Event promotes safe sex

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POCATELLO -- Wearing a condom may sometimes be the one thing keeping sexually active people from contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

Members of two Idaho State University organizations conveyed that message to their campus during the university's celebration of World AIDS Day Monday.

To commemorate the international event, ISU's Genesis Project and the Women's Issues and Sexual Empowerment program invited the public to design wearable pins from unopened condom wrappers.

Members of WISE and the Genesis Project set up tables inside a Rendezvous Center room where they allowed both students and staff to decorate the condoms in various styles and themes. Crafters finished each by taping pin needles to the back of the condom wrappers, which were available for free.

Pin designs ranged from pink and purple hearts to white skull and crossbones sketches on black and square pieces of paper.

The ISU organizations provided a number of sample pins, but also encouraged visitors to take the free rubber contraceptives.

Maureen McGuire, an ISU student who founded the Co-Exhibit project, said safe sex begins with using protection, adding that none of the other organizations objected against students grabbing large portions of free condoms.

"A lot of sex education programs use this method to get people familiar with condoms. We can provide safer sex every time," McGuire said.

McGuire's Co-Exhibit assisted both WISE and the Genesis Project Monday and previously held a small number of different art-related events during this fall semester.

ISU's Janet C. Anderson Gender Resource Center established the WISE program and Genesis Project more than five years ago as HIV prevention programs.

Aside from the pins, WISE provided free plastic multi-colored cases that each contained a peppermint and a small pouch filled with lubrication fluid. WISE also allowed visitors to take clear plastic bags that contained three condoms and a lubrication pouch.

By Yann Ranaivo

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