ll talk soon. Loving greetings Karina
 
"Snut", 55 years old, teacher, Køge, Denmark: It’s a Monday in October 2002. This weekend I participated in an orgasm-workshop with Pia Struck. Friday night we were a party of 10 people – both men and women – watching the three videos by Betty Dodson and hereby getting a thorough introduction to her methods, which are, as far as I can see, absolutely brilliant!
Betty Dodson is the first sex therapist in USA to realise that the method of “learning by doing” is an excellent way to push boundaries, and Pia Struck is the only one in Denmark (Europe, red.) following in her steps.
Anyhow, already by Friday my expectations had exceeded what I hoped – I learned to let go of some of my boundaries. This offered hope that many years of sexual deprivation could be altered by this course.
Besides Pia, who was just as good a teacher as Betty Dodson, we were three women partipating in the weekend-workshop Saturday and Sunday. Of course we all had totally different sexual problems, or rather sexual blockages, but it didn’t matter. Pia started out very gently – we talked and talked and asked all kind of questions about sex – and it was so relieving, because Pia just talked about it all like it was everyday stuff, what it of course should be – and Pia has the knowledge we all could benefit from. We also looked and studied a wide arrangement of sextoys, which in my case had been one of my barriers.
This course was called “orgasm-training” and that is of course what it ended up to be at the end of the day, but it’s also about getting started with sex, learning to enjoy yourself so you can receive more and much more.
Pia led the way showing on her self how it should be done. In that way she made it all seem very natural and safe.
One of the most useful things we learned was how to use the whole body while masturbating or having sex with a partner. The surroundings were very pleasant with a lot of laughter, and everything felt warm, heartfelt and straightforward.
I strongly recommend this workshop – also to women who are able to have orgasms and enjoy having sex, because this course pushes boundaries and makes you aware of a deapth you didn’t know existed.
For my part I’m experiencing as a middleaged woman a renewed lust, (I’m actually able to feel lust again – hurrah!), a greater self-worth, more energy a new glow, and last but not least I feel much more passionate about making love to my wonderful husband.
Every woman should experience this workshop and it’s effect. Do it! – Even though you might feel afraid. I did! But it was totally harmless in the end.
Now I just have to keep up the exercise according to Pia’s instructions to maintain the things I’ve learned, which is something I’ll try my best to do. Otherwise I just have to repeat the succes and attend another of Pia’s workshops.
At last a big thanks to you women, with whom I shared this experience, and last of all a big hug and thanks to you Pia. I know for sure that we’ll see each other again some day.
Love from “Snut”
 
"Sanne", 31 years old, chaos pilot, Fredensborg, Denmark: Because of Pia’s very warm loving nature I felt in safe hands from day one. It felt very soothing listening to the other two participants telling about their sexual stories and realising that I wasn’t the only one reserved towards sex or the only one to have bad sexual memories.
When we finally stood in front of each other naked I felt overwhelmed by emotions. For a long time I had been struggling with hatred towards my body, so it felt very difficult showing it to other people. But Pia made it feel okay to have these kinds of emotions and remain naked.
When I saw my (now beautiful) vulva in the mirror I felt very critical. I didn’t think I was beautiful and I felt afraid of examining the details. When Pia told me I was beautiful I didn’t believe her, but I guess she must have said it so convincingly that I started to realise that maybe I did have something fascinating and beautiful between my legs, which I felt like examining some more. Homework that day was to touch and caress my vulva while looking in a mirror. Within an hour I really started enjoying looking at myself and even though I haven’t felt lust for such a long time, I ended out having an orgasm!
The next day it got even better. Pia tought us how to use our body while masturbating and I’m not ashamed to tell that I experienced my first “public” orgasm! It was a beautiful experience and the presence of the other women felt supporting.
After I came home from the workshop I had amazing telephonesex with my husband who was out of the country at that time. I didn’t think he could turn me on anymore, but I was wrong! I’d learned to be aroused of my own body and in return my husband also aroused me again. Now I can be sexually aroused several times a day – even sitting in the bus! I see it as my human right to take time for myself and an erotic date with myself - and give myself an erotic treat.
Thank you for teaching me so much good stuff about myself and my body's capacity.

