So this is what 45K a year will get you at Yale...

[oliegirl]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330812,00.html

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale students accustomed to competing for straight-A's will be vying for triple X's this weekend as they compete to win a porn-star look-alike contest. It's that time of year again: the return of the Ivy League school's controversial Sex Week.

During eight days of programming, students can learn everything from how to achieve a state beyond bliss to the proper application of personal lubricants.

And it's all free, once mom and dad have covered the $45,000 for room, board and tuition.

Nonetheless, some say Sex Week has no place in the classroom.

"I don't see the need for college students to talk to each other about sex anymore than they already do," said sophomore Jake McGuire, who has been writing about the events for the school's conservative Yale Free Press newspaper.

"Call me a curmudgeon, but I find that my daily ritual of waking up with a cup of coffee, a cigarette, and a copy of the YD"N" (Yale Daily News) is a little less pleasant when a smiling freshman holding a string of anal beads is staring back at me from the front page," blogger Will Wilson wrote on the Yale Free Press blog.

Sex Week at Yale 2008 In 2004, the biennial event won the Collegiate Network's Campus Outrage Award. Now in its fourth incarnation, Sex Week at Yale 2008 includes a lecture by a VH1 host of "The Pick-Up Artist" and the aforementioned off-campus "Skull and Boned" party, where students who dress as porn stars will be judged on their resemblance by an adult-film director.

Click here to see the Sex Week at Yale Web site.

Wilson referred to an event early in the week, when students packed an auditorium on a blustery Tuesday evening to learn about the latest in sex-toy technology.

"Do you want to see some of these?" Patty Brisben, the CEO of sex-toy company Pure Romance, asked the crowd last week at a seminar on sex-toy technology, motioning to a lecture table filled with a rainbow array of creams, salves and bedroom gadgets. She got a resounding "yes."

Brisben's Ohio-based company sponsors the week of sex programming at Yale. On Tuesday, she called on student volunteers who got to keep the product she demonstrated upon them. Later that evening, at a girls-only cocktail event in a New Haven bar, attendees listened as Brisben demonstrated vibrating sponges and other toys.

"If you’ve taught your children what you believe to be the right morals in life, I don’t think that just having a Sex Week is going to corrupt them," said Brisben, who travels to more than a dozen universities each year to deliver her talk. "It’s going to empower them even more so to have the knowledge."

But McGuire said the week tarnishes the reputation of "Yalies" who come to the school "to become leaders."

"I told my folks the other night and my Dad gave me the 'Oh, I'm paying $50,000 a year for the Sex Week' thing," said McGuire, who had plans to protest Sex Week with some of his friends.

Organizers, however, say Sex Week provides a creative forum to discuss the topic.

A discussion on porn with adult stars Ron Jeremy and Monique Alexander and Craig Gross, the founder of the XXXchurch.com, and a lecture on sex and spirituality that includes abstinence proponent Dawn Eden are expected to draw crowds. The week also offers a sexually transmitted disease screening drive.

"What we want to do is get people talking," said Victoria Wild, a senior.

A companion Sex Week at Yale Magazine offers tips on making your dorm room a college love pad. It also has articles on hooking up, students who are parents, and an interview with the founder of Harvard's abstinence group.

Students on Old Campus crammed the aisles Tuesday under a Tiffany glass window that featured images of "Purity," "Faith" and "Hope," but appropriately enough, not "Chastity," for a lecture on the female orgasm by sexologist Logan Levkoff.

"Especially nowadays, where so many people are coming out of abstinence-only education, where they get little-to-no information about sex, and they find themselves in a world where now they're making decisions about their bodies and don't have the resources, these events are really wonderful," Levkoff said after the lecture.

Joe Citarrella, a senior and the director of Sex Week 2008, said the group chooses speakers who will provoke and educate.

"If students are going to be sexually active, we want them to be educated about sex and relationships and love and intimacy," he said. "And we want them to be safe and sexually healthy."



Damn I wish I was in college again!

[Izulde]

Fuck Yale. Fucking Yallies.

Hail, hail Nassau Hall!

[ISiddiqui]

I don't the see the problem. I'm sure they have events for black history month and women history month, and some lame Yale traditions and whatnot.

[Young Drachma]

A lot of schools have sex week. Wash U has Sex Week, too. It's not like it's a required class or anything. Or as if there are thousands of folks screwing in the quad or something.

Let's not get carried away. Some folks like it, some others hate it. I know some Christian groups do their own events during that week to counteract it or whatever. Meh.

Trust me, if this outrages you..it's not even the tip of the iceberg of what happens on some campuses as school sanctioned events. It's just because it's Yale that they're making it news.

[Young Drachma]

Dola --

I didn't even see the Fox News link or else, I'd have ignored the outrage. Of course...

[Joe]

Every week is sex week

[Cringer]

The second I read the thread title I knew this would be a story from FOXNews. The idiots they had on in the morning today said the same words about 5 times.

Talk about blowing up a nothing story IMO.

[Jas_lov]

I agree. This is probably the norm on campuses and it's a non issue. Good work Fox News. Getting upset about this is like getting upset about Matthew McConaughey having a baby.

[oliegirl]

I didn't read anything negative in the story the first time, and I just went back and re-read it, and still didn't get a sense that they were saying it was a bad thing or anything. I only posted it because I thought it was interesting and made me realize that other than free condoms from the college clinic, we really didn't have anything like this...

[Jim G.]

Now I finally understand what they meant when they turned down my application for Yale. I was just a naive 17-year-old at the time.

"We're sorry to inform you that we can not offer you admission to Yale University at this time. You have not yet demonstrated proficiency with the tools necessary for success at this level."

Alas, I had allocated too many of my resources on study hall time.

[Schmidty]

Why do the special effects in Spiderman look better than the special effects in Spiderman 2 & 3? Makes you wonder.

[Karlifornia]

Originally Posted by Joe

Every week is sex week

Isn't that the tagline for Revenge of the Nerds 2?