Harvard latest in Trend as More Universities Approve Official Student Fetish or BDSM Clubs

In the This Never Would have Happened Back when I was in School but It’s Pretty Damned Awesome It’s Happening Now Department, Harvard University has now approved an officially sanctioned student club related to kinky sex, the Harvard College Munch which grew informally from around seven students to a current membership of thirty active participants and has now had official status approved.

Harvard is neither the only nor even the first institution of higher learning in the United States to grant official student club status to a group dedicated to kinky, fetish, D/s, or alternative sexuality.

As Alex Johnson notes (see his full article here):

While Harvard’s club drew widespread attention this week, it’s far from the only BDSM club officially recognized by, or at least tolerated at, U.S. colleges.

At the University of Minnesota, Kinky U is Student Organization No. 2370. It meets weekly — after office hours “for maximum safety and confidentiality” — to discuss “topics related to kink and the kinky community.”

At Tufts University in Medford, Mass., Tufts Kink started meeting this semester.

“I think there’s a number of students who feel sort of isolated and alienated, and I think it’s very powerful for them to have just a place where they can express themselves and a place where they can make friends,” co-founder Anschel Schaffer-Cohen told The Tufts Daily.

There’s no national registry of campus BDSM groups, but consensus is that the oldest is at Columbia University, in New York, where Conversio Virium meets on campus every Monday night at 9.

“Conversio virium” is Latin for “conversion of forces,” and the group says it dedicates itself to ‘the full exploration of BDSM, both in its sexual and spiritual aspects.”

“We encourage acceptance and communication between members,” its charter says. “We urge them to learn from each other’s play styles and experiences and to set aside any assumptions they may have about who people are and what they do.”

Actual sex isn’t allowed at such on-campus gatherings, which usually host discussions or the occasional live demonstration of safe and consensual kinky sex.

The point is to “raise general awareness of kink and to promote acceptance and understanding of BDSM,” according to the bylaws of Risk-Aware Consensual Kink, or RACK, at the University of Chicago.

RACK is an intellectual group, it says, not a play group. It provides “resources to students who are interested in or curious about BDSM” and demonstrations that “give students an opportunity to learn from experienced members of the BDSM community about safely practicing kink.”

The Harvard group began last October with a few friends who discovered they shared common interests (see here):

It started last October with a meal in Currier dining hall with a handful of friends who shared something in common: an affinity for kinky sex. More than a year after the group first began informally meeting over meals to discuss issues and topics relating to kinky sex, Harvard College Munch has grown from seven to about 30 members and is one of 15 student organization that will be approved by the Committee on Student Life this Friday. Michael, who was granted anonymity by The Crimson to protect his privacy, is the founder of Munch, an informal lunch or dinner meeting for people across the kink community. For him, the recognition will provide a sense of ease for current and future members, knowing they are receiving institutional support. “If you come to campus and you have the sexual interests we represent, you may not even suspect that such a group exists,” Michael said. Mae, a member of the organization who asked to be identified by her middle name, said since its formation the group has provided her with a comfortable space to discuss her interests. “I didn’t think that anyone was even remotely interested [in kink] on campus,” Mae said. “It’s a community where you can feel safe, and you can feel comfortable talking about [kink].” “Pretty much everyone who joins this club always thought they were alone,” Michael said.

For more information, see the Harvard student newspaper pieces

here and here while a Huffington Post piece on the subject can be found here.

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