Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Porn Stars, Sex Toys Part of Yale Program
tbo.com ^ | February 17, 2006 | MATT APUZZO

Posted on 02/17/2006 12:56:36 PM PST by mlc9852

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cesspool; highereducation; intotheabyss; moralabsolutes; yale
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-52 next last

1 posted on 02/17/2006 12:56:37 PM PST by mlc9852
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: mlc9852

$45K a year....go figure.


2 posted on 02/17/2006 12:58:02 PM PST by tsmith130
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tsmith130

Yale, no less. Colleges are really becoming a joke.


3 posted on 02/17/2006 12:58:56 PM PST by mlc9852
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: mlc9852

This is going on at Bill Clinton's alma mater????


4 posted on 02/17/2006 1:00:39 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (E)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mlc9852

I want to go back to school.


5 posted on 02/17/2006 1:01:21 PM PST by Pondman88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tsmith130

I think we are up to about $47,500, if you want buy books.


6 posted on 02/17/2006 1:02:38 PM PST by Agent Smith (Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: mlc9852

"Yale, no less. Colleges are really becoming a joke."

No fooling! Imagine...all those college kids being interested in sex. What has this world come to?

There was certainly no sexual stuff going on back in the late 60s when I was in college. We seem to be going to Heck in a handbasket, eh?


7 posted on 02/17/2006 1:02:52 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: mlc9852

I believe this is pretty much standard for most colleges today.


8 posted on 02/17/2006 1:03:46 PM PST by Vicki (Washington State where anyone can vote .... illegals, non-residents or anyone just passing through)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mlc9852

Well, thank goodness colleges are finally doing something to bring this information out of the shadows and into plain view!  There's just not enough free exchange of this type of knowledge.  Myself, if I could only figure out a way to "longer more powerful erections" or how to "impress [my] girl with a huge...".  But no way some helpful information like that would ever find its way to me.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

9 posted on 02/17/2006 1:05:19 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Still, my beating heart.

10 posted on 02/17/2006 1:06:05 PM PST by evets (God bless president Bush!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Owl_Eagle
But no way some helpful information like that would ever find its way to me.

Gimme your e-mail address...I'll forward my spam to you. ;o)

11 posted on 02/17/2006 1:07:43 PM PST by tsmith130
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: mlc9852

Can't figure it out for themselves, eh?


12 posted on 02/17/2006 1:09:05 PM PST by derllak
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee; MillerCreek; scripter

M.A. List. We need that list of conservative colleges on this thread.


13 posted on 02/17/2006 1:09:20 PM PST by little jeremiah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mlc9852
Dammit, for $45k my son deserves some titillation to go along with his beer drinking, carousing, and occasional book reading!
14 posted on 02/17/2006 1:09:39 PM PST by Sax
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mlc9852
Welcome to Sex Week at Yale, a biennial celebration

Fortunately the other 50 weeks a year Yale is as chaste as a convent of ugly nuns.

15 posted on 02/17/2006 1:09:46 PM PST by KarlInOhio (In this year's White House play, Henry VI part II, VP Cheney got the role of Dick the Butcher.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: derllak

Makes me wonder how they got in to Yale to begin with.


16 posted on 02/17/2006 1:10:14 PM PST by mlc9852
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: mlc9852

It's good they have this because if it weren't for college sex ed 19 year olds would have no idea what sex is.


17 posted on 02/17/2006 1:12:03 PM PST by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mlc9852
Welcome to Sex Week at Yale, a biennial celebration that has become one of the most provocative campus events in the country.

This statement makes me think this article is more for promotional purposes than anything else.

18 posted on 02/17/2006 1:13:07 PM PST by Cementjungle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: little jeremiah

I'll send out the M.A. Ping list but I don't want the thread to be pulled...so will try to edit the thread headline a bit and see if that's acceptable.


19 posted on 02/17/2006 1:15:30 PM PST by MillerCreek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Cementjungle

I stumbled into an "Act Up!" dance at Yale about 12 years back. I didn't hang around long.


20 posted on 02/17/2006 1:15:55 PM PST by L98Fiero
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-52 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson