‘Safe sex’ games
Lansing freshman Chantelle Roberson showed students how to effectively put on a condom by using a banana in place of a penis.
She taught more than 30 students the technique as part of Sex Jeopardy! and Condom Olympics Tuesday night in the Woldt/Emmons Lobby.
In the spirit of National Condom Month, students also participated in games while learning facts about safe sex and sexually transmitted diseases.
Jason Wilt, a Roseville senior and Woldt resident assistant, organized the program to educate students about taking safer precautions during sex, giving students important statistics about sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS and Human Papillomavirus.
“Ninety percent of people with genital herpes do not know they even have it,” he said.
Students who played Jeopardy! had five topics to choose from, including “fetish fantasies” and “sex, sex and more sex.”
Bad Axe freshman Charles Hundersmarck participated in two of the night’s events.
He placed third in the “fling a condom as far as you can” event and took first in “blowing up a condom as big as you can, without it blowing up.”
“I had no particular strategy for blowing up the condom,” Hundersmarck said. “I just tried to remember how I used to blow up balloons.”
Hundersmarck said he came because a friend invited him and he needed more condoms.
Students also competed against each other by seeing how far they could stretch a condom down the shaft of a broomstick without it tearing, as well as placing a condom on a banana as quickly as possible.
Sterling Heights sophomore Kristin Novacek won the banana event, saying that being “smooth and steady” was the key.
Most students who participated said they had fun.
“I would like to have seen more people,” Wilt said.
