Error of Man: Revealed: Yale hosts sex workshops where students admit to bestiality, incest fantasies and prostitution

Sexologist Dr Jill McDevitt asked Yale students to anonymously reveal whether they have participated in sexual activities like prostitution, incestual fantasies and bestiality

By SAM WEBB dailymail.com

Yale University has held a workshop where students admitted they had been paid for sex, enjoy sado-masochistic games in the bedroom and indulged in sexual activity with an animal, it was revealed today.

The workshop, entitled ‘Sex: Am I Normal’, encouraged students to anonymously ask and answer questions about sex using their mobile phones and see the answers in real time on a screen.

Their responses, revealed in article in the Yale Daily News, unveiled that nine per cent of attendees had been paid for sex, three per cent had engaged in bestiality, and more than half had participated in ‘consensual pain’ during sex.

The session was hosted by sexologist Dr Jill McDevitt, who owns a sex store called Feminique in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

‘People don’t think a college student at an Ivy League university would accept payment for sex but I’ve never had asked this question on a college campus and not had “yes” answers,’ McDevitt said.

‘That brings us back to the idea that you can’t have assumptions about people’s backgrounds.’

The event was held at prestigious Yale University in Connecticut. Nearly one in 10 respondees said they had been paid for sex

 Another topic that several students submitted for discussion was incestuous sexual fantasies, something that initially shocked student Alex Saeedy.He said: ‘At first yes, the fact that so many people brought it up surprised me but then I though it might be more of a psychological thing we might all have.

‘I think that’s what the point of the workshop was — to bring up things we thought were so taboo and desire or urges we criticise are just regular parts of sexual psychology.’

Event director and student Giuliana Berry told Campus Reform in an interview that the aim of the workshop was to encourage students to feel understanding and compassion for people who may have indulged in some of the fringe sexual practices raised by the event.

‘People do engage in some of these activities that we believe only perverts engage in,’ she said.

‘What the goal is is to increase compassion for people who may engage in activities that are not what you would personally consider normal.

 ’It tries to get people to be more sensitive … to sexual diversity.’We’re not all heterosexual, able-bodied folks who have standard missionary sex.’

- Event director Giuliana Berry

During the workshop, McDevitt told the approximately 40 students that what some people may regard as perverted is not necessarily so.

‘It’s sensitivity training,’ McDevitt told Campus Reform. ‘Don’t judge other people, because we all have something we are embarrassed about.’

The event was part of Yale’s Sex Weekend, a series of events on sex-related topics held every other year.

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