An Open Letter to My House Wellczar
By Abigail Fitsworth
Feb. 18, 2016
Upon moving into residential housing as a first year, I was delighted to learn about the existence of “Wellczars,” such as yourself, whose designated job entails delivering free and widely available resources for the purposes of practicing sexual activity in a safe and protected manner.
Unfortunately, I have found these resources to be severely lacking or completely absent during my time living in the dormitories. Condoms are, first off, rarely available. Yet even when they are present in those brightly colored buckets, they are composed of thin, easily breakable material that snaps at the slightest provocation. In addition, I have never even once seen a pair of EMT safety scissors inside of those same buckets.
This is, simply put, completely unacceptable. Condoms that break too easily will completely fail to protect against pregnancy and STD transmission, and the lack of EMT scissors leaves students at high risk for nerve damage due to ropes that are bound too tightly around a major nerve or artery. Moreover, the buckets are completely devoid of ointment or bandages for dealing with candle-wax burns or treating open wounds resulting from flogging, spanking, and so forth. This is not safe sex at all!
I know that the University can do better. I’m not paying $60,000 in tuition to go without basic health necessities such as functional condoms and properly calibrated testicle crushers. Please make efforts to remedy this unhappy and most dangerous situation.
Warmly,
Abigail
