Yale's Sex Week

[Alessia Brio]

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.

Yale's event, which ends today, 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.

Critics say Sex Week is just the latest act of debauchery at colleges in recent years: Students started sex columns; Vassar and others created erotica journals; Harvard launched H-Bomb, a magazine featuring suggestive pictures of undergraduates; Washington University in St. Louis offered a sex-themed week with orgasm seminars and condom telegrams.

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Damn, the all women's Catholic college I'll be attending in the fall doesn't have anything like this!

 

[impressive]

Damn, the all women's Catholic college I'll be attending in the fall doesn't have anything like this!

Write the curriculum. You could teach it.

 

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Write the curriculum. You could teach it.

True enough.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Sex week at a college? Isn't this a bit like shipping coals to Newcastle?