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No Glove, No Love?

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Ooh la la! Something’s in the air!

Word has it that the French department has cut ties with EFUT, the hugely successful student-run club that is dedicated to supporting la francophonie. Scandalous! Specifically, the French Studies chair has stopped authorizing French department participation in all things EFUT. Their relationship has always been amicable, with faculty encouraging their students to join and partake in their activities. What could have possibly broken this relationship?

Condoms.

If you’ve been anywhere around campus lately, you will know that EFUT has promotional material everywhere. Perhaps the most unique and memorable are their condoms, with relevant dates and club information printed on the packaging.

 

The trouble usually starts when they're NOT there.

EFUT has been going around to French classes promoting their club. President Antonin Mongeau has informed me that EFUT reps do not explicit hand them out. They instead leave a handful of condoms in the classroom, leaving it up to the students to decide whether or not to put it to good use. Professors of these classes have reported that these condoms are making students uncomfortable, thus prompting the French Chair’s decisions to de-authorize all EFUT activity within their classes, as well as faculty participation in EFUT activities.

 

Some things to get straight:

  • This is the second year EFUT has used condoms as promotional material.
  • Despite a couple of grumbles here and there, there has never been a complaint filed by any student before. Therefore, EFUT has been treating it as a non-issue.
  • Let’s be honest – the French are not strangers to some lovin’. If you take a look at the course handbook, you will see that we have courses that build on that very theme.
  • The French Chair does not understand how condoms are part of EFUT’s mandate.

Some things to think about:

  • Is handing out condoms an appropriate method of promotion?
  • Do you like them?
  • Is the French department’s concern old-fashioned and behind the times?
  • Is it really that big a deal?
  • Should EFUT be blatantly putting sex together with French at all?

EFUT has not issued a response to this yet. They are encouraging all their members and other students to visit www.frenchclub.ca and respond to a poll there. If you’ve got something to say, email them at and tell them what you think.

Of course, don’t forget to comment below and tell us at blogUT what you think is really going on. To condom or not to condom? That is the question.

Condoms: What the Pope Said and What You May Not Know!

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This is a guest blog by JP, blogUT founder and former editor, who has gone on to do bigger and better things, like uh… open an online store to sell condoms.

Pope Condoms

So, by now, I’m sure you’ve all heard about the general uproar over the pope’s comments regarding condoms during his visit to Africa. Here’s a recap of what he said, according to The Times Online:

In his first public comments on condom use, the pontiff told reporters en route to Cameroon that Aids “is a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems”

As it turns out, the issue is always more complicated than it appears at surface level. What if I were to tell you that: the pope didn’t exactly say what you thought he said; condoms aren’t exactly “safe”; and I’m writing about all this as a subject matter expert on condoms after having done a whole bunch of research in the process of opening an online condoms store?

Well, I’m about to tell you exactly that. So please read on. Continue reading Condoms: What the Pope Said and What You May Not Know! →

Let’s Talk About Porn

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Photo courtesy of katemonkey

The Trinity College Club Women Out Loud! are hosting an event called Let’s Talk About Porn: A speaker and Q&A evening. The event is co-hosted by LGBTOUT, Good for Her, Come as You Are, the Women & Gender Studies Students’ Union, and Buck Angel Entertainment. Topics under discussion will include the effects of pornography and the adult film industry on gender, sexuality, youth culture, as well as its contribution to sexual stereotypes.

There will be four panlelists providing personal insight based on various experiences:

  • Alison Lee – manager of Good For Her and organizer of the Feminist Porn awards
  • Buck Angel – Adult Film Actor (AVN Transsexual Performer of the Year)
  • Cory Silverberg – Certified Sex Educator and Sex Guide at About.com
  • Dylan Ryan – Adult Film Actress

Please note that the event takes place in a sex positive environment. Homophobic, religion-related or any other comments deemed inappropriate for above event by moderators, will not be tolerated.

When: March 31st @ 7pm
Where: George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place
Cost: $5 for U of T Students, $10 for non-U of T Students

Tickets will be made available at Trinity College (in front of Strachan Hall) 12 – 2 pm and 5 – 6 pm or by .

Frisky Business: The Top 10 Make Out Spots on the U of T Campus

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Not U of T Students Making Out

Summer is here, it’s getting warmer (for the most part), and animals are procreating. You are probably in love, looking for love, or have aching loins. What do you all have in common? You’re frisky and you want to make out; don’t deny it! The U of T campus is pretty empty now that it’s summer, and if you are taking summer courses, why not take advantage of this? You might have your own secret areas to make out on campus, but here’s a list of our suggestions. Read on for photos, ratings, and a map of the best make out spots on campus!

Continue reading Frisky Business: The Top 10 Make Out Spots on the U of T Campus →

FLRT100H1: An Elective in Flirting

On Campus, Whimsical

So there I sat in Flirting 101, on Valentine’s Day, slightly breathless and mildly sweaty. I was the only guy in the room of 7 girls: 2 presenters and 5 other attendees. Mind you, that’s not why I was sweaty. I had to rush over from the gym to Hart House, in my post-workout state of perspiration, to attend this workshop on flirting given by the University of Toronto SEC (Sexual Education and Peer Counselling Centre).

So the University of Toronto Sexual Education and Peer Counselling Centre gives all sorts of workshops on topics surrounding sex: from “Negotiating Healthy (Sexual) Relationships” to “Making Safer Sex, Greater Sex!” to condoms (wait, that’s not a talk, they just give out free condoms). Anyway, this particular workshop caught my eye. I’m always curious to learn a thing or two. Knowledge is power right? Plus, in case you haven’t read it yet… my Online Dating Adventure ended less than fruitfully. Maybe there’s room for improvement?

If nothing else, it might make an interesting article. Continue reading FLRT100H1: An Elective in Flirting →

Feeling Kinky??

Events, On Campus

SDSSU conference poster

Heads up superfreaks, the Sexual Diversity Studies Student Union is hosting a conference on fetishism next month. At last…

Promising to be spicier than the average lecture series Fetish: Working Out the Kinks will address how fetishism, specifically Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism (or BDSM) practice, is regarded in terms of sex work, media representations, identity politics and the medical and mental health community through a series of paper presentations, lectures and workshops.

Fetish: Working Out the Kinks will include participation from sexuality researchers, educators and activists from all backgrounds and features SexTV’s Dr. Carol Queen as keynote speaker. The conference runs March 14 -15, all are welcome and tickets are on sale now at U of T Tix, University of Toronto’s Central Box Office. Get them while they’re hot.

For more info contact the conference organizer at