Adult product manufacturer makes significant donation to University of Minnesota

The company Adam & Eve, which has been making sexual toys and aids in addition to pornographic films since 1970, made a notable donation to the University of Minnesota Medical School on August 1. The $50,000 donation will be used in part to fund the position of a sexual health educator, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The position created by this donation would be formed in five years, and be the first of its kind, the news source reports. University officials such as Eli Coleman, director of the school's Human Sexuality program, are in no way ashamed of the Adam & Eve gift. Coleman cited the company as having a history of philanthropy regarding issues of sexual health.

"Through this gift, the program will be able to continue its success in educating medical professionals, human sexuality research, providing clinical care, and advocating for science-based public policy," Coleman said, according to the news source.

The University of Minnesota program, and the new position to be added to it in five years' time, would aim to provide education regarding safe sexual practices including sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, behavioral counseling and education is recommended for sexually active adolescents and adults who are at a high risk for infection with HIV and other STDs.