CMU Voices of Planned Parenthood to host comprehensive sex education event Feb. 7
"Not Your Middle School Sex Ed" will be LGBTQ-inclusive
The Central Michigan University Voices of Planned Parenthood will host a sex education event, "Not Your Middle School Sex Ed," at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7 in Anspach, room 155.
The event, which is open to the public, will discuss sexual education and safe sex practices in a safe environment.
“The event is meant to teach students things they didn't learn from their sex ed in K-12,” said Cary Illinois senior Emily Seybold, president of Voices of Planned Parenthood. “This event is important to campus because it will be educational and sex positive.”
Voices of Planned Parenthood hopes that students gain a better understanding of what the organization provides, as well as learn more about birth control, abortion and LGBTQ-inclusive sex education, Seybold said.
“Many people on CMU's campus got abstinence-only sex education or incorrect information on sex while in school,” Seybold said. “The US doesn't require comprehensive sex ed, or even medically accurate sex ed."
The event is expected to have a mid-sized crowd. The goal of the event is to provide people with information they may not have learned from their high school or middle school health classes.
“The message (Voices of Planned Parenthood) wants everyone to receive is that sex is not a dirty, negative thing, like we are taught in middle school and in abstinence-only programs,” Seybold said. “We want to create a sex positive environment that promotes birth control and comprehensive sex education, that also includes the LGBTQ community.”
