In response to my request for information about how V-Day is being celebrated this year, readers have sent in loads of links. I still think Syracuse's festivities--which included a decorate-your-vagina booth and giant six-foot vagina sculpture--take this year's prize for most ridiculous celebration of female sexuality. Cornell's vagina-shaped lollipops, submitted by Maurice Black, were right up there, too. But the race was close.

Mark Allen forwarded this post by an Oregon blogger who captured his school's V-Day celebrations--on the form of an anatomically detailed vagina chalked on a campus walkway--on camera. Don't miss the author's plan for how to get your grandmother to shed her false sexual consciousness and commence celebrating hardcore sex acts.

And Cameron Wood informs me that Brandeis University actually has a Vagina Club. Every year, the Vagina Club performs Ensler's The Vagina Monologues in honor of V-Day. In recent years, the cast has promoted the production by posing nude, their vaginas and other delicate parts tastefully hidden behind a big Vagina Monologues banner.

Mr. Wood's submission was accompanied with his own rendition of a Penis Monologue:

Do a single one of these chicks realize that the men who are actually committingÝviolent actsÝagainst women are not the kind of men who would even attend the Vagina Monologues, let alone go and experienceÝa life-changing epiphany resulting in tears and repentence and a vow to allow women to somehow "own" their vaginas without fear of penis-centered brutality, or whatever?

One more question: Now that women have taken over ownership of their vaginas and all attached ancillary rights and privileges, does this mean I have to stop calling Al Franken a pussy? Just curious.

Me? I'm gonna go own my penis and take a leak. Probably I'll scratch myself somewhere, and belch. I'm very patriarchal, and not too proud to admit it.

Thanks to everyone who wrote in, and a happy V-Day to all!

UPDATE: On some campuses, V-Day is every day. At Vassar, for example, you can join the Vassar Sex Avengers, a student club "dedicated to Sex Positive Theory and Action." Among other things, the Vassar Sex Avengers hold an annual "Masturbate-a-thon."

AND ANOTHER: A reader takes the thought out of my brain:

Technically, the vaginaÝ[sheath]Ýis the canal extendingÝfrom the introitus [opening or portal orÝentry point]Ýto the region into which the cervix "invaginates" itselfÝor enters from the remainder of the uterus.. The vagina does not include the labia or the clitoris. How is a vagina then "pictured"? As a cave-like structure with a one-eyed knob at its far end? I don't think these vaginites know what a vagina is.