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http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/02....ap/index.html

Now coming to a school near you

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Harvard approves student sex magazine

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) --Harvard University has approved a student magazine about sex that will feature art, sex advice and fiction -- as well as photographs of undressed Harvard undergraduates.

"We are aware of the fact that some segments of the population would find the contents distasteful," said Associate Dean Judith H. Kidd, a member of the 14-person board that approves all student organizations. "However, the committee considered this to be an issue of freedom of speech."

The committee, made up of faculty, staff and students, approved "H Bomb" magazine Tuesday with a 12-0 vote, with two abstentions. The vote lets the magazine's publishers apply for funding but does not guarantee money; when it would be published is uncertain.

The magazine cannot take its photos on university property, a policy that applies for all of the school's undergraduate publications.

Vassar and Swarthmore colleges also have sex-themed magazines, though H Bomb is the first such publication for Harvard.

The students proposing the magazine, Katharina C. Baldegg and Camilla H. Hrdy, have unlisted phone numbers and e-mail addresses, and could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press.

A Harvard Crimson newspaper story described H Bomb as a "porn magazine," but Baldegg and Hrdy dispute that description in a statement released by a Harvard spokesman.

"What we are proposing is an outlet for literary and artistic expression that is both desired and needed, not a pornographic magazine," it read.

I think that's awesome. Of course it's now the art vs porn debate, what a crock.

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Bill Hicks said
"Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmmm . . . sounds like every commercial on TV doesn't it?"

What is artist merit?

Harvard Sex Mag!

{immature}This sounds like a great idea! There's a ton of people at my school I'd love to see naked :D {/immature}

Seriously though, I think this is fine. People are going to want to discuss these things anyways, so they may as well have an outlet for it.

mmmm naked bookworms

i think it's a great step forward for the acceptance of sex in daily culture

I would so subscribe!

There are 2 threads about this. This one was posted 14 minutes before this one :p

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Originally posted by Sleepyjack
There are 2 threads about this. This one was posted 14 minutes before this one :p

bah....fair is fair :) Merging.

I saw a Playboy with the women of the Ivy league

The Harvard girls were pretty nasty.

Does this mean more sexy women wearing glasses?

People need to lighten up. It's not like it is Berkeley where you know any mag like this will be anything BUT artistic.

"Is this a Harvard bar?"

I think it's great to have an open forum like this. I wish I had this when I went to school.

do you think that you have to go to Harvard to get a copy?

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Originally posted by water_boy1999
Does this mean more sexy women wearing glasses?

People need to lighten up. It's not like it is Berkeley where you know any mag like this will be anything BUT artistic.

Berkeley has a hardcore porn mag? The reasons to go their just keep piling up.

i'm feeling the need to push for a similar publication at my school now :)

GO HARVARD!! I needs to transfer!

How many ladies at Harvard ar worthy of a nudie mag though?

That's awesome.

Now if I could only start one here...