A Week of Real Sex

One Student Brings Healthy Choices Back to Campus

The Sex Week phenomenon in American academia got started in 2002 on the campus of Yale University after student organizers Eric Rubenstein and Jacqueline Farber teamed up with two sponsors, the Yale Women's Center and the Yale Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Co-op, to provide "an interdisciplinary sex education program designed to pique students' interest through creative, interactive, and exciting programming."

The first-ever affair of its kind, it included a film festival, a "Sex and Entertainment" celebrity panel, and talks on topics such as "The Materialist Anthropology of Love and Sex," "The History of the Vibrator," and the curiously titled, "Sex with Four Professors." By 2006, Sex Week...

 

 is Deputy Editor of Salvo and writes on apologetics and matters of faith.

This article originally appeared in Salvo, Issue #38, Fall 2016 Copyright © 2024 Salvo | www.salvomag.com https://salvomag.com/article/salvo38/a-week-of-real-sex

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