Sex Talk with Father Wild!

Remember how we told y’all about the Father Wild forum? (If you don’t remember, here’s the post.) Well, seven of us Marquette feminists were in attendance (a pretty good turn-out, if I don’t say so myself!), and we had the opportunity to ask Father Wild several questions.Unfortunately, I showed up rather late, so I’ll let my blogging partner fill you in on Father Wild’s responses to the questions regarding the sexual violence policy, the women’s resource center, and some third thing that I don’t remember. (It’s 2 a.m.–you should be impressed that I am forming coherent sentences.)

However, I did get the chance to ask Father Wild about sexual health on Marquette’s campus–especially the fact that Marquette does an abysmal job at providing programs about STI prevention. What he said was somewhat encouraging: he said that he did not see any reason why sexual health programming should NOT be allowed, although finding the organization and the funding for programming would be difficult. (Hint hint–perhaps a Gender Resources Center could be a good clearinghouse for all things sexual health related?)

However, he also made it abundantly clear that Marquette will not provide condoms (or con-dahhhms) on campus, due to the policies of the Catholic Church. Although the condom issue is one that irks me to no end, it is nice to know that Marquette does not have a policy preventing STI-prevention programming on campus per se–there is a lack of resources and interest, however, and we will try to increase both in order to make the student body healthier and more knowledgeable.We hope that the sheer amount of questions dealing with sex, gender, and sexual violence will show the administration that students do care about these issues, and are willing to speak up!In any case, we talked sex with Father Wild. Slightly absurd (and even a tad giggle-inducing), but cool.