Towson University

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One day last semester in human sexuality class (I took it as an easy and fun elective to get away from my hard science classes for a few hours) we had to go through magazines and pick out ads that had a sexual connotation of some kind to them. Most of the girls picked out pictures of women in sexy lingerie advertising things like makeup or perfume. But surprisingly the guys picked out much different stuff.

When the females picked out ads we picked out the ones that were obviously sexual. Either the person in the ad was doing something that was sexual and you could tell right away or they were wearing lingerie or barely anything at all. The men though (although they did pick out some of the same ads as we did) picked out stuff that was meant (by the people writing the ads) to be sexual but really unless you thought about it or were always thinking dirty (like a lot of these guys) you wouldn't see it.

The ones they picked out were more subliminal messages that you had to be thinking sexual to get it but I guess that the ad company probably knows how men think since they are paid to do this. It was just interesting to see everything that the guys came up with because we thought for sure they would go straight to the naked women licking their lips to sell lipstick or something similar (of course some of them did). But a lot of them found more abstract ads as well.

The project and activity were actually fun to do and we learned a lot from this class. It wasn't like other classes where you have to kill yourself basically to stay awake and pay attention, we actually almost all had a lot of interest in what the teacher was saying and she kept us going with movies, activities and group discussions. I would recommend this class just because it seems like something kind of gross and weird to take as a class but you do learn a lot about sex and relationships but you also learn things that most people are afraid to ask, but are addressed here. It was fun and also informational at the same time which I think isn't the case in most of the other classes that we take as high school or college students.