Comments on: Journalism Fail: Student Masturbation Column Or ABC News?

By: Martha B

Martha B — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:45:10 +0000

You would think sex was new in America. Just too many people with heads in the sand though. Whereas the U.S. boasts of the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in the developed world, Masturb_tion is even encouraged in those other developed countries. The U.K. National Health Service promotes an orgasm a day and consideres it a right. It is a biologic function after all. Yet we in the U.S. are still trying to come to terms with the human condition. Either cut it off or learn to cope with it people. Grow up and accept it if you are not going to cut it off.

By: jules

jules — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:53:02 +0000

@Charlie: Haha, SPURT, yes, thank you for appealing to the 13-year-old-boy side of my sense of humor :)

By: Caro

Caro — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:57:33 +0000

I genuinely don't understand this story. College newspaper sex column prints a column... about sex... and suddenly that's a huge problem and the editor has to resign? And it's even about a consensual safer-sex practice (as opposed to the writings of some AU sex columnists one could name). Are people really more upset by discussion of mutual masturbation than other kinds of sex?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:42:06 +0000

I thought this comment on dcrtv.com was amusing

"Towson U Editor Resigns After Running JO Piece - 10/6 - Carrie Wood, the editor of Towson University's Towerlight student-run newspaper, has resigned after she ran a column from an anonymous author that dealt with masturbation in a graphic manner. And caused a spurt of controversy."