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"   In the wake of University of Tennessee&amp;#039;s widely-publicized sex week (and subsequent funding cut) U Penn is the next school to get its sexual education on with it&amp;#039;s own sex-dedicated week.  Do we sense a trend here?  While Yale was way ahead of this movement, starting its infamous annual sex week in 2002, in the past year it seems like more and more schools are jumping on the sex celebration bandwagon. (Fellow Ivy, Harvard, held its first sex week last year, in March.)  Kicking off today, Penn&amp;#039;s first ever sex week features classes like &amp;quot;The Female Orgasm&amp;quot; (guys, take note), &amp;quot;Reclaiming Pleasure,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Ins and Outs of Masturbation.&amp;quot; Also part of the week is Take Back the Night, an event dedicated to raising awareness about sexual violence against women, which has been held at college campuses since the 70s.  College junior Arielle Pardes, one of the festivities co-chairs, spearheaded the effort to organize Penn&amp;#039;s sex week after she wrote a column in the school paper about the need for students to understand\u2014and talk about\u2014sex in a more diverse way.  &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s so much people don&amp;#039;t know about sex, because they&amp;#039;re either denied the information or they&amp;#039;re too ashamed to seek it out,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re moving the discourse away from just talking about hooking up over the weekend to more critical things, like criticizing the porn industry or talking about masturbation or writing erotica.&amp;quot;  We like where your head&amp;#039;s at, Arielle. We&amp;#039;re so down with the idea of getting to learn about getting it on from all sorts of angles. Sure, you can acquire a lot of knowledge from those random hook-ups, but kind of sex ed typically isn&amp;#039;t all that stimulating \u2026ifyaknowwhatImean.  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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