"Sex Toys R Us" event at Cal State LA cancelled
 

This is not associated with a GLO but definitely inappropriate for an event to be held on a college campus.

http://laist.com/2015/02/04/cal_stat...toys_event.php

Maybe the planners were trying to ride the coattails of the movie "50 Shades of Gray".

Why is this inappropriate? If all the students are over 18, there's nothing wrong with sex toys being sold on campus. They're perfectly legal. The school may not want to be associated with something they deem unsavory, but if it's registered with the schools Gender and Sexuality Resource center like the article says I don't see a problem with it.

I don't consider this inappropriate.

I wonder if this campus has annual performances of the Vagina Monologues.

I agree.

Perhaps the event was to discuss the construction and implementation of sex. Different perceptions of sex (for the non-asexual) and the self-comfort deemed necessary to use sex toys (with or without a partner) or to masturbate. This event could've been more profound than a sex toys party at someone's house.

Would you feel different if your GLO were hosting?

In the Intro to Human Sexuality class at Iowa they always took a field trip to a sex shop.

No, I wouldn't feel different because of my views on sexuality, sexual activity, and gender.

But that chapter would get in trouble depending on the content of the event.

The name of the event is catchy however I would want a Delta chapter to choose a different name for the event. Sex toys are NOT us. Our Sorority doesn't specialize in sex toys. (Not because sex toys are shameful but because it isn't the Sorority's purpose and specialization.)

No. I don't find sex to be something I should be ashamed of.

I know an administrator at that school who is likely the boss of the GSRC and I will be talking to him about this because I am nosy as shit.

Only one of your many endearing traits.

We saw an extremely 1970s film in our Human Sex class.

Appropriate for a GLO to sponsor? No. Appropriate for the interhall council or the volleyball team to sponsor? No. Appropriate for the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center to sponsor? Yes. It's pretty much in their name.

Agreed.

A sorority who specializes in sex toys. Sounds like every bad teen movie stereotype that you can think up. ;)

LOL. Let us know what you find out. :cool:



I don't think there's anything wrong with this on a college campus. A GLO isn't sponsoring it, so what's the big deal?

ETA: Dumb 18 year old bringing a flyer home where her mom could see it who called the news and ruined everyone's fun.

I agree on both points.

No. I'm in agreement with Dr. Phil re: the chapter changing the name etc..

This seems to be an issue moreso because it's a public institution. I can't imagine Sex Toys R Us being a problem at a private school.

I think there would be more complaints at a private school than a public school.

It's a dumb name. But then, as Wm. Shakespeare wrote, "what's in a name?"

In this case, apparently much more than I thought.

Anyway I'm all for educating people about sex. I remember we had to watch a movie in 6th grade about how pigs procreate, and it scarred me for life. I did not EVER want to do THAT. I mean, not with a pig, with a person of the opposite sex. Please. Don't even go there.

For some reason this thread reminded me of a book I read as a young adult, The Harrad Experiment, http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...er%2Caps%2C172

Believe me, I just dated myself big time.

DaffyKD

^^^wasn't it a movie too? (dating myself with you)

33girl, yes! A very scandalous movie made from an even more scandalous book. Had my mother known I read it in high school she would have forbidden me to attend college.

DaffyKD

I just googled and why I remember this is even more silly. Don Johnson was in it with Tippi Hedren and that's how he met Melanie Griffith (who was jailbait at the time).

So I guess if Dakota Johnson is as bad in 50 Shades as everyone is saying we can blame it on the Harrad Experiment. Lol

The real question here is one of priorities. The main reason we all go to college is to get ahead in life through opening career opportunities; though we all like sex as well, getting pregnant is definitely a "millstone" to opportunity as well as an inconvenience (at the very least). It would definitely not be something most colleges would want associated with their campuses. If the "toy party" is for the curtailment of pregnancy, I could see a real use for it, however, these sorts of parties often encourage a higher frequency of encounters that could put a students college success at risk. Ultimately, it is up to the individual to decide; policies, laws, regulations, and social pressure should not dictate what common sense should have solved long ago.

Depends on the private school. Some are *much* more religious than the average Public School, some *much* less. My Alma Mater (Carnegie-Mellon) paid more attention to the Robotics club than it did to Campus Ministry and had a Gay and Lesbian group with Student Government funding in the mid 1980s.