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| from the Daily Tar Heel |
By Josie Hollingsworth | The Daily Tar Heel
For some students, study breaks in the library come in all shapes — and sizes.
As students begin to fill up the libraries in preparation for final exams, an active thread on the online classifieds website Craigslist reveals a subculture of illicit sexual activity specific to Davis Library, the University’s largest.
A search for “Davis Library” on the personals section of the Raleigh Craigslist turns up a series of requests for sexual favors, posts that have caught the attention of some library employees.
Besides the posts, library employees cite graphic evidence, including semen-filled condoms draped over chairs and stuck to the walls.
Good to see students using books for something...although I hate it when the pages stick together. Ewww...
ReplyDeleteAccording to The Spouse, Also An Academic, there was much shagging in the stacks of her undergrad university's library.
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ReplyDeleteThis is ubiquitous at probably every university library across the country, and is hardly a new thing. There was one bathroom at my undergraduate library that frequent late-night library visitors knew to avoid as it became a happenin' tea room after dark.
ReplyDeleteYes, but at this library the humpers and humpees are nasty (who the motherfuck leaves condoms like that? Shitbirds, that's who.)
DeleteI have to say. Everyone knew where to go in our undergrad library, and also, where not to if you didn't want to disturb people going at it like starving sailors. Not sure what it is about books, dark corners and undergrads; I always figured it was a very lively form of procrastination.
DeleteStill, only a creep would not dispose of the condom in an appropriate place. Yuck.
Having spent too much time in Davis... I tried to avoid the place after about 9PM. I have been in libraries that felt less safe (as a woman), but not many. Wide empty flours of stacks with few library staff on them.... the NC State library is more so.
ReplyDeleteIf I thought I might be raped there I could certainly see people thinking it would be a perfect place to have sex.
Could be a raunchy `80s sex comedy:
ReplyDelete"Humpshack: Don't get the Card Catalogue Sticky!"
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"Bonerz: Adventures in the Reading Room"
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"I pity the foo' who don't rent 'D.C. Cab.'" - Mr. T, plugging the dreck comedy he was in 1983.
All the more reason to pretend to be studying: apparently, the chicks dig it.
ReplyDeleteHaving sex in the Widener stacks (or, rather, claiming to have had sex in the Widener stacks), preferably after hours, is a longstanding Harvard tradition. I suspect the Titanic connection only increases the appeal these days.
ReplyDeleteI used to go to the library to sleep. How did I miss all the humping.
ReplyDeleteHiram - you were sleeping...
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