"Heidi" from Austria: I am a 44 year old woman and I have been sexually frustrated throughout my entire life. I grew up in a catholic environment, where the sexual moral is deeply suppressing. Since the age of twelve I have had a sexual desire to be in the present with boys, however I felt that this was very wrong. My mother told me that I should never come home with a child and I was not allowed to take birth-control pills until I had turned 16 years old. I had secret affairs behind her back and I could not separate love from my sexuality. My experience was that my sexuality filled out the void that hungered for love from my family. My male partners were 5 to 7 years older than me and I was really abused. I felt that I should satisfy my partners, in order to be loved by my family.
Even though I have been married to the same husband for 21 years, I have always had the thought in the back of my mind that something was taken from me the rare times we had sex. And it is definitely not something to blame my husband for. It was my past that haunted me for so many years. I experienced at an early stage of our marriage, that I was sexually attracted to one of our friends. I was afraid of what this scenario could develop into. I could risk falling in love and this should not happen under any circumstances. Ergo I have completely shut down my desire to my sexual attraction and fantasies, because they were morally dirty and reprehensible. The fact that I had sexual desires for other men gave me the feeling of being unfaithful. When my husband and I had sex, I had to talk myself into doing it, since I did not have any desire left for sex. I could not indulge myself and most of the time my head was filled with practical boring duties.
I discovered that I had difficulties with receiving and giving. We were often irritated at each other and nearly getting divorced. However deep inside I knew that my problem was my longing for home and that a separation would not be solution to my problem. I knew that home only existed in the inside of me and that my stance towards my self had to become more acknowledging and loveable. Through years of therapy, I concentrated on what was going on inside my head and I found out that my home was placed inside my body.
I was lucky to find Pia; a person who you can trust, an understanding person and a person who has the ability to create a space were anxiety does not exist. Her video-evenings and weekendworkshops have turned my view on sexuality 100%. All the shame disappeared finally on this very weekend, all because I changed my attitude to my body. I am beginning to take responsibility for what I really find pleasure in, by masturbating and loving myself I now consider my vulva as something beautiful and divine, instead of something dirty and disgusting. I have had some amazing conversations with my partner who has also attended the video-evening. These conversations have stirred up the fantasy and have provided it with more space and freedom.
I have yet again become attracted to myself and my partner and my faith has returned to me. By letting go of my usual way of thinking, I have moved deeper into my body. I often experience that I am emotionally touched by my retrieved joy, I cry while having sex. I have come in contact with the temple of delight (my vulva), which is the most beautiful thing that exist and at the same time so close to me.
I have also got a new playmate, Betty Dodsons lovely massage instrument and a terrific dildo, which can also be used to pelvic floor exercises. I have taken control over my own sexuality and my inner child has longed to see itself happy and playing. My husbands’ greatest enjoyment is when he is experiencing me fully satisfied. He no longer feels responsible to keep me satisfied.
He does not take my tears personally any longer; he is capable of handling it. It has sometimes become a common game and at times we play with ourselves. We have stepped into our own reality which is growing and inspiring. It is NEVER too late. Pia, I am grateful for what you have given me and I wish that many women will find you.

"Helene" 22 years old, student, Frederiksberg: Report on my experience on Pia’s Orgasm course in February 2005,  written on the 1. of August 2005: I guess it is about five years ago I met Pia for the first time. My friends and I used a lot of time walking around giggling about what such a orgasm course could be? I met Pia again on a health fair, in the beginning of February 05. At the time, I have had a long time pulling my self together to hear her lecture. My friends thought it was very kinky that I went to the lecture (they did not dare themselves).(*smiling) After only an hour in Pia’s company, were she had been all around the essential and hot subjects concerning sex, had I already made my mind concerning going to the course, no matter what the price were. And her small tricks already paid off. After only five minutes, there was a couple of yoga-teachers hitting on me, and my gorgeous man back home noticed, what I had learned about pelvic floor exercises. My reasons for participating in the course were as follows: My boyfriend and I had just celebrated our five-year anniversary. We are each other’s first real sweethearts and lovers. Our sex-life (the actual intercourse) has always been in disorder, at first because of a lack of experience, later because I in over 2 and a half year lost the desire almost completely, because of my birth control-pills with a mix of sickness and stress. It was not until the summer of 2004, when I stopped my pills, that my desire came back full speed, and with the desire followed all my old fantasies and ideas