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Former Daily News editor, author of the Thrill of the Chaste and self-proclaimed re-virgin Dawn Eden is leading a panel of fellow "chastity all-stars" in order to discuss sex on college campuses. Or more likely, to discuss why girls on college campuses are such floozies and how to stop them from boning. The seminar, which will take place in D.C. on Tuesday, is called "Modest Proposals" and will eventually be aired on C-SPAN's Book TV. Gray rape "expert" and hook-up hater Laura Sessions Stepp will also be in attendance. [Mediabistro, Modest Proposals Event Info]
shades of gray (rape)
Cosmopolitan's Date Rape Panel: There Are No Shades Of "Gray" When Vomit Is Involved
Remember last month when Moe wrote about gray rape after casual sex avenger and Washington Post scribe Laura Sessions Stepp published that inflammatory article about it in Cosmopolitan? Well, this morning at John Jay College, Cosmo invited Ms. Sessions Stepp, along with legal experts, psychology professors and anti-violence activists, to discuss and define the concept of "gray rape." There had initially been calls for a protest by rape activism groups, but as far as we could tell, no one showed up to storm the auditorium. Expertly-coiffed Court TV talking head Ashleigh Banfield moderated the morass. Ostensibly the purpose of the the panel was to ask the question, "Is there ever a gray area between consent and denial?" What the panel actually established was that no should always mean no. Revolutionary! More »
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'Cosmo' Wonders: Is It Rape If You Had Too Many Jaeger Shots To Remember It Anyway?
True story that I wrote in three minutes because that's exactly how much time I felt like dwelling on it: this one time about nine years ago I got locked out of my house and went home with some vaguely smarmy hair-product using type from my ex-boyfriend's frat. I had slept with maybe two or three guys prior to that — it was the summer between sophomore and junior year of college — so when he, after about a half hour of fooling around, put on a condom I was like, "Whooooah, what are you doing?" But I'd had two forties and I kept drifting in and out of consciousness — my tolerance, obviously, wasn't what it is today — and I woke up to find him sticking it in. I'd said 'no' a bunch of times and when I came to I just froze, stopped, turned over and slept. In the morning I chewed him out (by informing him I wasn't putting him on "my list" — oh no she didn't!) and after that he kissed my ass so liberally I thought he might have learned from it. More »
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HPV Shots? Owie!! Say College Girls Stupid Enough To Talk To Laura Sessions Stepp
When we were in college, we had never heard of HPV. Now that Eli Lilly has been loudly forced to stop spending money educating people about it amidst a gargantuan media uproar, most college kids capable of staying sober for at least a few hours at a time know about it. But as usual with this generation, no one cares. Or at least, as usual with members of this generation who talk to Laura Sessions Stepp, the Washington Post scribe who has been covering the teen sex beat with a sort of simultaneously perverse and prudish glee since a "sex ring" was uncovered at her son's middle school in 1998. An excerpt:Says Levey: "You see someone who's wasted on alcohol or stoned on your couch. Viruses like HPV can seem minor by comparison."More »
