Two of the Health Education Resource Center’s most well-known programs will be combined on Wednesday to form the “Sex and Booze” presentation.

For the past five years, the HERC has hosted sessions titled “Rubber Lovers,” based on safe sex practices, and the “Six Pack Series,” which focuses on alcohol education.

“Sex and Booze” is part one of six programs offered through the semester focusing on how alcohol can affect sexual activity. The presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. in Room 1255 in the Coleman Hall Auditorium.

Because of the number of programs, the series is appropriately titled “The Six Pack.”

Maggie Luneburg, a graduate student and substance abuse coordinator at the HERC, organizes and teaches many of the presentations.

Luneburg said when the program first began, all six presentations occurred during the first six weeks of the school year, but now there are two presentations per month.

“We changed it because we feel, by the end of the series, in the past was when people were more aware of it,” Luneburg said. “By spreading it out, we figure we will have a better turnout.”

Luneburg said each of the presentations has a slightly different focus that goes with the main theme of alcohol use, including how it relates to the law, a student’s future, sex, society and alcohol poisoning.

Members of the Charleston Police Department will help out with two of the sessions.

Amanda Woolard, the assistant director for health education and promotion at the HERC, said the turnout was typical for the time of year last year.

“It was really early in the semester,” Woolard said. “There is a lot going on campus during those first few weeks.”

Madison Dailey, a graduate assistant for sexual health education at the HERC, will be presenting the program with Luneburg.

She said Rubber Lovers is a program that students can sign up for after attending an education session on how to avoid high-risk sexual activity as well as the 18 steps of how to correctly put on a male condom.

After the sign up, they receive a “Safe Sex” packet for the next 12 months that includes condoms, flavored condoms, lubricant and tips on having safe sexual activity.

“I think we will have a lot more people this time,” Dailey said. “We have been handing out flyers, and I have had more people at ‘Rubber Lovers’ meetings.”

Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812 or alwywialowski@eiu.edu.