We did a mini-post yesterday on the NYT article “Students of Virginity” featuring Harvard’s True Love Revolution, Lena Chen stuffing her face with ginger cake, and our own esteemed IvyGate commenters. Today we considered writing a lengthier post deconstructing the article blow-by-(not that kind of)-blow, but then we thought, why rush this? If we’ve learned one thing from TLR it’s the value of “taking it slow.” So instead we will deal with this in painstakingly small increments, gradually, pleasurably, one baby-sized scrap of hilarity at a time. Now presenting hilarious scrap #1: TLR co-president Leo Keliher (’09) in one of the more glorious photo/caption combos of our time:
 

Is that even a dorm room, or did he import a 12C monastery to sleep in? Leo’s 15 minutes of rather embarassing fame after the jump.

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From the New York Times Sunday Magazine article about Ivy League abstienence societies:

Chen’s perspective on society, and Fredell’s, was borne out in the aftermath, as people wrote in to Ivygate, calling Lena Chen a “slut,” a “whore,” a “total whore,” a “whore whore slut.” And then someone by the screen name of Sex v. Marriage wrote in to say that “most guys out there would rather end up with a girl like Janie.”

My favorite? “Whore whore slut.“ We love you guys. Even if you are real bastards sometimes.

More BREAKING NEWS on the New York Times‘ far too generous approach to True Love Revolution to come.

Gawker’s already linked to this video of Harvard students “debating” sex on World Savior Al Gore’s start-up cable channel Current, and we thought it’s particularly relevant, as many of you are now on spring break thinking: are Harvard students having sex? The answer: probably not, and if they are, it’s gross, disgusting sex. There’s so much nerdiness here it’s adorable/frightening.

Watch closely: there’s Katarina Cieplak-von Baldegg (is this seriously even a name? Remind me not to marry her so my children can avoid the curse of having twenty-seven hyphens in their name), the founding editor of the Harvard sex magazine H-bomb talking disengenuously about how the magazine is as much “not about sex” as it is about it (the real reason for the magazine? As this is Ivy League, it’s probably just a resume-builder - according to Gawker, Cieplak-von Baldegg has since been hired at Current).

And then there are the Weirds at True Love Revolution: notice out the way green-shirted guy is rubbing his girlfriend’s hand! He literally can’t let go. I mean, it’s so rhythmic, it’s practically like sex! Who needs sex, especially when you can hold and caress your girlfriend’s arm in a super-creepy way like all day long!

Only at Harvard. Right?