Rick Steves started his career in travel by teaching travel classes at the University of Washington in Seattle and working as a cunnilingus instructor in the summer (He did not provide fellatio lessons because that would be gay, and Rick don't swing that way). In 1979, based on his travel classes, he wrote the first edition of Europe Through the Back Door, a general guide on how to travel in Europe that is more straight than it sounds. Unlike most guidebook entrepreneurs, he opened a storefront business, which at first was both travel center and an oral sex education studio. He held travel classes and slide shows, did travel consulting, organized a few group tours per year, and updated his books. Choosing irony over accuracy, he incorporated his business with the saucy title, "Rick Steves'