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...sexual universe, maybe more—some?—love could be had by all. I learned this firsthand recently, as I sat down for a face-to-face chat with sophomore Natalie Krinsky, the woman behind the semi-phenomenon that is “Sex and the (Elm) City,” the Yale Daily News’ weekly sex column. Increasingly, Krinsky’s column—which began running this fall—serves the college masses as a sexual bible, (re)introducing wayward undergrads to the joys of doing it right and doing...
Unlike most undergraduate columns, “Sex and the (Elm) City” is actually widely read. In fact, the column commands not only a sizeable readership on the Yale campus (among the small but growing minority at Yale who are capable of reading, of course) but, even more remarkably for a student column, Krinsky’s byline is read beyond Yale’s ivory towers...
Praise for Krinsky and her column is far from universal, however. There are those who would like to see “Sex and the (Elm) City,” and Krinsky herself, swept off the face of the Earth in a raging moral whirlwind of righteousness. Krinsky, however, treats her naysayers as almost an afterthought. She casually informed me that the conservative Yale Free Press (Yale’s answer to the Salient) had recently assessed her as “giving syphilis a bad name...
While the prospects of losing face among a small cadre of effete ultra-conservatives would give any columnist pause, Krinsky confronts even more practical considerations each time she attaches her name to an edition of “Sex and the (Elm) City.” As an economics major (translation: concentrator) currently entertaining notions of one day working the I-bank circuit in New York, Krinsky realizes that her ability to discuss sex in print can only hurt her chances of advancing in the reserved and image-conscious world of high finance...
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