[Cecil Terwilliger]

Yasmine Mehdi is the editor of La Rotonde newspaper at the University of Ottawa. She went undercover October 7th to an event organized by the Science Students Association called “The Vet's Tour”, after a tip that strange things were happening. The tip came on the heels of a similar event at the Université de Québec in Outaouais last month.


“It's an invite only event,” Mehdi said, “people told me it's very underground.”
What she witnessed shocked her.


“Naked people everywhere, lots of drinking, lots of making out. One girl lying on the ground with no clothes or little clothes and people doing shots off her,” she recalls, “two naked people wrapped in plastic wrap.”


Medhi says the event has been going on for years; Facebook photos from 2007 show students in various stages of undress, taking part in various activities.


She says this time about 100 students took part in teams of 10, trying to garner as many points off a secret list of dares.


“One of the things I heard in the bathroom was a girl saying “I'm not sure I like this” and one of her team mates encouraging her to have sex with one of the judges because it gives you more points and then the girl said, “I don’t know, this is too slutty for me,” and her friend suggesting she just have anal sex then. It was kind of shocking.”

http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/shocking-revelations-about-pub-crawl-involving-students-at-uottawa-1.3120796


And in a shocking revelation this woman is not being perceived as the hero she thinks she is for embarassing a bunch of university aged people doing university aged things...namely having consensual sex. Unfortunately that's including death threats and rape threats. Others have more measured responses:

The English university newspaper, the Fulcrum, has been publishing anonymous letters from people who attended the pub crawl. The editor-in-chief, Savannah Awde, says the majority of those writing in are defending it.


"I had the right to a private sexual experience with multiple people,” one student wrote, “The journalists and editorial staff at La Rotonde took away that right.”


“In all of the letters that were in defence of the event,” Awde said, “it had to do a lot to do with the fact that people felt that the event was to help them explore their sexuality freely. I guess they felt the reaction was kind of shaming for the sexual acts they engaged in consensually.”

http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/u-of-o-newspaper-editor-receives-backlash-after-expos%C3%A9-on-pub-crawl-1.3122435


Is this just a bunch of PUBEs causing an uproar? There were exactly zero complaints of sexual harassment or sexual assault, so why exactly is everyone acting like this was so terrible? The university has condemned it, but I'm not surprised.

Is consensual sex and funny/embarrassing sex games that evil? Seems to me that the prudish "undercover journalist" actually is the one in the wrong here for slut shaming.