Category: Sex Column

Community, Enterprise, Health, Sex Column

Financially Frisky: How much UMD students spend on sex

by Maddie Burinsky and Kate De Blasis For Unwind Magazine It’s safe to say that University of Maryland students are having sex. According to Collegestats.org, the University of Maryland ranks 18th on the list of Top 20 Most Sexually Active Student Bodies. While this statistic may not surprise some people, the amount students from this university pay for their sex items, such as condoms and … Continue reading Financially Frisky: How much UMD students spend on sex

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Center, Community, Health, Sex Column

UMD students feel sexual assault prevention is lacking

By Natalie Jones For Unwind Magazine Despite efforts made by the University of Maryland’s Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct, many students don’t agree with how the campus handles sexual assault. The OCRSM is committed to creating a working and learning environment free from sexual misconduct and discrimination by promoting campus awareness events and ensuring the university complies with Title IX and other federal … Continue reading UMD students feel sexual assault prevention is lacking

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Community, Health, Sex Column

Terps share their take on slut shaming

By Mackenzie Roche For Unwind Magazine While recent sexual assault allegations against public figures, such as Harvey Weinstein and Louis C.K., have brought “slut-shaming” to the forefront of many minds, University of Maryland students said they began to notice this behavior on campus long before these scandals made front page news. Slut-shaming is the act of publicly humiliating someone for engaging in any kind of … Continue reading Terps share their take on slut shaming

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Center, Community, Health, Sex Column

Birth Control: Why you might consider something other than the pill

By Greta Easthom For Unwind Magazine Beeping incessantly, the phone alarm served as a daily reminder to carefully pop a small blue pill out of its silver packet. But with the influx of homework assignments to complete, articles to write and other medication pills to take, Julia Heimlich would still sometimes forget. The birth control pill would fall to the wayside for a couple hours … Continue reading Birth Control: Why you might consider something other than the pill

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Center, Community, Health, Sex Column

Talking about sex promotes safer habits in bed

By Charlie Youngmann For Unwind Magazine With another summer bygone, University of Maryland students have settled back into college life, ready to re-immerse themselves into the social game. Despite the health risks sexual acts associated with this social game may create, many UMD students feel that sex is only getting safer. “People are actually talking about [sex],” Colin Mathis, a senior architecture major said. Mathis … Continue reading Talking about sex promotes safer habits in bed

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Health, Sex Column

Students Share Opinions on What Makes a Healthy Sex Life

By Abby Wallisch For Unwind magazine Students at University of Maryland listed elements like mutual respect, mental and physical healthiness as well as communication as fundamental parts of a healthy sex life. However, the most common response in regards to the definition of a healthy sex life was that there was no one answer. Alisa Zacharia, junior economics and English major, is an active member … Continue reading Students Share Opinions on What Makes a Healthy Sex Life

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Health, Sex Column, Style

Fourth Annual Condom Fashion Show Promotes Safe Sex Awareness Through Fashion

By Rebecca Cohen For Unwind magazine Fashion and sexual awareness meet at Maryland’s fourth annual Condom Fashion Show, sponsored by Global Protection and ONE® Condoms and hosted by the MICA, the University of Maryland Health Center, Bedsider @ UMD and Sex Week at Maryland. This year’s theme is “Proud and Protected.” The goal of this theme is to get student organizations to identify with what … Continue reading Fourth Annual Condom Fashion Show Promotes Safe Sex Awareness Through Fashion

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Health, Sex Column

Stephanie Sarley gives “Food Porn” new meaning with Viral Instagram Videos

By Kira Barrett For Unwind magazine Stephanie Sarley’s artwork creates a whole new meaning to the term “food porn.” Sarley, a contemporary artist from Oakland, California, is recognized for her many different types of artwork, but is most famous for her “fruit-fingering” videos on Instagram. Sarley’s biggest viral video is one of her fingering a blood orange that’s been cut in half. Her finger caresses the … Continue reading Stephanie Sarley gives “Food Porn” new meaning with Viral Instagram Videos

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Health, Sex Column

University of Maryland women discuss female masturbation

By Amanda Eisenberg For Unwind magazine Junior Daphne Pellegrino perused through the shelves of brightly-colored vibrators at Secret Pleasures, a U Street sex shop. She dragged her fingers across the silicon and plastic pieces, gingerly picking up a few items before setting them back down. The journalism major moved around the small row house aimlessly, looking a little unsure. “I don’t know my body as … Continue reading University of Maryland women discuss female masturbation

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Sex Column

How to: Move Out of the Friend Zone

By Briana Thomas For Unwind magazine Oftentimes, the most promising relationships start off as friendships. But for some, the transition out of the “friend zone” can be treacherous. For a young couple like junior kinesiology major Andre Paper and sophomore geography major Julianna Lee, taking the step toward romance proved worth the risk – and was made a little easier with the more relaxed college … Continue reading How to: Move Out of the Friend Zone

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Like or like-like? A look at Tinder’s Super Like feature

By Bryan Gallion For Unwind magazine The dating app Tinder is known for being blunt – swipe right to express interest or left for rejection. However, a recently added feature has complicated this form of technological interaction. Called Super Like, this new feature offers Tinder users a third option in their quests for potential mates, differentiating moderate admiration from intense infatuation. Feelings of higher intensity … Continue reading Like or like-like? A look at Tinder’s Super Like feature

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