While the competition in previous years has been close, this year, Harvard trounced us decisively with a panel for their annual Sex Week titled “What What In The Butt: Anal Sex 101.”
The workshop, hosted by Good Vibrations, a sex store in Brookline, explored “anal anatomy and the potential for pleasure for all genders; how to talk about it with a partner; basic preparation and hygiene; lubes, anal toys, and safer sex; anal penetration for beginners, and much more!” The workshop represents a welcome change from most sex education programs nationwide, which usually either are abstinence-only (dope!) or focus exclusively on heterosexual sex (peepee-vajayjay).
Not all students were thrilled about the workshop. Harvard student Molly Wharton was quoted by The College Fix (a source of “right-minded campus news”) as questioning “the amount of time and resources that went into planning and funding these events, some of which are downright vulgar, at a place like Harvard.” Though Ms. Wharton didn’t specify exactly what initiatives she would have preferred to see, one imagines that “How To Retain Your Religious Sexual Guilt” and “Masturbation and Climate Change” are high on her list.
While many commenters on The College Fix were similarly concerned, Paul Lycurgues had a positive outlook:
It’s about time ! Considering how violently ivy-league graduates have been sodomizing the american middle-class, the american Constitution and the memory of our founding fathers for decades now, such training was long overdue. Maybe it will be less painful for us with the proper amount of lubricant ?
Very true Paul!
Why doesn’t Yale have a sex week? Most colleges across the nation have some form of a school-wide sex education program, leaving us in the company of Brigham Young University. Though, to be fair, at least we’re allowed to have sex (as well as alcohol and caffeine), so there’s that.