On May 8, 2025, Northwestern University’s student newspaper the Daily Northwestern cheerily reported on Sex Week, a three-day event during which free sex toys were distributed at the student union, Norris University Center. Students lined up for the freebies which included “phallic-shaped, glitter-covered candles. … dildos and vibrators,” and “cute, little, squishy penis toys.”
Sex Week co-leader Kaleah Estep hopes to “ensure sex becomes less taboo on campus” and hopes that the freebies will “give students ‘the ability to try new things.’” Is sex taboo at Northwestern? What is Estep’s evidence for such a claim? What does “taboo” mean to Estep?
According to the Daily Northwestern, “NU College Feminists planned Sex Week in collaboration with Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators [SHAPE] and the Center for Awareness, Response and Education [CARE].” SHAPE is affiliated with CARE, and in the past CARE has received federal grant money.
According to Google’s AI chatbot Gemini,
For the 2022-2023 academic year, Northwestern reported receiving $11, 534,558 in Federal aid (Pell and SEOG) and $7,274,505 in Federal work-study funds.
And, “as of 2025, Northwestern University’s endowment is approximately $15 billion”—you read that right—an eye-popping $15 billion. Seems like Northwestern doesn’t need any money from the pockets of hard-working Americans.
The Daily Northwestern reports the tragic news that this year Sex Week was shortened from eight days to a measly three days in order to “support the NU Divestment Coalition — the group behind a five-day pro-Palestinian encampment [in 2024] on Deering Meadow — and ‘to keep attention focused on liberation.’”
If there’s one issue more important than teaching students about “butt plugs,” it’s supporting Hamas. (Maybe some Divestment Coalition members could ask Hamas members what they think about butt plugs.)
How far Northwestern has deviated from it’s motto: “Quaecumque Sunt Vera,” which translated means, “Whatsoever Things Are True,” and derives from Paul’s letter to the church in Philippi.
Northwestern is not alone in offering perversion-positive workshops. They are offered at campuses all over this sex-saturated country.
Recently, Campus Reform published an article about Ithaca College’s April workshop titled “Ethical Non-Monogamy 101,” hosted by the Student Leadership Institute and led by Crissi Dalfonzo, who heads up the college’s LGBT Education, Outreach, and Services (with “education” being used very loosely).
For those uninitiated in the ways of perversity and the fluid rhetoric of perverts, the oxymoronic term “ethical non-monogamy” is a euphemism for polyamory which is a euphemism for unethical promiscuity.
In a society that allows public schools to purchase obscene books for minor children, a workshop for college kids on normalizing sluttiness barely registers on the immorality scale. But maybe that is changing.
Maybe now that Americans feel empowered to do something about the millions of taxpayer dollars that colleges and universities receive through diverse federal programs, which enable them to promote leftist ideas, the spigot will be shut off.
This is what Ithaca College believes is a worthy workshop to offer its students:
Even in the queer community, there is often a default assumption that relationships will be monogamous: two people committed to one another exclusively. That works for a lot of people, but what if that’s not your jam? Welcome to the wide world of ethical non-monogamy!
Once sexual activity was severed from marriage, procreation, and male-female complementarity, unethical promiscuity was inevitable. Once society erased essential sexual boundaries, promulgated the false notion that satiation of all erotic impulses was the highest good and necessary for authentic living and fulfillment, unethical promiscuity was inevitable.
And now tax dollars are going to colleges and universities that promote evil as good.
The workshop instructor, Crissi Dalfonzo, self-identifies as a “queer polyamorous neurodivergent woman” who “hopes to inspire others to embrace their identities unapologetically.” She is a “’professional queer’” and “lover of all things rainbow, sparkle, and unicorns.”
One true thing Dalfonzo said is that she’s a “professional queer.” Before serving as director for LGBT Education, Outreach, and Services at Ithaca, she was the assistant director of the LGBT Resource Center at Cornell University for five years.
According to Gemini, Ithaca College “receives an estimated $44 million in federal money” from diverse sources even though “as of June 2023, the market value of Ithaca’s endowment was $373.6 million.” If Ithaca College lost all federal funds and had to trim the fat, I suspect Dalfonzo might have to look for work outside the Queer-o-sphere.
Bates College “Sex Week,” which is sponsored by its Health Services through the Office of Student Well-Being, took place from March 10-14, 2025. Here’s a sampling of the special workshops offered to students:
Condom Cab During Sex Week, make sure to be on the lookout for the Condom Cab! We’ve got condoms, lubricants, dental dams, and other safe sex supplies to guide you on your journey to sexual health and happiness.
The SEXPO: Games, Info, & Prizes Have you ever played dildo ring toss? Do you know how to use a condom? And find the right fit? What about a dental dam? Do you have questions about long-acting contraception options at Bates, like IUDs or the implant? Maybe you’re thinking about buying a sex toy, but you’re not sure where to begin? Our exploration tables will have samples and models, games, and other things for everyone to participate in!
CAT Condom Carnival Campus Activities and Traditions presents the CAT CONDOM CARNIVAL: your one-stop shop for all the stations of condom games you could think of and ones that you could never imagine. Events include guess the flavor, slingshot, lube launch, pop the condom, egg drop challenge, condom arts and crafts, and more!
Cultural Queers Breaking Gay News! The gurls, gays and theys of SPARQ are bringing you this workshop to remind you that the queers are here, been here and will still be here.
According to Gemini, “as of June 30, 2024, Bates College endowment was $447 million” and Bates’ “financial statements indicate” the school received “over $1.6 million in government grants for the fiscal year 2024.” That figure does not include federal student aid to Bates students.
Ohio State University’s “Sex Week” (co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) took place between February 10-16, 2025 and included these special workshops:
- Healthy Masturbation and Ethical Porn Panel
- Queering Sex and Toys for Trans People
- Abortion Advocacy Workshop
- Valentines for Abortion Providers
- Drag Panel and Performance
- Kink 101
- Variety House Show to Benefit Abortion Fund of Ohio
One would think that with the Internet, pervs, perv-wannabes, and perv-curious could learn anything about masturbation, porn, sex toys, drag, and kink in the privacy of their dorm rooms without any assistance from the university.
And finally, Tulane University sponsored its doozy of a perv week from February 10-14, 2025 during which students could choose among these tasty options:
Sexualities and Sex Culture Q&A Have you ever wanted to learn more about campus hookup culture, but did not know where to begin? Come to the Sexualities and Sexual Cultures Q&A with Dr. Lisa Wade!
Burlesque Workshop w/ Lola van Ella
Genital Diversity Gallery
Porno Chic: The Golden Age of Porn
Shortened Showing of The Van Ella Bordella Welcome to the Van Ella Bordella, an infamous house of ill repute. Join Madam Lola van Ella and her intoxicating and charming courtesans for an evening of debauchery, scandal, decadent delights and scintillating Victorian era brothel history. Bring your open mind, a daring sense of adventure and leave your inhibitions at the door for a fabulous evening of burlesque harlotry.
Again from Gemini: “as of June 30, 2024” Tulane had an eye-popping endowment of “$2.27 billion.” And yet, Tulane received $130 million in 2024 from the National Institutes of Health for research. It received yet more federal dollars through federal student aid.
Money is fungible. Maybe, just maybe, if colleges and universities that undermine human flourishing and the public good were to lose federal funds, all non-essential activities, staff, and research would be eliminated. Surely, sex weeks and professional queers are non-essential.