Sex and the University ~ the blog

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About 60 McGill students stripped down to their skivvies and birthday suits this week, vying for the opportunity to appear in a special issue of Playboy. The legendary men's magazine was in Montreal last week casting for its "Girls of the Top 10 Party Schools" spread.

Playboy recently ranked McGill tenth on its annual list.Auditions were held at a hotel on Sherbrooke over three days. After filling out forms asking for information ranging from measurements to hobbies, potential playmates were taken into a bedroom suite where they were asked to remove as much clothing as they were comfortable with.

Each woman then posed for a handful of Polaroid pictures.Some ladies donned lingerie, while others went completely nude, perhaps taking to heart the words of David Rams, a photographer who has been on the Playboy masthead for about 10 years."We probably won't pick you if you don't take your top off," he said with a smile as a surprisingly demure set of applicants completed paperwork.

"Why show up for a Playboy casting if you're not going to take your clothes off?" Gen Friesen, who said she attended casting to "break the mould of chemistry students," posed topless."I'm a bit of an exhibitionist, [so] I was comfortable being nude," said Friesen, U2 Chemistry, adding that she decided to try out after friends encouraged her. Most applicants described the shoot as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. "A lot of girls do it so that they can look back and say, 'I was hot before I had kids,'" said Eden Orfanos, producer of the shoot.

The girls were picked to represent McGill's party-school title. According to a statement released by Playboy the list was determined by editorial staff, who considered aspects of the campus social scene such as proximity to off-campus entertainment, general vibrancy, social opportunities and male-to-female ratio.McGill officials were not pleased with the ranking."This is clearly a promotional or marketing gimmick," said Jennifer Robinson, associate vice-principal communications. "It is not credible and not appreciated."Robinson said she found it unfortunate that the magazine is using McGill's name.

"We are known for very high-quality students, professors and research," she said. "This is the first time that we have ever been ranked in something like this."Theresa Hennessey, publicity manager at Playboy, said that being featured as a top-10 party school does not detract from a university's image nor trivialize its academic merits."I don't think it tarnishes the university's image at all," Hennessey said. "We're not saying that it isn't a great place to get an education. [Rather], it is also a great place to have a social college experience."Hennessey said that Playboy hasn't received any complaints from other schools in the ranking, which also includes University of California at Santa Barbara and Florida State University. Though McGill may take issue with its appearance on the list, Playboy is not violating university policy by recruiting local students."We don't do anything on campus," Hennessey said.

"We make it clear that we are not affiliated with the universities." Students, campus groups ambivalentIn all, six McGill students were selected to pose for the magazine. They were photographed over three days in different settings, the primary location being a loft owned by a McGill PhD student. Madison Chi, U2 Anatomy and Cell Biology, posed for the magazine after attending the casting call with her roommate. She asked that the Tribune use a pseudonym.
Chi said she was surprised that she had been selected."You picture these magazines as featuring only the skinniest girls with the biggest breasts," she said. "But then my roommate called from her photo shoot and said they wanted me to come in and pose."Though Chi felt slightly awkward "getting into it," her overall impressions of the experience were positive."It was really laidback and relaxed," Chi said of the shoot. "They looked us in the eye while talking [to us], even though we were in lingerie."

The reaction of campus groups was subdued. Liberated Bodies, a club that promotes healthy body image, did not applaud or condone the recent recruitment."We do not want to dictate what others should find liberating or oppressive," the club said in a statement. "We also respect the decisions of the women who chose what was right for themselves when posing for Playboy."The Union for Gender Empowerment was unavailable for comment. (Liz Allmang, McGill Tribune)

The "Girls of the Top 10 Party Schools" issue of Playboy hit newsstands on April 7. It's not too late to bare all for Playboy. Check out www.playboy.com/on-campus/collegecastings.

The girl on the left is Alexandra Kosteniuk. She is currently considered the greatest female chess player on the planet. Last time we looked her FIDE rating was well over 2500, and she is a Grandmaster in both female and male lists (however that stuff works). If you were to compare the way she looks with some of her chess playing colleagues (see below; world's no.2 Peter Leko) you would understand why Alexandra is the ultimate chess darling of geekdom, and if you played chess against her she'd KICK Your Ass. Her talent has given her the opportunity to travel the world, and in certain circles she's become quite the celebrity. The girl on the right is just ass and her talent has given her cars, houses, plane tickets, movie roles, jewelry etc. Happy Friday!

