"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.
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