Sociologist Pepper Schwartz will speak about sex, love, and life in a conversation scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 16 in Graham Chapel. In anticipation of the event, Schwartz sat for an interview with Student Life to discuss the event and her views on sex, sexuality, love, and related topics.

It’s important to treat your sexual health with just as much care as you would any other aspect of your health.

While pop culture gives us an influential and problematic script, it’s not pop culture’s fault when we don’t seek consent. It’s on us as individuals to take that one moment to seek clear and enthusiastic consent; we as individuals have the power to flip the script on the media’s norms.

You can say what you want about the bands that Bloc Party mimics—Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, The Pixies or what have you—but the musical style most at play in their new album is that of no musical style at all: unpleasant sonic experimentation. “Intimacy” is hurried and impersonal; each of the 12 tracks takes on an unorganized style of wailing on about lonely recluses in a tough and unsympathetic world.