“Who wants to be a condom?” asks Rosemary Dunbar, director of FAU’s Sexual Health Center.

Two of her volunteers cringe, but biology major Keegan Peterson eagerly raises his hand. Peterson squeezes into a flesh-colored condom suit and parades around the second floor of the Breezeway on the Boca Raton campus.

Usually it’s Dunbar who wears the condom suit, and she admits she’s known for wearing the suit on many occasions for “educational purposes.” In fact, Dunbar and the center are so passionate about sexual education that their efforts granted FAU a spot as the top ranking school in Florida for sexual health resources. The study conducted by none other than Trojan Brand Condoms.

In other words, FAU is the easiest place to get laid safely.

“Some people may joke around but Trojan takes this study very seriously,” says Cathie Wallace, director of the Today and Beyond Wellness, who oversees FAU’s Sexual Health Center. “We’re very proud and it’s nice to get acknowledged.”

This is the second year Trojan has conducted the study. In total, 139 universities were chosen based on size and how well known they are in the community. Trojan gathered research over an eight-week period, grading each university on overall sexual health for students.

The study, conducted by Sperling’s BestPlaces on behalf of Trojan, finds that a lack of access to information and resources may prevent some students from being sexually healthy.

Since last year, the Trojan report has added more categories, more schools, live health center interviews, student polls and web reviews.

Some of the categories Trojan graded were HIV testing, condom availability, drop-in vs. appointment-based service, anonymous advice and website navigation.

It seems FAU students have access to more condoms than any other university in the state.

“Students really need a place like this to get resources,” says Nicolle Gale, a junior biology major who has been a peer volunteer at the center for almost a year. “We don’t judge a single person that walks through the door.”

Somehow I just can’t picture people in giant condom suits judging other people’s sex lives.

Both Rosemary Dunbar and Cathie Wallace agree that Ask the Expert – an online program where students can anonymously ask any question and have it answered by an expert – sets FAU apart from other universities.

“Other schools don’t have that kind of program, they may be too embarrassed,” Wallace says.

Ask the Expert is usually answered by a member of the staff with assistance from students who are typically science majors. Just in the past few months, students have asked questions about orgasms, discharge and blisters.

“People can ask questions about any health topic,” says FAU Health Promotions Coordinator Amber Goldberg. “We typically can find the answers to most questions.”

Ask the Expert is run through the FAU Web site, making it more credible than many other web sites that could be loaded with misinformation.

“We don’t want anyone roaming the Internet for answers about sexual health,” Wallace says.

Amber Goldberg, a University of Central Florida alumna and peer educator, has been working at the FAU Sexual Health Center since last year. Her alma mater, UCF, is ranked in the bottom ten in the nation. Goldberg equates FAU’s success to the director of the center.

“Rosemary Dunbar has been at FAU since the program started, while schools like University of Central Florida have had several periods of transition,” Goldberg says.

Dunbar, on the other hand, gives all the credit to her peer volunteers.

“The peer volunteers truly are the backbone of the entire program, and we’d be nothing without them,” Dunbar says.

But Dunbar and her volunteers put the condom suit on one leg at a time. The center started 17 years ago with a small grant. If they can take first in the state in 17 years, how will FAU rank five years from now?

The center has expanded its safe sex agenda with Safe Zone – a program that trains members of the faculty and staff in sensitivity toward gay, lesbian and transgender individuals’ sex practices.

The trained faculty and staff will be identified by a sticker on their office. This alerts students from the gay and lesbian community that this is a Safe Zone where they can ask questions and get information without being judged.

The Sexual Health Center gives out free abstinence kits, which they call “stress kits,” and safe sex kits. The abstinence kit provides blow pops and sticky hands, while the safe sex kit provides condoms, lubricant and educational pamphlets.

“Some students are abstinent, and we fully respect that,” Wallace says. “But we also know that most students are sexually active and we want them to be as safe as possible.”