‘Let’s talk about sex’: VCU Sex Club breaking taboos
Megan Gallagher
Contributing Writer
“Let’s Talk About Sex!” is a phrase you might find plastered on the front of a pamphlet on your high school guidance counselor’s door. While those pamphlets never seem to get any action, this is hardly not the case with the Sex Club at VCU.
Despite common first impressions, the VCU Sex Club does not gather for orgies or to watch porn. The club is set up to discuss sex and sex-related topics in a positive, open-forum setting.
“I wanted to become involved in Sex Club because I felt that it was too good of a club to not exist … and what better club to be a part of than one that revolves around sex?” said Anna Scott, president of the Sex Club.
No topic is off limits for discussion at sex club: In fact, the more obscure the topic is, the better. Popular topics from the past have included prostitution and fetishes. Scheduled topics at future meetings will be sexual relations between transgendered individuals, pornography and human trafficking in America.
For the first meeting of the year, the officers started the meeting by telling new members their names and their “favorite flavor.” A muddled expression of confusion and embarrassment crossed the faces of first-time atendees.
“The favorite flavor was mostly an icebreaker to see if your mind goes into the gutter, per se,” Scott said.
Once the ice was sufficiently broken, Scott led the meeting with a PowerPoint presentation on the night’s topic, virginity, picked because this was the club’s first, or virginal, meeting of the year.
Scott’s slideshow listed several types of virginity, statistics and video clips. She encouraged attendees to offer comments and questions throughout the entire presentation. Scott explained that there are many ways to look at a topic such as virginity, whether it’s from a cultural aspect, a media-and-society-influenced aspect or a religious one.
Scott kept the mood light through with her fair share of “that’s what she saids.” During a reading of statistics, everyone laughed when Scott said, “Everyone’s like, ‘what’s a virgin?’ And then you get deeper and deeper – no pun intended.”
Scott closed the meeting by giving the group’s disclaimer that the Sex Club doesn’t promote having sex, and it doesn’t condemn those who do. They want to make talking about sex informative, and at times hilarious, for any curious person with a sense of humor.
The next VCU Sex Club meeting will take place in the Commons Forum Room on Monday, Oct. 10 at 7 p.m.
