Stop by the Sex Week Table to ask all your questions about the week's programming and pick up some Sex Week merchandise. We'll have some fun games set-up too like dildo ring toss.

This is a 1991 comedy-drama that tells the story of two friendships: one set in the 1980s (Ninny and Evelyn) and one set in the 1930s (Ruth and Idgie). It covers the topics of abuse, sexuality, and women's equality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2W0TeuHbJ0

Would you rather: talk with your parents about sex OR die a slow painful death? Many students would choose a slow painful death. Come discuss various ways to approach talking about sex, birth control, STIs, and other related issues with your parents over a pleasant breakfast.

The Knox County Health Department will be providing free, confidential HIV testing and condoms! They use an oral swab (no blood or needles) and give test results in 20 minutes! Get yourself tested!

It's no secret that sex education programs in many schools are ineffective. We know that comprehensive approaches have more auspicious results, but the value systems of much of the country, including Tennessee, are rigid. SEAT believes that abstinence is a legitimate sexual choice, but it is often taught with fear. Planned Parenthood offers a compromise, an effective and sex-positive way to present abstinence based sex education. Come discuss how sex education can change to best serve the next generation.

Has the sexual climate at The University of Tennessee experienced any of the effects of climate change? It is unclear whether students are having more or less sex than they were ten or fifteen years ago, but it's almost certain that the way students talk and think about sex has changed. One of UT's favorites Dr. Lynn Sacco leads a discussion on the treatment of sexuality - and how it's changed - in the UT community.

Compete with or against your friends in a titillating game of Sex Trivia. Enjoy hot pizza while you're at it!

Faith, religion, and spirituality often play a significant role in the expression - or lack thereof - of sexual identity. Sex Week has put together a panel of religious leaders, coming from many different backgrounds, to discuss how sex and gender are treated according to their religion. Whether you're Buddhist or Southern Baptist, this panel will consist of a wide range of religious ideology, providing a unique and comprehensive perspective to all who attend. The panel will represent Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Southern Baptism.

This 2011 British film tells the true story of how the medical management of hysteria led to the invention of the vibrator. It is a 95 minute romantic comedy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFy6cfPmjd4

Have a quick question you would like to ask a nurse or health care provider? Where can I get birth control without health insurance? I'm struggling with STI management, what should I do? Stop in during this open time and ask your question in private with a health care provider.

All students hear the prevention warnings: Don't walk alone at night, Don't leave your drink unattended, Make a plan, etc. But what can UTK as an institution do to stop sexual assaults? Join us for a round-table discussion on this over lunch. Should there be more communication when UTPD discovers a sexual assault? Should the punishments for sexual crimes be more severe? Should the tone of sexual assault prevention be altered? An institution has the power to change the way sexual assault is perceived and managed; let's see if we can change something.

Come discuss what being "transgender" means and some of the various ways transgender people identify and express themselves. What is sex like for different transgendered people? If you're transgendered, we invite you to attend this event and discuss the situations you've faced. If you're not transgender, we invite you to attend this event to learn more about your fellow transgender students and what you as an Ally can do to help.

Faith is one of the main (if not the major) factors that determines a person's decision to or not to engage in sexual behavior. It can determine the type of sex a person has and how a person feels about having sex - ashamed or guilty. Join Dr. Shepardson (a Religious Studies professor) in breaking down what the Bible says about sexuality and the history behind these texts.

Law is not usually described as a sexy subject matter, but through this event, UT Law Professors Joan Heminway and Michael Higdon and a practicing lawyer will describe, for example, the relationship of law to sexual violence, sex in the workplace, and sex in the corporate board room and executive suite.

Sinclair Sexsmith holds degrees in Creative Writing and Gender Studies. She writes erotica and gives academic workshops on gender, sexuality, healing, and communication. This interactive workshop explores gender expression, identities, labels, transcending the mutually exclusive binaries, queer culture, and hot sweaty sex. We'll explore how our culture values sex, how to get what we want out of relationships, how to turn up the heat on our own sex drive, and how to communicate better with our lovers. We'll play with concepts of how gender identity and sexual identity intersect and how labels can be restrictive or liberating.

Come have an anonymous discussion about sex with your peers. Sometimes you don't want to hear from a "professional" and want to hear about what your peers do and experience. Well turn the lights off, ask everyone to submit a question on paper, and open the floor for discussion!

To write about sex well you need the boldness to command and describe the dirty and oh so delicious acts we humans explore, and the basic writing skills of plot, setting, and character.
In this pen-to-paper writing workshop we'll look at some examples of extremely successful and unsuccessful erotica, steamy love letters for your sweetheart, how to step up your blog to the next level, where to submit your work for publication in the erotica world, and some quick basics for editing your work. Bring a paper and writing utensil; we will be doing writing exercises! Sinclair will also perform some of her own poetry.

This lecture will analyze the performance of masculinity through the exercise called "Act Like a Man Box". Charlie Glickman has been a sexuality educator for 14 years, beginning as a peer educator at Brown University. He has a doctorate in Adult Sexuality Education and is the Education Program Manager for Good Vibrations.

The Lambda Student Union is putting on their bi-annual drag show. Come be entertained with a variety of songs, monologues, and skits by the best Queens and Kings in town.

Have a quick question you would like to ask a nurse or health care provider? Where can I get birth control without health insurance? I'm struggling with STI management, what should I do? Stop in during this open time and ask your question in private with a health care provider.

Nervous about visiting an Ob/Gyn? Feel like your birth control is not the best fit for you? Is sex uncomfortable? Wondering what types of sex are safe depending on STIs? What if I take stimulants and Viagra together? Pleasure is a part of your sexual health, and doctors want to help make you happy. Learn how to approach these topics with your doctor and get your health questions answered in this seminar. Anita Blatnik, APN works at the Student Health Center and has many years experience in treating young people, especially on topics on sexuality.

Western societies have been influenced by the idea that sex is harmful, shameful, disgusting or sinful for centuries. While allowances have usually been made for certain situations, such as procreation, the idea that pleasure, the body, and sex are (at best) necessary evils has deep roots in many different cultures. Many aspects of our culture are sex-negative, and sex positivity does not mean an enthusiasm for sex. Come discover the complexities of sex positivity.