In October 1636, the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay took a final vote appropriating 400 pounds for the establishment of what would eventually become the crown jewel of the American higher-education system. The new college was meant primarily to train clergy, with one of the founders writing that the college’s mission was “to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.”
Things have changed. In fall 2022, visitors to this school, known to modern Americans as Harvard University, could stumble upon a seminar called “P***y Portraits,” in which participants are urged to “paint any genitals you so please” in order to celebrate “genital diversity.” Students were welcome to attend a “F*** Fest” lingerie party at one of the university’s dorms. Others might opt to attend a BDSM workshop titled “Show Me the Ropes.”
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