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Photo by cl-s from the Torontoist Flickr Pool . Sex was perhaps best summed-up by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the timeless cinematic touchstone Cruel Intentions when her character explains to Selma Blair's that "everybody does it, it's just that nobody talks about it." Here to remedy that very problem is the University of Toronto's own Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity , now the first institution in Canada to offer a graduate program in Sexual Diversity Studies. The advent of a program like this a big deal, and the news has certainly been making headlines. The Globe and Mail , for instance, had a particularly choice one: "A PhD in Putting Out." While the article itself (sorry, but you do have to pay five bucks if you want to read it) is for the most part well-written and thoughtful, the editor who wrote that headline added a certain tone of disrespect to the piece—a tone readily picked up on by internet commenters, whose mostly-critical responses on the semi-moderated board tended to consist of typical anti-academic bitching about wasted taxpayer dollars, useless degrees, and some pretty grade school-appropriate jokes about "oral examinations." Scott Rayter, acting director for the program, told us he liked the article, but agreed that the headline was slightly problematic. "It seems to make light of the work we do and feeds the kinds of criticism one saw on-line," he said. "My sense of the criticism about the article is th ...
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Photo by cl-s from the Torontoist Flickr Pool . Sex was perhaps best summed-up by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the timeless cinematic touchstone Cruel Intentions when her character explains to Selma Blair's that "everybody does it, it's just that nobody talks about it." Here to remedy that very problem is the University of Toronto's own Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity , now the first institution in Canada to offer a graduate program in Sexual Diversity Studies. The advent of a program like this a big deal, and the news has certainly been making headlines. The Globe and Mail , for instance, had a particularly choice one: "A PhD in Putting Out." While the article itself (sorry, but you do have to pay five bucks if you want to read it) is for the most part well-written and thoughtful, the editor who wrote that headline added a certain tone of disrespect to the piece—a tone readily picked up on by internet commenters, whose mostly-critical responses on the semi-moderated board tended to consist of typical anti-academic bitching about wasted taxpayer dollars, useless degrees, and some pretty grade school-appropriate jokes about "oral examinations." Scott Rayter, acting director for the program, told us he liked the article, but agreed that the headline was slightly problematic. "It seems to make light of the work we do and feeds the kinds of criticism one saw on-line," he said. "My sense of the criticism about the article is th ...