Kicking things off today was Lex Alptraum, editor of a prominent adult-themed website, who gave a lecture about the threat that Internet piracy poses to the porn industry.

Later, we heard from Katherine Gates, a Yale alumna who is a curator at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan. Ms. Gates is also the author of a book called “Deviant Desires.” During her talk, she gave students a photo- and video-aided peek into the world of sexual subcultures, which she divided into the categories of “fetishes” and “kink.” Topics included zoophilia, balloon fetishes, men dressing up like women, men dressing up like animals, men dressing up like babies (complete with diapers), gay fur erotica, sneeze fetishes, and cannibal play. “There’s nothing in the world that someone isn’t getting pleasure out of,” noted Ms. Gates.

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Dare I ask - any kind of chapel even scheduled to go with this? And, if so (why do I ask?) who might be leading it?

[1] Posted by Timothy Fountain on 02-09-2010 at 03:04 PM • top

Alert the Standing Liturgical Committee. Some new liturgies are going to be needed.

[2] Posted by dwstroudmd on 02-09-2010 at 03:05 PM • top

Sarah,

Thanks for sharing this, I think.

[3] Posted by Ol' Bob on 02-09-2010 at 03:12 PM • top

So that’s what $29,500/yr buys in tuition expenses. I feel a deep hole in my non-Ivy league education that cost $7500/yr. On one hand, now I know what $22,000 buys. On the other hand, not sure I would want it.

[4] Posted by Festivus on 02-09-2010 at 03:29 PM • top

DW - What makes you think there aren’t existing liturgies from which to pull? Case in point - SSU.

[5] Posted by Jackie on 02-09-2010 at 03:41 PM • top

Jackie, While I have no doubt that the SLC has existing liturgies from which to work on SSU (remember the “gift” from the northern reaches of EcUSAdom for the whole organization, as provincial as it was, and the vast experiences of Bruno and Susan R in “it doesn’t happen in my diocese”-dom, Gulick’s work in TN, et cetera ad nauseum ad infinitum complicitore in Winsorium fidelium non esta?

However, even after the massive switch of the SLC from 1928 Prayer Book revision to the incultation of the 1960’s in the non-sequential and de novo (based on faulty scholarship since disproven of Dom Gregory Dix and the imaginative exercises of alleged scholars based on interpretations of architecture and ignoring of the whole Eastern liturgical reality) 1979(alleged) “Book of Common Prayer” (which is really a Book of Alternative Services), with the SLC’s continuing work in Eroding Our Liturgy further and further, I doubt they have liturgies on hand for “zoophilia, balloon fetishes, men dressing up like women, men dressing up like animals, men dressing up like babies (complete with diapers), gay fur erotica, sneeze fetishes, and cannibal play”.

Then again, an organization that can think of clown eucharists - I’d not bet on the absence of such liturgies.

[6] Posted by dwstroudmd on 02-09-2010 at 04:32 PM • top

Over the past few years, I have walked into many classrooms at Yale. But today was the first time I ever found a bra and panties decorating the door on my way in.

Maybe the professor was just in there changing clothes. They’re allowed to do that, you know. Who wants to observe Sex Week while wearing panties and a bra anyway? You really need a loose fitting frock and a sensible pair of shoes for that sort of thing. And the women can wear whatever they want.

a lecture about the threat that Internet piracy poses to the porn industry.

If this guy is so nosy, why isn’t he scoping out Internet piracy? Websites are being hacked and passwords handed out while NRO does nothing but send him off to satisfy his prurient interests by prying into some harmless goings on at Yale. Where’s the outrage?

men dressing up like babies (complete with diapers)

Check this out, when you have a problem with incontinence, dressing up is never complete without diapers. What’s the point of throwing babies into the mix? This is so cold. I don’t think the folks down at Depends undergarments will be taking out ads in National Review any time soon. Can you blame them?

“There’s nothing in the world that someone isn’t getting pleasure out of,” noted Ms. Gates.

Well, hello! The Sex and Recreation Committee of the Episcopal Church has been trying to get this news out to the public for years, but do they listen? Perhaps now that a bunch of eggheads at Yale have finally figured it out, the pew warmers will sit up and take notice too.

I still think that the writer of this piece should mind his own business, at least most of the time. But if this particular lapse in snooping etiquette actually turns out to serve the common good, we may be able to give him a pass.

