Lena Chen

is a reluctant sexpert, a feminist and queer advocate, and a walking case study on bad publicity. As a Harvard undergrad, she authored the blog Sex and the Ivy about her college sexcapades and misadventures. Her reputation has never quite recovered. Want to give her a book deal, send her hate mail, or misquote her in an article? Read her daily musings at The Ch!cktionary and check out her full bio.

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Rutgers University 2011 Sex, Love, & Dating Conference

This weekend, I’ll be in New Jersey to speak at the 2011 Sex, Love, & Dating Conference, taking place this Sunday on the Rutgers University Busch Campus. You can pre-register (for free!) here. Hope to see you there! I’ll be presenting for Workshop Blocks 1 and 2. These are the titles and descriptions:

 ”Hooking Up & Getting Down: The State of Casual Sex & The College Romance”

1:45pm to 2:45pm

Half a century after the sexual revolution, premarital sex is today the norm, and social conservatives lament the rise of the so-called hook-up culture. What does dating in college look like today? Are abstinence advocates onto something when they warn that casual sex has effectively killed romance? Will fooling around before marriage endanger your future marital bliss — or even make you less likely to marry?  What if you want to opt out of hooking up altogether? This interactive workshop will encourage audience members to explore modern courtship through their personal experiences and will answer crucial questions about topics like first-date sex, consent, peer pressure, slut-shaming, and double standards.

“Am I A Virgin If …”: Deconstructing The Myth of Sexual Purity

2:50pm to 3:50pm

Virginity is highly valued across the world: as a rite of passage, as a gift for one’s future spouse, and as evidence of one’s moral purity.  But does anyone know what virginity even is? One recent Kinsey Institute survey of Americans reveals that there is no consensus on what constitutes “real sex”. What are the religious, economic, medical, and legal origins of the virginity ideal? Is there one defining act that connotes loss of virginity, and how does queer sexuality complicate the equation? Do those who are attracted to more than one gender also experience more than one virginity loss? From debunking myths to defying norms, this workshop will critically interrogate our assumptions about sexual purity and its meaning in our lives. At the end of this discussion, you might find yourself no longer asking, “Am I a virgin …” but rather, “Does it really matter?”

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