Karen Owen wrote about her undergrad lovers in detail and made a Power Point presentation out of it. She showed it to a few friends and one of those friends forwarded it to someone else. That got the ball rolling on viral-ocity.
A lot of Jezebel readers are coming down on the site for posting the whole thing. It’s also on Deadspin(same media co. -? Gawker) unblurred.
Only thing I can say is ‘Glad it ain’t me!’
What a whore.
Sex, everything leading up to it, and after it, is clearly just a game to her. The participants are just numbers. Total slut. She went home to bang after 10 minutes at a bar with a guy.
She basically banged the whole Duke Lacrosse team, and this was a good thing in her eyes. Serious researchers fuck entire sports teams all the time, for science of course.
Reading through that the other night just kinda sickened me. The fact that she was literally keeping score, suggests that she wanted to fuck just about any jock that crossed her path. She did so, and then recorded it. Classy.
Was her first guy hung like a gherkin or something? She describes a few guys junk as being “enormous” and “huge”, maybe so, but as many as she says? Either there are guys out there with dongs like a fire extinguisher, or she’s exaggerating a bit.
Judging people may be uncouth, but I know damn well I would never like to have her as a friend. She has plumbed the depths of shallowness, and brought back new ways to be a cautionary example.
I feel really bad for her Dad.
Oh, and before anyone accuses me of being sexist; I think it’s equally as poor in taste for a guy to do such a thing.
Promiscuity is one thing, but making a Powerpoint presentation, and then sharing it, is another.
Total whore.
Is her nickname Trish the Dish?
“Boregasm” was the first thing that I thought of.
What’s sad is that she has no emotional connection with these guys; it’s all fucking. I suppose the guys aren’t much better, though.
Would you use the word “whore” for a guy who did such a thing? Or would it just be “poor in taste”?
In my experience, people whose first instinct is to reach for the word “whore” whenever women and promiscuity come together tend to have somewhat gender-imbalanced notions of what constitutes reasonable sexual behavior.
I simply don’t understand why that is “sad.”
If both partners enjoy sex, i don’t see why it’s a problem to participate without an emotional connection. Yes, some people prefer to have that connection, and those people are welcome to restrict their sexual activity to instances where they feel such a connection, but i’m at a loss as to why it’s sad if two people experience pleasure from something that doesn’t affect you at all.
Sure the emphasis on soulless sport-fucking is depressing, but not as much as her terrible Powerpoint presentation.
She needs to take this course.
This i can get behind. Not only are her presentation skills poor, but her writing is also generally uninteresting and sophomoric. She’s nowhere near as smart as she thinks she is. If she had turned her presentation into something actually worth reading, at least it might have had some redeeming features.
As for the woman herself, i think her behavior was inappropriate and borderline sociopathic. But i’m not talking about the sex she had, or the number of partners; i’m talking about her willingness to humiliate these people for a nationwide audience, for nothing more than her own amusement or notoriety. If she’s any kind of whore, it’s an attention whore.
That is a bit unfair. She only intended to humiliate her sex partners to her close friends, one of whom sent it to someone else and it turned into this commercial.
As humiliating as it is, it might be a good lesson for the guys. Maybe they’ll be a little more careful about who they sleep with from now on. Better to learn that in this manner than by finding out that the random bar chick you slept with got pregnant and is planning to go after child support.
Not much better, meaning they are in fact better? In what way, exactly?
Whores get paid, son. She maintained her amateur status.
So?
So?
(By the way - you know the “paper” was a joke, right? She had sex with them because she wanted to, not because she thought she was doing actual research.
You… you do know that. Right?)
Yeah, she did. So? Did you want something other than to fuck just about any good-looking girl that crossed your path at the same age? I note that at this point, you’re talking about nothing but the sex, and not the email that went public, which is a different issue. “And then recorded it,” as I read this, means there was something wrong with fucking with a bunch of athletes for the sheer joy of fucking a bunch of athletes.
So what is it? She had too much sex? She liked it too much? She had sex and wasn’t bashful enough about it? She had sex with the wrong kind of guys? What?
I don’t care about the sex. As others have adequately explained, there’s nothing wrong with her having sex. Sex is great. Why not have a bunch of it? I just feel bad that this went viral. Feel sort of sorry for the guys who are being exposed to spotlight.
:rolleyes:
I’d say she didn’t like it enough.
I second the sentiment of feeling bad for her dad. Perhaps “keep your daughter off the pole” should be changed to “keep your daughter off the lacrosse team.”
I also feel bad for the intelligent hard-working alumni of Duke University. I think it’s quickly rising up the “party school” rankings.
How about “keep your daughter in a cage in the basement.” That ought to do it. Otherwise she might have sex with 10 guys not on the lacrosse team, which, loophole, right?
The ease with which digital information can be shared is the number one life lesson for the young today. A number of years ago, a friend of mine was sending her kids to a Catholic private school. At the time, all the kids had accounts on a predecessor to FaceBook called Xanga.
One of the nuns at the school managed to get all the pages of all the students.
And printed them out.
And sent them to the parents.
My friend’s 15 year old daughter’s Xanga ID was:
SusanLovesTheCock*
Her husband was very non computer savvy and my friend was not much better. So it fell to me, as a sort of adopted uncle to explain the digital facts of life to young “Susan”. How everything one types into a web site can, and probably will, be archived somewhere. And how important it was not to write anything one would not be proud to see on your grandmother’s refrigerator. Or at least the importance of creating a bogus identity.
One or more or all of those guys may really resent her publishing her ‘undercover’ research project…I would fear for my personal safety if I were her.
Right. Because there is no middle ground between a sexual free-for-all and being kept in a cage. If you think what she did is appropriate behavior, then I suppose that is your opinion. But I think one of the main purposes of civilization is to discourage people from just seeking the easiest possible pleasure they can find and to encourage them to achieve greater things. It’s what separates us from the animals.
How about, “Keep your daughter off the lacrosse team’s poles”?
I don’t get this attitude either.
It seems to assume that the guys somehow “deserved” whatever humiliation they got simply for engaging in consensual sex with a willing partner. And the pregnancy comparison is completely inappropriate, because a responsible guy can and should prepare for that eventuality by using contraception; he can’t prepare for this sort of exposure, because it is completely unpredictable.
I just don’t understand how people seeking pleasure by engaging in consensual, legal activities that don’t harm anyone else constitutes a problem for you, or for society.
You might as well criticize people for going to the movies, or spending the day at Six Flags, or playing tennis.