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The Ubyssey's 2024 Sex Issue, news updates, sports highlights, and more!

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The Ubyssey & Iman Janmohamed
February 09, 2024

My junior high teachers would pass around slips of paper during sex ed classes so we could write down any questions we had, and in adulthood, questions about sex, relationships and love persist.

I can’t say this year’s Ubyssey sex issue answers all your questions — many of them don’t have a straightforward answer. But in this issue, we explored student accounts of their relationships, how TV shapes perceptions of sex and love, 2SLGBTQIA+ media in UBC’s Queer Collections Project and the science behind bioplastic vibrators. 

So come in curious. Hopefully, you’ll leave learning something new.

— Iman Janmohamed
Features Editor

FEATURES

Sex Ed: Editor's note

Now, in adulthood, questions about sex, relationships and love persist.

By Iman Janmohamed

The Ubyssey's purity test

Move over Rice Purity Test. It's UBC's time to shine.

By Stella Griffin and Olivia Vos

Glee made me gay

I had no idea what the word “gay” meant until I saw the third episode of Glee.

By Elena Massing

OPINION

Opinion: How sportswashing found a home at UBC

“Lululemon’s products have a reputation for quality and comfort. However, should those properties outweigh Lululemon’s disappointing record on workers’ rights and climate action when our university chooses who to partner with?” asks Rowan Barclay.

By Rowan Barclay  

NEWS

Social Justice Centre sues Hillel BC and former contractor for defamation

The UBC Social Justice Centre (SJC) have filed a lawsuit against Hillel BC Society, alleging Hillel's former contractor defamed them by distributing pro-Hamas stickers posted around campus in November.

By Renée Rochefort  

Post-secondary education minister Selina Robinson removed from cabinet after Palestine remarks

Following a week of public pressure, BC’s Minister of Post Secondary Education & Future Skills Selina Robinson was removed from cabinet after comments critics say erase Palestinian history. She will remain in the NDP caucus and continue to represent her riding as an MLA.

By Anabella McElroy and Spencer Izen

UBC announces increases in student housing rental rates for the upcoming school year

For the 2024/25 academic year, UBC student housing rates will be increasing between five and six per cent depending on the residence area and room type.

By Bernice Wong

HUMOUR

Going to a museum isn’t a personality

Why stare wistfully at paintings when you can stare rizzfully at actual people?

By Kyla Flynn   

The Ubyssey's 2024 ins and outs

A month into 2023 and it feels like it has been a year already! To celebrate the upcoming year of laugh and love, and mourn the past year of whatever the opposite of laughs and love is, Ubyssey blog put together a list of our ins and outs for the year.

By Ubyssey Humour Staff

CULTURE

Nosh Hunt: A midterm review of the Hot Chocolate Festival

Is Vancouver's annual Hot Chocolate Festival nothing more than a very well done marketing ploy? Yes. Will I continue to happily hand over my money? Also yes.

By Khushi Patil  

TomorrowLove: When technology complicates relationships

Is Vancouver's annual Hot Chocolate Festival nothing more than a very well done marketing ploy? Yes. Will I continue to happily hand over my money? Also yes.

By Zoe Wagner 

SPORTS + REC

Men's volleyball fights hard for win on Pride Night

On Friday, the men's volleyball team faced off against Trinity Western University at the sold-out Pride Night, winning 3–2 in close sets.

By Fiona Etheridge

NGWSD: Christina Howard is an Ironwoman

Howard said the Women's World Ironman Championships in Kona, Hawaii, in October 2023 was “an amazing opportunity,” especially since most Ironman races are not gender specific and less than 30 per cent of competitors are women.

By Jade Quinn-McDonald

SCIENCE

Research finds sidewalk salt is killing salmon. How can cities de-ice safely?

For young salmon, road salt run-off can be deadly. A research project is using citizen science to monitor the impacts of road salting on freshwater fish.

By Tova Gaster  

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