Porn Stars, Sex Week @ Yale University, and the ACLU
By Sally Bishai (02/25/06)
I recently noticed an article on AOL, titled "Porn Stars, Sex Toys Part of Yale Program."
My blog has a link to this travesty, but for those of you who don't have access to America Online, let me summarize the "article."
Actually, I was taught to never shoot the messenger, so apologies to Matt Apuzzo (who penned the thing) and mucho disses to Yale University, apparently a modern-day DEN OF INIQUITY, and one of the reasons I, Sally Bishai, Copt-for-life and American Citizen, am not allowed to say “God Bless You” in the corporate world.
"How d'you figure that, Salls?" you may be wondering.
Have a seat, coz I'm gonna tell you, and be warned, love, it ain't gonna be pretty.
(This last part's kind of a joke.. since I don't have a Southern accent and—oh, never mind, it would take too long.)
“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,” says the dear and beloved Apuzzo.
I, however, moral gadfly extraordinaire, ask “What’s wrong with this Polaroid?”
Hint: “trying to get students to talk about sex.”
I think that kids in college are past the age where they need to learn about the basics of life. (I went to a Catholic school, and was forced to go through several graphic years of sex-ed—I mean, “Family Life”—class, which mostly involved lectures at the hands of nuns who had, ostensibly, never even HAD sex.)
In fact, why waste class time—and risk going against a family’s beliefs—to educate pre-teens (and those younger) about sex, anyway?
You don’t see them teaching kiddies about the different religions out there, do you?
It’s actually illegal to do that, as I’ve found out. At least, if you mention Christianity.
I don’t think anyone would get arrested or fired for mentioning the Five Pillars of Islam, or the Enlightened Path or whatnot, however.
I know that some of you are thinking, “Well, sex education is important because, while some may choose to have no religion, everyone will end up having sex at some point.”
May I suggest that there are people in this world who will NOT have sex in their lives, either by choice (like monks or lifelong bachelors who are actually moral—they do exist!) or because no one appeals to them (or perhaps they’re the unappealing ones, and they don’t feel like... befriending.. a hooker).
Fine, you might be thinking, “Well, everyone has a body, and kids are naturally curious, so it’s best to head them off and get it out in the open before they make a mistake,” to which I say, 1- in this day and age, I’m sure a four-year-old knows more about sex than I did when I was a senior in high school, and 2- some children may come from families where the parents are either conservative, Muslim, Baptist, Eastern, or any number of other demographics for which sex is a taboo subject with adults, much less children.
But the people that attend Yale aren’t children, they’re—at least in the eyes of the law—adults.
So why am I so vexed at this veritable porn-fest—which showcased a panel of X-rated celebs, not to mention stripping lessons by a dame from Playboy and sex toy demonstrations from the purveyor of pureromance.com (who actually sponsored the thing)?
Because it’s just another example of how LIBERAL items get pushed to the front of the news (and get all sorts of consideration that conservative and/or Christian things don’t), and how liberals—who would get bent out of shape if this were a Jesus rally—are intolerant, making their moniker a misnomer.
For some reason, I don’t think they’d be quite so peeved if it was a “Meeting with Muhammad” or “Lunch with Lakshme.” In fact, I’ll just bet that the ACLU and similar groups would push for any seemingly-controversial religious event, so long as it wasn’t Christian.
As I’ve said countless times, I really and truly feel that it’s JESUS that offends liberals. Not that all conservatives are Christian, coz there are Jewish, Muslim, and even atheist ones out there..
To be fair, our good friend Apuzzo did mention that Travis Kavulla, editor of the Harvard Salient, wasn’t behind Sex Week’s “festivities”...
He goes on to report that the woman (can’t bring myself to call her a “lady”) behind the sex toy demos was “surprised at how reserved the students were at her seminar. And for all their good grades... [the purveyor] said Yale students seemed less clued-in about sex than students elsewhere.”
Hello? What’s wrong with kids just being kids? Why drag young adults into something they’re not ready for?
Furthermore, re: her “less clued-in” observation, maybe these kids—and I do believe that college attendees are, for the most part, still kids, trying to navigate the whole “how to make it on their own, whilst forging relationships at school, AND preserving their friends-from-home and family ties” thing—are focusing on what’s IMPORTANT about their experiences at college (arguably one of the top schools in the nation)—the grades!
Apuzzo then shares the following quote from a 20-year-old sophomore from Poland:
"I have a lot of inhibitions and fears that I'm not sure where they come from.” Hmm. Maybe they’re from your sense of morality? Or the fact that you aren’t ready for sex yet?
The Polish lass goes on to say that she likes the idea of Sex Week because “it opens up the ground to talk about issues people aren't comfortable talking about otherwise.”
I’m willing to bet that if people waited until they were ready to marry, or at least, to have a long-term relationship (not that I approve of that, but I’m trying out this whole “willing suspension of the disbelief” thing today), the issue of inhibitions and not wanting to discuss sex would dissipate.
“Inhibition” is just another word for “conscience,” which, sadly, fewer and fewer people have today, in a world that’s being hijacked by immorality, intolerance, and the ACLU!
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