<p>The</a> Highly-Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl | Jay Dixit</p>
<p>I hope it is. Sometimes, people do these things as a joke...</p>
<p>this is the same Rolling Stone article that has been circulating for years… it’s not really anything</p>
<p>That article came out when I was a sophomore - waaaay back in 2000-2001 school year. People laughed and mocked it then, feel free to continue to do so. The general consensus was, “It’s Rolling Stone. There must have not been a lot of music news that week.”</p>
<p>Every now and then, someone googles and finds this “masterpiece”… :)</p>
<p>it is true then ?</p>
<p>When you notice the responses like “it’s not really anything” or “There must have not been a lot of music news that week”, then essentially the contents of this “masterpiece” remain unrefuted.</p>
<p>Live and experience…</p>
<p>^^I’m not sure what this means. The article is real, in that it is an actual article that was actually published in Rolling Stone, but the anecdotes related within it don’t represent me or anybody I’ve ever known at Wellesley. There are students and professors at every college who flirt or do worse with each other, and it might happen at Wellesley too–but it is hardly a common occurrence. The professor quoted sounds like a slimeball and I’d being willing to bet that the fact that he did not remain at Wellesley <em>did</em> have something to do with his relationships with students. I’ve been to many office hours and observed many of my compatriots–none of us was there to flirt. I’ve also never seen any one have anything other than friendly banter with a dining hall employee. The online resume that is referenced in the story has gone out of style big time, just in general (I’m a junior now and I barely heard of them my first year, and that was from older students (obviously)). The part about general sexual relationships comes closest to the truth–I think people do feel more comfortable here talking about sex than they might in a coed environment. Every story like this has a grain of truth. But to say that Wellesley has a highly-charged erotic atmosphere would be laughable if you knew anything about the day-to-day workings of the campus. It is also offensive and reductive to me that the only interest many people show in an excellent school like Wellesley is in the students’ sexuality–it just furthers the idea that no matter what you do in life as a women, your sexuality is the only thing that really matters about you.</p>
<p>Depends on who you know.</p>
<p>@pinkfeather. I realize it’s scientifically impossible to prove a negative.</p>
<p>I certainly never knew of anyone involved with professors or the staff in my four years at Swelles … which is a shame because anything described in that article would have been fabulous gossip. And what Advantageous says is true, people do talk more about sex, etc. and they discuss sex more openly at Wellesley because Wellesley is a single-sex environment. When Wellesley students say they haven’t heard of actions portrayed as a campus-wide phenomenon in the article, it’s because it’s not part of the campus culture as most students know it.</p>