Posted on 02/18/2006 4:40:39 AM PST by Aussie Dasher
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - In a lecture hall on Yale’s storied Old Campus, not long after an afternoon astronomy class has cleared out, a middle-aged sex toy saleswoman demonstrates her technique and hands out free products to an eager crowd.
“I want you to close your eyes,” Patty Brisben playfully instructs a young man as she rubs scented lotion into his forearm and, to raucous laughter, reaches for an electric toy and a glove. “Fantasize about having an all-over body massage.”
Welcome to Sex Week at Yale, a biennial celebration that has become one of the most provocative campus events in the country.
Organizers say Sex Week gets students talking about sex in a way that’s more relevant than middle-school film strips, more honest than movies and television, and more fun than requisite college health lectures.
“To get people’s attention, we do have to do things a little risque and a little different than other sex education programs,” said junior Dain Lewis, who was inspired to direct Sex Week 2006 after attending the 2004 event.
Critics: Event promotes debauchery Yale’s event, which ends Saturday, includes lectures from dating specialists, a sex therapist and a discussion of homosexuality with a former Roman Catholic priest. More provocative sessions include a panel of porn stars and stripping lessons from a Playboy Channel hostess.
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I thought EVERY week was sex week at college!
Yea, it sounds like Yale has moved considerably away from the stern lectures of Robert H. Bork. Remember, Judge Bork said that he did not even remember his famous students, "Bill" Clinton and Hillary Rodham. Their class performance was so average for that environment he could not remember them. It looks like things have changed at Yale since the Puritans ran the place!
I wonder what the world record is for a civilization to go from rise to fall? It looks like we may be setting a new record.
I know you all know this, but I want to say it for the record. This culture and country are in deep, deep, trouble.
The only god left is the god of personal pleasure. Our elite Ivy League universities are producing "world citizens" too many of whom openly hate America but feel our culture of pleasure should spread aroung the world.
One day there's gonna be an accounting.
The fact that millions of Americans think the culture is just fine is a telling example of how divided the country really is. Remember, how the much beloveed "Bill" Clinton was cheered in 1992 when he said he was "sick and tired" of hearing about "family values."
When there is a vaccum, something always moves in to fill the void.
Buy your prayer mat now while they are cheap, or maybe stock up on cheap inventory now. Sales are going to become brisk, especialy when the customer has a sword on the back of his neck.
Allah foo bar
This estimate includes the actual costs for tuition and fees ($31,460) and room and board ($9,540), and an estimate for books and personal expenses ($2,700). These three figures together make up the estimated cost of attending Yale for one academic year: $43,700 for the 2005–2006 academic year.
$43,700 a year. College is in session approximately 35 weeks...so "sex week" is costing parents $1248.
Yipes! I reckon they could get it cheaper elsewhere...
Good thing for this, otherwise college kids would never have heard of sex.
This is one of the reasons why I am glad that my son is attending a good old down home eastern shore of Maryland university! (For about 14K a year...) My eldest attended Uni of RI and always had issues with his liberal professors.
This is a long way from the 7:30 A.M. 3 hour Saturday Labs I had to endure at Purdue for 7 semesters to get my Degree.
Also, no vomiting allowed, although hangovers were overlooked(one time only).
Geesh.
Heaven forbid having a marriage and family week promoting all the advantages of lifelong commitment and raising kids -- they probably only do that nowadays at Brigham Young University.
If you don't know about sex by the time you get to college,you should'nt be in college.The best place to learn about sex is in the gutter.
Ain't that special .. parents are spending $30,000+ per year for their kids to learn about sex
They do Plural Marriage Week at BYU.
the 1950's have come and gone, people. If they are not going to talk about this stuff at school, Playboy is extinct, and Seventeen gets yanked from newsstands for showing photos of vaginas, then we are going to learn it somewhere.
Why doesn't someone teach about lifelong commitment and kids anymore, you say. Because its boring and that is all churches ever talk about, as though ones purpose is to marry young and have kids early...its all boring, especially to people my age who realize that with college costing what it does, even the community colleges, that marriage is some far off pipe dream. Being this age myself, I see no problems with stuff like this at colleges. And nowadays, parents don't pay that much of the tab for college. its often financed through dead end jobs, loans, and scholarships.
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