11.13.25: The Sex Issue
The Harvard Independent’s Annual Sex Survey Reveals Shifts in Campus Attitudes Toward Intimacy and Identity
Released every year to demystify intimate topics, the Independent’s 2025 Sex Survey revealed a campus increasingly nuanced in its views regarding relationships, gender, and sexuality. With 545 responses across all four undergraduate years, this year’s results peel back the curtain on norms surrounding dating, sex, and self-expression. Respondent Demographics Survey engagement was balanced across all […]
Satire: Top Six Sex Locales on Campus
With all of sex’s health benefits, it’s only natural for students on campus to want to engage—after all, the mental toll from classes (however easy according to Claybaugh) and the physical deterioration from dining hall food needs to be compensated for somehow. However, student accommodations restrict the ability to stay healthy; from the cramped feeling […]
The Making of a WAG: Sexualization in Sports
The wives and girlfriends of professional athletes in the most popular and well-paid men’s sports can gain just as much fame as their significant others, for better or for worse. This begs the question: why is it that the same phenomenon does not exist among the husbands and boyfriends of professional female athletes? The obsession […]
Veritas and Vulnerability: Sexual Wellness in the Square
Deep in Harvard Square, amidst the many coffee shops, bagel stops, and bookstores, stands “Good Vibrations,” a nationally known chain of sex-toy stores. Less than a mile apart from Good Vibrations is Hubba Hubba, another renowned BDSM-centric business. For some Harvard College students, these sexual wellness stores serve as an essential resource for exploring intimacy […]
Indy Sportsbook: The Odds of Getting Laid
The choice of foreplay in the form of dinner, an activity, or simply a text is a time-honored tradition of the college hookup. While the quality of each can work in your favor, the chances you can seal the deal at the end of the night are significantly different. All that being said, make your […]
All Checked Out: Male and Female Personal Health Clinics in Cambridge
Following the closure of Harvard University’s Women’s Center and Office of BGLTQ Student Life this past summer, many undergraduates have been left with limited options for personal health services. Considering the importance of medical care in the areas of reproductive health, hormone imbalances, nutrition, and mental health, students must now turn to other resources to […]
He Thinks, She Thinks: the Nine Stages of a Hookup
The “hookup” embodies one of our most basic impulses. The term has been diluted over time, used to describe anything from making out to simply meeting up. This analysis, however, focuses on the traditional interpretation: sex. While we have evolved from our cave-roaming days, the custom persists. Frat parties have replaced balls, flowers have replaced […]
Desire Meets Discourse: Harvard College’s Sex Week
Every year since 2012, Harvard eschews its Puritan roots and shines a spotlight on a topic often deemed taboo in higher education: sex. Between Nov. 2 and Nov. 9, the campus organization Sex Education by Harvard College Students puts on its annual Sex Week. The week offers informational seminars on topics such as sexually transmitted […]
The Art of Sexting
There are few things I appreciate more in life than a well-crafted sext. I have always, and will always, be a firm believer in the positive power of sexting. Truly good sexting requires a level of intimacy and understanding of your partner that a purely physical hookup often does not. To arouse someone through a […]