Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 1. February 27 1978

Who's Kidding Who? — Perversion on the Campus: Sex Book Shows How

Who's Kidding Who?

Perversion on the Campus: Sex Book Shows How

But this year students — many of them just out of secondary school — look like getting an education their parents wouldn't approve of.

Senior students have produced a free handbook for their less experienced juniors that purports to represent a collection of "ideas and feelings towards topics which are rarely discussed."

But it's a collection of smut that rivals Down Under the Plum Trees for explicit details of sexual perversions and four letter obscenities.

The booklet is called Sexuality and it's produced under the banner of Instinctive Impulses on behalf of the New Zealand University Students' Association.

The publication presents a disturbing view of subjects such as lesbianism and abortion.

The contributor of one article describes heterosexual sex as "pretty gross."

In a three page, article extolling the virtues of lesbianism the author writes: "I'm a woman — so is my lover.

"Her body is like mine — soft, smooth, silky, sweet, warm. Making love to her I discover myself.

"I touch the satin moistness of her and marvel at the ripeness, the wonder of women."

Male homosexuality also comes in for a sympathetic hearing.

"Homosexuals Include All Blacks, politicians, elergymen and cops" states the handbook.

But the diatribe on abortion is perhaps the most disturbing opinion expressed by the student bosses.

Describing the current abortion legislation as ambiguous and restrictive the booklet advises women students against going through proper channels and suggests they contact extremist proabortion groups to obtain an abortion.

But a personal account of an abortion Is the real shocker.

"Most of us just considered our potential babies as, overdue periods. I had a look at the fetus; it looked' like a black brood bean."

Rather than telling students to visit a doctor in the event of sexual complications the booklet offers curious folk cures for quite serious illnesses.

The prescribed treatment for thrush is among the most novel offered.

"Smear natural or perhaps flavoured yoghurt on the Infected area," it reads.

"A foam applicator or gravy baster may be simple tools."

What effect this sort of drivel have on young minds is anyone's guess.

Sexual Perversion was never part of the University Curriculum.

Sexual Perversion was never part of the University Curriculum.