Sex Signals

The live performance that I attended was Sex Signals sponsored by the Prime Time Productions. The activity was held in 1100 Jamrich at 8 p.m. on Friday August 28^th,  I decided to attend the event with my friend Nassi. Our current teacher Kyle Lennon had told us about the event, and told us that it was popular so it’s best to get there early. Nassi and I took his advice and got in line an hour early, and I was actually really surprised about how many people were there already. Our spot in line was about four classrooms past Starbucks. The closer eight o’clock came the more people arrived, and then the line soon started to move because they were finally letting people in. By the time everyone was in it ended up being a full house.

Sex Signals was basically a skit/presentation trying to teach young adults about sex signals.  During the skit there were two performers, a man and a women. They both seemed to be in their early 20’s, which really made what they were teaching us about more relatable because they were close to our age. Before they started to do their skits they asked the audience what we though “sex signals” were, and there weren’t many hands raised to answer the question. They started to tell us that women aren’t always the rape victims and men can also be raped as well. When they told us that everyone in the crowd began to laugh as if they didn’t believe what they were saying but then they just moved on. The first scenario they did was a guy forcing himself on a girl at a party. To start it off he asked for the crowd to give him a pick-up line and of course someone gave him an inappropriate one just for a laugh, but he still used it. After he said the pick up line he gave the girl a “special cup “and forced her to drink it which directly addressed the “do not drink something that you didn’t witness being poured. “ Before I started college that was the number one thing that my parents warned me about and told me not to do, and I thought they were just being overprotective but come to find out that is actually a real issue.  

Another skit they did they asked us all to pick up a paper that said “stop,” that they had hidden underneath our seats. After everyone picked up their signs they instructed us to hold them up whenever we felt the guy was going too far. In the skit he started to move the girls hand up his leg and I noticed most people didn’t hold up their sign. When I realized that most people didn’t hold up their sign I started to ask myself if people just weren’t holding up their signs because they were embarrassed, didn’t want people to think they were prude, or just the simple fact that they found nothing wrong with what he was doing.  The last skit that they did was a guy on trial for rape. In the trial he stated that he had bought her up to a room at the party and had relations with her but soon she asked for him to stop, and he did not. His excuse behind continuing to have sex with her was that they were both drunk, and if she really wanted him to stop she would’ve pushed him off of her. After that skit it made me open up my eyes and realize that all the skits that they did actually do happen in real life.

When Sex Signals ended I left with a bunch of new knowledge. I learned that you shouldn’t take drinks from people because they may have laced it with some kind of drug. You should probably go to a party with a group of friends so you guys can watch over each other, and try to keep each other safe. Also that you should remove yourself from situations that you feel uncomfortable in. Last but not least I learned that my parents were actually right about things to watch out for at parties, so Sex Signals gave me a whole new perspective when attending parties and anywhere else in general.