A Florida college will feature a lecture during its annual “Sex Week” in early March that will promote polyamory as an “ethical … alternative to cheating,” Campus Reform reported Wednesday.
The University of North Florida will play host to a workshop — sponsored by the Fayetteville, Georgia-based Relationship Equality Foundation — titled “Polyamory vs. Cheating: Lessons from a Former Serial Monogamist,” Campus Reform said.
“The event itself will apparently be ’geared towards the poly-curious,’ meaning those who are considering ’ethical non-monogamy as an alternative to cheating,’ ” according to Campus Reform.
Billed as a “week-long series of events that feature a sex-positive message,” UNF’s Sex Week also includes events promoting sex toys and bondage, as well as a March 7 keynote address titled “May I Kiss You?: Sexual Communication and Consent.”
For its part, UNF’s official sexual misconduct policy warns students and faculty that consent for sexual intercourse “means a knowing, voluntary informed affirmative act or statement by each person involved” and that one’s “[l]ack of protest, lack of resistance or silence does not mean consent.”
Conservative critics in recent years have pointed to such “affirmative consent” policies as due-process landmines for accused rapists, usually male students, who find themselves essentially accused of rape for incidents which were, at the time, deemed consensual.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.