Students to hold sex talk in Williamsburg
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Jan. 28 The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., has given the green light to a student-run Sex Workers' Art Show on campus.
University President Gene Nichol approved the controversial sex show in a statement that also said Nichols had tried to work with students to hold the event at an off-campus venue, the Newport News Daily Press reported Monday.
Students were unable to find an off-campus venue, however, and Nichol said the First Amendment and "defining traditions of openness that sustain universities" required he allow the show to be held at the college.
"My views and the views of others in the community about the worth or offensiveness of the program can provide no basis for censoring it," he added.
The show is scheduled for Feb. 4 at William and Mary and Feb. 5 at Virginia Commonwealth University and features monologues by strippers, prostitutes and other sex workers. Copyright 2008 by UPI
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WTF, indeed
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Liberal Zombie ,
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:01:30 GMT
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Vijay Prozak, I call you out on your teaching your kids to be dysfunctional. Sex is not "bad" - it is natural and all the taboos you and your belief system has built around sex is the problem with society today.
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strippers
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lucas jackson ,
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:32:51 GMT
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um, do you have to be a student, or can anyone ateend? and do the performers have perhaps a price list printed in the program?
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WTF
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Vijay Prozak ,
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:29:43 GMT
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Teach kids dysfunction. It'll make 'em happy. Really.
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Offended?
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brent posada ,
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:40:06 GMT
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Why do people make such a big deal about being offended by something like this to the point of not allowing it to go on? If it bothers you so much, just don't go! If you don't agree with me, don't listen to me. If you don't like the idea that an atheist wrote a book and they are making a movie about it, just stay home! But don't tell others they cannot go. If a woman is a prostitute, and you don't agree, just don't patronize her! And please for the love of all that is good and pure don't get on your high horse and damn these people to hell with your pious commentary. The Bible says, "Judge not lest ye be judged, for in the same way ye judge, ye to shall be judged and with the same measure you measure unto others so shall it me measured unto you."
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