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Trojan gives out free condoms
Staff Reports
Issue date: 4/21/08 Section: News
Trojan Condoms visited MTSU last Thursday to talk about safe sex during its Trojan Evolve Bus Tour in the Keathley University Center.
The tour is scheduled to take place over six months with visits to 60 college campuses nationwide.
According to the 2007 Trojan Sexual Report Card, MTSU placed in the bottom 10 of 139 colleges concerning sex health resources.
In addition to this, one in four teenage girls have a sexually transmitted infection and Tennessee has the eighth highest rate of syphilis, ninth highest rate of Chlamydia and the tenth highest rate of Gonorrhea in the United States.
The purpose of the tour is to encourage students to use condoms to decrease the 19 million new sexually transmitted infections diagnosed every year. It also serves as a harsh reality for the 65 million Americans living with incurable sexual transmitted infections.
During the event, students pledged to use a condom every time by signing a petition and even received practice by participating in a race to put a prophylactic on a banana correctly.
A roundtable discussion was also held with a sex health counselor to answer students' questions and curiosities while free condoms were given out.
The tour is scheduled to take place over six months with visits to 60 college campuses nationwide.
According to the 2007 Trojan Sexual Report Card, MTSU placed in the bottom 10 of 139 colleges concerning sex health resources.
In addition to this, one in four teenage girls have a sexually transmitted infection and Tennessee has the eighth highest rate of syphilis, ninth highest rate of Chlamydia and the tenth highest rate of Gonorrhea in the United States.
The purpose of the tour is to encourage students to use condoms to decrease the 19 million new sexually transmitted infections diagnosed every year. It also serves as a harsh reality for the 65 million Americans living with incurable sexual transmitted infections.
During the event, students pledged to use a condom every time by signing a petition and even received practice by participating in a race to put a prophylactic on a banana correctly.
A roundtable discussion was also held with a sex health counselor to answer students' questions and curiosities while free condoms were given out.
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