Sometimes Monday comes and you feel like telling real life that it can tear the weekend from your cold dead hands. At University of Tennessee this week, however, we bet students are super stoked, because Monday marks the beginning of “Sex Week,” a program “aimed at expanding knowledge and conversations about sex, sexuality, relationships, gender, and sexual orientation.”

The program, which includes seminars and events led by prominent sexologist Megan Andelloux, has had its fair share of backlash from conservative politicians (of course). Via WBIR:

Tennessee lawmakers passed a resolution condemning the week, calling it “an outrageous misue of student fees and grant monies.” Legislators then passed a second resolution, which required UT to allow students to opt out of programming they found “controversial or objectionable.”

Due to the backlash, the university pulled $11,145 from Sex Week a few weeks before the event started, citing this type of programming was an inappropriate use of state tax dollars.

Seems a little backwards, don’tcha think? The folks who find types of sex “controversial or objectionable” are the exact students that SHOULD learn more. Either way, with funding or without, Sex Week will go on:

Sex Week organizers rallied, raising necessary funds to continue the event through crowdsourcing and donations.

Awesome! Check out the many classes being offered by UT at sexweekut.org.