Condoms are not the pinnacle of safe sex practices — sexual wellbeing can be enhanced through a number of different medical tools. “When we achieve our goals of sexual health and wellbeing, we won’t know it because of a statistic telling us how many people are wearing condoms. We’ll know it from the dropping rates of HIV infections, STIs and unwanted pregnancies. We’ll know it because our sex and our relationships will be safer, happier and more pleasurable.”
Tag: Sexual Health
OPINION: Use a condom before it’s too late
Gen Z, depending on who you ask, is a generation of prudes or perverts. However, Alex Benach PO ’28 argues that our primary sexual dysfunction is not prudeness but imprudence. Birth control is great and all, but wanting condomless sex puts you at more risk than you realize.
The plan for Plan B: SAS approves funding for reproductive healthcare vending machine
Plan B may soon be accessible on Scripps College’s campus after Scripps Associated Students approved funding for a low-cost wellness vending machine in the Scripps Student Union last Sunday. SAS has yet to finalize the budget for the machine, SAS President Megan Chow SC ’23 told TSL in an email.
OPINION: Why the 5Cs need Plan B
Amidst a nationwide attack on reproductive rights, it’s time for the 5Cs to step up and equip students with free reproductive health care, writes Ashley Park CM ’25.
With grant’s end, EmPOWER Center will lose programming position
The expiration of a Department of Justice grant means one of the EmPOWER Center’s three staff positions will be eliminated.
Pomona RAs create sexual health delivery program
Pomona RAs launched an initiative allowing students to have items like condoms, lubricant and dental dams delivered to their mailboxes.
OPINION: The Claremont Colleges can do better when it comes to HIV harm reduction
We’re fast approaching December, and specifically, World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. While we should absolutely celebrate the progress medicine and society have made in the last year toward controlling the spread of and eventually curing HIV, we still have a ways to go — even and especially on campus.