That doesn't seem like a very high number--on a campus of 50,000+. The weasel word is "chose." I'm guessing several thousand were either busy working, studying or didn't have the opportunity.
OSU now has a fund to provide $500 for a student who has experienced sexual assault or "intimate partner violence." This is to cover things like broken stuff, cell phone with prepaid minutes, emergency housing, help in breaking a lease, court costs, etc. This supplements other funds and insurance for students in distress. "Any OSU student who has alleged to a university official that they have experienced sexual violence can apply for assistance. A police report is not necessary in order to access the funds." Hmmm. There is a list of people--university staff and officials--who are consulted. If the student didn't report anything to the police, does the official have to? Wonder if the parents get to know too? And if he/she returns to the abusive one, do they get a second request for funds?
The Sexual Wellness Program at the Ohio State Student Wellness Center is devoted to promoting safer sex and healthy relationships. This program is home to The Condom Club, which offers condoms to OSU students at an extremely low cost--50 condoms for $5.00 and also access to free oral dams, latex gloves, finger cots and lubricant. Must be going after the GLBT group. And because 44% of the couples who use condoms do so incorrectly, The Center has volunteers called "sexperts" to help with this problem.
I worked with hundreds of student employees over my career at OSU (and U of I)--it was the small town and rural stock that worked the hardest and had the best values. Asian and Indian students were also outstanding, if you could keep them before a higher tech unit snatched them up. 99% were serious about their education and didn't party on week-ends or sleep around. When they graduated, many started at more than I made, but librarianship has always been at the bottom.
Do you suppose there was this much assault, violence, STDs, and abortions for college men and women back in the bad old days of the 40s and 50s when women had hours, didn't share dorms or apartments with men and the doors were locked at an appointed hour? Sometimes fences are more useful than ambulances.
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I'm not seeing the GLBT connection to the latex supplies you listed.
You probably know more about it than I do, but I usually associate oral sex protection with MSM. Maybe I read too many medical journals that report on the failures?
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4,150 students out of 50,000 is a low number and should have been easily attained. I mean, it takes two for sex unless your name is Clinton. He found a way to involve two but only one is credited for having the sex part. I'm fairly sure that there were at least 4,150OHS students that knew ahead of time that their chances of a sexual encounter were pretty slim. However the university did provide them with a bargaining tool to convince their date to yield to them with the $500 award for being sexually abused. LOL Plus the $500 award could promote prostitution on campus. Hmmmm.
50 condoms for $5.00?? Gee, a student could start a resale business on the side. Young men used to be embarrassed to ask condoms. I can't imagine them asking for oral dams!
Isn't it amazing that people who are sneezing into their elbows and chugalugging hand cleaner will risk their health, happiness and lives with a fragile piece of latex? Oh the germs, bacteria and viruses! But then the frontal lobes aren't mature at that age.
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