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University Of Arizona Course Requires Students To Organize 'Condom Olympics'

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Campus Health Service at the University of Arizona is hosted its annual SexTalk Week Resource Fair this year with a competitive twist, Campus Reform reported.

Students enrolled in Professor William Simmons' three-credit course "Sex, Health, and AIDS" were required to plan the school-wide event "Condom-Olympics," a new addition to SexTalk Week.

The event included athletic events such as a condom-wrapped egg toss. Students can also make condom art and join a condom scavenger hunt.

The event aims to break down some of the stigma students might feel when using, buying or getting free condoms, according to The Daily Wildcat, the school's official paper.

"Hopefully this will get students comfortable knowing what condoms are," Simmons told The Daily Wildcat "and if they ever need them that they won't be prevented by stigma or awkwardness."

Jennifer Hoefle-Olson, program director for LGBTQ Affairs, told The Daily Wildcat Sex Talk week gives students an opportunity to have an honest conversation about sex and offer them information about valuable resources.

She was very optimistic about the addition of Condom Olympics, saying that it might interest students in the fair and help start a conversation about safe-sex practices.

"If people are going to have sex - and we know that many college students do have sex - they need to be prepared to do it safely ... and of course have a lot of fun but ... you have to be able to be safe about it," Hoefle-Olson said.

This is the first year Simmons' is teaching a sex health class. He told The Daily Wildcat that he prefers assigning "action learning assignments" over term papers and exams.

Condom Olympics was hosted on Wednesday, Feb.12 according to a Facebook event.

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