Sex: what does that imply?

I’ve never been offered both free food and sex in one night, so the sex trivia at Half Fast Subs definitely got my blood rushing. The Wednesday night sex trivia event was put on by CU Advocates For Choice, the group’s first event of the year. CU Advocates For Choice is a campus group aimed at increasing sexual knowledge on campus.

Half Fast is a place that isn’t meant to hold many, but that wooden deck was packed with people yelling, laughing and saying phrases so vulgar I couldn’t write them in this article. But the awkward, turn-your-face-red moments were pushed aside by an atmosphere where people smiled when questioned about the material of early condoms. The answer? Sheepskin.

(CU Independent Graphic Illustration File/Josh Shettler)

It was a diverse group of people who, to me, weren’t “here to party,” but they did scream out answers, like “Chlamydia!” The questions were aimed to educate us, but they were the kind of question that made you pause, look at others blankly, realize you know nothing about curable STDs and then, with a smile, scream out the dirtiest thing that came to mind.

We sat in groups and tallied up points to find a winner. First place won a dildo. Like I said, it was something new for me, and no, I didn’t win.

“The Conversation” usually makes your lips tighten and eyes wander as you try to avoid the questions and answers of the subject. But ask yourself, are you good at sex?

Really, pause and think about it. Do you make the right choices? Do you rush anything that shouldn’t be rushed? Do both parties walk out of a room and feel satisfied, or does it feel more like you just paid $15 for a 6-inch sandwich? Because sex is so much more than what college students whisper about when talking about their exes.

President of CU Advocates for Choice Meagan Maddock spent the summer interning at Planned Parenthood before taking her club position. She talked about how the lack of sex education leads to a spreading of misinformation.

“[Sex] is something that isn’t talked about in a way that it should be,” she said. “It can be a healthy part of life, if you engage in it responsibly.”

It’s a trading of something intimate and hopefully a trading of nothing that somebody doesn’t want to get. Yes, I said it, and I had it yelled over my head Wednesday night. A large number of people have sex, and sex can cause STDs. One of the questions asked at the sex trivia night was what country has the highest proportion of STDs. It wasn’t France with its reputation as the city of love or England with its inviting, indoor, rainy days, but it was America.

In such a “forward”-moving country, we still turn our heads away when it comes to talking about sex. I’m not talking about being embarrassed to read “50 Shades of Grey,” but about not being able to sit down at a table and talk to your friends about what amazing sex is like. It involves a contraceptive, consent and maybe a bottle of cheap wine.

“I think this is really important, especially in this political climate,” Sara Belford, a member of the winning team, said about sex education.

This is college. The person sitting next to you has probably had sex, and so has the person in class that you thought was cute. If you are sexually active, think about brushing up on your sex ed, because it’s hard to remember the facts and figures of high school sex ed class.

“They’re [students] in college, they’re having sex and they don’t know a lot about it,” Maddock said.

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