Equipped with bottles of lubrication, high-tech musical vibrators and strap-ons, students received a crash course in sex ... education, that is.

“I’m probably going to make you feel uncomfortable at certain points,” warned speaker Megan Andelloux at the Fornication 101 event, sponsored by the Issues Committee, in the UC Auditorium Tuesday night.

But that was all part of her ploy. Andelloux, certified sexologist and sexuality educator of The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists and The American College of Sexologists, began visiting schools to ease the tension many students feel when discussing sex.

“It’s because of a fear of being laughed at or being considered a freak,” Andelloux said. “They just don’t want to disclose, and then they’re not necessarily having healthy sex lives.”

Andelloux dissipated audience anxiety through a series of educational demonstrations of various sexual positions and uses of her toys.

Though Andelloux used a myriad of sex toys, she reminded audiences members that they were biologically blessed with free instruments: the hands.

When picking volunteers for her demonstrations, Andelloux remained impartial to gender, as she wanted to reinforce that social roles should always remain outside the bedroom.

It was Andelloux’s unapologetic dialogue that relaxed students’ previous notions on sex.

Attendee Jacob Clark believed Andelloux’s approach provided a fresh perspective on sex education and helped to eliminate repressed issues students often hold about sex.

“We all have misconceptions about sexuality in general,” Clark, senior in mathematics, said. “We’re so worried about how others are seeing us that we tend to limit ourselves, and not just in the sexual capacity, but in all other capacities. When you’re emotionally guarded, you limit yourself.”

Issues Committee member Brianna Radar proposed the idea to bring Andelloux to UT.

“I feel like sexual pleasure and sexual health is a huge problem with adults in this country,” Radar, sophomore in the College Scholars Program, said.

Radar also felt issues with sexuality and femininity were issues among students.

“Often, sex is like an offense-defense thing, like the women plays defense and the man plays offense and it’s not very healthy,” she said. “I feel like it’s not very healthy for females a lot of times.”

“Politics don’t belong in the bedroom,” Andelloux said. “I know that a lot of people are like ‘I’m this, so I shouldn’t like this,’ but leave that alone. There’s so much baggage we already carry in, we don’t need to bring in our religion or our politics.”