To ensure that the workshop’s environment was comfortable for attendees, Vogt publicized the event only to select individuals and kept the location under wraps until yesterday morning.
Workshop participant Julia C. Reischel ’04 said she thought the workshop was beneficial.
“Contrary to popular belief, I think this is an empowering thing to go to for women,” Reischel said. “It really demystifies sex and makes it something you can talk about, makes it less scary.”
Yesterday’s workshop was RUS’s first such event. But Vogt said the event seems popular enough to hold again next year.
Vogt added that the workshop was “in keeping” with RUS’s mission—creating a community for women on campus and helping women to be heard at Harvard. RUS was the student governing body of Radcliffe College before the Harvard-Radcliffe merger in 1999.
—Staff writer Juliet J. Chung can be reached at jchung@fas.harvard.edu.