While attending lectures, “food and females“ is what Matthew Miller used to have on the brain back in the day as an ISU student. Now giving a similar “exciting” class lecture, Miller had his audience look at how a person could take a more natural way of being with their sex life and food.

Rev. Jim Dubert, from St. Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center, one of the three organizations sponsoring the lecture, introduced Miller.

Dubert met Miller about four years ago when he was looking for a parish to attend with his young family. Dubert, also being an ISU graduate — the first at Iowa State to have a degree in environmental studies — thought Miller was on the right path with organic farming.

“Agriculture is something I have been fascinated about since I was a child,” Miller said in an interview before his lecture.

As a student he was not sure where he would end up, but it had always been his dream to be involved in the type of work he is in now.

“I grew up on a small diversified farming operation of cattle, hogs, corn, soybeans, oats and alfalfa,” Miller said when asked about his background in farming. “Since I am a guy, I am also fascinated by human sexuality. I think most people are. I think organic farmers have a greater love for other humans who are eating the produce of their farm. They want to go above the minimum standards of what is considered ‘safe’ food. “

Miller started off with looking at the new movie Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax,” which talks about the environment and how people should take care of the Earth’s resources and not live in a plastic world. Miller elaborated on how the movie focuses on renewable resources, the plot of a female and a male falling in love.

The title of his lecture was first addressed — Miller explained he’d be talking about organic food and ways of natural sex. Miller mentioned Earth Day because the purpose of this day is to increase awareness or appreciation of the Earth’s natural environment.

Miller goes on to quote scientific findings from various studies about how current treatment of the air, water and soil have affected the quality and are polluting them.

He said that producing organic food takes sacrifice such as pulling weeds by hand as he showed pictures of him and his wife in a field full of button weeds about five years ago.

“I have gotten a lot better at cultivating since then,” he said.

While showing a copy of Self magazine and Miller showed the headline of an article, “Tips on how to have ‘Hot! Fun! Carefree! Sex,'” which actually focused on today’s current methods of options in how to have safe sex. He went on to say that women should work on having natural safe sex and not put chemicals — which are used in modern day’s medical contraception — into their bodies.

“Awesome, you’re just like a cow!” was Miller’s reaction when his then-fiancee and now his wife explained to him that she wanted to practice natural family planning and attend classes at her church before marrying him.

Being from the farm and knowing that a cow can be bred a couple days out of every month, Miller was excited to know there was a 99 percent accurate way to control family size.

In conclusion, having studied at the Theology of the Body Institute, which is grounded in Pope John Paul II’s teachings, Miller explained that the institute teaches that the key to human sexuality is more love.

“I made the discovery that some strikingly similar concepts were being promoted about organic farming and human sexuality [at the institute],” Miller said.