Sex. We all know the word. We see it in biology and health class to talk about our gender. We see it on TV and the Internet when kissing leads to clothes being taken off and the lights go dim. We even experience it in our own life when we meet that person that turns our hormones on full blast, and we start taking off clothes and turning off the lights ourselves.
Even urbandictionary.com knows that anyone who is not deaf and blind knows what sex is. “What kind of moron are you that you look up sex in the urban dictionary?” was the first definition on the site.
We are bombarded with sex everywhere we go. And as college students, most of us think about sex on a daily basis. We might not act on our thoughts, but we are definitely thinking about it, and as a newspaper that prides itself on writing about what the students are talking about, then why don’t we talk about sex?
Well, I’m about to change that. This is the first of a series of sex related articles where I will touch on anything from STD’s to celibacy to foreplay. I’ll even cover the taboo subjects that no one wants to talk about.
I also want to educate those that might not know some of the facts about sex. Health class in high school was a joke. They warned us about the dangers of sex, or they would skip over the chapter completely to teach us about staying active or how to diet. I just want you to know that if you have sex you may get pregnant. You probably wont die, but it will most likely feel good.
This will not be a diary of my sex life. I will not go into great detail about what happens in the fibers of my sheets, but I will use past experience to give examples and insight to the topics I’m discussing. For the things that I have no experience, I’ll talk with friends and maybe even strangers about sex.
We are young. We are in college. And we are all working towards the same goal to get a job once we graduate. The stress of all the work we are doing is relieved in many ways. One of those ways is sex, and as adults, it’s something that we should be able to discuss and sometimes poke fun at.
That is what I am doing in the upcoming issues of The Shield. I’m declaring this my semester of sex.
