Admit that you’re wrong.” Rape and Underage “Fantasy” Sex CondonedĪfter having told the class that “sex positivity denies a moral association with sex,” Klechevsky asserts the correct moral position on sex: “any sexual fetish which violates the consent of others– that is a moral issue.”Įxcept, of course, when participating in “consensual non-consent” (referred to as CNC in the jars diagram). You’re bad and wrong and all you have to do is repent. “It’s absolutely like a religious cult,” Mina said, “They try to make you feel like you’re crazy and like you’re the one who’s uneducated and you don’t know something and everybody else knows and you’re not enlightened. The speakers also insisted that you “cannot be sex positive without being intersectional,” which means that you must reject the “white feminism” of the past, which was “sex worker exclusionary,” “trans exclusive,” “classist,” and “exclusive of black, brown, Asian, disabled women.”įranco insisted, “we’re actively trying to be anti-racist, anti-capitalist.” Sex is an important thing, and it should be a sacred thing and, like, a good thing under certain circumstances,” she told 4W. Mina disagreed with this lesson: “I don’t think we should teach kids that it doesn’t have meaning. After Franco’s introduction, Rachel announced, “we’re going to discuss sex positivity.” She emphasized that “sex negativity came first.” My feelings would not have been validated at all if I raised my hand and said this is misogynistic or as a victim of abuse and gaslighting this offends me.”Īccording to Mina, the “experts” made it clear that objections to BDSM are considered regressive. I knew I couldn’t say anything there, not against the experts, not against everyone there. “I let it run its course because I knew I didn’t stand a chance there. Though she found it “horrible to see this normalized” Mina said she was too scared to say anything. I felt like I was in a cult setting and they were trying to program me.” Culture of Fear and Silence Prevents Students from Speaking Up I really felt like I was sitting here in a dystopian novel, like it’s 1984. “It’s Orwellian, like an indoctrination program,” Mina said in our interview after class, “I felt like everyone around me was brainwashed. Other additional resources given to Mina and her peers included a link to the BDSM website Fet Life and a mention of “Pennsylvania candidate former sex worker tik tok: Alexandra Hunt.” The kink “ affectionate cruelty,” (rightmost jar in the first line) as Mina explained to me, “is where you beat the shit out of somebody and then you give them affection…that’s like trauma bonding.” Some notable kinks include “orgasm denial,” “caging,” “CNC” (consensual non-consent), “manhandling,” “humiliation,” “degradation,” “Marks & Bruises,” “Master / Slave,” “pain,” “punishment,” and “knife play” complete with an emoji knife: “I’m a joyful sadist,” said Franco, “I love giving pain to people who want to receive it.”īecause there wasn’t enough time to catalog all the joys of torment, a diagram titled “Jars of Kink” was provided to students as a supplemental resource. “Play,” in Franco’s words, refers to “danger or pain or psychological torture” including, but not limited to, “flogging, whipping, tying” “knives, breath play, fire, electric” and “blood play, cutting”–all of which is intentionally given and received with “joy.” The lecture began with an introduction by Franco, who informed the class that “I also guest lecture a lot on sex workers’ rights” and that her interests are not limited to BDSM but also kinks and “paraphilias that people consider problematic such as bestiality” and “necrophilia.”įranco explained that BDSM incorporates a wide range of “play.” BDSM Lecture Teaches Students to Normalize “Psychological Torture” The two educators she invited to guest lecture were a sex therapist named Rachel Klechevsky, LMSW, and a self-proclaimed former sex worker and Dominatrix who “educates under the name of Domina Franco.” The duo met at a master’s degree program on Human Sexuality Education at Widener University. The professor leading the course, Adriana Rego, MD, is faculty at Columbia University but teaches part-time at NYU. One purpose of the lecture, as stated in the Prezi presentation, was to enlighten students with the notion that “the BDSM lifestyle is valid and should be seen as a positive aspect of one’s life.” The letters in “BDSM” stand for Bondage, Dominance, Sadism, and Masochism.Ī student in the class, who wished to be addressed by the pseudonym “Mina,” provided a copy of the recorded lecture to 4W and spoke to us about her experience. ![]() On March 22nd a course at New York University titled “Sex Matters: Identity, Behavior and Development” subjected undergraduates to a two-hour class session on “BDSM, kink, and polyamory” over Zoom. A course at New York University subjected undergraduates to a class session on “BDSM, kink, and polyamory.”
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