Well, that’s it. According to the “expert” in (and inventor of the concept of) sex addiction, Patrick Carnes, most Penn Students are sex addicts. (You can take the test here to find out if your own thoughts and habits qualify you.) After all, just looking at boredatpenn.net shows that many Penn students “find themselves preoccupied with sexual thoughts,” “feel controlled by their sexual desires,” and definitely “have used the internet to make romantic or erotic connections with people online.”
And anyone trying to get in good with a rising Whartonite has “traded sex for money or gifts.”
Apparently, even dating around is a bad thing — the survey asks if the taker has ever “maintained multiple romantic or sexual partnerships at the same time”. But according to an MSNCB column this week, it’s pretty easy to score as a sex addict using the test, and it might not mean much.
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