Sex Week at Yale Draws Controversy, Porn Stars

Posted on Feb 17, 2006

Bob Child / AP

Sex aid saleswoman Patty Brisben demonstrates a device on a Yale student during a lecture at the university in New Haven, Conn., Wednesday, Feb. 15. The lecture was part of Sex Week at Yale, a weeklong series of events that has become one of the most provocative campus events in the country.

AP: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - In a lecture hall on Yale’s storied Old Campus, not long after an afternoon astronomy class has cleared out, a middle-aged sex toy saleswoman demonstrates her technique and hands out free products to an eager crowd.

“I want you to close your eyes,” Patty Brisben playfully instructs a young man as she rubs scented lotion into his forearm and, to raucous laughter, reaches for an electric toy and a glove. “Fantasize about having an all-over body massage.”

Truthdig says: A prudish Harvard student, writing in a conservative campus newspaper, says the following of Yale’s annual ode to sex: “I don’t see how bringing a Playboy stripper to campus is helping anything.”

No surprise there. The Yale contingent at Truthdig knows from experience that Cantabs are sooooo uptight.

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