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Intended "to pique students’ interest and spark dialogue through creative, interactive, and innovative programming," Sex Week at Yale began in 2002 as a "Kosher Sex Day" organized by Yale Hillel. The plan expanded to a "Kosher Sex Week" because, as founder Eric J. Rubenstein quickly realized, according to the Sex Week at Yale Web site, "with a topic as loaded as sex... a day just isn’t enough...
After receiving enormous interest outside of the Jewish community, Yale Hillel agreed to broaden the focus of the program. Celebrated annually the week before Valentine's Day, Sex Week at Yale has attracted sexlebrities such as Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, Ron Jeremy, and "a bunch of academics who talk about sex but don’t actually have it," according to IvyGate...
This year's Sex Week features sexpert Susan M. Block (better known as Dr. Suzy), seven-time Woody Award winner Sasha Grey, and pioneering female to male transsexual porn star Buck Angel. With lectures such as "Babeland’s Lip Tricks: Blowjobs and Going Down," "Sexual Fantasies," and "The 'M' Word" (spoiler alert: it's masturbation), expect our frenemies in New Haven to go from sexually inept to sexually adept...
Lindsey Van holds the record - among both men and women - for the longest jump off Whistler, British Columbia's normal ski jump, built for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The 25-year-old skier trains six days a week, 11 months a year, and has been jumping for the past 19 years. But when the Games kick off on Feb. 12, the 2009 women's ski-jumping world champion will be nowhere in sight. That's because women aren't allowed to ski jump in the Olympics. (See TIME's 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...Medina, a former nurse who runs a small medical-billing company near Houston, has seen her share in the Rasmussen poll of likely Republican primary voters rise dramatically from 4% in November, with a recent boost from two good performances in debates among the three candidates. This week, a poll of 423 probable Republican primary voters by Public Policy Polling (PPP) has Hutchison in a virtual tie with Medina when the poll's 4.8% margin of error is considered: 39% for Perry, 28% for Hutchison and 24% for Medina. A relatively new polling organization, PPP made one prescient recent call...