Tennessee sophomore Zack Plaster, from Oak Ridge, holds a replica of the Golden Condom that was hidden on the Knoxville Campus as part of the University of Tennessee’s nationally buzzed-about Sex Week.The University of Tennessee’s Sex Week – the racy student program that evoked the ire of state legislators last spring – will return in March with new and returning events like an aphrodisiac cooking class, poetry slam, relationship workshop, dance class, drag show and, of course, the condom scavenger hunt.
The lighthearted fare will be balanced with more thoughtful discussions and lectures on sex and politics, sex and alcohol, the ethics of pornography and sexual assault.
The weeklong program on the Knoxville campus will run March 2-7 with a full schedule of events across campus each day.
As part of the promotional events leading up to Sex Week, the group is sponsoring performances this weekend of “Rent,” an award-winning musical on the impact of AIDS on a group of artists in New York City. The show will have performances at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. today and Saturday in the Clarence Brown Lab Theatre.
Last year, funds donated by academic departments were revoked when state legislators expressed outrage over the event. A last-minute fundraising effort led to about $10,000 in gifts that allowed the program to go on, drawing about 3,600 students to the various events.