that needs to be tested. After that we started seeking for a way, were I could learn to get orgasm during the intercourse instead of the alternative clitoris-orgasm afterwards. The course was the right place to learn more. The hardest and most boundary breaking for me was actually calling Pia and signing up for the course 14 days later (it just couldn’t be too fast). After that it was all a piece of cake. During the course I felt amazingly serene. At the video evening at the Friday, we were eight viewers of both genders. Pias easy way of speaking about sex and the videos’ matter-of-fact content, did that all pretty fast dissolved heir shyness and asked some questions, and made some comments. I got a lot of things straightened up during the evening, especially about the female anatomy. And we even got homework! On the course itself, we ended up being three participants. The two other girls are in the middle of the 40’ties and 60’ties, so we were three generations with different ways of presenting the problem and desires. Saturday we got to know each other a little better over a cup of tee, and was answered an endless line of questions. After that we had “cunt-knowing” were we admired each other’s lower body, and we compared with photographs to learn how different women are made. The pelvic floor muscle was checked with a perineometer --- that was very funny! After that we learned to massage the genital, as pure spoilment either without any direct sexual content or as foreplay to making love to oneself. We ended the day going out eating together. The first hour in the restaurant I walked around with my head in the skies after the adventure. It was kinky laying there getting orgasms with the other girls, but it was at the same time very sober-minded. It was a “sister-like” mood; just as I pictured it were like in the 1970’ties. Sunday the exercises went deeper. We practiced breathing-exercises, voice-exercises, finding the female prostate gland, pelvic floor exercises during sex, going through a lot of sexual toys, and after that we practiced multiorgasms all the way. Pia even attained, at our request, to get into subjects like: introduction to anal-sex, swingers clubs, and some counselling concerning erotical dominance and S/M. It was sad saying goodbye on the restaurant that Sunday night. Two of us went further in the city. After dancing, talking and flirting until late at night with the other café guests, I had the thought: I have become a woman. All of my self-image changed on that one moment. That is, without a doubt, the most important thing the course weekend taught me: It has made my sexuality a part of me, made me see my self as a complete person. When I want to describe myself, are the best (and unfortunately very cliché alike) words I can use, is that “I’ve come home”(in my self). Since then I have felt like an equal among adults, and I am told that my capacity has changed a lot, even though it was very strong on beforehand. The short version of what you learn in Pias orgasm course can be brought down to five-words: “Watch out – it develops!” With Pias own expression I threw my figue leaf away thanks to the workshop. In a matter of a few months I’ve become completely serene and clear about my boyfriend, our relationship and myself. I used the course as a springboard, to together with him, getting the fantasies outlived, that I/we always had in the back of our minds. We’ve been in two hands-on courses (not Pia Strucks) about the female ejaculation. I have come out as a bisexual, we had a girl with us in bed, and we been in a swingers club once. We are starting to nose about S/M (with teacher). And I have, by the way, learned to strip in the middle of the exams.
 
"Ulla", 34, ingeneer, Løgstør: Dear Pia, thanks a lot for your lovely and responsible way to guide us within the orgasm-course. You handled to change many prejudges and concerns, already at the first meeting, Friday-night, where we went through three videos about the method of Betty Dodson, was for me sexual-education at it is best. Imagine, that I in 34 years have walked around without knowing “how it actually works”. Masturbation is well known for me, I have always touched myself every day – so there is nothing new for me there. But, that my orgasms were so called “tension-orgasms”, was I not aware of. I didn’t know that orgasms can go from one to another and that it can last for a while. My lousy 30 seconds of happiness was shown clearly at that point. Saturday one o’clock you warmly greeted us and we had a cup of tea. You started with a name-round with us three persons at the course, and it was pretty quickly clear that even though we were completely different,  in both experience and on the personal level, there was a good chemistry between all of us right away, and there was a loud laugh from the 4floor, when we compared our experiences. An intimate atmosphere was created, where we openly told about our problems with sex and orgasm, and not to forget, the joy with our own bodies. It became rather natural to take of the clothes in front of the others, because we had seen it on videotape the night before. I was looking forward to come under the magnifying glass and look curiously at my genitals. My smile grew big when I realized that my inner labia were rather natural and in its own way pretty unique, and I said: ‘I can fall in love with myself’. My astonishment was great when I found out how weak my PC-muscle was – all those pelvic floor exercises, I have been doing all the time after giving birth, hadn’t had a tiny bit to do with pelvic floor exercises. But because of testing of the tightness, I realized what buttons I have to press and localize with my fingers, how far up in the vagina I have to activate the muscle. A great work is lying ahead, but at least I now know what it takes. The Saturday ended with self-massage of the genitals, and a trip to a Turkish restaurant with you Pia, was cosy. You are such a wonderfully warm person, who has the courage to show your warm-heartedness to all of us. We could all learn by that. After a long night of sleeping it was time for the class of Sunday. Hopefully we toss away the last prejudges and safeness with our clothes and evaluated the experiences of the two previous days with a cup of tea. We all agreed that it was absolutely unique, so intense and the naturalness of the atmosphere was too, and we were looking forward to the sum up about breathing, hip-moves, pelvic floor exercise, and sound. Besides that, we should use a vibrator at the clitoris, “Magic Wand”, which it was called – I have never experienced so strong vibrations (a lot at the same time). But we laughed a bit and went on combination the taught exercises. As we were doing it, you introduced “Barbell”, not to compare with some dildos. It was so different, but good to pinch on., while you pulled it out. The taught exercises came automatically, though it was still difficult for me to let go of the control and groan loudly. The modesty of Jutland still lies beneath, but suddenly the laugh and the orgasm took control of me. Although I didn’t succeeded riding the wave, I kept on touching myself, when I was caught of that one of the person in the course was going to heaven. I have never seen anything like that. She handled really to make the sound clear and I couldn’t take my eyes of her – I let my foot touch hers as an approval of how great it was looking at her. Our beautiful eye contact captured me and a tear ran down my chin, when she came, 3-4 more times, while I was smiling to her. It was so beautiful and intense sharing that with her. Thanks Pia for letting us fill so much with our talk and laugh. It created a intense atmosphere, where all facades are gone. Thanks for sharing the warm of yours with all of us and for have been in my life at the right time at the right place. I will get to know my orgasms and body better now and send you all a warm thought, every time I will succeed. Many happy orgasms to us all, Ulla.
  
Found on the Internet about Betty Dodsons workshop: (Pia says: I do it almost the same way!)  Masturbation 101 - by Ariel Hart - (in New York Times?): When I was barely eighteen, I saw a movie, which will be etched into my sexual psyche forever — The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. In it, Sarah Miles played a lonely young widow. One night, while sitting at her dressing table, she worked her fingers between her legs and closed her thighs around them. She had the most exquisite expression on her face. The scene was very brief, beautiful and stylized. When I saw it again years later, I couldn't believe it had made such a great impression on me. But it did. Bells rang. Fireworks flared. The "Hallelujah Chorus" rattled inside my head. I felt euphoric. I felt like an idiot. Why hadn't I thought of touching myself before? I couldn't wait to try it out. When The Sailor... was over, I practically ran home, albeit on shaky legs. Safely locked away in my room, I remembered what I had seen in the movie and gave it a shot. To my amazement, it worked. After that, I did it constantly and actually became quite good at it.
Eventually, I learned the name for the thing I was doing. It was called "masturbation" and it was bad. Such a long, ugly, unpleasant sounding word. It seemed like a more appropriate name for a tropical disease or a mysterious bodily function, which involved heavy secretions of bile. I still masturbated, but now something new became part of my repertoire. Guilt. While I diddled, I felt dirty, perverse, evil. Following each climax, I swore I would never do it again. Until the next time. Drifting into orgasmic nirvana was the most gorgeous sensation in the universe but the stickyfingered aftermath made me feel like a criminal. I would be ostracized if people found out. Shunned. And no one would ever shake my hand. No, I would never do it again. Never. Until...until the next time.
Years passed. I grew into a sexually suave woman who wrote erotica. But my attitude about masturbation hadn't changed. In my travels, I came across a flyer about someone named Betty Dodson who conducted what she named "Bodysex Groups." In them, women talked about their bodies as well as how they felt about jerking off. Call it "hands on experience. " Call it "Masturbation 101." I was both shocked and intrigued. I mentioned Dodson's Bodysex Group to one of my editors and to my amazement, he suggested I attend. In fact, the magazine even paid my way.
DAY ONE: So, there I was, sitting on the carpet in the middle of Betty Dodson's living room with eight other women, stark naked with nothing to hide behind but my nervous wit, no designer labels or social conventions to protect me. We were an intricate web of spider veins, gently mottled cellulite and graceful Cesarean scars. And the funny thing was that even though we were all imperfect, we were all strangely attractive.
 Taking turns, we introduced ourselves to each other. We explained why we were there: to learn how to love ourselves, to have better orgasms, etc. We were admitting things to each other we hadn't dared tell our closest friends. Dodson presided over all, a spry, impish woman in her sixties. With her closecropped gray/blond hair, strong, well-muscled body, sparkling eyes and unassuming Midwestern friendliness, she immediately put us at ease. 
