PHOTO: Front page newspaper article by Nathan Bruttell, "Sex video raises furor at OSU. Former student filmed graphic scene inside library." Gazette-Times, Jan. 30, 2015, p. A1, A6 gazettetimes.com posted Jan. 29, 2015 as "Former OSU student's pornographic video getting national attention" - also see TV news account by Rhoda Krause, "Former OSU Student Cited for Porn Video," KEZI-TV kezi.com Published January 28, 2015 and student newspaper story by Staff, "Citation filed in library porn video case," The Daily Barometer, Jan. 29, 2015, p. 1, 4, dailybarometer.com posted Jan. 28, 2014.
The idea of public sex and tearooms is an old one -- historically it was often the only place many men who wanted to have sex with other men could find it. See my previous posts Book: 1912 Portland 'Vice Clique' gay sex scandal, OSU football player, and possible Women's Suffragists linkage (3/22/14) and Senator Craig promotes public sex (8/29/07) that comments on the arrest of Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig for cruising for sex in a public restroom at an airport. Craig represents the "old gay culture" of closeted gay men using unhealthy public sex venues for anonymity.
Amusingly, a reader of my local newspaper, in response to the furor over a student's sex video made in the Oregon State University library, sent the following letter that mentioned the old problem of cruising for sex in public tearooms by closeted gay men seeking sex from men (See original article by Nathan Bruttell, "Sex video raises furor at OSU. Former student filmed graphic scene inside library." Gazette-Times, Jan. 30, 2015, p. A1, A6 gazettetimes.com posted Jan. 29, 2015 as "Former OSU student's pornographic video getting national attention,"):
The Gazette-Times Jan. 30 headline, "Sex video raises furor at OSU," has a special meaning to those of us who have fought for decades to end discrimination based on sexual stereotypes.
On the one hand, it is heartening to see a young female college student feel free to be sexually provocative in a manner that only male college students felt entitled to do decades ago.
On the other hand, I bet some of today's students, both male and female, feel just as violated as I did nearly half a century ago when a male flasher targeted me in the old OSU library.
Back then, the biggest problem for campus security was in the library "tearooms," where men seeking sex with men would occasionally be caught disturbing the peace.
Kim Wilson, Corvallis
(Quoted from Kim Wilson, "Letters: Some perspectives on library sex activity," Gazette-Times, Feb. 2, 2015, p. A7)
Two days after the above letter ran, the weekly column in the student newspaper written by Kathy Greaves, senior instructor and faculty member in the college of public health and human sciences, "Pornography incident in library raises feminism questions," OSU Barometer, FEb. 4, 2015, p. 7 said, "From a feminist perspective, there are two ways to look at this. . . On the one hand, feminism is about not stepping in and rescuing women, but rather allowing them to make their own choices and respecting those choices. . . However, feminism is also about recognizing that girls grow up in a social context -- a patriarchal context that only values them for their physical qualities, their appearance, and their bodies -- not their minds."
See the previous posts and related items of interest:
- Travis Chambers, "Feminism is dead, equality is won," dailybarometer.com posted Jab. 29, 2015 - a student writer satirically says, "We can lend Oregon State University a hand in investigating the possibility of retroactively punishing the woman who made amateur porn in the Valley Library."
- "Citation filed in library porn video case," The Daily Barometer, Jan. 29, 2015, p. 1, 4, dailybarometer.com posted Jan. 28, 2014
- Rhoda Krause, "Former OSU Student Cited for Porn Video," KEZI-TV kezi.com Published January 28, 2015 - "Within several days, a 17-minute pornographic video that police say was filmed in the Valley Library at Oregon State University had 262,000 online views. On Tuesday, Oregon State Police arrested a former OSU student who they say filmed the video of herself in public, and cited her with a charge of public indecency."
- Nathan Bruttell, "Sex video raises furor at OSU. Former student filmed graphic scene inside library." Gazette-Times, Jan. 30, 2015, p. A1, A6 gazettetimes.com posted Jan. 29, 2015 as "Former OSU student's pornographic video getting national attention," - "A 19-year-old Corvallis woman's pornographic video, filmed in Oregon State University's Valley Library, is attracting national media attention. Kendra Jane Sunderland was cited and charged with misdemeanor public indecency Tuesday after Oregon State Police learned of the graphic video"
- Jasmin Vogel, "Media instructor responds to video. Jeff Hale discusses pornography, adult video filmed in library," dailybarometer.com Posted: Sunday, February 1, 2015 6:51 pm Updated: 10:51 pm, Sun Feb 1, 2015 -- "I don't find it terribly out of context; obviously it's way outside of appropriate higher education behavior, but not outside the box for the younger generation of normalcy," Jeff Hale said.
- Jasmin Vogel, news reporter, "Media instructor responds to video, Jeff Hale discusses pornography, adult video filmed in library," The Daily Barometer, Feb. 2, 2015, dailybarometer.com posted February 1, 2015
- Staff Editorial Board, "Let's forget about the porn," dailybarometer.com posted 3.1.15
- Book: 1912 Portland 'Vice Clique' gay sex scandal, OSU football player, and possible Women's Suffragists linkage (3/22/14)
- Senator Craig promotes public sex (8/29/07) - Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig represents the "old gay culture" of using unhealthy public sex venues for anonymity
