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Sheer bliss and awe aside, Freshers should be wary of predatory second years. Remember when we met our parents or STYCs? They were real, conditioned university students with loads of friends and good hair. It was hard not to vie for their attention. I imagined how amusing it would be to boast how I’d “shagged my Dad”, or even better, my Granddad.
Most colleges require STYCs and parents to sign documents saying they will not have sex with Freshers for two weeks. I was originally outraged: being a second year, many Freshers who took gap years will be older than me.
English law states that the age of consent is 16 so how can the university impose restraint? Surely it takes two to tango (or as the English should say, Morris dance)? If a Fresher comes onto me, why should I say no?
But then again, sexual maturity can be assessed as arbitrarily as the laws of consensual age. Indeed, in Germany 14 year olds can sleep with 21 year olds as long as they agree. Furthermore, an English girl living under Queen Victoria could legally have sex on her 12th birthday. Not exactly something I would have put on my birthday wish list!
It’s people like Polanski who highlight the real reason for rules on sex (and America’s endurance in holding grudges). I suppose not all parents will be as “responsible” as me. I only intend to sleep with the good looking ones and I will definitely stay in touch. Relax! I'm joking - I’ll do my two weeks abstention.
It makes sense really. Some Freshers have probably never left Mummy and Daddy let alone been exposed to co-ed drinking. Sleeping with their Mums and Dads is probably not the best way to begin a degree. For indeed, what goes down in Freshers doesn’t stay in Freshers.
If we are going to be responsible mentors, I would also like to warn Freshers not to sleep with their housemates (unless they’re drop dead, Zack Efron like gorgeous). You don’t have to be a second year to be a bit of a sleaze.
I would imagine that third years are the ones to watch out for though. Those crazy kids with no career prospects and too much university experience. But what’s a girl to do?
Glad to see Mademoiselle is back for another year!
comment deleted by the author Yeah, it's not as if the man raped a child.
He may be a great director, producer, writer etc. and I can't deny that the Pianist is fantastic (and his cameo in Rush Hour 3 was obviously superb) but the man drugged and sodomised a girl under the age of 14. If that's not worthy of negative coverage then we should point out that Hitler was good at architecture and celebrate the fact.
Genius does not excuse paedophilic rape, Maks, and I'm surprised that you would think it does!
Actually, it is illegal to have sex with a person under 18 if you are in a position of trust or authority over them. Debatable if this applies to college parents etc. though.
I think it goes without saying that Freshers will swoon for the good looking STYCs. I know I did. I agree with the not-sleeping-with-someone-from-your-flat... we agreed this was like incest as they were our uni brothers and sisters and that would just be wrong ^^
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