Gamblers, it's said, will bet on anything, such as which raindrop will slide down widow glass first.You never hear someone say whether or not team X will beat team Y, it's always, "I think they'll cover the spread."Now, some enterprising Internet sports books have come up with a new twist on the sport of girl watching.These guys are taking bets on which female celebrity will be the next to have a "wardrobe malfunction," as happened to Janet Jackson. They however are posting odds and taking bets on who will have the next, as they are calling it, nipple slip.I, as I'm sure others do, often wonder just how "accidental" these events are.Many years ago when I read "Playboy," they had an amusing and informative Q&A section, to which a neophyte asked the question:"If I'm with a woman, and her clothing is revealing, should I, or should I not, look at what is showing?"The response was: "Take a look, because a woman always knows, and has control over what is showing."

Chocolate is rich dark and satisfying
You are never disappointed when you open the wrapper
Chocolate doesn't care how many you have eaten before
Chocolate always hits the spot
Chocolate doesn't secretly want to be eaten by your best friend
Chocolate doesn't think shopping chanel is stupid
Chocolate always smells good
Chocolate won't ask "Am I the best?" or "How was it?"
It doesn't sulk if you don't want it first thing in the morning
Chocolates are easy to pick up
Chocolate satisfies even when soft
You can suck on chocolate in front of Mom
Chocolate never leaves a bad taste in your mouth
Chocolate never minds what time of the month it is
You don't mind brown stains left by chocolate
With chocolate, size doesn't matter, it's always good
Chocolates do not wear white socks
Chocolate doesn't mind when you crunch the nuts
With chocolate you don't have to pretend you've never eaten one before
"If you love me you'll swallow that" has real meaning with chocolate
You can have more than one a night without ruining your reputation
Chocolate doesn't just think it's smooth
Chocolates aren't into rope or leather
You can tell just by looking at it, it hasn't been in anyone else's mouth
Hard chocolate is easy to find
and...
Great Chocolates are always available.

my first RedLight Article

Joan Roughgarden, a transgendered professor of biology at Stanford University(is it only us or does Stanford gets all the interesting profs?? ed.), has penned a fascinating-sounding book on the evolutionary role of homosexuality called Evolution's Rainbow. Roughgarden's theories center on explaining why, if homosexuality is a genetic aberration, it hasn't been bred out of all species -- instead, homosexual coupling is more the norm than the aberration when it comes to most animals. As she says, "a 'common genetic disease' is a contradiction in terms, and homosexuality is three to four orders of magnitude more common than true genetic diseases such as Huntington's disease."

In some positions, a female macaque will rub her clitoris against her partner's back, deriving sexual pleasure.
Japanese macaques, an old world primate, illustrate this principle perfectly. Macaque society revolves around females, who form intricate dominance hierarchies within a given group. Males are transient. To help maintain the necessary social networks, female macaques engage in rampant lesbianism. These friendly copulations, which can last up to four days, form the bedrock of macaque society, preventing unnecessary violence and aggression. Females that sleep together will even defend each other from the unwanted advances of male macaques. In fact, behavioral scientist Paul Vasey has found that females will choose to mate with another female, as opposed to a horny male, 92.5% of the time. While this lesbianism probably decreases reproductive success for macaques in the short term, in the long run it is clearly beneficial for the species, since it fosters social stability. "Same-sex sexuality is just another way of maintaining physical intimacy," Roughgarden says. "It's like grooming, except we have lots of pleasure neurons in our genitals. When animals exhibit homosexual behavior, they are just using their genitals for a socially significant purpose."

The Rapex rape prevention device has been delayed until late this year. As you may remember, the gadget goes inside of a woman and clamps down on a rapist’s penis to force him into getting medical attention, which in turn will alert the authorities that he is a rapist (or the victim of a horrible practical joke).
The project has been greeted with enthusiasm as well as scepticism. One of those critical of the device is Charlene Smith, a rape survivor, journalist and activist on women’s issues. She says she believes the device will increase the risk of victims being killed.
Perhaps they’re using the extra time to perfect the device so that accidental clampage when a woman forgets to remove it won’t cause undue pain to some poor husband. Either that, or they’re adding more spikes. – Jason Chen


This article brought up the thought of cats reproducing, but reversed. The male cat's penis has spines which point backwards. Upon withdrawal of the penis, the spines rake the walls of the female's vagina. Of course, in cats, it's natural and necessary for ovulation. Nevertheless, guys now know what goes through a woman's mind when thinking of cats having sex.