CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - An organization of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill held a sex-toy party Tuesday to advocate reproductive freedom.
According to the Daily Tar Heel, the university's newspaper, students who walked into Murphey Hall on Tuesday night were handed bags filled with condoms, lubricant and candy. Additionally, vibrators from adult-novelty manufacturer Fun Factory were raffled off as the main prizes of a "Jeopardy"-themed interactive game that featured questions about sexually transmitted diseases and abortion.
The party was hosted by a chapter of Vox, or the Voices of Planned Parenthood, a student organization supported by Planned Parenthood, which aims to energize and mobilize a new generation of pro-choice Americans.
"Each Vox chapter comes up with their own events like the one at the University of North Carolina [at Chapel Hill]," Planned Parenthood Communications Coordinator Jennifer Ferris told AVN Novelty Business. "These events advocate reproductive freedom. We support them by providing the condoms they give away at their events."
While Vox chapters are popping up at many colleges across the United States, the organization's presence is especially large in North Carolina, where there are chapters at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Wilmington, North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University.
Ferris said no additional sex-toy parties are planned, but the UNC-Chapel Hill Vox chapter is organizing a pub crawl, during which a street team will give away condoms.
Photo credit: Senior Maureen Stutzman reacts to a Jeopardy! question. Courtesy of DTH/Larry Baum.
