Raunch culture is spreading from the high street to the campus. And female students, whose mothers once burned their bras and attended sit-ins to win equality for women, are mysteriously uncomplaining.
Pole-dancing exercise clubs, 'frat-house' sex games and 'Pimp and Whore' themed parties - washed down with gallons of discount lager - are all the rage. Some events are sponsored by lads' mags such as Nuts and FHM, a clear indication that the 'normalisation' of soft porn has simply hopped across the divide from regular society to campus life.
York University, for instance, has a student exercise club called Pole Exercise with a logo (see over) that, if it doesn't actually depict the activities on offer, then has no shame in using sex to promote itself. Sarah, a 21-year-old student, defends it: "It's our club logo and we
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have raised money for charity."
Also at York, one of the most popular nights is called Playboy Mansion. "We wanted a fun brand and Playboy Mansion was chosen by my committee," says Matt Burton, 21, chair of Goodricke College. "We do a range of nights, including one where the lads dress as Hugh Hefner and the girls as bunnies."
At Loughborough, student union leaders asked the FHM High Street Honeys to visit the university and also invited the Brat Pack Tour (courtesy of Nuts magazine), promising students the chance to meet the girls and get photographed by the magazine.
Loughborough's union president Gemma Godfrey defends the Nuts event: "We firmly believe that our student members are intelligent individuals capable of making their own decisions. It would not be our place to act as their moral  |
