Jenna B. to Dan Savage: Help, I can’t get a date!

Jenna B. to Dan Savage: Help, I can't get a date!A writer who identifying herself as “There Are Lots of Gorges At This School” wrote to syndicated advice column Savage Love last week:

I’m a 21-year-old female college student whose romantic (and social) life is slowly turning into shit and I need your advice. At the beginning of the fall semester, I signed on to write the sex column in my school’s daily, and I made the mistake of using my personal experiences to frame my advice (it’s not a Q&A column, it’s more like an “I need to tell you all something because this guy did a really poor job of eating me out last weekend” sort of thing). Since I started writing this thing, it seems like everyone I meet either wants to talk to me only about sex, wants to talk to me because they want to have sex with me, or they want to talk to my friends about whether or not they’ve had sex with me. Nobody has asked me out on a date in god knows how long and I just want to be treated like a normal person. I have one semester left to write this thing-is there anything I can do to get people to respect me a little bit more?

–There Are Lots of Gorges Here 

Jenna B., is that you? Since Jenna’s identity is something of an open secret on campus (since there is precisely one Jenna B. fitting her description on the Sun staff, we can’t imagine how her identity got out). Besides, she’s totally cute! Someone ask that girl out before she throws herself into a gorge.

UPDATE: Lena Chen covered this in her new non-SATI blog and verifies “There Are Lots” is Jenna B. How does she know? Because Jenna is a “personal friend,” which we take to mean that the unwritten rule of sex blogging is knowing every other sex blogger in the world, and having super-dishy gossip sessions about stuff like multi-day condom use and sexual positions unimaginable to mere mortals.

  • Huh

    It’s interesting that two of the links go to the exact same place.

  • Huh

    It’s interesting that two of the links go to the exact same place.

  • cute?

    she’s a pretty big chub actually

  • cute?

    she’s a pretty big chub actually

  • Sam Jackson

    Lena Chen already covered this one, guys. :P

  • Sam Jackson

    Lena Chen already covered this one, guys. :P

  • whaaat

    Cute? Maybe by trailer park standards. Did she really think writing a sex blog wouldn’t affect her real life?

  • whaaat

    Cute? Maybe by trailer park standards. Did she really think writing a sex blog wouldn’t affect her real life?

  • i love jenna b.

    I have the privilege of knowing Jenna and believe me, she is downplaying the amount of obnoxious and often bitchy comments she gets as a result of being cornell’s sex columnist. Whether or not you believe that she “had it coming” with her decision to write about her personal life in her columns, you absolutely have to admire her ability to write it in a funny and witty way.

    Also, the comments about her appearance are disgraceful.. the girl is freaking adorable and deserves more respect than this.

  • i love jenna b.

    I have the privilege of knowing Jenna and believe me, she is downplaying the amount of obnoxious and often bitchy comments she gets as a result of being cornell’s sex columnist. Whether or not you believe that she “had it coming” with her decision to write about her personal life in her columns, you absolutely have to admire her ability to write it in a funny and witty way.

    Also, the comments about her appearance are disgraceful.. the girl is freaking adorable and deserves more respect than this.

  • cornell’10

    congrats, youve done your jobs as journalists. but what kind of people are you?

  • cornell’10

    congrats, youve done your jobs as journalists. but what kind of people are you?

  • cornell 09

    wtf? leave her alone. it takes a lot of balls to do what she does. you don’t have to rag on her appaerance just because she writes about sex bc it’s not like she wants to fuck you. and for the books, she is totally cute and one of the friendliest, funniest chicks i’ve met so far. this is the same bullshit IG does to lena chen… just because these girls write about sex doesnt mean they’re saying “hey, would YOU fuck me?” maybe this is why she

  • cornell 09

    wtf? leave her alone. it takes a lot of balls to do what she does. you don’t have to rag on her appaerance just because she writes about sex bc it’s not like she wants to fuck you. and for the books, she is totally cute and one of the friendliest, funniest chicks i’ve met so far. this is the same bullshit IG does to lena chen… just because these girls write about sex doesnt mean they’re saying “hey, would YOU fuck me?” maybe this is why she

  • lions ’10

    sheeee’s a fug!

  • lions ’10

    sheeee’s a fug!

  • @lions

    actually, surprisingly she isn’t so bad!

  • @lions

    actually, surprisingly she isn’t so bad!

  • Random Banker

    She is totally busted.

  • Random Banker

    She is totally busted.

  • Rob F.

    Jenna is a great columnist and a fantastic person. She has put herself out there a ridiculous amount by writing her column and she is SO cute so stop hating.

  • Rob F.

    Jenna is a great columnist and a fantastic person. She has put herself out there a ridiculous amount by writing her column and she is SO cute so stop hating.

  • D ’08

    aww, she’s cute.
    She’s prob way more attractive than you haters and wouldn’t hook up w/ you if you tried.
    but umm, hotel school?… oh, cornell…

  • D ’08

    aww, she’s cute.
    She’s prob way more attractive than you haters and wouldn’t hook up w/ you if you tried.
    but umm, hotel school?… oh, cornell…

  • C08

    she seems very sweet and bubbly in person. i met her last weekend and when i told her i loved her articles she was gracious and very nice to my friends and i.

  • C08

    she seems very sweet and bubbly in person. i met her last weekend and when i told her i loved her articles she was gracious and very nice to my friends and i.

  • PR for Cornell

    It’s ironic that one of the Cornell bloggers is the sex columnist. No wonder she decided to write the Sun sex column anonymously. The Cornell blogging campaign was a project started last year and it’s essentially a big PR machine for the university. None of the blogs contain cursing or anything remotely controversial. It’s basically a bunch of kids saying how much they love their experience at Cornell. To have one of the bloggers write in vivid detail about her sex life can only be classified as ironic. Maybe not in the same category as Ted Haggard ironic, but nonetheless, amusing.

  • PR for Cornell

    It’s ironic that one of the Cornell bloggers is the sex columnist. No wonder she decided to write the Sun sex column anonymously. The Cornell blogging campaign was a project started last year and it’s essentially a big PR machine for the university. None of the blogs contain cursing or anything remotely controversial. It’s basically a bunch of kids saying how much they love their experience at Cornell. To have one of the bloggers write in vivid detail about her sex life can only be classified as ironic. Maybe not in the same category as Ted Haggard ironic, but nonetheless, amusing.

  • Cut the crap sports fans…

    Thankfully we have an intelligent and witty woman forcing Cornell to get real about sex. It’s a hard job, but thanks to Jenna B. for starting the conversation in a responsible and entertaining way. Shall we take a step out of high school gossip antics and recognize the quality of Jenna’s journalism skills and the integrity with which she presents the issues? Sure she can be graphic, but it clearly keeps you all listening as she feeds you the dirt on birth control and keeping yourselves clean. Here’s to our fun loving, intellectual and not to mention classily sexy Jenna B. Plus, “wrinkle beast?” That’s just genius!

  • Cut the crap sports fans…

    Thankfully we have an intelligent and witty woman forcing Cornell to get real about sex. It’s a hard job, but thanks to Jenna B. for starting the conversation in a responsible and entertaining way. Shall we take a step out of high school gossip antics and recognize the quality of Jenna’s journalism skills and the integrity with which she presents the issues? Sure she can be graphic, but it clearly keeps you all listening as she feeds you the dirt on birth control and keeping yourselves clean. Here’s to our fun loving, intellectual and not to mention classily sexy Jenna B. Plus, “wrinkle beast?” That’s just genius!

  • blech

    Ivygate, grow up. You sound like Juicy Campus.

  • blech

    Ivygate, grow up. You sound like Juicy Campus.

  • Peter Pan

    I thought the whole point of IvyGate was never having to grow up?

  • Peter Pan

    I thought the whole point of IvyGate was never having to grow up?

  • peter panus

    it is the point!

  • peter panus

    it is the point!

  • peter penis

    what about juicy campus? ivygate has competition?

  • peter penis

    what about juicy campus? ivygate has competition?

  • Ryan

    She is the DOME QUEEN

  • Ryan

    She is the DOME QUEEN

  • Ryan

    She is the DOME QUEEN

  • Ryan

    She is the DOME QUEEN