Is your child's college tuition funding sex toys?

Reports reveal how students' college tuition is shockingly being spent on promoting sexual activity among students.

Key Takeaways:

• Campus Reform has reported on the sexual programs offered to students on multiple college campuses across the U.S.

• The programs include "pleasure packs," masturbation instruction, BDSM instruction, sex bingo, rope tying workshops, sex toys, panty parties, and more — funded by students' tuition.

• Colleges are normalizing hookup culture, which is known to lead to depression, anxiety, and stress. And parents are often the ones paying for it.

The Details:

Earlier this month, Campus Reform reported that the Center for Campus Wellness at the University of Utah provides a program called "Safe(r) Sex" to support sexual health initiatives on campus, at a cost of $12,908 in 2024. Those initiatives include "pleasure packs," marketed as free to students, but funded by the "Student Health Fee" grouped under the $500 "Mandatory Fees" that students and their parents pay. Each student can order a pack each week that includes ten condoms, three packs of sexual lubricant, and an optional three oral dams.

The order form asks students if this is their first time ordering a pack with the options of "Yes, I'm so excited," and "Nope, but I'm happy to be back." The students must answer self-identifying questions such as whether they are male, female, nonbinary, genderfluid/genderqueer, transgender, or "I'll explain in my own words," as well as gay, lesbian, asexual, bisexual, pansexual, queer, or straight.

Zoom Out:

The University of Utah is not the only campus with such an initiative. The Madison Federalist reported in May that a student organization called "Sex Out Loud" (SOL) exists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Funding for the organization totaled $136,000 for 2025-2026 and was sourced from the General Student Services Fund.

According to its website, SOL's mission is to "promote healthy sexuality through sex-positive education and activism." A photo on the page shows students holding sex toys, and one of the students is simulating oral sex on a fake vulva. The website includes an order form for condoms, lubricant, gloves, and dental dams, as well as Planned Parenthood-provided Plan B and pregnancy tests. It also promotes abortion on its Instagram account.

SOL also gives 90-minute interactive sessions to teach students about masturbation, ethical porn ("practice media literacy with a focus on pornography"), advanced pleasure ("science of sex positions" and "how to use" sex toys), kink, and sexability. The page features "approved brands" of sex toys, including BDSM supplies, many of which offer discounts to the students.

The group also offers events such as a "panty party," transgender "sexual health trivia" hosted by Planned Parenthood, a rope tying workshop, drag bingo, a pleasure activism workshop, a pole dancing class, and sex bingo. SOL also produces a Zine which includes graphic sexual imagery.

The SOL "Take Action" section instructs students to donate to Planned Parenthood Action, the National Network of Abortion Funds, and the Black Women's Health Imperative.

This year, Harvard is hosting its 14th annual "Sex Week" offering free sex toys to students, and workshops such as "Anal 101" and "Banging Beyond the Binary."

”At its core, Sex Week capitalizes on a deeper tragedy: the separation of the physical act of sex from its God-given purpose,” Richard Rodgers, a contributor to Harvard Salient, wrote. “At its most sacred, the union between man and woman is a covenant, set apart by natural law and informed by the wisdom of the ages.”

In 2022, Campus Reform reported on the University of Vermont's Sex Toy Bingo night, which has become an annual event, hosted by the UVM Program Board (comprised of nearly 40 undergrad students who are paid a stipend) as "a fun, inclusive night of BINGO, question & answer with sexperts, sex toy prizes, condom giveaways, and more!" It was funded by student tuition.

The Young Americans Foundation obtained a copy of bingo cards from the previous school year, which included (uncensored) phrases such as "F*** me," "Bl*w j*b," "J*ck *ff," "C*m shot," and "Spank me."

UVM has also given away t-shirts about female orgasm for an event on the topic, and held a drag event to teach students "self-care."

The list of colleges that run such programs also includes Hood College in Maryland, the University of Arkansas, Northeastern, Indiana University Bloomington (home of the Kinsey Institute), Portland State University, and Princeton University.

The Bottom Line:

How many parents are aware that, when they sign those large tuition checks for their children to receive "higher" education, some of that money is funding risky sexual activities?

Colleges are supposed to provide further education for students and set them for their career path, but many seem to be equally interested in fostering a hookup culture lifestyle that can contribute to depression, anxiety, and stress, contributing to the mental health crisis in young adults.

The Institute of Family Studies reported:

Rather than seeking enduring emotional bonds that result from a supportive and loving partnership, young adults are seeking a 'quick fix,' a transient feeling of pleasure and the excitement of feeling 'chosen'—even only briefly—by a peer. Gaining the physical attention of someone else has become an exciting game that nobody wins.

It added, "According to the Journal of Sex Research, engaging in hookups and the number of hookup partners are related to greater symptoms of depression and anxiety. In an age when the mental health of adolescents is in decline, and 1 in 5 adolescents will not leave childhood without developing a serious mental health disorder, we have to take the impact of hookup culture seriously."