{"id":127372,"date":"2023-05-10T00:09:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T04:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=127372"},"modified":"2023-05-10T00:02:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T04:02:20","slug":"no-students-showed-up-to-disability-sex-talk-at-hampshire-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/no-students-showed-up-to-disability-sex-talk-at-hampshire-college\/","title":{"rendered":"No students showed up to &#8216;disability sex&#8217; talk at Hampshire College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Speaker offers &#8216;private consultations&#8217; about sex on his website<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Liberal Hampshire College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/progressive-college-offers-easy-transfers-to-students-at-florida-college-now-run-by-conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that it wants students from New College in Florida to transfer if they are upset with Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 actions to reform the public university.<\/p>\n<p>But that effort will probably fail if the school\u2019s ability to convince students to show up to a virtual event about sex are any indication of the school\u2019s marketing skills.<\/p>\n<p>The private Massachusetts college held an event last week with Evan (or \u201cEva\u201d) Sweeney, a \u201cpleasure professional,\u201d according to Sweeney\u2019s LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>But only four people showed up &#8212; two administrators, Sweeney, and a reporter with Young America&#8217;s Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker is a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xrds.org\/alumni-profile?pk=1036445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genderqueer woman<\/a>\u201d and has cerebral palsy, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5GcG0yq2dLk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 interview<\/a> with the activist. A <em>Teen Vogue<\/em> article from 2022 called the presenter \u201cEvan\u201d and used male pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the lack of Hampshire College students in attendance, a 10-minute abridged version of the presentation (which was originally scheduled to last over an hour) still took place,\u201d YAF\u2019s <em>New Guard<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yaf.org\/news\/not-a-single-student-showed-up-to-leftist-cripping-up-sex-workshop-hosted-by-hampshire-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The presenter also gave a nonsense answer when asked to define what a woman is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA woman is something that a person can define for themselves if they choose to be it,\u201d Sweeney said.<\/p>\n<p>The event was \u201csponsored by the Queer Community Alliance Center, the Division of Student Affairs, and the Division of Justice, Equity, and Antiracism,\u201d according to YAF.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney has \u201cbeen teaching sex ed for almost 15 years,\u201d according to <em>Teen Vogue<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe founded a popular online disability sex education website, <em>Cripping Up Sex With Eva<\/em>,\u201d <em>Teen Vogue<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/disabled-people-need-sex-ed-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. \u201cHis book <em>Queers on Wheels<\/em> is a go-to handbook that teaches disabled readers about safe sex and wheelchair-friendly sex positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His website also sells sex toys and offers \u201cprivate consultations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As YAF noted well on its website, it&#8217;s &#8220;very refreshing to see that no students were interested in hearing the nonsense that Sweeney had to share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/princeton-drag-show-celebrates-masturbation-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princeton drag show celebrates masturbation, abortion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Humannet\/Shutterstock.com<\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker offers &#8216;private consultations&#8217; about sex on his website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1171,"featured_media":70788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367],"tags":[49368,49369,2481,815],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Humannet_Shutterstock.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-x8o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127372"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127429,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127372\/revisions\/127429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}