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Ivy League Butt Sex and Journalism

Posted on | September 23, 2017 | Comments Off on Ivy League Butt Sex and Journalism

 

When I worked at The Washington Times, our editor was Wes Pruden, son of a Southern Baptist minister, who believed that a newspaper should be sufficiently wholesome to be read by the entire family. There were certain words you simply did not use in The Times, and references to sexual behavior had to be phrased with discretion. Enforcing these standards of journalistic decency was quite challenging during the Lewinsky scandal, which broke two months after I arrived at The Times, and in my subsequent years as the editor of the “Culture, Etc.” page, I often became frustrated with the fact that I could not use direct quotes from some of the shockingly obscene materials that were funded by federal taxpayers in the name of “health” and “education.”

Well, now I’m my own editor and can use the phrase “Butt Sex” in a headline, because let’s face it, this is the Internet, OK? If your children have access to the Internet, reading that phrase isn’t likely to shock them. They’ve probably already seen it — not just in words, but video.

 

One of the real wake-up calls for me was the 2014 “Belle Knox” scandal, when Duke University freshman Miriam Weeks was exposed as a porn performer. In interviews, she said she started watching porn when she was only 11 or 12 years old. How many exclamation points does that deserve? How can I possibly express the absolute horror that grips the mind of any parent at the thought that this girl, the daughter of a devout Catholic parents, whose father was a physician and an Army officer, was watching hard-core porn when she was in sixth grade?

One of the impediments facing conservatives in the Culture Wars is that, in defending standards of decency and morality, we are unable (or perhaps unwilling) to speak bluntly about what it is we are critiquing. When I was in Massachusetts earlier this month, I was interviewed by Molly Finn on her WCCA-TV program Close to Home and, when she talked about my book Sex Trouble, she was obliged to warn viewers that it is “an R-rated book” because I quote radical feminists in their own words, including words that begin with “c” and “f.”

These problems in fighting the Culture War came to mind this morning when I read about the latest controversy from the Ivy League:

Leaders of the student newspaper at Princeton University have disbanded the publication’s independent editorial board, a move that comes after the group put forth a string of right-leaning opinions, including denouncing the women’s center for its radical feminist agenda and arguing in favor of due process.
“The top editors of the Prince have no involvement in what we write,” said Jack Whelan, a member of the dissolved editorial board, in an interview with The College Fix. “The reason why were we were destroyed is the opinions we published on a regular basis were more conservative than the opinions published on a daily basis in the Princetonian as a whole.”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) It so happens that my great-grandfather’s brigade was led by a Princeton alumnus, Brig. Gen. J.J. Archer, who was captured (along with my ancestor Pvt. Winston Wood Bolt) by the Union’s Iron Brigade in the opening clash of the Battle of Gettysburg. Thus you might say I have an inherited affection for Princeton, and what are they teaching kids there nowadays? Let’s read the “controversial” editorial:

Since women first enrolled as full-time undergraduates at the University in 1969, female students have made tremendous contributions to our community. As women continually strive to improve their standing on campus, the Board finds the Women’s Center deficient in its role in this effort, because we believe the Center is neither as inclusive nor as effective as it could be. The Board urges the Women’s Center to refocus its programming to emphasize core issues directly affecting the undergraduate experience that are more inclusive of a politically diverse female student body, as well as of all genders. We further propose the Women’s Center solicit greater input from students in order to facilitate more representative programming.
The Women’s Center must have clearer, more appropriate priorities that better correlate with the student experience. The third full week of classes alone featured extensive Women’s Center programming on sex: “Developing a Self-Pleasure Practice” (Oct. 5), three separate sessions titled “Sex with the Lights On” (Oct. 4-6), and “Yoga for Better Sex” (Oct. 6). These events were advertised with posters that included questions like “Where is the male g-spot?” and “Anal is his favorite thing — what’s yours?” . . .

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Ivy League sodomy lessons? What would General Archer say to that? And what would Wes Pruden say? How can you get readers to understand what’s going on at elite universities without quoting these posters advertising butt sex as “his favorite thing”?

It costs $62,750 a year for parents to send their kid to Princeton, where the Women’s Center quotes lesbian feminist Audre Lorde on its website, and the program coordinator is a self-described “queer, anti-racist white woman” named Jordan Dixon (“pronouns she/her”). How much is Jordan Dixon being paid to promote butt sex at Princeton?

 

How much federal aid does Princeton University receive annually? Why is it now impermissible for student journalists at Princeton to criticize the Women’s Center? Is anyone on campus at Princeton even allowed to say that butt sex is (a) nasty and (b) specifically forbidden by Judeo-Christian morality? Or would it now be considered an intolerable expression of “homophobia” to quote the Bible at Princeton?

Ladies of Princeton! Wake up! If your boyfriend wants butt sex, you need to ask yourself a simple question: Why? Where did he get the idea that this unsanitary and painful activity was something you should try?

Back when I was in school, aspiring journalists were taught to ask questions and report the facts, rather than to ignore whatever unpleasant truths did not fit within some kind of official institutional ideology. Yet it is apparent that ideology (“Anal sex is awesome!”) is now more important than facts (“Ouch! That hurts! Stop!”) at Princeton, and the student newspaper has become corrupted — “Decadent and Depraved” — by the identity-politics dogma of The Cult of Social Justice.

The situation at Princeton illustrates how far our culture has gone down a slippery slope lubricated with intellectual Astroglide, as I said in 2013. Where will this Weimar decadence lead? “We have weighed anchor, sailed off into uncharted waters without a compass, and are now badly adrift in those regions of the ancient maps marked ‘Here Be Dragons.'”

Wes Pruden would never approve “Butt Sex” in a headline, but I think he would agree with me that Princeton was better in General Archer’s day. Of course, that’s something no one at Princeton now would be allowed to say, for reasons having nothing to do with pro-sodomy feminism.

Floyd Lee Corkins could not be reached for comment.



 

 

Category: Fear. Loathing., Journalism, Sex Trouble, The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

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