A sex communication workshop will take place 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday in room BE5 of the Marshall University Memorial Student Center.

Jocelyn Gibson, president of the Women’s Studies Student Association, helped organize the event.

“We are hoping that a lot of people come out,” Gibson said. “In the past, we have not had a lot of luck with consent workshops. I think it kind of scares people away. They think it’s not something that they need or that it applies to them. We retitled it as a sex communication workshop in hopes that more people will be involved.”

The workshop will focus on ways to consent in daily life, as well how to communicate with partners.

“We have a lot of information for people,” Gibson said. “We are going to go over consent in daily life, which is kind of a weird thing, and isn’t something that people really think about. I think we most closely relate consent to how people react with children. Some people think its okay to just pick up somebody’s kid or force a kid to be nice to somebody that they don’t feel comfortable around. That is something that we try to emphasize that there are times in adult life when you would rather somebody not talk to you, or get too close to you, and we don’t always teach people to respect those boundaries. That is something that we can apply to everyday life and obviously, there will be information about sex. I think we are going to have some condoms and representatives from the WVFree and WISE programs talking to people as well.”

Gibson said she is most looking forward to having a big crowd at the event.

“I am excited to have a big crowd,” Gibson said, “and help people learn some things that they may not know or new techniques for speaking with their partners and safety.”

Aundrea Horsley can be contacted at [email protected].