Sex and the University

by Reimold, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780813548067
• ISBN10: 0813548063
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Who would think that Monday morning's page-turning sports scores could be trumped by "Sex on Tuesday"? But, during the last decade or so, college newspaper sex columns and campus sex magazines have revolutionized student journalism and helped define a new sexual generation. They are the ultimate authorities on student social interaction, relationships, and sex at a time when sexual activity, sexual dangers, and sexual ignorance are prevalent and sex has become the wallpaper of students' lives. Daniel Reimold gives readers of all generations an inside look at this phenomenon. Student sex columnists and sex magazine editors are both celebrities and causes célèbres on their home campuses. One columnist, echoing the sentiments of many, said he became an overnight "rock star golden child of journalism." But, with celebrity comes controversy. These columns and magazines have sparked contentious and far-reaching legal, religious, and intergenerational debates about sex, the student press, and the place of both within higher education. They are also the most prominent modern student press combatants in the fight for free speech. And they have blurred journalistic boundaries between what is considered public and private, art and pornography, and gossip and news. Sex and the Universityexplores the celebrity status that student sex columnists and magazine editors have received, the controversies they have caused, and the sexual generation and student journalism revolution they represent. Complete with a "sexicon" of slang, this book also dives into the columns and magazines themselves, sharing for the first time what modern students are saying about their sex and love lives, in their own words.

Author Biography

Daniel Reimold is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Tampa, where he also advises the campus newspaper. Hailed by the Nation as a leading expert on the student sex column movement, he has published and presented research on college media throughout the United States and in Southeast Asia and maintains one of the only daily blogs on the student press worldwide.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Sex, Sex, SEX!	p. 1
The Explosion of Sexual Expression in the Student Press
Sexual, Revolutionary	p. 11
The Pioneering College Newspaper Sex Column
Carrie Bradshaw of the Ivy League	p. 33
The Celebrity of Sex Columnist Natalie Krinsky
Kate Has Become Sex	p. 52
The Impact of Sex Columns on Students' Personal Lives
Love, Lust, and Every Kink In Between	p. 81
The Columns Tackle Modern Students' Social and Sexual Lives
Clash of Cultures	p. 105
Outside Criticism and Censorship of Student Sex Columns
Playboy for the College Set	p. 132
The Rise and Influence of Campus Sex Magazines
My College Paper Was Not Like That!	p. 160
The Journalistic Legacy of the Student Sex Column
A Student Sexicon	p. 175
Sexual Slang in College Newspaper Sex Columns
Notes	p. 205
Selected Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 235
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