OK, I feel a sneeze coming on and I intend to enjoy it. Leave me alone.

[7] Posted by episcopalienated on 02-09-2010 at 04:35 PM • top

“If all the girls at the Yale Prom were laid end to end,
I wouldn’t be surprised.” .....Dorothy Parker

the snarkster™

[8] Posted by the snarkster on 02-09-2010 at 05:42 PM • top

First Rowan’s address and now this article…perhaps in a twisted way it is really all the same.
Intercessor

[9] Posted by Intercessor on 02-09-2010 at 06:02 PM • top

Not to worry folk, its only been a week or so since the
Committee on Liturgy and Music (I think that’s correct)
was soliciting liturgies for ssu’s, etc from the wider church. They need to work on some for next convention’s approval. I’m sure they could come up with something that would be suitable (with a few tweaks).

Grannie G

[10] Posted by Grandmother on 02-09-2010 at 06:08 PM • top

And to think, for 35 years I’ve been upset because they want me to “pass the peace”.

[11] Posted by 1928BCPforMe on 02-09-2010 at 06:40 PM • top

Will Mrs. Schori be giving a talk on “consecrated”
sex at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale?

[12] Posted by Dan Crawford on 02-09-2010 at 07:10 PM • top

Princeton refused to ALLOW a sexual purity-oriented club on their campus.

This is a sick culture.

[13] Posted by Floridian on 02-09-2010 at 07:46 PM • top

which she divided into the categories of “fetishes” and “kink.” Topics included zoophilia, balloon fetishes, men dressing up like women, men dressing up like animals, men dressing up like babies (complete with diapers), gay fur erotica, sneeze fetishes, and cannibal play.

Pssst! Hey you! Yeah, YOU. I’m gonna catch some z’s. Wake me up when she starts talking about sex, okay?

[14] Posted by Elder Oyster on 02-09-2010 at 08:01 PM • top

Yawn! So the administration wants to bless it now ...

[15] Posted by Hosea6:6 on 02-09-2010 at 08:08 PM • top

So edgy, so non-conformist. I’m going back to sleep now.

[16] Posted by Looking for Leaders on 02-10-2010 at 08:24 AM • top

What with cannibal play (A whiskey tango foxtrot moment for me) I think that chapel services will need to sing
Praise and Thanksgiving:

God, bless the labor we bring to serve you, that with our neighbor we may be fed.

[17] Posted by Recently Roman on 02-10-2010 at 08:26 AM • top

Elder Oyster:

Pssst! Hey you! Yeah, YOU. I’m gonna catch some z’s. Wake me up when she starts talking about sex, okay?

Sorry, I was busy sculpting Spam into fake body parts so the dog and I could enjoy some cannibal play. He likes ketchup on his and we ran out.

Then I had to call animal control because I thought a giant raccoon was loose in the yard. Turns out it was just the neighbor again. He’s highly educated too and . . . you know . . . he just likes to do his thing.

Don’t worry, they’re sure to get around to actual sex sooner or later. And when that happens, someone with nothing better to do is bound to blog about it. You could always do that yourself, you know.

Or you could just pick up a copy of the next issue of National Review. The 7-11 keeps it right next to Penthouse and Vixen. (Just don’t ask me how I know that.) Maybe they’ll have photos.

OK, gotta go. Rover wants to watch “Night of the Living Dead” one more time. It’s his favorite movie. He didn’t go to Yale but he’s an Episcopalian too. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

[18] Posted by episcopalienated on 02-10-2010 at 08:36 AM • top

Or you could just pick up a copy of the next issue of National Review. The 7-11 keeps it right next to Penthouse and Vixen. (Just don’t ask me how I know that.) Maybe they’ll have photos.

ROFLOL !! }|^D\-<

[19] Posted by Elder Oyster on 02-10-2010 at 08:53 AM • top

I bet none of the hot chicks are attending the lecture. Oh, wait, this is Yale, there are no hot chicks.

[20] Posted by Looking for Leaders on 02-10-2010 at 09:45 AM • top

Lust et Veritas!

[21] Posted by DaveW on 02-10-2010 at 10:06 AM • top

#20 - Right. They’re called visitors.

[22] Posted by Festivus on 02-10-2010 at 10:09 AM • top

And this week differs from every other week at Yale how?

[23] Posted by DaveW on 02-10-2010 at 10:16 AM • top

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