The Original College Fuck List, Courtesy Of MIT [Old style Fuck List]

Long before Karen Owen created her world-captivating Fuck List for Duke’s female sexual consumers, two sexually liberated women created the ” Consumer Guide to MIT Men.” It was modern, sophisticated…and kinda nasty.

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Published in April 1977 by thursday, an MIT student alt-weekly, and now posted over at The Smoking Gun, the ” Consumer Guide” uses a four-star ratings system to grade the sexual performance of 36 MIT guys – all of whom slept with either Roxanne Ritchie or Susan Gilbert, the guide’s co-authors, one day or another. The two women didn’t hold anything back within their reviews, including their partners’ last names, which made some people in the MIT community very angry:

Two weeks after the guide was published, Ritchie told the Associated Press that the piece had triggered obscene telephone calls and threats of gang rape. ” I tried to contact the entire people on the list to apologize for it being in print and to assert, ‘That’s not what was important to me after I was with you,’” Ritchie told the AP.

Gang rape threats? Well, that’s going too far.

Unlike Karen Owen, whose Fuck List got faraway from her by way of modern technology, Ritchie and Gilbert devised their list intending it for publication – knowing that the scholar community, and their former partners, would see it and probably be hurt by it. There’s no evidence that any of these guys did anything wrong to either woman rather than suck inside the sack (and only maybe so, at that – remember, these items are subjective.) What if some (all?) of these guys were actually good guys who were just clumsy or inexperienced or trying their best? Should they be labeled ” lazy” or ” lumpy” in a public forum?

Supposedly, Ritchie and Gilbert were looking to ” turn the tables” on similar systems that men used to rate women. Nonetheless it just seems so … unnecessary. It’s fine to demand what you wish, but in the event that your partner doesn’t meet your standards, maybe get a distinct partner rather than publicly embarrassing him? While Karen Owen certainly caused a shitstorm and many public embarrassment, no less than she says she didn’t accomplish that intentionally. Not so for the women at MIT.

For their candid conquest-divulging, Ritchie and Gilbert received probation, inspired a protest, and incurred the wrath of then-President Jerome B. Wiesner. Whose name, we must always note, didn’t appear on the list.

The Original Co-ed Consumer Sex Guide [TSG]

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