Free Condoms!

All right. I'm finally moved into my dorm at the great great U of MN. It's Welcome Week! Woohoo! Basically it's just five days of Freshmen being escorted around and told when to do stuff. Kind of like a high school field trip. Tomorrow's the last day. /relieved

So today we were brought to an assembly to listen to some people talk about HIV and AIDS. It was actually pretty interesting, and I teared up at some of the stuff. Did you know that some kids with HIV aren't allowed in their churches? That's bullshit to me. Especially since a kid obviously didn't get it by having gay sex or anything, a church should use the same compassion they give to homeless people.

After that, we listened to a nurse or something talk about the University clinic here at the U. We're supposed to practice safe sex. It was actually pretty funny because she had two volunteers--a guy and a girl--go behind a sheet. The nurses shook the sheet back and forth saying "Oh oh! What's going on back there?" Then they removed the sheet, saying "And then, 30 seconds later..." And we all laughed. It continued to go on about the girl finding out she and her baby have HIV ten years later.

And guess what! There's free condoms at the clinic! That's just so interesting to me. They were practically pushing these condoms on us. We were even told that we should all keep condoms available just in case.

I mean, I understand that strictly speaking it's better than the alternative. I guess it's better to have what you don't need than to need what you don't have. But what about those that are just not sexually active yet? Or, in my case, ever? It was kind of uncomfortable to listen to, actually.

Still, maybe I should go pick a couple up. Just in case? I probably won't need 'em, but my roommate might. >.< Or maybe I'll meet someone who really wants to have sex with me and I'm willing to comply.

Lawl, that makes me sound like I'm begging to be raped. I only mean that if I love that person I can put my own asexual non-needs aside.



Not until marriage, of course. Just saying.