{"id":62231,"date":"2021-04-02T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=62231"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:44:09","slug":"qotd-sex-and-the-grad-student-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/04\/02\/qotd-sex-and-the-grad-student-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Sex and the grad student lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>For normal women, getting laid is a two-step process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Show up; and<\/li>\n<li>Bring beer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For 75-90% of women under 40, step 2 is optional. It would&#8217;ve been for Chloe. Especially in a bar full of grad students, who despite their extensive academic training on &#8220;the rhetorics of hegemony&#8221; and whatnot, still aren&#8217;t quite sure how the naughty bits fit together. She might&#8217;ve had to draw the guy a map, but surely that&#8217;s no problem for someone so assertively in control of her own sexuality as was Chloe &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just normal people, who know what pronouns to use and never hesitate when choosing a public restroom. The real freakazoids actually have it much easier, since loudly proclaiming a deviant sexuality is a status symbol in the ivory tower. Perhaps your deepest, most secret fetish involves cocktail onions and a Shop-Vac &#8230; and let me stop you right there, I do NOT wanna know, I&#8217;m only bringing this up to say that hey, I sympathize, love is real and you&#8217;re having a hard time finding yours.<br \/>\nYou should consider academia, my friend, where not only are such things not shameful, but they&#8217;re positively celebrated. If you&#8217;ve actually got video of yourself doing the nasty under those conditions, they&#8217;ll pretty much hand you a PhD in Performance Art on the spot &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and yet, nobody does.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying people don&#8217;t have sex in grad school. If I myself wasn&#8217;t getting my ashes hauled every day in the ivory tower, I assure you it wasn&#8217;t for lack of trying. What I am saying is that academia is the only place on earth where not only is your fetish \u2014 <em>whatever<\/em> it is \u2014 not shameful, but easily satisfied. Those of us who actually enjoy the missionary position with committed partners of the opposite-sex used to joke that ours was the only sexual deviancy so perverse, you&#8217;d be shunned by all your colleagues if you admitted to it. These people, on the other hand, talk like their gonads rule their lives, but they never actually do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea why, but finding out would tell us a lot about the psychology of the average Leftist.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/gettin-busy-in-college-town\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Gettin&#8217; Busy in College Town&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em><\/a>, 2020-12-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For normal women, getting laid is a two-step process: Show up; and Bring beer. For 75-90% of women under 40, step 2 is optional. It would&#8217;ve been for Chloe. Especially in a bar full of grad students, who despite their extensive academic training on &#8220;the rhetorics of hegemony&#8221; and whatnot, still aren&#8217;t quite sure how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,57,41,13],"tags":[1462,255,764,43],"class_list":["post-62231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humour","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-severian","tag-sexuality","tag-university","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-gbJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64958,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62231\/revisions\/64958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}