I went home a week ago to find a giant box outside of my house. I quickly opened it to find 500 Trjojan condoms, all individually wrapped. “Sweet,” I thought. My condoms from the Great American Condom Campaign had arrived. I left the box in the kitchen and caught the bus back to campus an hour later. I received a text from my housemate later that day saying, “You are either the weirdest or the coolest roommate ever!” I guess I forgot to tell her to expect a surprise when she came home.
I am the co-chair of VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood at UNC, and my co-chair Leah and I decided to distribute our condoms on the P2P. The P2P is a late night bus that drives a loop through UNC’s campus, connecting all the dorms to Franklin Street, which is the social hub of nightlife on the weekends. Riding the P2P is an experience. In the late hours of the night, the bus can become incredibly crowded. Leah and I were joined by six other members of VOX to distribute our condoms, and we began our epic quest last Friday night around 9:45 PM.
I am the co-chair of VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood at UNC, and my co-chair Leah and I decided to distribute our condoms on the P2P. The P2P is a late night bus that drives a loop through UNC’s campus, connecting all the dorms to Franklin Street, which is the social hub of nightlife on the weekends. Riding the P2P is an experience. In the late hours of the night, the bus can become incredibly crowded. Leah and I were joined by six other members of VOX to distribute our condoms, and we began our epic quest last Friday night around 9:45 PM.
The evening began rather slowly. The P2P was not very crowded at that point, and most people just gave us funny looks or strange stares. Occasionally someone would take a condom from us. As the evening began to continue, people began to open up a lot. It may have been due to people becoming more uninhibited as the sky darkens or the increased amount of alcohol consumed by our fellow riders (it was probably a combination of both). Many had questions about our organization, or why we would spend out night in hot pink shirts, riding a bus in a loop over and over. One young woman went crazy over our condoms, and kept coming back to ask for some more for her and her suitemates. Another student on the bus was returning home from a bake sale on Franklin Street, and we traded her cookies for condoms.
Toward the end of the night, I spent several minutes talking a young woman who was my age. She commented that she found it incredibly difficult to find affordable reproductive healthcare, either at home or near Chapel Hill. She was connected to her parent’s health insurance, and did not want them to know that she was buying birth control. As a result, she spent a large amount of her personal money to buy birth control out of pocket. While I could not offer her any meaningful advice, I could tell that she appreciated having a non-judgmental person to speak with.
Cross Posted at Choice 2.0http://plannedpcnc.org/blog/2009/11/ppcnc/getting-lucky-at-unc/
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Love the t-shirts, too :) Keep up the good work!
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Thanks! I'd definitely suggest trying it at your school. It was really easy, and also fun!