"The Naked Truth" will be revealed Saturday, May 14!

3:00-7:00 pm in Collis Fuel and One Wheelock
 
Please join us, the Real Beauty Initiative, on Saturday, May 14th for activities  
and discussion related to positive body image and sexuality!
 
There will be activities, such as body tracing, in Collis FUEL as well as discussions  
in One Wheelock interspersed with student performances.
 
Discussions in One Wheelock:
 
1. "Let's Talk Underwear"
Lingerie, boxers, spray tans; these and many other material items are marketed  
to tell us that they're "meant" to improve our body image and how we feel about  
ourselves in a sexual encounter. Do they really happen? What happens when they  
don't?
 
2. "Playboy and Porn: How does it affect YOU?"
With the average age of first exposure to porn now being only 11 years old, how  
do pornographic images and video affect how we think about sex and what it is  
supposed to look like?
 
3. "The Exotic and the Erotic: Sexuality Around the World"
Beliefs about body image and sexuality vary immensely around the world, across  
national, cultural, religious, and racial lines. What are these differences? What  
can we learn from them?
 
4. "Body Image on the Sexual Spectrum"
In a hetero-normative world, how does someone who doesn't fit the norm take charge  
of his or her body image and sexuality?
 
 
Sponsored by The Real Beauty Initiative, COSO, Sexperts, EDPA, and MAV.
 
The purpose of Dartmouth's Real Beauty Initiative is to expand Dartmouth's view  
of what it means to be beautiful, and to support those feeling marginalized by  
the culture, and the media, and how beauty ideals are currently being portrayed  
in our mainstream culture.  Our mission is to support women and men of any age,  
size, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status to embrace  
their own beauty as each is able to individually define it.