One look at the cover of, Boink: College Sex by the People Having It, and you're probably going to have one of two reactions.
One is that you'd write off this book by the writers of Boink magazine as corner store smut. You know the ones I mean: the ones in clear glossy wrap in the very top of the magazine rack with the promise of big jugs and jumbo-sized appendages on the cover.
The other will be that you pick it up out of an uncontrollable sense of curiosity, as a result of the title or the classroom of naked students on the front cover.
In either case, you'd soon realize that all of your preconceptions about this book are dead wrong. Sure, the glossy pictures of student models posing in sexually-themed positions are attention grabbers and the tasteful use of nudity is bound to turn some heads if you're daring enough to read this book on the train, but the real core of this expansion on the hugely successful student sex magazine Boink, is the uncensored, edgy and heartfelt stores of college love and sex.
The stories in Boink: College Sex by the People Having It for the most part are not your ordinary poke - and - yank stories, they are instead bare-boned descriptions of what it means to lust and love within the parameters of college life.
The story "Sugar and Spice" illustrates this best, throwing the reader into an emotional roller coaster of a girl's foggy journey through the differences between love and lust, with a tearful ending that shows how the journey's end doesn't always hold the promises we wished for.
On the other hand, the book dives deep into the feelings behind the emotional emptiness of casual sex and the loneliness of waiting for love.
The story "Virginity, or Lack Thereof" is a vivid description of the race for college males to lose their virginity and a deep look into the emotional consequences of those actions.
The story "Shattered," is a heart-wrenching look into a young woman's loveless sexual exploits, in a futile effort to fill the void left by her murdered boyfriend.
Boink: College Sex by the People Having It has 22 stories featuring such intensity and raw emotional confessionals that as a reader you can't help but applaud the courage of these writers, for delving so deep into the human element of love and sex.
Boink magazine started at Boston University, when a group of students decided to create a different kind of sex publication.
The result was a refreshingly real publication of student sex, featuring fiction and non-fictional stories next to real photos of student models, catering to guy, girl, straight, gay and bisexual.
It is important to understand that Boink is still operating under opposition from social conservatives, religious organizations and overly zealous media, and has since been distanced from Boston University.
According to Boink, other colleges, such as New York's Wagner College and the University of Southern Mississippi have taken negative actions to remove sex-related materials, even an article as benign as "Orgasms: do you fake it?" from their school newspapers.
Conservative groups at Boston College and Georgetown University have even denounced student publications for showing tolerance for sexual experimentation, homosexual, bisexual and transgender individuals and lifestyles.
Aren't we at the point of social evolution that school administrators, journalists, religious groups and conservatives can realize that college students come in all different kinds of lifestyles, are engaging in sex and have informed opinions about our carnal desires?
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