Sex Week is coming to Yale – complete with a porn star, anti-porn advocate and a "love week" alternative. Student organizers -- who fought long and hard to have the event this year after facing much friction -- say pornography is an important part of the series, but a small part. Besides Mayhem, they have other speakers on their itinerary, including authors and activists. But not everyone on the New Haven campus is attracted to Sex Week. For the detractors, there's a smaller alternative: True Love Week. The Undergraduates for a Better Yale College are sponsoring their own event from Feb. 5-14 on Yale's campus to counteract what they perceive as the casual "hook-up" culture promoted by Sex Week, which they had petitioned against. Read more at:
http://articles.courant.com/2012-02-02/news/hc-sex-week-20120202_1_activist-web-site-yale-university-campus
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