So this is my first post, so I thought I’d tell you about a fun and quite innocent experience I had in college not that long ago. My name’s Helena and I’m doing a PhD in French literature. A year or so back, we had a ‘sex positivity week’ on campus, which was a great idea and a lot of fun. There were speakers on body image and the importance of consent, and there was even a feminist porn screening in one of the dorms. There were also representatives from companies like Ann Summers giving workshops on their vibrators and other toys, some of which they gave away for free.
My circle of girl friends thought this was all hilarious and great fun, and one of my friends, Natasha, who’s very feminist, suggested we hold our own ‘sex positivity evening’, watch some steamy films and try out the various goodies we’d all been given. Some of my friends were a little bit reticent about the idea, and two of us had boyfriends, but in the end four of us were keen and we decided to hold the evening round mine.