Monday, March 30, 2015

Great art school student responses.

To start off class like I usually do, I asked them some question about sexual mores among the evangelical communists from the 70s we were studying, and to what degree their behavior matched up with heterosexual monogamy.

One response referenced how a contemporary journalist's narrative mentioned furtive kissing and the like, and said that "[t]he sexual activity seemed to be like horny kids at summer camp with super strict rules."

Then, that same response added, "I think the people involved acted out of self interest and maybe enjoyed breaking the rules."

Another response keyed in to a different aspect of that same journalist's narrative, signs of potential gay behavior - or, as the student put it, "many eyewitness accounts of visitors or former members noting that they saw two men or women starting to kiss in the heat of witnessing."

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