Monday, January 20, 2025
Ramapo’s Health Services are implementing safer sex initiatives to help educate the Ramapo college community about pregnancy prevention and supply them with the tools and resources needed to stay safe. Data from the 2022 National College Health Assessment, which Ramapo students participated in, showed that there was a decrease in […]
The Women’s Center and LGBTQ+ Services continued their programming for Queer and Trans History Month on Tuesday with Clued In: Queer and Trans Sex Ed. Cosponsored by the Center for Health and Counseling Services, Health Educator Megan Johnston and Student Trans Outreach Coordinator Cecil Borgono led the event. They started […]
Thinking back to middle and high school, can you remember what you learned about sex education? Me neither. The only thing I can truly recall learning about is the danger of drugs and alcohol and that sex involves a cisgender man penetrating a cisgender woman. However, that last statement is […]
The implementation of the revised Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standards section of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards was delayed from 2020 to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With its implementation in NJ schools comes controversy over whether or not new material is appropriate for students. In response, […]
The Women’s Center and LGBTQ+ Services partnered with Health Services to host “Clued-in: Trans Sex Education.” Megan Johnston, the health educator for the Center for Health and Counseling Services, and Theodore Bell, the student trans outreach coordinator, created a presentation and several games to combine education and entertainment. Attendees gathered […]
Photo courtesy of MTV International, Wiki From breakups to vulva cupcakes, the third season of “Sex Education” has yet again balanced heart and humor. The Netflix original series dropped its new season on Sept. 17 after a long wait due to COVID-19 halting the production in 2020. Debuting in 2019, […]
Photo Courtesy of Bryan Calabro, Wikipedia “PENIS / VAGINA:” Those words were largely written in bright red marker on the whiteboard of my freshman sex education class. My teacher smacked his hand dramatically under “PENIS,” looking out to the blushing, giggling faces of his students. As casually as one could, […]
