Colleges around the country have traded their Valentine’s Day festivities of chocolates, candy, and dates for Sex Week, and instead embrace Plan B, bondage training, condoms, and Planned Parenthood STD displays. Students for Life of America students and coordinators saw it themselves. From Latex Larry to bondage technique events, check out some bizarre Sex Week stories, find out SFLA staff and students responded, and how the pro-life generation can step up.
Plan B and Condoms as a Failed Distraction Strategy
Kristen Wayne, Florida regional coordinator, was doing her first tour stop in Florida at Florida Atlantic University. She, along with SFLA students, was having great conversations and changing people’s minds on abortion. When the Planned Parenthood club approached their table handing out Plan B and condoms, she remained undeterred.
“They did it to direct students away from us, but it didn’t work,” explained Kristen. “They were wanting us to get controversial, but I ignored them along with our students. Five minutes later they walked away.
Kristen and her students continued their work, passing out pregnancy care center resources from Standing with You, along with other topic cards.
Bouquet of Roses? More like Bouquet of Condoms
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside allowed two clubs, Zeta Epsilon and Planned Parenthood Generation Action, to give away neatly arranged condoms as a bouquet. Apparently, they thought it was a was better idea than a nice date gift basket or box of chocolates.
Handing out Plan B like Sweet Tarts and Latex Larry
University of Chicago’s SFLA Chapter President Kenzi Bustamante observed how the Project for Reproductive Freedom club, a student-led club on campus, was handing out Julie Emergency Contraceptives on Tuesday, Feb. 13, through a tabling event.
A female student from University of Chicago’s Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) created a project called “Emergency Contraception for UChicago” and is supported by the Study of Gender and Sexuality. So much so, they even have Julie Emergency Contraception in bathrooms thanks to an EC4UC collaboration, which is a student led, Ci3 and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality supported initiative.
“Their Student Wellness Center has been promoting their supply of lube and condoms in some pretty cringy posts on their Instagram,” noted Bustamante. “Including a post about their ‘safer sex supply mascot’ they named latex Larry.”
It wouldn’t be complete without a video on their Instagram to promote condoms and lube.
Let’s keep “Latex Larry” and other creepy stuff out of the women’s bathroom.
Condom Scavenger Hunt and Bondage Technique Event
Jamie Curry, SFLA Ohio regional coordinator, noticed Ohio State University promoting and leaving Plan B around campus for anyone to find, including children.
Their Instagram account, SASHA at OSU, posted in collaboration with osuaffirmations to give away Lion’s Den bags. The bags, supposedly hidden, will be spread across campus over the next few days, and clues will be given over social media. Although not explicitly stated in the post, the photo of the bags includes Julie’s Emergency Contraceptives. They’ve also hosted a bondage techniques event along with demonstrations.
STD Displays are Romantic, Right?
Some displays are there to stay beyond Valentine’s Day. On Monday, Feb. 12, Emma McDaniel, a communications and social media respondent for the Pro-Life Wildcats SFLA Chapter at the University of Kentucky, noticed Planned Parenthood advertising on newspaper stands. Though it is unclear who sponsors it, these advertisements have continued to spread.
“I noticed that they put more newspapers around the school than usual,” Emma said. “They were everywhere on tables in different buildings, chairs, lounge-type areas, and on the stands. On the back of each one was also a Planned Parenthood ad talking about STI testing.”
Emma and the Pro-Life Wildcats hope to counter the ads by handing out fliers for a local pregnancy resource center.
Why Does Sex Week Have to Do with Abortion?
If Planned Parenthood wants abortion, they want a hold on people’s sex lives, too. The same organization who gives bad sex advice is the same place they want young people to go for an abortion.
It’s really that simple. It takes people like the SFLA staff and students to counter it and offer a better solution.
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