The Bowdoin Orient

Oh, the orgasm, a happy state of transcendental bliss, somewhere between a sunrise and a volcanic eruption. The orgasm is a complicated thing, engaging all the systems of the body in a grand symphony of sensation, leaving you feeling relaxed, fulfilled and exhausted. Having an orgasm can be a very personal experience, or an incredible, shared moment. Hopefully your share it with just your partner, rather than your entire floor who heard you moaning last Saturday night.

Nonexistent. When asked to describe the Bowdoin dating scene, most students we interviewed laughed and chose this word. Yet, as published in last week's edition of the Orient, 43 percent of respondents to the sex survey stated they were in monogamous, sexually active relationships. So while relationships and sex don't always coincide, for nearly half of Bowdoin students, they do. These contradictory results point to cognitive dissonance in the collective Bowdoin psyche: nearly half of us currently engage in relationships, but still we deny the reality of a dating scene.

Dear Silent Majority, Your correspondents were shocked that we could have erred as egregiously as you pointed out in your illuminating epistle to the editors. BMASV, Safe Space, Out Peers and Allies, SASSMM, Peer Health, V-Day, Speak, Sex 101 and the Vagina Monologues simply do not provide a large enough forum for the intellectual discourse that you so fervently desire. Bowdoin does deserve a better sex column, one that points out the rampant risks and rare rewards of sex, so that innocent Bowdoin students won't be duped by our "overriding manifesto," stating that despite the risks and consequences, sex should be enjoyable. As every "highly intelligent, highly rational" Bowdoin student should know, sex is a highly rational and highly intelligent process.

Hey babe, want to engage in some sweet sitophilia tonight? As your partner runs screaming out of the room, you'll probably realize that the fastest way to desexualize a fetish is to call it by its proper name. Sitophiliacs are those who find sexual arousal from incorporating food into sexual activity. Food play holds a prestigious position, as the most culturally acceptable sexual fetish. Subtypes include meat, fruit or vegetable fetishes, Nyotaimori (the ritual consumption of sushi off of a naked woman) and yeastiality (sexual activity centering on baked goods).

Brain salad surgery, tipping the velvet, gaining knowledge, muff diving, eating out, head job, getting dome, sucking off, rolling cigars, and lolly-gagging. Goats do it, hyenas do it, and even sheep have been known to take the plunge. Do ewe know what we're talking about? Oral sex can be a great addition to your sexual repertoire. This seductive skill is easy to learn, but hard to master.

From our first health classes in elementary school, we've been told about the problems, pregnancies and possible persecutions that come along with sex. Aside from the idealized version of sex forced down our throats by popular culture, we rarely see sex cast in a realistic and rewarding light.