[Mrs. Don-o]

Some things can be proscribed by law because they are contrary to an animal's nature (e.g. bestiality, or "zoophilia"). Some things can be proscribed because they are contrary to human nature.

Class, discuss.

[Casie]

I didn’t read the article because... well its about Harvard and BSDM. However, I would totally volunteer to beat the hell out of a Harvard liberal once a week if it will help.

[supremedoctrine]

I foresee special scholarships for the Big Red Football team of Steubenville Ohio.

[Red Badger]

Well, it is said the law is an ass.........;^)

[Sherman Logan]

How can America’s leading university authorise students to fantasise about harming and degrading women?

Author apparently doesn't understand this scene. There are women who enjoy being degraded, but then there are also men who enjoy being degraded.

The BDSM scene is impeccably gender-equal in this regard.

In fact, there is a thriving business model for dominatrixes, women who degrade and inflict pain on men for money. I'm unaware of men being able to make a living doing the same for women.

Somebody really ought to find a link to the famous SNL Pelosi/Palomino skit. One of the funniest things they ever did.

[LearsFool]

When you trade in your Bible and all you get in exchange is John Stuart Mill, you’re bound to end up with baloney like Mr. Cook here.

You’ve heard the expression “to damn with faint praise”? This article sounds like an attempt to approve with faint criticism.

[Venturer]

Mrs. Don O you might need a refresher on BDSM.

You state that BDSM subjugates women and perpetrates the beating of women.

I am not an expert on it,but you are only partially correct.

Many men are beaten and subjugated by women. Some men even pay professional Dominatix’s for the privilege of being beaten, some enjoy artificial means of being sodomised by women.

BDSM is not a single gender sport. Sometimes women are flogged or beaten and tied. Sometimes it is men being beaten my women.

Now if these people who are beaten and tied or sodomised or forced into sexual acts ,were kidnapped off the streets and had to suffer these things I would say certainly it should be punished to the greatest extent of the law. But if these people join this club knowing what the club is all about and show up for these meeting knowing what will happen I say that’s none of my business.

What is my business is that this is ghappening among the young at what is supposed to be an institution of Higher learning, Higher learning does not and should not mean learning abhorrent sexual practices.This does not belong in a Campus atmosphere.No more than swap clubs or professional prostitution belongs there.

I agree that this is wrong, but to say it is only women who are abused by BDSM is not correct, It humiliates and degrades people of both sex’s.

[hinckley buzzard]

The idea of an "authorized" BDSM club is the scandal here. Such clubs exist all over the place and operate consensually, apparently without ever coming to the attention of the authorities. But if Harvard was a shred of what it thinks it is, it would accept the responsibility of upholding at least some standards, somewhere.