Next, there were psychological exercises to get us in touch with the male (aggressive) and female (submissive) aspects of our personalities. A low table covered with spring water, fresh fruit and delicious banana bread sat invitingly in the centre of the room. Very soon, this began to feel like a party instead of a penance. After a while, we even forgot that we were naked.
We laughed as we discussed childhood misconceptions about our bodies and sex, plus society's shame concerning its "dirty little secret" (gasp!)—masturbation. We almost cried when Gina told how an exlover used to refer to her florid genitalia as `liver ripe" and we assured her that her cunt was indeed comely. The day sped along. Soon, Dodson announced that it was time for "Show and Tell."
One by one, we spread our pussies apart with our fingers. Aided by a good magnifying hand mirror, we looked at ourselves and described what we saw. The idea of this exercise was to show us that there wasn't one "right" way for a woman's body to look. There were many different ways and they were all fine. There were pussies with uneven lips, some with bumpy goose flesh and some with folds at the bottom "to catch the drips," Dodson grinned. There were heartshaped ones, pink flowers, fleshy seashells, a two-toned cunt and the pudgy "peach that ate the butterfly" (mine). At the end of the first day, we applauded our unique and lovely snatches as well as our bravery. Then we went home.
DAY TWO: When I arrived the next day, Dodson was setting up the vibrators. But not just any vibrator. Hitachi's "Magic Wand," the MercedesBenz of electric lustmates. Two by two, they dangled enticingly from long extension cords. We were ready to roll. And roll we did.
But first, we breathed, unclogging our nasal passages with our pinkies. Breathing correctly was essential to any bodily function, but most of us didn't know how to do it right. Dodson stressed that what we would do next was merely an exercise, not the real thing. Under no circumstances were we permitted to come. Not yet.
A few of us—myself included—had never used vibrators before. Besides, being a vegetarian, I preferred the natural method. (As Dodson had urged the day before, I had brought my own DOC—Dildo of Choice—a zucchini, which I'd lovingly pared and fashioned into my dreamcock, complete with peehole.) Others had vibrators and hated them. Pat used a palm attached job which was famous for snagging pubes. Jeannie had a similar model her husband loved to use on her, but it made her feel as though she were being simonized. The Magic Wand was a completely different piece of work. If it had had a steady job, I might have married it. At Dodson's urging, we skimmed the vibrators across our inner thighs and tickled our pussies. We pleasured parts of our bodies that weren't used to being pleasured: our hearts, the tips of our noses, our scalps. Slowly, we found our way back to our cunts. Dodson's voice sang out in constant reminder to keep the touch light, to keep our pelvises moving and to keep breathing, always to keep breathing.
I had been afraid that I wouldn't be able to come at all, but after only a few seconds, I felt an orgasm trembling on the fringes. Could I hold back? Did I want to? Could I sneak one in without Dodson knowing? Fat chance. She was a pro, and anyway, I couldn't come without screaming. Luckily, Dodson's next command was to douse the vibrators.
Switching the wands to our left hands, we practiced massaging our swollen buttons from underneath. Varying the angle and the touch made the sensation completely different. But in any position, it was difficult to grind, not to just smash the machine's humming head into my clit for one violent, chunky, delightful orgasm.
Just as I started to glide toward the pinnacle, Dodson's alltoocheerful voice told us to snap the vibrators off again. Our next position was down on our knees, straddling a throw pillow upon which we rested our vibrators. I was aching to resume, but Dodson was more concerned with Jeannie, who had to squat way down to make contact. Dodson suggested propping another pillow between her legs so she would reach the wonder-wand comfortably.
"It's all right," Jeannie assured her. My clit was afire. We were sex jockeys poised for a long, hard gallop. But still Dodson persisted, "Are you sure?" she asked Jeannie. "Damn it, Betty Ann, she's fine!" I snapped. "Let's go!" When everyone stopped laughing, our fearless leader finally gave the word. We humped our vibrators in an easy rhythm, eight damp women riding bareback. I looked down to see my dark cunt lips splayed against the Wand's mercilessly whirring head. It was slick from the almond oil and my own juices. Just as I was contemplating another explosion, Dodson ordered us to stop. This time, all of us sighed audibly as Dodson explained her tactic: "If you masturbate for 20 minutes, you get 20 minutes worth of orgasm. I'm teaching you gourmet selflove, not fastfood come sessions."
