After years of discussing their relationship on campus and nationally, Sarah Kinsella and Justin Murray—founders of Harvard chastity club True Love Revolution—have finally gotten hitched! Now they are free to delight in various long-awaited earthly pleasures, like filing joint tax returns and sharing a mortgage.

Kinsella and Murray married shortly after Christmas, say sources, with a wedding registry that included donations to a Catholic charity and some fancy plates at Macy's. They haven't responded to our requests for comment (honeymoon?) but we've got a few more pictures after the jump, including one of Murray popping the question, dressed as a Medieval knight and down on one knee in the library. That's right, True Love Revolution has literally reawakened the chivalric code.

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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?

Yesterday, Harvard's Lena "I lowered my mouth over his cock and slid my lips over his shaft easily" Chen (our Favorite Person Ever) debated the merits of pre-marital sex with Janie Fredell, the co-president of True Love Revolution (which, believe it or not, is not a 60's band you've never heard of, but a campus abstinence group). We sent correspondent Alterrell Mills to get the scoop.

The highly-anticipated "debate" between Lena "I lowered my mouth over his cock and slid my lips over his shaft easily" Chen and the co-President of the True Love Revolution, Janie Fredell, was truly not worth the wait. Before the event, I met with an overeager Janie who emphasized that it was "a discussion, not a debate about sex and dating." And here I was, thinking we had a regular Lincoln and Douglass on our hands! Discussion, indeed.

Janie arrived early, while Lena came right on time. Both ladies held true to form in terms of appearance; Lena wore a mini-skirt that left little to the imagination, while Janie was more modestly dressed in jeans.

The ladies started off by defining their sexuality. Janie stated that she was abstinent, and that the kind of guy she was interested in was "chivalrous, strong yet gentle" and ultimately worth the wait. Janie wants a man who respects her ambitions, and values more than just sex in their relationship. She also added that she could get sexual gratification from "a battery-operated plastic object." Lena replied, "I derive great joy from battery-operated objects."

Ewww.

After the jump: let's talk about sex, baby.

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