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Giving away free sex items causes dorm controversy

A student at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) recently sparked a campus controversy for providing condoms and sexual lubricant in a school dormitory for free. Shih Cheng-ting (石政庭), a senior at the school’s Department of Chemistry, put 300 packs of condoms and sexual lubricant on the top of a shoe cabinet at the university’s male dormitory on Wednesday.

Shih posted the information on the school’s bulletin board system (BBS), saying that “sex is power” and urged students to stop living in an imaginary pure world. Shih’s move won support from some students on the BBS, with some Netizens saying that that dorm residents had taken more than 100 packs of condoms and lubricant.

However, Shih also drew criticism from students who questioned whether he was encouraging eroticism in the dormitories of NTNU — the nation’s cradle for future teachers.

Shih told reporters yesterday that he provided the condoms and lubricant because he wanted to promote safe sex among college students.

“A small number of students think this move is inappropriate. They are old-fashioned, but this does not mean the entire school agrees with them,” Shih said.

Asked for comment, NTNU secretary-general Lin An-pan (林安邦) said the school had asked the student to remove the condoms and lubricant because he put the packs on the top of the dormitory’s shoe cabinet.

“The school’s regulations stipulate that students should not put any miscellaneous items on top of the shoe cabinets in the dormitory,” Lin said.

Shih was not the first university student to fuel campus controversy for distributing sex products in a dormitory.

In last October, Chen Po-wu (陳柏屼), a junior at National Taiwan University’s (NTU) Department of Sociology, posted articles on the discussion boards of the school’s male dorms saying he would like to distribute sexual lubricant from the Collective Of Sex Workers And Supporters free of charge.

Unlike NTNU, NTU said it would respect the student and not ban the distribution of lubricant within the school.


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