Leaning back onto our haunches, we grasped the vibrators by their wires. As they wandered freely along our pelvises, the sensation was almost imperceptible, yet impossible to ignore. I gave into it, then backed away from the delicious tease. Just as something volcanic was starting to build, Dodson chirped, "Vibrators off!"
Sitting Indian style, we held our buzzing lovers with the soles of our feet. In this posture, we arched toward the vibrator, then curled our spines away. I was a hedonistic princess plucked from an erotic cave drawing which didn't yet exist. I was an Amazon goddess. I was...I was...I was ready to kill Dodson for making us turn off the vibrators and change positions again.
On our backs this time, we held our trusty dildos at the entrances of our cunts. The idea was not to push them inside our pussies would soon draw them in of their own volition. Magic Wands stimulating our pubic mounds, we pressed our dildos against our slits. My pussy slowly sucked in the cool, skinny zucchini. I pumped gently, ice turning into heat, electric blue, soothing and sweetly tormenting. I felt I could do this forever—or until Dodson declared another erotic intermission. You can probably guess which came first. It wasn't me.
At this point, we were nearly ready to lynch dear Ms. Dodson. Aware of this distinct possibility, she was wise enough to decree practice time over. No more cunt calisthenics. This was the real thing. We were awarded some time to sample what we'd just learned and told to come as copiously as we wished. Within a few minutes every woman in the room had had at least one orgasm.
Just when I thought I couldn't endure any more pleasure, Dodson said to keep on going. My pussy was still spasming from my first orgasm. My clit felt like a miniature engorged cockhead and I couldn't bear to touch it directly. Palming my mound, I pressed the Magic Wand against it, jiggling the hand that cupped the crotch. The stimulation was light, but oh so relentless.
It was late afternoon and the winter sun was setting. In the soft, dim light, the scene resembled an impressionistic masterpiece. Degas's ballerinas stripped bare. Lautrec's whores on their day off. Sighs and voices enveloped me like a soothing drug. A heap of pillows cradled my head. I dreamily watched the women around me massaging their cunts, the room teeming with a contagious sexuality. Whenever I thought I was fully satisfied, my hand absentmindedly found my clit. I watched as Pat lay on her back, thighs hugging her vibrator. Jeannie was on my left, propped up on one side. She had slipped the Wand between her legs and softly pressed against it. My mind raced to the positions we'd tried. I wanted to come in each of them at least once, starting with the most difficult. With both hands, I gripped the tireless Wand against my pelvis, rocking my hips in and out of the feeling. Damn it, I was an Amazon goddess, spasming and throbbing in powerful orgasms. Any man would think me irresistible: Just look at my milkchocolate cunt lips, my glistening pubes, my nipples hard as pebbles. I was beautiful!
How many times did I come that afternoon? Somewhere between eight and infinity. At one point, the orgasms seemed to tangle together. Sometimes I just watched, then was silently moved by the room's passionate aura to masturbate again. Eventually, as easily and mysteriously as it had evolved, the sexual magic seemed to dwindle, the mechanical hums reduced to only one or two.
With glowing faces and bodies moist with sweat, we discussed our orgasms. There were smiles and a deep sense of satisfaction. Approaching a climax was no longer like climbing a mountain on our backs: a monumental, difficult task. Now it was easy—each and every one of us could. The question was no longer if but how many.
The mood was quiet and pensive. Dodson likes to end her Bodysex Groups with a communal massage. It was a gentle way to usher us from orgasmic plateaus back to the harsh reality of Manhattan bustling outside the door of her cozy highrise apartment. The sun had set by now. The room was dark except for candlelight. One by one, each of us was massaged by the others. Before the workshop offficially disbanded, we formed our last circle and lightly joined hands. Energy surged through our fingertips. Then we dressed and were gone, each to her own life, never to see each other again.
The next day, my body ached pleasantly, as though I'd exercised too intensely. Perhaps I had. I hurt, but was elated at the same time. There was a wonderful secret alive inside of me, yet I told no one. I no longer felt embarrassed about the way my body looked. I no longer had qualms about touching it and giving myself orgasms. You see, I had taken "Masturbation 101." And passed with flying colors!!!
 
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 “Gitte”, 29 years old, Lyngby, Denmark: Dear Pia, you gave me a private orgasmsession. Wow what an amazing experience... I’m so happy I took your course. Thank you so much! I want to explain how the course was for me.
