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hen on a first date, would be total Kourtney Jason typically douchebags about avoids telling her dinner part- it,” she said with ner she authored a book about a laugh. “It’s just sex—or more specifically, The tacky. I don’t want Naughty Bucket List: 369 Dares to my own stuff used Do Before You Die. on me.” “It’s hard because I’m so For someone proud,” she said during a recent who has built a phone interview. “Usually I try to writing career wait to bring it up on the third date. around her interest You always wonder what someone in all things sex, it is going to say when you tell them might seem odd that you wrote a sex book.” she never intended to The 26-year-old Chico State write about relationgrad is no stranger to the social ships at all. As a jourimplications that come with writing nalism student on The about sex. During her tenure as the Orion staff, she origisex columnist for Chico State’s stu- nally covered breaking dent newspaper, The Orion, she news around campus. As she had more than one man approach worked her way up the ranks into E W S & R E V I E W B U S I N E S S U S E O N LY her at a bar with aN line like, “Hey, an editor’s position, she realized DATE EXEC. am I going to end DESIGNER up in your col- ISSUEshe might ACCT. be more suited to writing MM 07.30.09 AMB umn next week?” full-length features. FILE NAME REV. DATE “There were those guys who “I love magazines,” WOMENSHEALTH073009R1 12.18.08 she said. “I realized I could write for a USP (BOLD SELECTION) magazine, and that steered PRICE / ATMOSPHERE / EXPERT / UNIQUE my career path toward more interesting topics for me.” Late one evening, as she was writing her features column, Jason received an email from E. Jean Carroll, the longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine. Carroll had read Jason’s work online and wanted to feature her in Elle’s list of the top-10 best college advice columnists in America. “It was weird because my Kourtney Jason goes from Orion sex columnist to author. PHOTO COURTESY OF KOURTNEY JASON
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column was basically my own personal ramblings, and all of the others were sex columns,” Jason said. And so the sex-column seed was planted in her mind. The next semester, she asked the paper’s student adviser, the since-retired Dave Waddell, for approval to revive The Orion’s sex column, which had been absent for years. Waddell gave her the thumbs-up, and she was soon off and writing about a variety of sexy topics. Although more recent Orion sex columnists have leaned heavily on their personal experiences to produce content, Jason felt her background covering hard news lent itself more to a research-based approach. “I was always quoting studies, interviewing experts and talking to other students, so it wasn’t so personal,” she said. “I’m not so open about my own sex life; I just like talking about sex in general.”