I don't believe that I am hyperventilating over this situation. However, I have never known anyone in a fraternity. If this is indicative of a fraternity prank, I wouldn't want my son to get within a mile of one of a frat house.
This stuff looks like some sort of homo-erotic S&M bull hockey that perverts in the warehouse districts would get turned on by. I mean these poses do not proceed from the mind of an individual with a normal sexual orientation.
So, while it's not torture, it is perverted and sick. But I could discribe torture to my children. I don't think I am going to try to explain this kind of stuff to them.
First of all we do not know what is fact and what is fiction about the photos. Some are seem to be photoshopped or staged.
You want to know something -- there are more problems in the dorms then there are at Frat houses. Ask the pledges to the sororities and fraternities that cannot wait to exit the dorms. And we have a fairly mild campus here in Norman.
You obviously don't have college age kids because you would know that a lot of things go on at Universities across America -- isn't limited to frats or to state universities either. Happens to kids not in college as well.
You raise your kids right and you don't have to worry -- I hear all about what goes on with happenings on campus because I have the type of relationship with my kids that they can tell me without me going over the edge.
BTW my son who was President of his Fraternity and lived in the frat house since he was a Freshman is graduating with Honors from OU and has been awarded a full ride scholarship with a graduate assistant position and stipend along with medical insurance paid for his Master's Degree. He has had a 4.0 average for the last three semesters and will graduate with a 3.8. Really bad to have him a fraternity -- not! It has been great -- he has matured and become a leader not a follower. He is also a conservative who is going for his Masters and then a PhD in English to become a professor.