Preface
1 Sex, Sex, SEX!: The Explosion of Sexual Expression
in the Student Press
2 Sexual, Revolutionary: The Pioneering College
Newspaper Sex Column
3 Carrie Bradshaw of the Ivy League: The Celebrity of
Sex Columnist Natalie Krinsky
4 Kate Has Become Sex: The Impact of Sex Columns on
Students’ Personal Lives
5 Love, Lust, and Every Kink In Between: The Columns
Tackle Modern Students’ Social and Sexual Lives
6 Clash of Cultures: Outside Criticism and Censorship
of Student Sex Columns
7 Playboy for the College Set: The Rise and Influence
of Campus Sex Magazines
8 My College Paper Was Not Like That!: The
Journalistic Legacy of the Student Sex Column
A Student Sexicon: Sexual Slang in College Newspaper Sex Columns
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Subtitle: Celebrity,
Controversy, and a Student Journalism Revolution Authors:
Daniel Reimold Subject:Cultural Studies, American
Studies, Media Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4806-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4805-0 Pages:
248 pages Publication Date: September 2010
"Move over, Carrie
Bradshaw. Reimold has enthusiastically and exhaustively tackled our
erotic fixation with the college sex columnist. Reimold adeptly lives
up to his reputation as the preeminent authority on college paper sex
scribes with a work that is sure to instigate even more discourse - and
debate - on this highly controversial topic."
—Yvonne K. Fulbright, PhD,
MSEd, author of Sultry Sex Talk to
Seduce Any Lover
"Sex, college and journalism: is there a more incendiary
combination? Sex and the University is the first comprehensive
exploration of today's transformational generation of student
journalists—revolutionizing their school newspapers one provocative,
pedagogic, pun-laden column at a time."
—Julia Allison, former
Georgetown University dating columnist and NBC New York NonStop on-air
correspondent
"Campus sex columns are widely read but have gone largely unstudied until Reimold, a journalism professor at the University of Tampa, began working on his first book, Sex and the University. His work has both captivating detail and the larger context necessary to immerse the reader in the lives of campus sex columnists."
Campus Progress."
—Campus Progress Description:
Who would think that Monday morning’s page-turning sports
scores could be trumped by “Sex on Tuesday”? But, during the last
decade or so, college newspaper sex columns and campus sex magazines
have revolutionized student journalism and helped define a new sexual
generation. They are the ultimate authorities on student social
interaction, relationships, and sex at a time when sexual activity,
sexual dangers, and sexual ignorance are prevalent and sex has become
the wallpaper of students’ lives.
Daniel Reimold gives readers of all generations an inside look at this
phenomenon. Student sex columnists and sex magazine editors are both
celebrities and causes célèbres on their home campuses.
One columnist, echoing the sentiments of many, said he became an
overnight “rock star golden child of
journalism.” But, with celebrity comes controversy. These
columns and magazines have sparked contentious and far-reaching legal,
religious, and intergenerational debates about sex, the student press,
and the place of both within higher education. They are also the most
prominent modern student press combatants in the fight for free speech.
And they have blurred journalistic boundaries between what is
considered public and private, art and pornography, and gossip and
news.
Sex and the
University explores the celebrity status that student sex
columnists and magazine editors have received, the controversies they
have caused, and the sexual generation and student journalism
revolution they represent. Complete with a “sexicon” of slang, this
book also dives into the columns and magazines themselves, sharing for
the first time what modern students are saying about their sex and love
lives, in their own words.
About the Author:
DANIEL REIMOLD is an assistant professor of journalism at the
University of Tampa, where he also advises the campus newspaper. Hailed
by the Nation as a leading
expert on the student sex column movement, he has published and
presented research on college media throughout the United States and in
Southeast Asia and maintains one of the only daily blogs on the student
press worldwide.
