Festival Organizer - "It All Started With Our Giant Vagina"

[matcom]

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What's the only day where a student can pick up free condoms, have their picture taken in a giant painting of a vagina, enter a vulva coloring contest, read sex bloopers from other students and play with larger-than-life sex organs? The answer: the second annual Sex Out Loud Health Awareness Fair held Thursday at the Illini Union.

"It all started with our giant vagina," said Trisha Pruis, senior in LAS and president of Feminist Majority, the student group that organized the event.

"There are a lot of phallic symbols in society, and we wanted to put a vaginal one out there," Pruis said about the giant vagina structure that students could pay a dollar to stick their head in and have their picture taken. "After that, we thought 'Let's have a sex fair!'

"It makes sex and sexuality less taboo and gets people to understand," she said. "In our country, sex is not talked about. It's important for students to understand and know their bodies and their options. It's just about being comfortable with sex."

Pruis said the great response to last year's fair made the Feminist Majority decide to do it again this year, but with more tables. While a large majority of the tables set up at the fair were run by students, there were also booths from McKinley, Planned Parenthood, the Counseling Center and local churches.

http://dailyillini.com/news/1292

[kckc]

1. Hey Matcom...

do you go out looking for these stories, or do they just fall into your lap? :)

[matcom]

2. i just have a nose for 'news'

:D

welcome to DU btw :hi:

[kckc]

3. Maybe this is the answer to world peace

"Let's have a sex fair"

[matcom]

4. Ashcroft wouldn't like that very much

SO COUNT ME IN

[bif]

5. Guess their lips weren't sealed about this.

n/t

[Elidor]

6. Headline of the Year

And a bumper sticker waiting to happen:

Ask me about my
GIANT VAGINA

[matcom]

7. if i put that sticker on my car...

Mrs Matcom probably wouldn't find it too funny :D

[TXlib]

8. Damn, KCDem and I left UIUC in 2000!

Too bad they didn't do that back then... it would have been fun!

[kmla]

9. Boy, if I had a dollar for every time I heard that when I was in college..

Oh, wait I never heard that in college....

[scarlet_owl]

10. I can't believe I missed this! Right in my own town!

I could have had my picture taken with a giant vagina. I guess it pays to go to campus more often.

[tigereye]

11. what a great concept

[EstimatedProphet]

12. "It all started with our giant vagina"

Talk about a line to throw into a conversation! That's the kind of line that gets thrown out at a party right as everyone goes quiet.

[matcom]

14. lmao!

remember the game at elementary school? "use the following in a sentence..."

:D

[regnaD kciN]

13. Hey, come on now...

...and play with larger-than-life sex organs

All you had to do was ask me!

:evilgrin:

[TOhioLiberal]

15. Uhhh....

'it all started with our giant vagina' sounds like the beginning of a dirty limerick...:crazy:

[matcom]

16. how did THIS thread title....

only garner 15 posts???? :shrug:

some of my BEST 'investigative' 'reporting' here folks!

SHOW SOME LOVE! :P

[Elidor]

17. Yes, let's all give a big hand to Matcom's Giant Vagina!!!

err...uh...that didn't come out right...

[camero]

18. 36 years after coming out

I finally get to go back in. Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

:party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: