Lena Chen Is Up For Something
It’s been a while since we checked in on Harvard sex blogger Lena Chen, and boy has the li’l darlin’ grown up. Yowza! Between her anonymity-busting, the ensuing media frenzy, and what appears to be a possible book deal, it’s clear that writing provocatively about your sex life as a Harvard coed makes things happen fast. Who knew?
There have been bumps along the way, though. Note how she fell into the trap of responding to hate mail, and posting the social itinerary of an upcoming Elle-Does-NYC tour is, frankly, megalomaniacal. But otherwise, Sex and the Ivy appears to be alive and well-sated. Now she’s a finalist for the Sex Blog Awards (Yup, more awards coverage, just like you guys have been asking for!!), so we’re only doing our fraternal duty by kindly asking you to vote here. If her blog contains even a kernel of truth, chances are there’s something in it for you.
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January 19th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
wow… shes really ugly
January 19th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
did you just imply that lena will trade her body for votes?
probably true
January 19th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
oh god, nobody wants to see that. staring out at us from our computer screens, soulless and desperate. for the love of mercy, write another post, so this nightmarish image isn’t still at the top of the screen when i come back. (shudder)
January 19th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
so this is harvard’s sex goddess?
January 20th, 2007 at 7:03 am
This girl is cute and all, but you guys need to branch out a little bit and list my Ivy site on here: clubivy.org
January 20th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
I’M STILL WAITING
damn you ivygate
January 20th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
I feel badly for this girl.
January 21st, 2007 at 3:59 am
ugh, she is the most disappointing sex blogger ever. she hardly ever writes about sex, and now she just feeds into her own egomania. she isn’t even a very good writer. her newest entry about fucking in her room? so weak.
January 21st, 2007 at 11:36 pm
blahblah sex and the ivy is sooo great… anybody else think she’s just a whore?
January 22nd, 2007 at 12:52 am
BUT, lena chen is something of a cult figure on boredatlamont.com–that, if anything, should count for something.
January 22nd, 2007 at 5:18 am
please, 09yalie, you know that actually counts for jack squat. It’s obvious that each blog entry is one freakin’ stroke of her ego after another.
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:34 am
ANP: you don’t feel badly…you feel bad. if you “[felt] badly” that would mean the mechanism that allows you to feel is broken or otherwise defunct.
January 22nd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I feel bad for you, d05, mainly because it’s glaringly obvious that your dad never played catch with you as a child.
But anyway, what little glimmer of entertainment value I ever derived from Lena’s blog has disappeared now that I know she’s ugly. Her writing’s mediocre at best, the explicit sex stuff comes off as oddly sterile, and the tone is solipsistic to a nauseating degree. Where’s the fun in reading a blog like that by someone who looks like her?
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:16 pm
you know, I thought my 3rd foster dad would be different, but no dice. then again, with barbs like “solipsistic to a &c &c…” I bet you were captain of your public high school’s debate team! haha wheeeee!! pathetic.
January 22nd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
i was being facetious, yalie06
January 22nd, 2007 at 7:52 pm
I wouldn’t say she’s ugly at all – how impolite! – but she is definitely more girl-next-door than why-hello-stranger-have-you-read-my-sex-column-because-I’m-looking-for-material…
Though looking at the competition, it seems that the winner gets a book of just slightly more than ten dollar value (http://www.amazon.com/Caught-Looking-Erotic-Voyeurs-Exhibitionists/dp/1573442569/sr=1-3/qid=1169513192/ref=sr_1_3/104-7492861-5863964?ie=UTF8&s=books) as did I, age 15, for my perfect school attendance.
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:00 pm
harvard. please. i thought you’re trying to shed your image as the place where fun/attractiveness dies. i’m sure there are a lot of sweet, pretty, smart, non-slutty, non-obliviously-mediocre-looking, non-embarassingly-self-indulgent girls on campus.
lena chen is not one of them.
what she is, is bad pr.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Is there a college sex columnist who is actually attractive? Anywhere? I’ve never heard of one. For the most part they’re self-obsessed imbeciles who weren’t given enough attention from the boys in high school so they slut it up (or, in Columbia’s Sex Columnist’s case, they don’t) and write about it, hoping that this will make up for 18 years of anonymity in the sexual landscape.
February 9th, 2007 at 8:50 am
I just wonder what the parents are doing if they are alive and if they are dead they are rolling over a couple of times maybe. This situation reminds me of this documentary about a Singaporean porn star who banged three hundred guys on one movie and how her parents freaked out when they found out about it and it traces her history from the time when she got gang banged in some London subway station to becoming a porn star.
But sometimes people like this come from normal childhoods and lives.
February 9th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Jeez are’nt we past the stage of calling women who enjoy sex as much as guys whores and sluts? If this was some Asian dude there would be no publicity because nobody wants to imagine an Asian guy who bangs women left and right, enjoys kinky activities and do all these crazy things.
February 9th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Actually I just described myself except for the kinky activities…
February 9th, 2007 at 9:09 am
This also reminds me of the time I was having dinner with my cousin and his wife and her friend who was a Wellesley graduate, I was talking about how a best friends ex girlfriends first sexual experience was being forced by some Harvard frat guy or something like that at a frat party and how this other guy spent months wooing some girl and then she ended up losing her virginity to some Harvard frat guy in a date rape situation and then after these two stories the Wellesley grad spoke up and said…”There are some people here that don’t want to hear this stuff…” apparently she was another victim of the same situation.
February 9th, 2007 at 9:15 am
This also reminds me of the really crazy horny women that I have met and how I always wondered what kind of childhoods they had because every person is the result of their upbringing and every action has a history behind it. Just like the fact thanks to the CIA installing the Shah of Iran we got Reagan because of the debilitating effects of the 444 days of the hostage situation and then because of that Presidency we got the next series of wars that were the direct result of our involvement with the Afghan civil war culminating in the Iraqi engagement.
February 9th, 2007 at 9:22 am
I have to correct myself, I used to be a promiscuous, over-achieving player wannabee who treated sex like an indoor sport, but in this area I think if you don’t ski or skate or any winter sports, that is the natural outlet for any hyperkinetic person.
February 9th, 2007 at 11:17 am
what happened to all my previous posts?
February 9th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
this is stupid
February 9th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
DUH
February 9th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
you looking for some real excitement!! get yourself a homey from the hood.
February 9th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
lena aint up for nothing
February 19th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
wow…talk about someone pwning their future…
The fact that she writes pr0n will keep her out of any reputable non-writing job; the fact that she writes pr0n so BADLY will keep her out of reputable writing job.