As colleges and universities increasingly seek to regulate and even demonize the sexuality of students and faculty, and as charges of sexual misconduct grow ever more frequent and definitions of harassment grow accordingly absurd, one cannot but wonder what college students today think and feel and do about sex. So I'm putting out a call for current college students as well as recent grads. If you are one, please respond. If you know one--or many--please refer them to this poll.

What I'd love to know: What has your school taught you about sex? I'm interested in hearing about what information (statistics, facts, truths) your school has conveyed to you as well as in what attitudes it has encouraged or even required you to embrace.

Questions you might consider answering as part of your reply: What facts about rape, assault, and harassment have you learned at your school and where did you learn them? What attitudes and beliefs about sex and sexual misconduct does your school promote, and how does it promote them? Have you ever attended any school-sponsored workshops about sexuality, rape awareness, or sexual harassment? If so, what was the occasion for the workshop? How was it conducted and by whom? Was it mandatory? What did you learn there? Have you ever taken a course centered in some way on sexuality? What did you learn there? Have you ever taken a course that was not officially billed as a course in sexuality (i.e., an English or history class), but where class discussion consistently veered in that direction? Why did discussion veer toward sex? And what did you learn there? Does your school restrict or ban dating between students and faculty? Do you feel that your school encourages certain forms of sexual expression while discouraging others? Has your school affected or changed the way you relate sexually to others? If so, have these changes been positive or negative? Helpful or harmful or both?

Respondents' privacy will be absolutely respected, and all responses will be kept confidential unless and until I have individuals' permission to make their responses public.

Thanks to Maurice Black for sending the articles linked above.