Photo credit: nwistheone/flickr.comSo, I just cannot take it any longer. I feel I need to address the hypocrites and idiots who have found it necessary to comment on the University of Cincinnati's week of "Sexploration."
The event has garnered considerable media attention, especially from the Cincinnati Enquirer, and I'll admit I found it odd that the paper previewed the event on Sunday, Feb. 1. Here's a link to Cliff Peale's article: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090201/NEWS01/902010361.
"Really," I thought at the time. "Is there so little going on in Cincinnati that the Enquirer is now covering benign campus events?"
After all, as a student at a major university, I didn't bat an eye when I first heard about "Sexploration," and I'm fairly certain no I know did either.
But the letters to the Enquirer's editorial page started showing up in print, Archbishop Pilarczyk got involved (http://www.newsrecord.org/sections/news/archbishop_upset_with_sexploration-1.1355050)
and so did Peter Bronson
"How are events such as "Pizza and Porn" and "Got the Hook Up?" any better than inviting a tobacco company to peddle cigarettes and celebrate the glories of a good smoke?" This is just one of the pearls of wisdom Bronson offers in his "Sexploration" blog post.
For the record, I can't think of I time I ever thought Bronson was right.
Sigh.
So let me first address the idiots (that's you and your ilk, Bronson). If any of these people had gone to, researched, or even called someone involved with the "Pizza and Porn" event, they'd realize the event was not dinner and a movie, but rather a public forum, a discourse, an exploration of people's thoughts and perspectives on pornography.
In other words, "Pizza and Porn" was intended to bring people of differing opinions together to encourage critical thinking concerning a difficult and controversial subject.
Gee, I could have sworn that this is what college is for: to teach people to think both critically and for themselves.
As for the hypocrites, well, I'll start with Pilarczyk. Dude, you are just in no way, shape or form in a position to comment on, well just about anything to do with sex.
"I find the 'Sexploration' program ... to be profoundly disturbing," Pilarczyk said in a statement released by the Archdiocese. "The gross disregard of the moral sensibilities of many in the university community is troubling in the extreme."
What's troubling to me is that a representative of a religion that is wholly and completely out of touch with life in the 21st century (Hello, no birth control? Seriously?) is commenting on the sexual mores of today's college students.
What's troubling to me is that a man who has vowed to live his life as a celibate is commenting on the safety of the sex others engage in.
What's troubling to me is that a man of such high position, so ready to publicly denounce the university and it's Wellness Center, could be completely misinformed as to whether or not taxpayer funds paid for the week's events (they didn't).
What's troubling to me is that after all the charges, convictions, admissions, accusations and payoffs surrounding pedophile clergy (including this: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090117/NEWS01/901170367/-1/today),
Pilarczyk would so willingly and without thinking out the consequences put himself out there in this way, opening himself up to a potential onslaught of criticism and recrimination, ready to make a fool of himself over what is essentially the decision of two consenting adults to participate in safe sex.
Well played, Archbishop. Well played.
Finally, to many, but not all of (some of the comments are very rational and intelligent), the women who post on momslikeme.com: Are you such old farts that you don't remember your college experience? Are you liars or just phonies? Just wondering, because some of you spout such venom towards Pure Romance. Are you denying you had sex in college? Because I'm not falling for that. Just saying.
Whew, I fell better now.
Agree with me? Think I'm a lunatic? Comment away.
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