Over 600 students attended the Brown Queer Alliance's annual wild sex party, Sex Power God. How wild was it, you ask? Not as wild as in 2005, when Bill "Falafel" O'Reilly sent a undercover cameraman and "24 students required EMS attention." This year, only 3 party-goers required EMS services (though 6 others who may or may not have attended the party also required attention). Decrease in alcohol poisoning aside, Sex Power God was probably still a lot of fun. Below, Aida Manduley, '11, event coordinator, answers a few of my questions.

What was the hottest thing you saw at Sex Power God?

AM: Hottest things I've seen on the dance floor? Personally, just seeing couples dancing really well, sort of "performing" for each other and raving with the glow-sticks, then smiling at each other and dancing together really sensually. That's the hottest thing--seeing the progression of attraction and how people perform for each other--because you can just FEEL the chemistry. It's hot, it's consensual, it's super sexy, and it's fun--a mix of lightheartedness that can beautifully segue into something very sexual and arousing. Seeing two people dancing, then slowly closing the distance between each other and closing their eyes as they kiss and move as a unit? It's a wonderful thing. The sort of anticipation and degree of restraint as people negotiate boundaries and possibly hold off on sex until the dance is over is excellent, because the hottest thing for me is not just seeing people having sex on the dance floor. It happens, sure, but there are more layers of erotic complexity and tension when sex is NOT directly had at SPG.

"It happens?" "Sure?"

I come from a land (Columbia, unpopular subsection of) where sex on the dance floor is all but unthinkable. I am stunned and jealous. After the jump, Aida talks about bondage gear and calls me on my heteronormative assumptions. Read the rest of this entry »

Activity at Brown screeches to a halt as the annual release of the Brown Queer Alliance's SexPowerGod party promos (the greatest/creepiest foray into amateur smart-kid smut this side of Casper Desfeux) forces everyone to drop what they're doing and masturbate furiously before glowing computer screens. Or, so we assume are the goings-on of the Ivy generally acknowledged for sexual superiority and the lingering scent of patchouli. This year's queerific posters feature a hipster explosion of coiffed facial hair and neon leggings, a far cry from last year's deer-in-headlights male nudes, though we do appreciate the surfeit of BDSM-phranalia and smattering of chicks with dicks. Also, "LOVE IS... GOD!" nod to gay evangelicals (how else to explain Rick Santorum?) and the following warning from SexPowerGod's online flier:

Dance Policies:

• No reentry
• No bags
• No cameras
• Brown/RISD Only +1 Guest
• Photo-ID required for entry for both students and guests
• There are no tickets, only a guest list
• Admission is non-transferrable
• INTOXICATED STUDENTS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED
• No yearbook photographers be at the dance

Somebody please sneak a camera in. Discipline fetish much, Brown QA?

After the jump: This year's SexPowerGod gallery.

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The last time we heard from Brown's Queer Alliance, they were promoting their fall SexPowerGod event with fliers slightly less titillating than an ear infection -- a far cry from their steamy work of yore. We're happy to report that the gang has regained its footing (Wow, we're reviewing pornography now. This site is in goooood shape) with the promo materials for last weekend's "Starf*ck" dance, which we lovingly supply for you, NSFWishly, after the jump. (Above: official logo, doctored to include central casting's Creepy Guy No. 0001.)

Sorry, don't go to Brown? SexPowerGod and Starf*ck, for the un-immunized, are the QA's thermonuclear orgy blowouts so powerfully debaucherous they rip space-time and inhibitions to pieces. Except when they don't. Starf*ck was cancelled last year when 24 students were Medevac'ed for booze ODs at SPG '05; this weekend, a paltry one required medical attention. Even the Herald is calling the party "tame."

Given that the sex parties appear to be dying (if we see one more quote about "liberated space" or "problematizing boundaries," we're getting a Winchester and shooting a brown bear), we're more fascinated than we want to be by these pics. It's not like they dug up the one or two kids on campus willing to get all vivid on camera; some 40 students showed up to an open casting call, according to the Herald -- although they also said the money shots would include "costumes and accessories," a prediction you can judge for yourself after the jump (NSFW!), so maybe we shouldn't trust every line of the story.

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Inter-Ivy exchanges are the stuff of anthropology. Students visit other schools as they would a foreign country -- cautiously, and with a distrust that usually takes the form of a question: "So what do people do for fun around here?" Because, to be honest, it's never very clear.

We came across this highly awkward interview conducted recently by a couple of Penn kids traipsing around Brown with a camera. They claim to be part of a "film studies crew" from PennTV, but given the interviewer's overly ironic self-consciousness and the fuzzy guy dancing around with the boom mic, we consider everything out of their mouths highly suspect. Just observe, and don't press your face against the glass or you'll scare them:

And now, a failure of the highest order. Grounds for impeachment, even. Our all-talk correspondents in Providence were unable to smuggle cameras past the bouncers at Sex Power God on Friday night, and the funniest YouTube we could find of the aftermath -- vanished! (Private to rfyg: Call us!) As a crappy consolation, here's an NSFW gallery of Sex Power God posters from over the years. This year's shots could frost a beer mug they're so not-hot. Anyone have unofficial pics that can top? Uh, as it were.

Sex Power God Gallery (NSFW)

"What I saw was pure debauchery," the Fox News producer said. "Girls were falling down drunk, and most were wearing just panties and bras. I went to the bathroom and heard guys having sex in the stall next to me. A record amount of people had to have emergency medical care." Good God, what was he talking about?

Sex.

Power.

God.

The libidinous event of the Ivy season. Brown's cocky scoff to Sodom and Gomorrah. SexPowerGod: Aren't you turned on just thinking about it? Can you wait for the Brown Queer Alliance's official promotional photos to be released? Wait, we found one!:

Hey, anyone seen our sex drive? It was here a minute ago...

For reasons unclear, this frightened boy is one of BQA's ambassadors of sexy to the student body. Three more room-temperature shots are after the jump. (Note that one of them is titled "Hot.")

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