 I have always thought of masturbating as something very shameful, boring and quite disgusting. I’ve tried it sometimes, very rarely, but always stopped because I got bored and felt stupid doing it. I started to think I wasn’t normal, so I contacted you. I was very unsure about what was going to happen, but after our conversation over the phone and hearing your warm and affectionate voice I booked a session.
 When I first arrived I was quite sure that nothing was going to change. How could I achieve anything in front of a stranger that I couldn’t do by myself after all these years? We sat and talked first for about one and a half hour about my thought and first sexual experiences. While Pia prepared some things for the actual training I began to take my clothes off. I lay down on a soft blanket with a pillow behind my back and together we looked at my vulva in a mirror. It felt okay, but I was still very sceptical and expected that nothing would happen. But when I felt the vibrator I got a sudden burst of lust, which is something I haven’t felt for over 15 years. It was amazing, but a short while later it all felt overwhelming and I wanted to stop, but you didn’t let me. It cost me a great effort to put sounds on my feelings – but I did it, and got more and more aroused and all of a sudden I had an orgasm! You even told me that I shouldn’t come yet; I had to build the pleasure up more so it would be even more intense. I had no idea that it would feel like that to have an orgasm!
I have overcome massive barriers and now have the will and confidence to continue for myself. I’ve ordered the vibrator i used and can’t wait for it to arrive.
Thanks again Pia, you have really helped me well on my way. Thanks!
Yours sincerely “Gitte”.
 
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“Henrik”, 25 years old, car mechanic, Helsingør, Denmark:Hi Pia! I just want to say my deepest thanks for the instructions you gave me six month ago. I have now become good at masturbating and can decide myself when I want to have my ejaculation, which has made me very happy. I’m enjoying my sexuality at higher levels with my partner as well. I’m now able to control my body.
 I can definitely recommend others to have an orgasm-session, because you have so much great advice on how to masturbate. It has changed my sex life drastically – thanks Pia! Best regards from a happy man...

Thomas, 30 years, accountant, Copenhagen; Dear Pia, Thank you for a lovely and warm meeting. As a man I have often wondered: Why does it have to be so unevenly dispersed between men and women; Saying why do I have a greater desire than women?
Therefore I have for a long time speculated what I could do to become a better lover. I suppose the bottom line to be that we do not speak the same language, men and women that is. Why do we not use more openness towards each other regarding sexuality? I experience that it is so forbidden to talk about sex at all, this I miss a lot with women. I believe that speaking is the way forward towards a great sexlife, in this way I could start by doing something about this problem my self. This is why I came to you Pia. Your homepage looked very inspiring; I felt an informal and relaxed atmosphere, when reading your words on the pages. And I must say I gained full value for the money. When I meet you I could feel this very special warm openness, which you send out through your lovely charisma. Here I met just what I needed to be able to open up and start a conversation about all my issues, a woman with lovely warmth, who showed openness, understanding and enthusiasm from beginning to the end. With Pia it is not about business, it is about helping the individual…fantastic. Our conversation took place in a very relaxed and informal atmosphere. We went through the whole anatomy from a to z. At first I thought “This I have gone through in school”, but I became wiser. There is so much knowledge, that I did not get. I must admit that Pia gave me a lot of new approaches on my sexual knowledge, both concerning myself and women. Pia showed me drawings of our genitals, and was sharing her knowledge in a very professional and competent way. Felt I had just arrived, and then time was up, unfortunately. It felt so natural to talk about sex with you, and very educating. I really feel ad urge to start practicing at home, and look forward to seeing the results. I have received a lot of knowledge and now I need to practice, lots of pelvic floor training and mastrubation, this I look forward to. I hope to become “Tarzan” in bed, and be able to stimulate my coming partner, so she will hear the angels sing, and we both cab enjoy the fantastic universe of orgasms. Thank you very much Pia for a successful meeting...

