The Other McCain

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‘Dear Penthouse Forum . . .’

Posted on | April 20, 2010 | 59 Comments

“A 1992 survey of 5,000 U.S. librarians, long withheld by a professional journal, found one in five respondents had engaged in sexual trysts among the stacks. Will Manly, who said the New York-based Wilson Library Bulletin withheld the results of his survey in 1992, published results recently on his Web site indicating 51 percent of librarians in the early 90s were willing to pose nude for money and 61 percent of respondents admitting to renting an X-rated film, the New York Daily News reported Monday.”
— United Press International, cited by Professor Glenn Reynolds, as if he needed an excuse to spend more time in the library

Category: Education, Instapundit, Rule 5, Sex

Comments

59 Responses to “‘Dear Penthouse Forum . . .’”

  1. Slartibartfast
    April 21st, 2010 @ 1:58 pm

    “Marion the libertarian” somehow doesn’t flow quite so well.

    Another foray into reading incomprehension:

    51 percent of librarians in the early 90s were willing to pose nude for money

    I read the early 90s as their early 90s. NTTAWWT; I’d probably be willing to pose nude for money, at that age. My pension will probably be running out by then.

  2. Slartibartfast
    April 21st, 2010 @ 8:58 am

    “Marion the libertarian” somehow doesn’t flow quite so well.

    Another foray into reading incomprehension:

    51 percent of librarians in the early 90s were willing to pose nude for money

    I read the early 90s as their early 90s. NTTAWWT; I’d probably be willing to pose nude for money, at that age. My pension will probably be running out by then.

  3. Mikee
    April 21st, 2010 @ 3:15 pm

    Count me among those who have used the privacy of a university library to enjoy some private time with a pretty girl. And happy I am to have done so. Been married to her for almost a quarter century now.

  4. Mikee
    April 21st, 2010 @ 10:15 am

    Count me among those who have used the privacy of a university library to enjoy some private time with a pretty girl. And happy I am to have done so. Been married to her for almost a quarter century now.

  5. Whitehall
    April 21st, 2010 @ 3:37 pm

    I worked in the city library as a teenager and yes, it was a great place to meet girls. Some of them were game for some action back in the stacks.

    I think part of the appeal is the visual obscurity one can find back deep in the stacks. Since we’re hard-wired to seek privacy for sex (most of us, anyway), once we’re in a place where there is that “public” privacy, our minds make the association.

  6. Whitehall
    April 21st, 2010 @ 10:37 am

    I worked in the city library as a teenager and yes, it was a great place to meet girls. Some of them were game for some action back in the stacks.

    I think part of the appeal is the visual obscurity one can find back deep in the stacks. Since we’re hard-wired to seek privacy for sex (most of us, anyway), once we’re in a place where there is that “public” privacy, our minds make the association.

  7. NukemHill
    April 21st, 2010 @ 6:01 pm

    Now I understand why all the letters to Penthouse are always so well written. Well, not that I’ve read all that many to be able to judge *cough cough*.

  8. NukemHill
    April 21st, 2010 @ 1:01 pm

    Now I understand why all the letters to Penthouse are always so well written. Well, not that I’ve read all that many to be able to judge *cough cough*.

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