The 4-Hour Body_ An Uncommon Guide to Ra - Timothy Ferriss [101]
It’s not hard to understand why men pretend it doesn’t exist. If it doesn’t exist, or if it’s unpredictable, men can write it off as a female problem. If it’s purely a female problem, men can’t have their egos crushed like a grape between Serena Williams’s butt cheeks.
Clitoral Confidence
Leaving dinner with Tallulah, I became fixated on the idea of a hypersensitive upper-left quadrant on the clitoris. Could it really be that straightforward?
I walked home from the restaurant that evening and jumped on my laptop to begin researching the one method Tallulah had mentioned by name: the Doing Method.
Seventy-two hours later, I tested the upper-quadrant technique on a willing test subject who’d never experienced an orgasm from finger-only stimulation. Two strong peaking orgasms and an extended 15-minute continuous orgasm later, I was shocked speechless.
It worked on the first shot.
But it was still guesswork, and I needed to make the technique bulletproof. To do that, I would need to meet not just a master but the master.
Luckily, I had her name on a little scrap of paper: Nicole Daedone.
Origins: More University
Lafayette Morehouse was established by Dr. Victor Baranco in 1968 on Purson Lane in Lafayette, California.
Operating as More University from 1977 to 1997, it was a commune founded on the ideal of “responsible hedonism.” The residents painted the buildings and automobiles on the property purple, and their newsletter explained the rationale:
We tell people that all the houses here are purple so that there is no mistake that one has changed realities should they wander onto our property.
If people missed the purple, there were other warning signs for wanderers.
In the 1960s, Baranco and his wife, Suzie, began researching how to improve their sex lives. Both believed that the amount of sensual pleasure available to an individual far exceeded the expectations commonly held in society.
In 1976, after more than a decade of experimentation, they blew the floodgates open by giving the first public demonstration of female orgasm. It lasted three hours. That’s a genital Dances with Wolves. The female student who demonstrated the orgasm, Diana, recalled the result it had on the wall-to-wall audience:
When that demonstration was over, people RAN to every available space on the property so that they could get off, too … get the women off! It was really the women.
Not surprisingly, students flocked to Morehouse.
Two students of the Morehouse methods for extending orgasm were Drs. Steve and Vera Bodansky, founders of the Doing Method I had taken for a test drive.
Another was Ray Vetterlein, who took his first class at Morehouse in 1968, eight years before the public demo. He earned its highest private qualification in 1989 and has been refining his methods ever since … for more than 40 years.
8,000 Nerve Endings and Two Sheets of Paper
Less than a month after dinner with Tallulah, I was witnessing some of Ray’s findings firsthand.
“You want to use about two sheets of paper worth of pressure,” explained my chaperone Aiko,9 who had organized the visit and was sitting to my right.
Roger that.
“Go by how it feels, not by how it sounds.”
I scribbled down notes as four OneTaste practitioners, two seated next to me and two on the floor, demonstrated and explained the fine-tuning I needed. OneTaste was founded in 2001 by Nicole Daedone, a student of Morehouse and Vetterlein, to give women a clean and brightly lit place to learn about orgasm from another woman. I’d met with Nicole the afternoon before, and our conversation had started at neuroscience and ended with me recounting my trial run of the Doing Method. One thing was clear to her: there was much room for improvement.
Now I found myself at OneTaste’s coaching location in the SOMA district of San Francisco.
Their expansion in both New York City and California has been funded largely by Reese Jones, who sold his software company Netopia to Motorola for $208 million. The “slow-sex” movement thus began and Nicole was its