I was initially struck by what One lays out when discussing sexy communities because – on a surface level – it seems to fit Bowdoin so well. He talks of a “spirit of the night” that would infiltrate spaces, and that even though sex may not outright be taking place, it’s a community driven (in part) by sex and sexuality. I thought this sounded familiar, even putting to one side some of the more exotic things one may encounter while e-hosting a college house party. The mere fact that, over the years in one form or another, there have been a number of different student group campaigns designed to push back against certain stereotypes\/expectations shows that there is an underlying understanding there that I think can be illuminated by what sees in sexy communities.<\/p>\n
I think part of the reason why there was initially such struggle in our discussion in class to see Bowdoin this way was because of the way in which I asked the question. When Justin pointed out that most of what happens on the Bowdoin campus isn’t sex or sex-related, it made me realize that I was thinking of a certain, narrow conception of Bowdoin – that of the Thursday, Friday, and weekend night. It was because I was so easily ready to segment the different aspects that the Bowdoin experience constitutes, that I was conflating the community as a whole with one of its pastimes.<\/p>\n
Nobody looks back at their time at Bowdoin and thinks about all the sex that they had… at least primarily. Yet, at certain times while they are here, it is all that is on the mind. So, in reforming my question, I feel that I am answering it. Justin initially took issue with seeing the campus as a sexy space, and Hannah pointed out on weekends that it is. Thea raised the point that it is not just about sex, but about sexual energy, aka feeling good, and professor Greene asked what if it isn’t necessarily producing community, but driving divisions between one already existent.<\/p>\n
In short – its complicated. And no Bowdoin experience is the same for two. However, I think the various comments brought up echo the basic sentiment that we all know to be true –\u00a0if\u00a0<\/em>one is looking for sexy community on Bowdoin’s campus, they\u00a0can<\/em> find it if they look for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was initially struck by what One lays out when discussing sexy communities because – on a surface level – it seems to fit Bowdoin so well. He talks of a “spirit of the night” that would infiltrate spaces, and that even though sex may not outright be taking place, it’s a community driven (in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-2202-fall-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}