SGA and SARU host virtual Sex Week to promote consent culture
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Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers a virtual Sex Week series organized by SARU and the SGA to discuss consent and sexual health.
- The News-Letter reported that SARU and the SGA held the series from April 13 to April 17, with webinars, workshops and events including Sex Toy Bingo and Examining Consent in Media; senators had introduced a bill to fund it.
- The paper reported that SARU co-director Deeya Bhattacharya said the events covered “different aspects of sex and different aspects of sex positivity,” while co-director Reah Vasilakopoulos said more than 115 people attended Bingo, compared with an expected 30 or 40.
- The article says a consent-focused event used film clips to discuss relationships, and sexual violence prevention coordinator Alyse Campbell said, “Consent is not only consent to sexual acts — which it absolutely is — but consent is also conversation and communication and how comfortable people feel in a relationship.”
- The reporter writes that about 50 students attended Sex 101 with a Dominatrix, where Domina Vontana discussed BDSM, safe sex and consent, including that “Consent is ongoing. It’s not a one-time conversation.”
- According to the article, senator Chanel Lee said the week was having “a positive impact,” and freshman president Breanna Soldatelli said she wanted Sex Week to return because the programming was “vital to campus.”