Wednesday, November 10, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 5
Sex on the Hill
Watkins offers help for sex problems
Counselors aid students,couples
By Brittaney Parbs Special to the Kansan
The University of Kansas Counseling and Psychological Services wants students to know that they have a place to turn for help with their sex problems.
John Wade is a CAPS staff psychologist and the campus outreach coordinator. Wade's helps raise sexual counseling awareness across campus. He and other CAPS psychologists speak to classes to educate students about the services they offer.
Although CAPS has several
licensed psychologists trained to respond to and treat sexual dysfunction, most patients seek help for anxiety and depression associated with sexual encounters. Many women turn to CAPS for counseling after instances of sexual abuse.
"Unfortunately, you see more rape victims than you hope or want," Wade said. "This kind of thing really affects how rape survivors look at relationships and sex. We try to be here to help."
CAPS also offers counseling for couples.
"We get a lot of couples wanting help with relationships," Wade said.
help win relationships," Wade said. Couples come in with one big problem, but the counselors usually explore the many problems hidden behind the obvious issue, he said.
Sarah Rickel, Pittsburg junior.
TREATING SEXUAL PROBLEMS
Counseling and Psychological
Services offers individual, couple and group counseling to students at Watkins Health Center.
The first 50-minute session is free,
Subsequent sessions cost $64.00
For more information, call 864- CAPS
said that she would take advantage of the counseling if she ever thought she needed it, now that she was aware that CAPS existed.
"I didn't know that KU offered a counseling service until recently. But, if I was having a really hard time with a breakup or something, I think I'd want somebody to talk to
other than just my friends," Rickel said. "Td definitely feel more comfortable going to a campus-sponsored counselor than somebody right out of the phonebook."
CAPS consists of licensed psychologists, social workers, a psychiatrist, graduate psychology interns and other graduate students in training. CAPS is located on the second floor of Watkins Health Center.
Because counseling at CAPS is structured for students, it is relatively cheap. The first session is free and each subsequent, 50-minute session for individuals, couples or groups is $9.
For more information, call 864- CAPS.
- Edited by Jessie Meyer
Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare, lectures to his Human Sexuality in Everyday Life class. Dailey said he taught a positive approach to sexual education.
Photo by Carrie Julian/KANSAN
Professor moves beyond reproduction in sex ed class
By Kara Ammon Special to the Kansan
Although most University of Kansas students can explain the reproduction part of sex, many have found through Dennis Dailley's class, Human Sexuality in Everyday Life, that they are chelless when it comes to the relationship aspects of sexuality.
"Getting laid is simple, you don't have to be really bright to do that. What's really tough is to maintain an ongoing relationship over time where sexuality is a vibrant part of that relationship," Dalley, professor of social welfare, said.
The students who want to learn more about sexuality said it was hard to get into Dailey's class, Social Welfare 303, because of its popularity. Dailey said he thought there were so many students interested in his class because of their role models.
"Most students who come to this University know somewhere in their gizzard that they don't know enough about sexuality and relationships," Dailey said. "Because so many (marriages) fail in our culture — 50 percent."
Social Welfare 303 is offered for credit in the fall semester. A noncredit version of the course, sponsored by the Eucumenical Christian Ministries Programs, is offered in the spring. Dailey said the noncredit course covers about half the material from the regular class. The spring course usually attracts about 75 to 100 students, and costs $30.
Dalley said students want to know
more about sex because of the failure of our culture to educate them about more than how to have children.
"Very few students coming into my class have received in high school what professional people call comprehensive sexuality education," he said. "What most students get is reproductive education, which is only a small part of what it means to be a sexual human being."
Dailey said that most students didn't know how sexuality pertained to their own bodies and their lives.
"I don't think they understand that sexuality is an extremely rich idea. It's not just a single sexual behavior, i.e. intercourse. It's much more than that," he said. "They don't quite understand how sexuality gets integrated into long-term relationships."
Students currently enrolled in Dailey's class say they have learned about that aspect of sexuality.
"Yve learned a lot about intimacy and sexuality and yourself. It's not just about straight-up sex," said Paul Soseman. Llena senex.
Others are taking the class to learn more about the distinctions between the sexes and why so many marriages end in divorce.
"I want to know more about the differences between men and women and why they have such a hard time communicating." Almee Martinez, Lawrence junior, said.
Some attribute the attraction of students to the course because of the manner in which the material is presented.
"He tells us the things we want to
hear, not the things we have heard a million times in high school sex education." Amy Henderson, Topeka junior, said.
Henderson said it was easy to relate to Dailey because he spoke so openly and bluntly about sex.
Dailey said he takes a positive approach in educating students about sex. He does not try to frighten people away from sex, but tells them how they can improve it.
"The perspective I take is one that is decidedly sex-positive," he said. "It talks about sexuality, not just in terms of the hurtful things that can happen like STDs, but it focuses on how to make the sexual part of relationships very positive and very pleasurable."
However, his view about sexuality draws opposition. Dalley said
some faculty members do not agree with his class, mainly because of religious beliefs.
"They think I'm trying to promote promiscuity," he said.
Dalebell, he knows his class affects students in their daily lives because he gets so many responses from students. He receives marriage invitations, birth announcements, and even divorce announcements.
Many appreciate the class because Dailey explains how sexuality issues can be applied.
Dalley doesn't want his students to be afraid of sexuality and their bodies.
"Right now, the most important thing I would want my students to know is that sexuality is a natural, normal, wondrous dimension of the human condition," Dalley said.
- Edited by Matt James
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