Iowa State BDSM

[BDSM_Tourguide]

Free Iowa State from Bondage
By Hans Zeiger
Nov 15, 2003, 18:45



In 2000, students at Iowa State University founded the Cuffs organization to celebrate the deviant sexual practices of "bondage", "discipline", "dominance", "submission", "sadism", and "masochism". Without actually explaining the unexplainable, it is enough to say that the activities that Cuffs engages in include painful flogging, leather fetishes, "kinks", and sexual assault. And on Thursday, the Iowa State Government of the Student Body endowed Cuffs with special funding.

By a vote of 21-9, the student government approved a special printing and advertising allocation for Cuffs. In the past, Cuffs has been the beneficiary of thousands of dollars in student body revenue.

Cuffs is symbolic of America's growing decadence. In what is perhaps the most basic summary of moral relativism ever written, the Cuffs mission statement says, "We believe that everyone is entitled to determine where their own personal limits are, to adjust those limits at any time, to withdraw previously given consent at any time, and to have their limits respected by others." In other words, there are no limits.

And nothing could more succinctly express the moral confusion of Cuffs than this line from the Cuffs website: "BDSM [bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism] is the polar opposite of abuse." Perhaps in the warped lexicon of the cultural Left, abuse is defined as the stigmatized inability of a person to express their "identity" openly. Or maybe abuse means that a person is oppressed by their adherence to a rigid moral code. Or perhaps it is even the loving, caring traditional marriage relationship of a man and woman.

The mission statement continues: "We believe that safe, consensual, and non-exploitative alternate sexual desires are an important, natural, and healthy part of the sexual orientation of many people, and we support and advocate the right of every adult to make the sexual choices that are right for them." Since the group was founded three years ago, Cuffs workshops and seminars have included "Instructions on Flogging", "Instructions on Spanking, Caning, and Paddling", "STD Prevention," and "Rope Bondage Workshop."

"It helps members to have groups like this," Cuffs president Harlan "Duane" Long told his school newspaper. "It shows people they're not alone. I believe opposition to Cuffs is largely based on misconceptions, and that's only something that will go away with time as Cuffs is here to educate people more."

Iowa State University is not America's only campus with a club dedicated exclusively to the most disgusting forms of degeneracy. Columbia University sponsors Conversio Verium, a "BDSM support and discussion group." Evergreen State College in Washington has the Queer Alliance, the University of New York at Albany hosts a club, and so does Oberlin College in Ohio. Nearly a dozen repulsive student groups meet under the jurisdiction of the University of California at Berkeley Queer Council.

Under federal equal access laws, colleges and universities that receive federal funding are required to allow any active student group to become an official part of the student body organization. Not only are hideous BDSM clubs a potential campus group; under federal law that governs most of higher education, there are no limits. Nothing can be done to stop the Ku Klux Klan, heroin addicts, neo-Nazis or Satanists from forming student clubs. Only three colleges in the United States are truly independent by their refusal to attach their identity to federal funding: Hillsdale College in Michigan, Grove City College in Pennsylvania, and Patrick Henry College in Virginia.

The only way higher education can be saved is if college administrations -- like Hillsdale, Grove City, and Patrick Henry -- take a firm stand on principles higher than expressive rights alone. Academia must engage its students in a forum on character, honor, and decency. Such a stand will cost colleges their federal funding, but federal higher education funding has its pretext in socialist grounds in the first place.

The bottom line is that organizations advancing obscenity, disease, pain, and rottenness in general should not be a fixture of America's higher education system. But for now -- having forgotten the things of the spirit -- Iowa State University and all of the other campuses that celebrate animalism are in abject bondage to the things of the flesh.

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Hans Zeiger is president of the Scout Honor Coalition. He is a Seattle Times columnist and student at Hillsdale College in Michigan. He can be contacted at hazeiger@hillsdale.edu



© Copyright 2003 MichNews.com

[Escritor]

Oh, crap!! This is disgusting!! Writers at least should get informed about what they talk about. And even if they disagree, they should expose clearly that it is THEIR opinion only, and not a given truth. Here this guy talks about obscenity and depravity... he's one sick bastard!! He should have said he doesn't like this kinds of activities and that he thinks they shouldn't have a place in higher education formal clubs or groups. I'd disagree with him, but at least he'd have my respect.

I hope people like these are not very common in US.

Regards

[BDSM_Tourguide]

I left the contact info on the article so it could be used if necessary.

This is why the BDSM community has such a terrible rep. Because no one bothers to even try to inform ignorant people like this of the mistakes and misconceptions that they are making.

[AndrewBlack]

At least he accurately quotes the Cuffs philosophy in their definition of abuse; although he clearly dosen't understand it. I must say I'm suprised he's against the klan with his views on homosexuality..etc..

Aren't fascist, bigots just great eh !

[Lord Douche]

"We believe that everyone is entitled to determine where their own personal limits are, to adjust those limits at any time, to withdraw previously given consent at any time, and to have their limits respected by others." In other words, there are no limits.

I would LOVE to give this to an English Professor, without telling them the context, and then show them the rest of the article.
Right after I read this, I had to ask myself "What has this guy been smoking?" Isn't an editor supposed to be unbiased and read through things like this for blatant errors in judgement like that?

"It shows people they're not alone. I believe opposition to Cuffs is largely based on misconceptions, and that's only something that will go away with time as Cuffs is here to educate people more.

This guy here is on the ball though, and I wish them the best in their publicity.

[e.e. norcod]

Oberlin I can believe. But Iowa State. This may be the biggest thing to hit that campus since Harlan Wood, Mert Utter and Lester Krampitz got their PhD's in the late 1930's in Biological Chemistry. This consititutes fantastic PR!

I write stuff like this guy does, but as satire. I can see him foaming at the mouth with the spittle flying half-way across the room. I wonder if he beats his girlfriend with a belt or a stick. Or maybe she beats him. Maybe he has no girlfriend but wishes he did.

[boccaccio2000g]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by BDSM_Tourguide
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Free Iowa State from Bondage
By Hans Zeiger
Nov 15, 2003, 18:45


Thanks for posting this, TG



I have just two things to say:

1) Isn't the purpose of institutions of higher learning to encourage students to inquire into new ideas for themselves rather than to accept without question the tired dictums of past generations?


2) Go, Cyclones!


(For those in faraway lands, most American colleges and Universities select a nickname by which their athletic teams, and by extension, all students are known; those who attend Iowa State are known as the Cyclones)

Boccaccio

[pandemonium]

He's an 18 year old Eagle Scout that hates, NOW, ACLU, etc. and so on. I doubt that anyone would be able to make a dent in his mind right now.

[e.e. norcod]

It is sad that he is an Eagle Scout for one of the things that they are supposed to learn on their Trail to Eagle is a tolerance and respect for other value systems. Someone failed in their guidance of him.