Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 5:53:00 PM EDT
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Towson University's newspaper editor resigned this week because some folks are afraid of The "M" Word.
Here are the facts:
- Towson University, in Towson, Maryland, has a student run newspaper called The Towerlight.
- A weekly column, entitled "The Bed Post", ran an article in late September about mutual masturbation.
- Some panties got bunched up.
- The editor-in-cheif of The Towerlight put out a statement of resignation in which she relates receiving an email from the university president that was written in an "intimidating, patronizing and bullying tone".
- In the post Editor Resigns over Masturbation Column, abc2 author writes: "The column spared no detail; and while many excerpts are too graphic for this story one sentence give you an idea: 'Regardless of how you do it, you should be aroused, pleased and totally safe.'"
- Why are we so afraid of masturbation!?
- Why are we so afraid of safer sex!?
- What's wrong with peer education!?
- Why are we so afraid of sex!?
What do you think?
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by Anatic09
What I thought was most ironic was when this article attempted to talk about what was graphic about the peice they ended up mentioning what I honestly thought was a positive, healthy and fairly modest exploration of the topic that emphasized safety which is so important.
But yes, this story is ridiculous! College newspaper sex column prints a column about sex (and one that is about consensual safer-sex practices, as opposed to some of the offensive and misogynist stuff you often see in college newspapers), and suddenly that's a problem? If schools are uncomfortable with that, they shouldn't have allowed a sex column in the first place.
Athough I agree that mutual masturbation should be talked about on a college campus, I'm not sure that the column that was written should have been be published in the college newspaper. I was a college health educator for 7 years and did a lot of talking about safer sex and condom demos, etc. at Tulane University. But there is a time and place for every discussion.
Here is the column:
http://www.thetowerlight.com/the-bed-post-how-to-make-the-feeling-mutual-1.1916078