Except that fraternities and sororities do not advertise themselves as “sex clubs.” They promote themselves as respectable organisations and they survive on support from universities and the parents of students.
Several years ago, there was an incident at a Univ of Washington frat involving a couple sheep at a pledge hazing. No one was actually caught, how shall I put it, making a ewe turn, but that may have just been bad timing by the cops. I tried to find a web page describing this incident in detail, but inexplicably came up empty.
Not only is that an urban legend, I have found a reference to it (actually, involving a goat) going back to the 1880s! The architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin, hints about it in the 1933 edition of his autobiography. The only good thing he had to say about his college days was joining a fraternity.
HIM?
Wow, your college was [i/]much* more liberated than poor ol’ Frostburg State!
What’s the difference between a circus and a sorority?
Well, a circus is a cunning array of stunts . . .
Still bitter that the sorority girls wouldn’t go out with me because I lived in a dorm and not a frat house? Nah!
I did have a number of friends who were in frats and while they liked to tell their wild stories I never did hear about something like the OP.
But, I lived for two years in the “football” dorm, where many of the players lived, and it was pretty well known that there were a group of girls who lived there and/or would hang out with these guys exclusively and were employed in some capacity by the Athletic dept. I forget their job title, but it was something like “Football Ho” I think. They also entertained football recruits on their weekend visits to this particular Big10 school.
Okay, in addition to being a frat boy like I mentioned above, I also endured a stint as an RA (Resident Assistant) in our Big 10 university’s “football” dorm, conveniently located a block from the stadium.
If there were a group of girls employed by the Athletic dept. for the pleasure of the players, it was certainly not “well known.” In fact, I can only imagine the uproar at our school if such a thing were discovered. Crikey, that’s prostitution.
That’s not to say that football players didn’t enjoy certain advantages when it came to attacting women. But anyone suggesting that women were specifically procured for that role would soon suffer the crushing weight of the Women’s Studies department disciples.
You can be sure that no school would maintain such a policy, if only for the liability risks involved.
I Felta Thigh… ahhh, what fondle memories.
Well, my Big 10 university essentially paid people to study for their male basketball players (until they were caught), so not much would surprise me. I doubt “sleep with recruits” is in the job description, but I wouldn’t be so surprised to find out that an athletic department employed attractive girls to “show recruits around the campus and the city” winkwink. I’d believe that before I believed the “sororities as harems” story. Perhaps I’m just too cynical, huh?