July 31, 2026:

I don’t know if any of the students at Briar University are making the Dean’s List, but as a sex educator, I can tell you they know a thing or two about good sex. 

Kids at this fictional Massachusetts college—the setting of Off Campus, Amazon Prime’s spicy spring hit—are asking each other for consent, negotiating new sex positions while fully clothed, setting the terms of their relationships without playing games, using sex toys and condoms, and going down on each other. No orgasm gap to be found.

These characters are practicing what I’ve always preached: trust, communication, and mutual pleasure. And they’re being rewarded with plenty of climaxes and some of the healthiest young adult relationships I’ve seen on television.

A fake relationship with real chemistry

If you haven’t watched Off Campus yet, do. First because it is fun and sexy and heartwarming and well written and really hot. And, also, this article has spoilers.

The first season, released in May 2026, focuses on music major Hannah Wells (Ella Bright) and star athlete Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli). He’s the captain of the hockey team, and is completely naked during their “meet-cute” in the locker room (Wells, who rides a bike to get around campus, is cleaning the locker rooms as one of two jobs that helps her pay for college.)

They run into each other a couple more times before Garrett—who is a big deal around campus because he’s also the son of a hockey legend—concocts a fake dating scheme: She’ll help him pass their philosophy class, and he’ll help her catch the attention of a moody musician named Justin (Josh Heuston).

While this fake dating setup is rather flimsy—Hannah is too appealing to need help getting a guy’s attention, and Garrett clearly knows plenty about the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard—the arrangement gives these two young hotties plenty of excuses to flirt, cuddle, and eventually kiss passionately in front of other people. It also gives the characters ample opportunity to share personal stories and swap playlists. 

And—surprise, surprise—they realize that they really do like each other. 

Good and safe sex, and lots of it 

There’s plenty of sex in the first few episodes of Off Campus. Before Hannah and Garrett strike their deal, we see Garrett going down on a couple of women, and walk past his friend Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn) getting it on in their shared house with his door wide open.

Meanwhile, Hannah’s best friend Allie Hayes (Mika Abdalla) is bored with what her on-again, off-again boyfriend does in bed. The two of them flip through a sex-position-of the-day calendar, trying to agree on something new. 

As a sex educator, I was pleased to see all the oral sex (not everything has to be p-in-v). And planning sex in advance is, well, an advanced-level skill. 

But things really get going for me at the end of episode three. The faux-dating deal is over. Garrett got a B on his oral exam in philosophy, and Hannah has a date with the musician. The fake partners clearly like each other but are about to go their separate ways when Hannah asks for one last favor: “I need you to give me an orgasm.” 

This story is a study in vulnerability, honesty, communication, and genuine care for your partner—even if you’re still pretending that you’re not a real couple. 

I love how matter-of-factly Hannah tells Garrett that she was drugged and raped at a party in high school. She says she had a great therapist who helped her realize it wasn’t her fault and that “the rape doesn’t define me.” She tells him that she doesn’t feel fragile anymore. Then, she admits that she can make herself come but can’t orgasm with anyone else. She needs Garrett’s help.

Garret takes the request seriously, and I was hugely impressed by the advice Dean gives about what women really need in bed. Dean tells Garrett that the single most important tool a guy can use to make a girl come is trust: “She’s gotta feel completely safe.”  

Having seen enough bad rom-coms based on misunderstandings and broken trust, I got nervous watching this scene. I worried that Garrett would tell Dean—who until then had been portrayed mostly as a horny cad—about Hannah’s rape, and that the information would make its way around campus. 

I was also nervous that Dean would make jokes or give bad advice, but what he said about making the experience comfortable and asking for consent would make any sex educator proud. 

The awkward way the sex scene begins is the good kind of cringey. Hannah arrives at the hockey boys’ house looking uncomfortable in clunky patent-leather heels and a tight dress with a plunging neckline that she keeps adjusting. When they get into his room, Garrett asks if she would be more comfortable wearing “literally anything else.” He offers up one of his T-shirts and then turns around while she puts it on. 

Hannah jokes that he’s about to see her naked. 

“Yeah,” he replies, “but not until you want me to.” 

They turn on music, and he starts dancing dorkily to break the tension. It works. The silly dancing leads to slow dancing, which leads to neck kisses, which leads to a full-on make out session in bed.  

I was impressed when Garrett checked in with Hannah as soon as it seemed like she might not be into it anymore. The cues are subtle—she turns her head slightly, her breathing changes, her hips stop moving with his. He’s tuned into how fraught this experience might be for her and clocks these changes quickly.

Her explanation of how she went from having a good time to feeling like she was watching herself from outside her body feels understandable given the rape. She says this keeps happening and plaintively asks Garrett if she’s broken.  

His answer was crucial: “You’re not broken, you just don’t trust me enough.”  

Mutual masturbation to the rescue

And his next idea warms the cockles of my sex educator heart: Garrett suggests that Hannah show him how she makes herself orgasm—and he’ll show her, too. 

Mutual masturbation may be the most underrated of partnered sexual behaviors. I get that people might see it as a waste of an opportunity to experience something they can’t by themselves, but it’s an excellent way to learn what you each like. Plus, you can have a really good orgasm in the process. 

As Garrett and Hannah prove, touching yourselves instead of each other can be even sexier. The scene is all writhing bodies, amazing abs, and pleasure-stricken faces.  

This intensely intimate experience clearly makes each of them realize how real their feelings are. I won’t spoil the next scenes—all I’ll say is I was relieved that the series again resists clichés.

The rest of the season includes many more sex scenes that could be used in an instructor’s manual to teach young adults about the joys of experimentation and having fun with your partner. There’s a great montage of multiposition sex; guys going down on girls; girls going down on guys; and an extra-sexy shot of Garrett getting Hannah off with his fingers under the covers. (Fingering is another underrated activity, in my humble opinion.) 

Garrett, Hannah, Dean, and Allie (along with other characters who we see mainly in the sack) model good sex. Garrett and Hannah, specifically, do more than that: They become each other’s sounding boards, confidantes, and emotional support systems. They may have started out as a fake couple, but Hannah and Garrett become good friends, and they represent a great lesson in how honesty and communication and sex can weave together into a strong, healthy relationship. And did I mention it was hot?

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