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Aug 26th 2012, 02:02

A new book puts the sex lives of college students in the spotlight again. Here's why we can't seem to leave them alone.

A promotional photo for a party at Yale's Sex Week.

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Talking about sex never really goes out of fashion, but over the past few years, America has been viewing the sex lives of its college students in particular with ever-increasing fascination and concern. The latest topic is the alleged depravity of Yale students and officials, as portrayed in Nathan Harden's new book Sex and God at Yale. The book accuses Yale of fostering a sexist and pornified environment, largely through Sex Week, a biennial event which sometimes included presentations by porn actors and producters (the program has since been revamped).

Sex and God at Yale has gotten significant attention already, with a rebuttal in the Daily Beast and a New York Times review by Hanna Rosin, whose own piece about college hookup culture just ran in the Atlantic. Last year, both Caitlin Flanagan and Mark Regnerus wrote about the dangers of said hookup culture on campus — and they were far from alone.

Why is college sex such a lightning rod? A few possibilities:

It's titillating.

Researchers have reported that "youth" is one of the top search terms on internet porn sites, and part of the fascination with the sex lives of undergraduates has to be the fact that they're quite literally barely legal. That might not be why Harden and others set out to write about college sex, but it could certainly explain why people paid them to do it.

Karen Owen, the Duke student whose "Fuck List" of men she'd had sex with provoked much anxiety about hookup culture.

Via: socialregister.co.uk


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