Sex 101: The nitty gritty
By NAHAL TOOSI Wisconsin Journal Sentinel

Here's the bare naked truth: Lots of college students have sex.

They like having sex.

And sometimes they're drunk when they're having sex.

So Caley Meals, the new sex columnist at the Badger Herald, one of two University of Wisconsin-Madison student newspapers, has plenty of material to work with: funny fetishes; cell-phone facilitated booty calls; the "walk of shame" - the women, or men, wearing rumpled clothes, hair a mess, stumbling home after a night of pleasure.

"Although the idea of spreading whip cream all over your body so that your partner can lick it off may sound ravishing, there are actually many downsides," Meals wrote in a recent column. " . . . Have you ever actually tried to eat that much whip cream at once? It's not normal."

The ideas come from personal experience and talks with friends and drunken freshmen at house parties. "I just combine everything that's happened to me and people I know," said Meals, 19.

A sophomore from Naperville, Ill., with an infectious laugh, Meals started writing her column "Between the Sheets" about two months ago. It doesn't dispense advice in Q&A format, but offers Meals' ruminations on one sexual topic or another.

Meals is one of several sex scribes popping up at college newspapers around the country, some of whom are way more racy than she is. College papers at the University of Kansas, the University of California-Berkeley and Yale University have sex columnists.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's UWM Post had one titled "Safe & Sexy" for a few years through last spring. The Daily Cardinal, the other UW-Madison student paper, has published a less-Cosmo "human sexuality" column for more than a year.

Despite how risque and "experienced" her column may make her seem, Meals is no bed-hopper.

She lost her virginity at age 16 after serious thought and a determination that she was in love. She has a steady boyfriend. She thinks pop singer Christina Aguilera acts and dresses like a whore in her new music video.

And Meals, who took on the column as an entertaining challenge, is overwhelmed by the attention she's receiving on campus to the point that it's wearing her out.

"I get recognized everywhere - it's really weird," Meals said. "I don't know if I can handle it. Sometimes you feel like (expletive), and you look like (expletive), and you don't want to be known as the sex columnist. You want to be able to walk down the street." Read on