Saturday, December 15, 2012

Dark doings at the alma mater


My time at Harvard was mostly devoted to mathematics, fondly recalled here:




I don’t keep up with Crimson events -- haven’t attended a Yale game in years -- and have always considered the “Class of `…” a prime example of a granfalloon.  Yet into this morning’s mailbox  came a reminder that life there does go on -- and that my own has evolved along such exotic lines  that the first I’d heard of this story came from a French source, of all things.  (And for all you folks out there who find this site by googling things like “sexe hexagone”, here is another something for y’all to, um, munch on …)
Since the comments by students in France provide an interesting parallax to our own CONUS-based perspective, they are reproduced here:

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Harvard crée la polémique en autorisant une association sado-maso

La prestigieuse université américaine a officiellement validé une association visant à promouvoir le dialogue sur «les sexualités coquines et alternatives».
l’association étudiante «Munch», qui souhaite promouvoir «les sexualités coquines (kink, en anglais) et alternatives»

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La civilisation neo-bonobo est en marche
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DSK peut il retourner aux USA? Il ferait un très bon professeur.
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Les tabous n'existent pas pour rien : ils sont le fruit d'un long processus de maturation. De temps en temps, certains s'imaginent supérieur aux autres et aptent à contourner les interdits... Jusqu'à ce qu'ils comprennent pourquoi ces interdits existent.

Bref, rien de neuf sous le soleil, que des jeunes qui se croient plus malin que la moyenne mais qui comprendront avec le temps la puérilité de leurs opinions d'adolescents en manque de sensation forte :)
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Après le mariage gay faut s'attendre à tout, même à ça!
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Un sujet sociétal fondamental dans 2 ou 3 ans (le temps moyen que la pensée unique met pour passer l'Atlantique) ce sado-masochisme ?


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[Update]  Curious now, I googled this news, and found an article that -- unlike that of Le Figaro -- must have been buried, since I hadn’t seen it, despite checking WaPo online every day:


The article is bowdlerized, offering no hint as to what “kinky alternatives” are being thus blessed (necrophilia? paedophilia??  bestialism???)

We are relieved to report, that the Munchies do not have the battlefield  all to themselves:


Harvard College recognizes another sex-related club, “The Harvard College Anscombe Society,” which promotes pre-marital abstinence from sexual activity.


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By way of exception, the purpose of the present post  is neither satirical nor polemical, but rather -- fatherly.  These are intelligent young men and women, in a questing environment which  for four years  I shared, who need to figure things out  and to make their way in the world.  
Now -- the solution to all this agony  -- much in the sense of a solution to a mathematical conundrum -- is, so I believe, none other than:  wholesome, faithful, traditional  Christian marriage.  (And if you personally are not cut out for that -- as some are not -- you need urgently to figure out what it is that you are cut out for.  Perhaps, the celibate priesthood; or an intense but celibate life in mathematics.)   But this, of course, like the insights of psychoanalysis, cannot be embraced and assimilated  by simply reading that bare statement.   You have to live your way through, towards it and to it. 
Have a safe journey.


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By chance, a passage just happened upon, while re-reading a Victorian masterpiece:  the chapter on “Sexual inversion in women”, in Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volume II part 2 (1910) by Havelock Ellis (a snowy-bearded sage,  of whom  one is at a loss,  to cite any contemporary counterpart):

I thought that the ultimate explanation might be that there were men’s minds in women’s bodies, but I was more concerned in finding a way of life, than in asking riddles without answers.

Bless your quest.

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