Authors-turned-performers Em and Lo-short for Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey-brought \Sex Ed for Grown-Ups"" to Caf?? Montmartre, 127 E. Mifflin St., Thursday, loudly encouraging the audience to ""get our heads in the gutter.""
The pair are midway through a six-city tour of the United States sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, and the fun and frivolity of sex that shines through in their performance are balanced by the sense of urgency in their politics.
Although their status as a C3 organization prevents them from supporting a presidential candidate, they slammed the Bush administration for enacting anti-choice legislation, its attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade and recent movements toward a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
""Our rights are in such danger now that everyone needs to be an activist,"" Taylor said. Jason Schellack, a volunteer for Action Wisconsin who was sent to Madison to help with the presidential election, took advantage of the political nature of Em and Lo's show last night. He asked audience members to sign a petition supporting efforts to quell the movement in Wisconsin that would bring such a marriage amendment to this state. UW-Madison sophomore Emily Shor, handing out the same petition, noted only a few audience members who would not sign.
""We definitely had people who when we asked to sign the petition, they said 'I'm not pro-choice' or 'I don't want to sign the petition', and these were the people we targeted,"" Shor said.
Em and Lo put together a factual, funny show, plugging for their cause: better sex for all, and most importantly, education.
""We're just two writers trying to present the information in an entertaining way, that doesn't make their eyes glaze over,"" Sharkey said.
