When I first happened upon this link, I was very skeptical
at first to see the 20 SEXXXIEST (triple x of course) colleges in the United
States. Hell, I’m still not even ecstatic about one of the criteria being
good-looking students. One thing I LOVE about this list, however, is that it also factors in sexual health as part of the criteria! The sexual health
was taken from the annual sexual health report card by Trojan, which examines
student accessibility to resources pertaining to sexual health.
Like I said, I’m not sold on ranking students by their “hotness.” But I love how this list actually takes into
consideration what programs the colleges have to offer. I actually believe we
touched on this topic before in class, but it is so cool to see that a “sexy”
college is one that promotes safe-sex! And this time, I don't think it's a hoax/hacker.
So what do my fellow feminists think? Do you think SLU could
become a “sexy” college? I mean, look-wise, we obviously can compete with these
schools ;) But that department is not my concern. I think we have some awesome activist
projects going on in our class that could improve sexual education, make sexual
education more readily available to students, and protect students that have
been sexually harassed or assaulted. Even though we are a religiously
affiliated institution, I say we work our way up into becoming a “sexy” school
by adding on these education programs, student groups, and lecture outreach
programs like the Trojan article suggests! I don’t even know what options we
have here for students that want more sexual education, which is obviously a
major issue!
I don’t know about you guys, but I would love for SLU to
become “sexy!”
This is so interesting! I had never heard of such a thing. I do think we need to make SLU more aware of sexual activities, and maybe going about it in a 'sexy' way would work.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with both of you--- this does seem to be the proverbial lipstick on a pig. I'll take what I can get in this arena- and good sexual health seems to be a worthwhile gain in exchange for playing into the "sexy" culture. I know many of my friends have had problems with guys not wanting any of that Trojan stuff, so I definitely think that this is an area that could use some change! As my mother always said to my brother- never send your men in without a helmet; Amen.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually not aware if we have any sexual health programs at SLU, which means two things. One, we have some and they are not well known. Two, we don't have any at all. This would be a great activism project to work on but I wonder, because we are a Jesuit institution how far it could go.
ReplyDeleteI think more sexual education at SLU would be wonderful! Unfortunately, because we are a Catholic institution and "abstinence is key," I don't see much of a change happening in this department.
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