We have pretty interesting news. No, we aren’t opening a campus in Shanghai. Casual sex website eduHookups is expanding to Brown! Started at UChicago a few weeks ago, the “no strings attached” hookup site has already expanded to Northwestern, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul, SAIC, Yale, Washington University in St. Louis and Loyola University Chicago and will be opening up to Brown students on April 4th (you will need a brown.edu email address to register… sounds a little bit like another instant web-phenom that started up seven years ago).
The purpose of the site is simple: to give college students an easy (no pun intended) place to seek out sexual encounters. For both the cripplingly shy and the passionately deviant, eduHookups should represent a welcome addition to the college student’s casual sex utility belt (apparently the old-fashioned kind of social lubricant just doesn’t do it anymore). The site has been a relative success so far, with 800 registered members and features in the Huffington Post and a local Chicago television station. Oh yeah, and there was this little quip on Leno a few weeks ago:
The sidewalk has spoken, Sex Week 2011 is now in effect through the 19th. While it officially started yesterday, this week promises several informative (and free!) events for the 2/3 of sexually active college age folk (though Brown, with its exceptionally green and vegan student body, tends to transcend statistics). Here are the most interesting-looking events for each day of the week:
Monday 3/14: Sex and Chocolate in the Dark in South Wayland Lounge at 8 pm. Do you like anonymous discussion about sex in dark spaces? Then this one’s for you. Not sure what the connection between an aphrodisiac and sex talk is…but free food is free food.
Tuesday 3/15: Peg-Ass-Us at 155 Angell St. at 7:30 pm. Wins the award for best name, but what is it? A romantic comedy performance about…gay sex. Featuring sing-alongs and nudity, this one should not be missed.
Wednesday 3/16:Raunchy Bake Sale on the Main Green at noon. People have said food can be sexy, but this may take that notion to new heights. This event promises baked goods in shapes “too hot to handle” and a Butternut Squash contest (oh my). Free safe sex supplies so you don’t have to feel bad about snubbing your RC 15 cents.
Thursday 3/17: Brief History of Sex Toys in Salomon 003 at noon. Sex toys and college have had a rocky relationship as of late, but this workshop will fulfill your burning desire to find out where your vibrator came from, assumedly without the live demonstration.
Friday 3/18: Flashbang in Kasper Multipurpose Room at 10 pm. For those who need some flash banging between their SexPowerGod and Starfuck. An “explosive evening” with music, raffles, goodie bags and, you guessed it, more sex toys.
Saturday 3/19:Kink for All Providence 2 in SmittyB from 10 am – 5 pm. No, it’s not the newest installment in Providence’s porn industry, but a day of workshops and discussions about the relationship between life and sex. Sign up here.
It has been an exciting few weeks for colleges across the country, to say the least. Temperatures are rising, spring break is upon us, and March Madness is basically here. Here are just a few stories to remind you of some recent strange–dare I say ridiculous–events in higher education:
If you are unaware of what’s been happening with Charlie Sheen recently, then just leave now. Charlie Sheen’s influence has inspired people all over our country to try to understand what really matters in life. His many words have been so inspirational that even some GW students want him as their commencement speaker. This GW Facebook page (with over 1,500 “likes”) implores Mr. Sheen to attend GW’s graduation. Other sites have followed, and even our very own Diddy tweeted at him. No one knows what the future hold for Sheen, though we must trust that it will be nothing less than epic.
Not in Providence, but in Provo, Utah, Brandon Davies, one of Brigham Young University’s finest basketball players, was suspended for having premarital sex (#sinning). According to BYU’s honor code, students are required to “live a chaste and virtuous life,” a rule which Davies apparently violated simply for attending sexction. The question remains: how did they find out about Davies’ sexual endeavors? [Read more →]
According to Trojan’s fifth annual Sexual Health Report Card, Brown’s been doing pretty well in safe and healthy sex department. Ranked fifth in its class under the #1 Columbia, Bruno pushed up from its 9th spot in 2009 with an astonishing 3.5 GPA! (okay maybe it’s a low A…)
Thought that was a big jump? Harvard is now 16th after its embarrassing 62nd ranking last year… which is fishy to say the least…looks like they got some extra homework help, or finally decide to learn from the best here on College Hill.
What were the criteria, you ask?
They included areas such as STD testing, health center hours, the existence relevant student groups, and the availability of condoms on campus (now you see why our RCs tape them all over their doors).
So, in addition to our high ranks on happiness, looks like we’re also safest and less likely to destroy the hard work that landed us in this prestigious university in the first place. Bruno’s not ready for baby bears quite yet…
Seniors, think you’re hard at work on your thesis proposal? You’ve just been one-upped: inspired by a senior-year sext, one Duke grad analyzed a year of hook-ups and turned it into a mock thesis presentation. She forwarded it to a few friends–and luckily for us, the whole thing ended up on Jezebel. Her “evaluation criteria” below are only the tip of a hilarious iceberg:
Image courtesy of Jezebel
While we’re confused about why you didn’t cite Foucault (isn’t that mandatory in senior theses?), highest honors in hooking up go to you, anonymous Duke grad. We’re already working on declaring our independent concentration in “horizontal academics.”
In a bizarre piece of barnyard news, an Italian rooster has completely re-identified as a female hen, and has begun laying eggs. Gianni the chicken will undergo laboratory tests in Naples, as researches want to know what combination of genes has allowed him to so aptly jump the sexual divide.
Apparently, those in ” ‘sexual involvement in nonromantic contexts’ — the technical term for hookups or ‘friends with benefits’ ” should exercise more caution. CNN, in an article that discusses casual encounters in the most medicalized way possible, warns that you may not know what that sex buddy of yours has been up to…
A big thanks to the 24-hour news network for the pre Spring Weekend advice.
Intentions aside, such extracurricular activities are now off the table, err … desk. A brand new policy at Yale will make office hours officially a PG activity.
But before all Yalies run screaming (and try to transfer to the Rhode Island land of free lovin’): TAs are still fair game.
Marshall Miller ’96 and Dorian Solot ’95, who presented on female orgasms this March to several hundred Brown students, are on their way down south to Tennessee, and to some very mixed reactions!
“We have a tendency here on campus to be very structured in what we say and what we don’t,” Carol Oglesby, coordinator of student civic engagement and physical health education said. “These folks from Brown University speak the way the students do and they talk about everything from the female orgasm to a male erection, to how you entertain your significant other sexually. And these are things we haven’t ever been able to talk about on this campus.”
On the other hand:
Chris Cahill, a Memphis junior, said he has heard about the program, but is a little uncertain about it.
“I’m convinced that the whole presentation is a lie, just like Bigfoot and the 19th Amendment.” Cahill said. “I’m just going to have to see it for myself.”
Cahill said in some instances it is better for students to figure things out for themselves instead of attending sex education programs.
“Students in the wild are in their prime, and think much more openly about sex with their friends,” Cahill said.
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