Sex Positive Week

[sead43]

Let's try this...

Fron this week's "Weekly Events" university-wide e-mail:

Sex Positive Week
Sponsored by: GU Pride, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, United Feminists
Details: 2/23-27/2009
-Monday Feb 23, 8:00, Reiss 262: SEX POSITIVE... WHAT'S THAT? an integrated discussion lead by panelists about what sex positive means and how it finds its way into our lives from a broad range of perspectives. Panelists include Mark Lance (GU Philosophy professor), Mitzi (Black Rose), Ricci Levy (Woodhull Foundation), and Danielle DeSilvis (Health Education Services).
-Tuesday Feb 24, 8:00, Reiss 262: TORN ABOUT PORN? This event will is important to open dialogue around pornography and how it affects our lives.
-Wednesday Feb 25, 8:30, WGR 203: Yes: You can be sex-positive and celibate!
-Thursday Feb 26, 8:00, UG: OPEN MIC NIGHT!!!!! Come drink some coffee, read the zine, bring your own work or of your favorite writer, artist, singer, ANYTHING. Want to PERFORM?? email [e-mail].
-Saturday Feb 28, 7:00, ICC 115: RELATIONSHIPS BEYOND MONOGAMY. Cosponsored with Whole DC, helping to build a sex positive community. Come meet some DC folks and join us for a conversation about relationships beyond monogamy. Come hear their thoughts on polyamory, radical honesty, the pitfalls & joys of open relationships and much more.
-For More Info: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

For the uninformed (which I certainly was until I got wind of the small but growing backlash on campus against this), the "Mitzi" listed as a panelist is from this organization (NSFW): www.br.org/blackrose/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=94

There have also been some pretty vulgar flyers posted around campus promoting the week (the most prominent feature of which is the f-word in bold letters).

I am usually one of the University's biggest defenders when it comes to people criticizing it for "losing" its Catholic identity...on the whole, as a practicing Catholic, I think that Georgetown takes the right approach to its Jesuit identity, if it sometimes does struggle in practice. But this just seems to cross a line of simple decency. And I thought I was a pretty open-minded person.

[rosslynhoya]

May I suggest that at the next home basketball game we chant "Your wife is radically honest" at the officiating crew? I'm sure Mike Wise would approve wholeheartedly.

[hoyatables]

Wow. I'm a little shocked.

[jgalt]

Before you get your panties in a bun, I think that we should all remember that in all likelihood no more than 20 people will be at any of these events (and that number includes organizers and guest speakers).

[Bando]

I can think of a better way of showing I'm sex positive than sitting through a roundtable discussion.

[strummer8526]

My roommate just sent me the link to the facebook event. Staring at me from the "Maybe attending" group was a picture of a guy wearing assless chaps (and jeans), and next to him sort of cropped out of the picture, another guy obviously dressed in some S&M leather strap thing (shirtless). I think the whole thing made me sex negative.

[Coast2CoastHoya]

Feb 25, 2009 20:35:04 GMT -5 Bando said:

I can think of a better way of showing I'm sex positive than sitting through a roundtable discussion.

Solly's?

;D