Students are getting lucky…at bingo

By Rhiannon Lotze

St. Clair College students took part in dirty bingo on Feb. 11 in support of Love and Sexual Health Awareness Week.

Dirty bingo is an alternate version of bingo where the winners receive prizes such as sex toys and condoms.  The event was organized by the St. Clair College Student Representative Council and held in Griff’s Cavern at the main campus. Dozens of St. Clair students and their friends outside of the college attended the event to have some drinks, play some games and support Love and Sexual Health Week.

According to the SRC Facebook page, the week was designed by the college to provide “info and resources about healthy relationships, consent and safe sex,” and ran from Feb. 8 to 12.

Vice President of Student Affairs, Jeff Rousseau, helped organize the event and hopes the week of events highlight the importance of love and sexual health awareness.

“We want to promote that it’s okay to (have sex) but be safe while doing it,” Rousseau said.

Students attending the event also said they felt strongly about the cause.

“Sex is a normal thing,” said one first year St. Clair College student.  “It’s not scary or anything like that so let’s make it a normal thing.”

She also said she felt sex and sex education needs to be taught more thoroughly to people who are 18 and under.

Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week was held across Canada at the same time as St. Clair’s awareness week to promote health and safety during sex.  According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, the number of cases of sexually transmitted infections in Canada rises every year.