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Niels, 45 years, self employed, Copenhagen; Dear Pia, It has been a great pleasure to participate in your first weekend seminar for men only. We were six very different men, with different ages, and we learnt a lot by listening to each other. I had met my girlfriend very shortly before I participated in the weekend. I must say, that the seminar has been an instructive and inspiring experience for me, of which I have had great use, especially in relation to my girlfriend. Before the seminar I had never been used to talking about my sexlife, not with male friends and especially not with women! Now I experience that it is much easier for me to talk about sexual issues. The seminar has in many ways strengthened my sense of masculinity. Especially the pelvic floor and masturbation training programme to become a multi-orgasmic man, is something I will recommend to other men. Participating in the seminar did demand a certain amount of concentration and focus during the whole weekend. It was a personal boundary extending experience in the seminar to open up and start talking with other men about my sexlife. The conversations amongst us men were a positive experience, and they loosened up for some inhibitions, which I maybe ought to have thrown overboard 25 to 30 years ago. But better late than never – and too late is not until the coffin lid is bolted.

Mogens, 43 years, IT Consultant, Birkerød; After participating in Pia Strucks masturbation seminar for men, I am left with a feeling that all this information I ought to have known already at the age of 14. How much more fun would the last twenty years have been, if I haven’t had to find out everything on my own. Even in our western non religious society sex is a very taboo area of life. We are still under the influence of alienation from our genitals, desires and sexual possibilities, which some sexually repressed religions have imposed on us. Despite good intentions, parents and teachers have been too shy and unaware to communicate the knowledge and understanding of the pleasures of sexual life, which all adult people should be in possession of. Not only to be happy and joyful, but also in order to avoid many of the traumas and restrictions which the shyness is causing. Pia Struck is capable of creating an atmosphere of acceptance and confidentiality, where she communicates knowledge of men’s and women’s sexuality. Knowledge which can be used both for masturbation and partnersex. Even though you can find most of the information in books, the concentrated way the information is conveyed during the seminar, transforms you in a way that you would never experience by reading a book. Especially Pia´s wide acceptance of all kinds of sexuality between consenting adults, is very helpful for the learning process. She opens for a wide range of possibilities. A wide range of sexual stimulations, which can make your sexlife more intense, enriching and fun. However the seminar is much more than the professional knowledge Pia Struck communicates. One of the most relieving things I experienced during the seminar was to be able to talk with other men about sexual experiences, fantasies and ways of doing things without fear of performing or demand of normality. As participant on Pia Strucks masturbation seminar for men, I must say, that this kind of seminar ought to be compulsory for all young people, both male and female, at the age of 15.

Hanne, 46 years, police officer, Birkerød; Dear Pia, my husband, Mogens, has participated in one of your weekend seminars for men. Your very first seminar for men only, one and a half month ago. He did not have much sexual experience when we first meet, and I have done what I could to teach him about sex. But YOUR WEEKEND Pia BEATS EVERYTHING. He arrived home Sunday evening and we spoke until late that night. When he was making love to me Monday morning it was ten million times better than in the eight years we have been together. He used sound, he was more expressive and a lot more dynamic, changing positions and doing nice things. You have lifted our sexual life to new heights, and made our relationship a lot more long term. He has become much more creative and playful, and takes more chances of trying new things with me. Thank you Pia, well done – keep up the good spirit. I will recommend all relationships that are more than three years old, and where sex has become routine, to participate in one of your seminars, because your seminar has really meant a lift in our ability for variety and diversity. And we now have a greater vocabulary to speak about sex. This has enriched our sexual quality of life, considerably, and this creates positive changes in many other aspects of our every day life.

Odd, 38 years, social worker, Kristiansand, Norway; Dear Pia, Thank you for a fantastic seminar – your first weekend seminar for men. We were six men with very different life stories. I liked the combination of film, teaching, conversation and discussions that we had together. I learnt a lot of new things concerning women’s anatomy and how I better can satisfy a woman. I discovered how much I tighten up and in other ways destroy my ability to get good orgasms. To get focus on how many sexual strings we can use, was a wake up call for me, and a journey back to the feelings and the curiosity I had about my own body in my younger years, and which later have been suppressed in a busy every day life. During the seminar I experienced a better connection with my body and my fantasies. After this seminar my orgasms have become stronger and more intense and I have more sexual feeling in my body. I have started the training programme, and after two weeks I can feel a difference in controlling my orgasms, this gives inspiration to keep up the training. My sexuality is more liberated and less shameful, especially mastrubation and anal sex, it is wonderful to exchange shame with freedom and your seminar helped me do this. I am now curious about my sexuality and have the desire to explore my sexuality, which in the past years in many ways have lied dormant, and this has lead to a feeling of loos and sadness in me. I am grateful for receiving help to a new start. I end as I started by thanking you for a wonderful seminar. It was certainly worth the flight. Hugs from Odd/Norway