Letter: Sex Week was disappointingly short on sex ed

Editor,

I attended most of the Sex Week because I believe it is important to be informed, educated and open to what people are bringing to campus. As I attended the “Birds and the Bees 2.0: Better Birth Control, Abortion and STI Education,” I was surely disappointed.

Former Medical Director and abortionist of Planned Parenthood Diana Koster talked about the safety of hormonal birth control and abortion. Koster rejected all studies from research groups like the National Cancer Institute that have found hormonal contraception to be a carcinogen and increasing the risk of breast, cervical and liver cancer.

Koster also claimed the studies that provide evidence of induced abortions leading to breast cancer, an increased risk in suicide, Post-Abortion Stress Syndrome and infertility “have not been done properly.”

The Sex Week’s largest event, “Sex Ed A Go Go,” featured Dirty Lola. By reading the title, you would assume sexual education would be discussed. But what the conversation included was advice on using lube for lip balm after oral sex, sharing in detail the past month of each speaker’s’ sex life, and advice on how to have quicker orgasms and get laid by playing “the long game.”

In addition, Dirty Lola offered more “education” to students by discussing her open marriage and the most recent orgy that she participated in.

I understand that each person lives their own life, many with their own decisions when it comes to sex. I am not here to impose my beliefs on any individual. I am rather hoping to challenge the student body and our University to see what we are being taught as young men and women. We are being taught that birth control has no heath risks, according to Koster; that the Bible supports premarital, homosexual and polygamous sex; and that having sex with many people doesn’t really lead to difficulties or consequences, but is our way to seek heightened pleasure.

Sex Week has failed again to speak up for the students that have been or may be sexually assaulted and offer them healing and protection. Sex Week has failed again by promoting irresponsible and casual sex to students, and not being a support system when they find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy or with an STI. Sex Week has failed again by misleading men and women that legal abortion and hormonal birth control is absolutely safe for our bodies.

I would encourage every individual to research and investigate everything on your own before believing what you are told. I would invite you to even research the information I have provided. We need to be an educated, informed, supportive and responsible campus, society and person.

Sincerely,

Sade Patterson

Students for Life President