Health Services

The last little while, I've been hearing ominous rumblings about a few of my residents lack of knowledge when it comes to practicing safe sex. Now, as Kelsey the person, this kind of freaks me out and normally I would do my best to avoid having to listen to anyone discuss their sex lives with me, as I definitely believe in abstinence till marriage. However, as Kelsey the Community Advisor, when something like this is brought to my attention, I must take measures to better educate my residents. Besides, even for those that are not sexually active, becoming better informed about their bodies and the hazards of mistreating them is very important!

So last night I had a health services team, the Sexuality Team, come for an hour and a half to give demonstrations, answer questions and play a big old round of Sex Jeopardy, guys vs girls, of course. At first, I was having a little bit of a hard time enticing residents out of their apartments to join us in the lounge. A few were considered with their image, being seen at a sex ed evening, as if they didn't know anything about sex! I was most especially concerned about a couple of boys whom I had heard a few of the rumours about, not coming to the event. But have no fear, one of the speakers, another CA named Chelsea whom I know well, said she knew just the way to get people out to the meeting. She scrounged around in her bags, pulling a few items out and went running out the lounge door to bang on apartment doors. Curious, I followed her and listened to her speech to convince my anti-social residents to emerge from their holes and come interact with each other. As the door to the first apartment opened, and I saw the confused look on a pair of my boys who had no idea who Chelsea was, I was impressed by her bravery to just go up to the door. The next words out of her mouth just shocked my socks off. "I'VE GOT DILDOS AND VIBRATORS!" she sing-songed to them. I burst out in ridiculous laughter as she invited them to join us in the lounge and continued on her hunt for more of my residents. I went to the opposite end of the hallway and began entreating my residents to join, warning them that if they didn't listen to me, a crazy lady with dildos and vibrators was on the prowl for avoider-residents.

In all, the presentation, while at times a little graphic and with information I was not necessarily interested in, was very informative to my residents. Some of the questions they came up with surprised me, and some of the things they believed blew me away! This was by far my favourite: Sperm have a life span of about 10 minutes, and die when they come in contact with air. That was definitely a very popular belief. I almost smacked a few heads on that one. I mean, when your virgin christian CA knows more about safe sex than you do and you're almost as active as rabbits, there's a problem!!
It was great to see them all joking with each other and actually getting to know a few people. I played on the boys team as they were a bit out numbered, and got to know more about them in one evening than I have all semester.

There's nothing like a good collective giggle over the words penis or dental dam to really bond with each other!