What Cornell Teaches Its Students About Sex

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Lederman, J. (2026, October 8). What Cornell Teaches Its Students About Sex. The Free Press. https://www.thefp.com/p/what-cornell-teaches-its-students

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A Cornell University senior discusses how her school, often at the center of debates about sex and assault on college campuses, lacks adequate sexual education for students. The author argues that while Cornell portrays itself as deeply concerned with student welfare, it provides explicit and sometimes controversial guidance regarding sexual activities. This includes hosting events like sex-toy raffles with demonstrations, distributing guides promoting pornography consumption, and encouraging exploration of various fetishes and practices such as bondage and group sex.

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At Cornell University, senior Jared Lederman criticizes the school's approach to sex education, which he claims promotes unhealthy behaviors while presenting itself as deeply invested in student welfare. In 2019, Cornell Health published a guide titled "Sexual Pleasure: Finding the ‘Sweet Spot’" that encourages students to view sex as a productive study break and explores topics like exploring fantasies, fetish gear, and ethical pornography consumption. Lederman also mentions other lewd guidance from the university, including hosting sex-toy raffles with demonstrations and instructing students on bondage practices and group-sex interest identification.

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You can’t open the news these days without seeing something about my school. asserted

You → open → school

I am a senior at Cornell, and my university has become ground zero for a series of difficult discussions about sex, rape, assault, and consent. asserted

university → become → sex

Missing from the conversation is this: Cornell has a sex-education problem. asserted

Cornell → miss → problem

For years, the school has promoted the perception that it is deeply invested in students’ welfare, even as it feeds them a constant stream of guidance on sexual activities that are fundamentally at odds with that goal. asserted

that → promote → goal

Cornell’s health service is shocking in its lewdness, offering students instructions for exploring bondage and supplying a checklist for identifying interest in various forms of group sex. asserted

service → offer → sex

Cornell has also hosted sex-toy raffles complete with demonstrations. asserted

Cornell → host → demonstrations

In 2019, the university’s official health authority, Cornell Health, authored a guide titled Sexual Pleasure: Finding the “Sweet Spot.” asserted

authority → author → Spot

It opens by declaring that sex can make for a “terrific study break.” asserted

sex → open → break

Students are encouraged to explore sexual fantasies and consider fetish gear. asserted

Students → encourage → gear

Exposure to pornography, Cornell assures us, is “totally normal,” and the guide directs students toward “ethical porn” and the “Feminist Porn Awards.” asserted

guide → assure → porn

Today, this report is available inside a sexual-health resource library that has been “hand-picked by our staff.” asserted

that → pick → staff

That same year, Cornell Health published Self-Exploration, a document that tells students they are “entitled to experience all the pleasure” their bodies can provide and instructs them to set aside private time in pursuit of that goal. asserted

bodies → publish → goal

Another guide, Sensate Focus, meticulously describes touching exercises between partners and states that “nudity is optimal.” asserted

nudity → describe → partners

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