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
--
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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