So I’ll get this out of the way: SEX. S-E-X.

This is a column about sex. Because for most of us, we’re having it, we like it and we like to talk about it. We should talk about it — all of it.

This is why:

Our generation knows what it’s like to grow up in a sexually confusing social climate. Sexual images are all around us in pop culture, yet our society fetishizes virginity. Most of us had abstinence-only sex education in high school, so we learned plenty about why we shouldn’t be having sex, but not much about what to do if we decided to do it anyway. This is why I, along with so many members of our generation, am writing about sex.

USA Today reported in 2002 that “sex columns in college newspapers ... have been multiplying like jack rabbits.” In 2009, The Nation featured an article on what it called “the student sex column movement.” Dan Reimold, an expert on the student sex column, said he estimates “during any given semester, more than 200 sex and dating columns are being published in U.S. student newspapers, magazines, and online outlets.”

So this spring in “Between the Sheets,” I would like to open up a discourse for honest and frank communication about sex, because it is part of a majority of our lives as college students. This is not “Cosmo” sex tips; I’ll never tell you to use your thong as a hair-tie or suggest the reverse cowgirl position is “kinky.” I am not pursuing shock value, nor will I make any blanket statements about how sexuality should or shouldn’t be.

I hope that we can all learn a few things together.

Next time I will be discussing contraception, so share your thoughts on the matter at OUDaily.com or through an e-mail to the editor