A Cardiff club night promoter has got in trouble after giving out shag and chunder charts as part of their flyers. The flyers, produced by Climax, one of those cannily-named promoters that like to lure in students with cheap drinks deals and sexy names, feature a print-out chart of ‘chunders’ and ‘shags.’ The spaces where you fill in your chunder details are white and, in the majority, and the spaces where you fill in your sex details are red, in the minority and shaped like condoms.
They’ve got a lot of people’s backs up and you can see why. They’re sort of encouraging bulimia (or at least booze-bulimia) and the type of tot-it-up promiscuity that puts a pressure on young people, sometimes away from home for the very first time, to put out or shut up.
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The students aren’t impressed, apparently, with Faraz Alauddin, vice president of Cardiff University Student’s Union, telling MailOnline: ‘Cardiff University students’ union does not support, endorse or encourage this sort of promotional material or lad culture, more generally. Climax has nothing to do with us, we try to kick them off. They shouldn’t be here, they shouldn’t be on campus.’
However… having actually been students ourselves, we’re not so fussed by the conniving messages put out by Climax’s marketing so much as the way the promoters have essentially ruined all the fun of drawing out your own shag chart.
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Although we’d love to sneer at the behaviour of students, those who get all that free time with which to turn their lives into seedy soap operas, we’d be hard pressed to find anyone who went to university who didn’t spend at least one term’s worth of hungover mornings-after talking about what they’d done the night before.
And so what if they’re so devoid of contact hours that they want to make homework out of their sex lives, drawing up charts where they can list (by way of sharpie’d lines) the people they’ve done it with, or at least snogged? It’s definitely better than carving actual notches into your bedposts, considering you do actually want to get your security deposit back.
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One of the brilliant parts of university is that, though there are present pressures to conform to certain laddy ideals, there is a great long standing sexual tradition. No, it’s not fusty libraries, wearing twee clothes to lectures or curly fries – it’s that uni is one of the first places where you can really experiment and play with your sexuality. So what if you and your mates want to list up your conquests/mistakes/one-night whatevers? It’s great because you can set your own parameters and expectations. The chart is yours and your housemates’ to cherish and enjoy and discard whenever.
Our problem with Climax is that it’s cynically tries to exploit what is otherwise a pretty harmless way of making students think that they’re actually achieving something with their nights out. It’s all a bit organised fun, plus, there’s a pressure to throw up? Not cool.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.