Update (Nov. 16, 2015 at 5:43 p.m.): This story has been updated to reflect that the Condom Cart operators demonstrate condom application rather than sexual intercourse and that the cart cost $8,000 instead of $800. In addition, the organization that donated the Condom Cart places dispensers around the world instead of just Northern California as previously reported.
This October, dildos became the talk of the town in Austin, Texas.
It happened when students at the University of Texas at Austin protested the state’s recently signed “campus carry” law by “strapping ‘giant swinging dildos’ to their backpacks” in violation of the university’s rules, as reported by USA Today.
City College students, conversely, have the freedom to openly display some objects banned by the obscenity policy at UT Austin. Two days a week at City College, psychology and human sexuality students transport sex items like condoms and lubricants around campus to pass out to other students.
Their golf cart, dubbed the Condom Connection Cart, is decorated with two humorously named “giant swinging dildos” of its own, the brown, wooden “Woody” and the bending, pink “Snake Eyes.” They are often used for demonstrations of condom application.
Human sexuality Professor Patty Blomberg is in charge of the Condom Cart’s operations on campus. She teaches psychology and human sexuality at City College, and she says she hopes the cart’s services will give students more knowledge about many sex-related issues.
“A long term benefit [of the cart] is awareness — awareness of the fact that Sacramento County, amongst other notable achievements, also has the highest [number of] incidents of chlamydia,” Blomberg says. “Chlamydia and gonorrhea are rampant on this campus.”
Blomberg says the Condom Cart owes its origin to the Capital City AIDS Fund. This non-profit organization was founded in 1995 to help with prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases in the Sacramento area. Using proceeds from condom dispensers placed around the world, this organization donated the $8,000 cart to provide protection for City College students. Since then, it has contributed condoms and lubricants for the Condom Cart, as have organizations like the Gender Health Center and Planned Parenthood.
The Condom Cart has been a new way for Blomberg to keep busy, she says, since switching her focus to paid teaching in 2010. She has been promoting safe sex throughout this new phase of part-time teaching, and she often gives out condoms at places like Planned Parenthood and the AIDS Foundation.
Blomberg, often dressed in formal suits, says this has earned her a surprising reputation.
“My friends have always had a great deal of enjoyment teasing me about always having condoms,” Blomberg says.
Blomberg says students who don’t want to write a term paper for her human sexuality class may instead help with the Condom Cart as part of the sociology department’s Community Service Learning Program. The students drive the cart across campus Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m., wearing flashy red and gold capes branded with a capital “C” emblem. Of the 20 current student helpers, four currently have permission to drive the Condom Cart.
One such student driver is Michael Smith. He says he hopes students can implement the Condom Cart’s services in their lives.
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“[The cart’s service] helps prevent AIDS and educates people how to protect themselves from the dark reality of life,” Smith says.
The Condom Cart also offers literature that aims to give students a fuller understanding of sexuality. One pamphlet the volunteers hand out is “Reproductive Health Services on Campus,” which explains that confidential pregnancy testing, STD testing and birth control are offered at City College. These services are offered Mondays at 10 a.m. in Rodda Hall North 125, in the back of the counseling office.
Wendy Gomez, one of two campus nurses, says that in addition to the services listed on the pamphlet, the health center also offers condoms, Ovarian F tablets or “morning-after pills,” and urine tests for gonorrhea and chlamydia.
While commending the Condom Cart’s services, Gomez urges students to carefully think about their decisions.
“We like to stress healthy relationships, not experimentation,” Gomez says.
Blomberg says she’s aware of the risks of sexual activity, and she stresses safety in her human sexuality course. She makes special note of the fact that her students receive extra credit if they take an HIV test.
Topics such as STDs, Blomberg says, are sometimes discussed on a Facebook page called “Condom Connection.” This page is run by Blomberg and Jennifer Woods, social media manager at the Capital City AIDS Fund.
Don Button, a professor of graphic design for print, digital imaging and web design at City College, was instrumental in the “Condom Connection” page’s creation.
Button was also a key organizer of Sex Positive Week, which involved panels held in the Student Center in February 2014 to promote safe sex practices and open discussion of sexual topics.
“That hopefully paved the way a bit [for City College] to do something as progressive as the Condom Cart,” Button says.
While some colleges in America still place restrictions on sexual expression, Blomberg suggests that educators “let [their] students know that human sexuality is who we are.”
Button says he also remains in favor of sex positivity. “Sex is in our bodies and brains,” Button says. “It’s how we got here.”
For more information on sex education and reproductive health services at City College, contact (916) 558-2367.
