What is it about university administrations and
sex? Does Yale really need
70 different perspectives on sex at Yale College?
Are there even 70 different perspectives on sex? I guess maybe. The best line I ever heard about sex came from my father. He said, when I was of an age to appreciate his meaning "Tom, sex is a lot like fishing. At first you don't know what the hell you're doing. But you'll figure it out." Does Yale really need to say a lot more than that? (Though actually, I never did learn to fish worth a damn, and if the sex you engage in is as difficult to master as fly fishing, there's something wrong with you.) Would a parent want to send his or her or their son/daughter/son-daughter/daughter-son to the college that offers 70 different perspectives on sex? Why not, hey, sex, that's great. So, did you figure out that biochem assignment? Do we really want Yale educating the leaders of tomorrow about sex as opposed to just letting them, for all the obvious risks, heartbreaks, embarrassments, false starts, unfortunate conclusions, and comico-tragic eruptions, figure it out on their own? This is America. Everybody is entitled to make themselves miserable in their own way. Almost thirty years ago I sat through a sexual indoctrination session at Yale. I hasten to add, I went to Cornell and merely the law school at Yale. At Cornell, there was no sexual indoctrination that I remember. Though maybe it was at the Ag School and I missed it; I don't know. Anyway, it was dreadful. A painfully earnest, utterly explicit movie featuring ugly people having sex, including sex I really did not want to see. I was ready to avoid sex for some time after that I tell you. And the web opens up a whole new space for elite university adumbration on the wonders of sex. This is all at the college of course. From what I could tell, there was precious little sex at the law school beyond the metaphorical and so little need of indoctrination. That may have changed, but I doubt it.
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