Boston University Offering Harry Potter Sex-Ed Class

Globe - Two Boston University graduate interns believe they’ve concocted the perfect potion to talk to their peers about sexual taboos, simply by adding a dash of Harry Potter to the discussion.

On Thursday, as part of a monthlong sexual health and education program called “Frisky February,” Michelle Goode and Jamie Klufts, will step into the world of wizardry for a discussion of consensual intimacy during an event titled “Sex-ed at Hogwarts.”

“A lot of students entering college don’t actually get a foundation in sexual health, so we are going back to the basics, and finding ways to loop in references and scenarios from Harry Potter,” said Klufts, who works with Goode at BU’s Wellness and Prevention Services program.

The idea for the magical mashup came when Klufts and Goode realized that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling missed an opportunity in her writing to address questions about sex that most students have when in junior high and high school.

“How can you have a school full of wizards and not talk about sex and sexuality?” said Klufts.

Klufts and Goode said they’re planning to cover sex-related topics at the event using every book from the Harry Potter series.

The hour-and-a-half long class will use topics, situations, and even vernacular from the books as examples to discuss topics including responsible drinking, contraception, and sexually transmitted diseases.

“We’re using the references as an opening and avenue to get the conversations started,” said Goode.

Goode said students seem excited to engage in a discussion that destigmatizes sex by relying on familiar characters and storylines.

She said more than 80 people have signed up for the event so far.

Let’s be clear, if you’re in college and go to a Harry Potter seminar to learn how to fuck, just pack your shit and save your parents the tuition money.  The place is just not for you.  5th, 6th, 7th grade yes, great idea, make it fun and light hearted for the kids learning about safe sex that they’ll encounter in high school (or probably even 8th grade with the way kids are now).   But a 20 year old a year or two away from being an adult in the real world with a career, rent, taxes – ehh, not so much.

I mean this isn’t some fun sex class that we usually talk about colleges offering, like how to use the Harry Potter books to spice up your sex life and make shit extra kinky in the bedroom.  Some sort of advanced role playing in your sexual explorations with a significant other.  This is straight up Sex Ed 101, “contraception and STDs and responsible drinking (??).”  It’s the ABCs of having sex like you learn in middle school.  Seriously if you need to dress up like a wizard and ride a Quidditch broomstick into a lecture hall to learn how to put a penis into a vagina you should go ahead and use the Accio spell to put a gun in your hand and stick it in your mouth.  Grow up Peter Pan, Count Chocula, Neville Longbottom.

PS – Only one part of Harry Potter that I want to talk about sexually, knowwhatImsayin?

(wait no, grow up a little bit more)

(ok much better)