Wands, Rabbits, Rings, Oh My! 

The PAGE (Pride and Gender Equity) Center and Women’s and Gender Studies Department hosted the third annual Sexy and Consenty Egg Hunt on April 4. 

The egg hunt served as a way for Shippensburg students to learn about consent while having fun. 

“Another main purpose of this is embracing sexuality and embracing that people have bodies. To have a fun event, but to go into how to have safer sex and to educate people,” said PAGE Center peer educator Emmett O’Bell. 

The eggs were scattered around the first, third and basement levels of Horton Hall.

“It felt like I was in a scene from ‘The Hunger Games.’ Everyone went feral for these eggs. It was a mixture of fear and excitement,” Shippensburg student Kai Patterson said.

Each egg contained a slip of paper with information on consent, but the size of the egg indicated the size of the accompanying prize. The eggs came in small, medium and large, with the size of the prize increasing with the size of the egg. 

The small eggs contained a small piece of candy while the medium and large eggs contained a ticket to redeem a prize. Some of the medium-sized prizes include full-sized candy bars, massage wax candles, and small sex toys. The large-sized prizes included larger sex toys. 

In addition to the egg hunt, there were several games based around teaching consent. 

Volunteers from the PAGE Center hosted a memorization game, in which the player would memorize as many statements about consent as they could before having to recite them from memory. For every statement recited, the player would receive a raffle ticket. 

Another game from the PAGE Center was Consent Jeopardy, in which players would answer Jeopardy-style questions about consent for raffle tickets. 

The Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland and Perry Counties (DVSCP) presented a true or false game, in which the player would roll a die and be presented with a statement about consent. If the player correctly identified the statement as either true or false, they would win a lollipop. If the player engaged in a deeper conversation about the topic, they would win a raffle ticket. 

The Shippensburg University branch of It’s On Us, an organization that seeks to combat campus sexual assault, also prepared a game of Chutes and Ladders for students. Each space on the board contained a statement about consent, so students could learn as they progressed through the game. After completing the game, each player would receive a raffle ticket.

Toward the end of the event, the raffle for the grand prizes was held. These prizes included multiple sex toys along with other goodies. 

PAGE Center Director Miller Hoffman ended the event by opening a conversation about consent. Some of the optics included how to ask for consent, how to give consent and how to support victims of sexual assault. Those who participated were treated to extra prizes. 

The Sexy and Consenty Egg Hunt was the first of many events in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Many more will follow, with even more resources for those who need them the most. 

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