Harvard OKs kinky sex student club

[bears88]

The august flagship of the Ivy League, Harvard University, approved Friday a student group devoted to kinky sex called Harvard College Munch, a university spokesman said.

The group promotes "a positive and accurate understanding of alternative sexualities and kink on campus, as well as to create a space where college-age adults may reach out to their peers and feel accepted in their own sexuality," according to the school website.

The 30-student club acknowledges that kink is often associated with BDSM -- bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism -- but the group doesn't seek to define "kink" and accepts "students with any kinky interest," the club's constitution says.

"No other group exists as a forum for students interested in alternative sexualities to explore their identities and develop a community with their peers," the group says on the school website.

The group will have privacy standards for its members, its constitution says.

Formal recognition allows the group to receive grants, post campus notices, and use campus meeting spaces, according to a profile of the group in the school newspaper, The Harvard Crimson.

The student club's founder, whom the newspaper identified only as Michael, has already held discussion-group gatherings during "munch," a term used in the kink community at-large to refer to a social meal meeting, the Crimson reported.

The group doesn't tolerate traumatic abuse or assault, however, and has formed a safety team to direct victims toward help, another group member told the paper.

Harvard spokesman Jeff Neal said the school doesn't endorse the view or activities of any officially recognized student group.

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[knicks=love]

your sig would be so much better if it was robbie gould..

[Brewer94]

your sig would be so much better if it was robbie gould..

Your username would be so much better if I didn't see it on every new thread with the last comment.....

[debo]

Your username would be so much better if I didn't see it on every new thread with the last comment.....

Would you just get perma'd already?

[dbroncos78087]

Private institution means none of our damn business. People need to back away from what a private group does as long as it doesn't cause harm to people not involved.

[netsgiantsyanks]

nerds and fat kids need ***** too.

[Cub_StuckinSTL]

Poor nerds didn't get any in high school let em **** other nerds now!

[Raps08-09 Champ]

Would you just get perma'd already?

This.

[Raidaz4Life]

Private institution means none of our damn business. People need to back away from what a private group does as long as it doesn't cause harm to people not involved.

Are people saying they shouldn't be allowed to do this? All this tells me is that Harvard isn't nearly as respectable as people make it out to be. Their image is going to take a hit (as it should), but other than that it isn't much of a big deal.


Besides it is your damn business if you are giving them money... and that's where the significance lies... will they lose money over this?

[dbroncos78087]

Are people saying they shouldn't be allowed to do this? All this tells me is that Harvard isn't nearly as respectable as people make it out to be. Their image is going to take a hit (as it should), but other than that it isn't much of a big deal.


Besides it is your damn business if you are giving them money... and that's where the significance lies... will they lose money over this?

I'm sure there is a sizable portion that would like to see them barred from being there at all. But the biggest hit would be the funding and use of campus resources like meeting rooms and such.

I don't know how this makes Harvard any more or less respectable considering it is 30 students and over 20,000 total students.

[burgh_fan66]

Private institution means none of our damn business. People need to back away from what a private group does as long as it doesn't cause harm to people not involved.

I'm sure you don't mean exactly what you say but that makes no sense. If the private institution is harming people involved its ok? Just thnk about that for a second.

[dbroncos78087]

I'm sure you don't mean exactly what you say but that makes no sense. If the private institution is harming people involved its ok? Just thnk about that for a second.

If someone wants to cause harm to themselves, I couldn't care less to be honest. Its none of my business what someone does to themselves, but if it affects other people then it becomes a problem.

[Dugmet]

Are people saying they shouldn't be allowed to do this? All this tells me is that Harvard isn't nearly as respectable as people make it out to be. Their image is going to take a hit (as it should), but other than that it isn't much of a big deal.

Hardly.

Harvard has always been an extremely liberal institution. Tim Leary - The LSD advocate, conducted experiments at Harvard known as the Harvard Psilocybin Project. The magazine National Lampoon was an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. Drugs and sex were a way at life at Harvard in the 1960s and 70s especially.

[abe_froman]

Are people saying they shouldn't be allowed to do this? All this tells me is that Harvard isn't nearly as respectable as people make it out to be. Their image is going to take a hit (as it should), but other than that it isn't much of a big deal.

i dont see why it would.its not harming the educational side of the university.its just one of those wow/odd tidbit stories that pop up every day.i'm betting everyone will forget about this(outside of the university) in a week or two

[NJBASEBALL22]

I'd join that.