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The Vermont Cynic

The University of Vermont's Independent Voice Since 1883

The Vermont Cynic

The University of Vermont's Independent Voice Since 1883

The Vermont Cynic

The secret life of a 19-year-old preteen 

The secret life of a 19-year-old preteen 

Olivia Langlan, Assistant Opinion Editor December 17, 2024

I didn’t get my period until the summer before college. With these credentials alone, I basically wrote the handbook on late blooming.    Stalled by the effects of a restrictive eating disorder...

Sex and the Cynic: you and your friend did what? 

Sarah Koegler, Opinion Columnist December 17, 2024

It’s a Friday night, the music is blasting so loud that it starts to feel like an internal thought and the lights start to move a little faster than before.  You stop dancing and look at your friend;...

The great Gen Z gender gap

The great Gen Z gender gap

Lucas Martineau, Opinion Columnist December 17, 2024

Boys will be boys, female rage burns—and Gen Z splits in two. Among young voters, women favored Harris by 26 points more than men—a political gender gap even wider than our generational divide with...

Dirty talk: “meaningless” and its implications

Dirty talk: “meaningless” and its implications

Maya Surrenti, Assistant Culture Editor December 12, 2024

Perhaps it’s the English major in me that needs to know a word’s whispered implications, but recently I’ve been fascinated by the categorization of casual sex as “meaningless.”  College cultures...

“Eyes Wide Shut:” A (sex) cult classic

“Eyes Wide Shut:” A (sex) cult classic

Erika Tally, Culture Staff Writer December 12, 2024

When one Googles “best movies about sex,” Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film “Eyes Wide Shut” is almost always the top recommendation. I decided to re-enter my pretentious movie critic phase with this...

The right to spit: criminalization of spit through time

The right to spit: criminalization of spit through time

Kendall Evans, Culture Staff Writer December 12, 2024

The average human produces 0.3-0.4 milliliters of spit per minute, totaling 0.5-1.5 liters per day, according to the Journal of Medicine and Life. That’s roughly a 32-ounce Hydro Flask full of spit every...

Pain, pleasure and pressure: the rise of rough sex

Pain, pleasure and pressure: the rise of rough sex

Nora Sissenich and Liliana Mefford December 12, 2024

In the midst of a sexual recession, young adults are having rougher sex than ever before. “Sex has not always been this rough,” said Debby Herbenick, professor at the Indiana University School of...

Taglit-Birthright Israel: a free sex vacation?

Taglit-Birthright Israel: a free sex vacation?

Ayelet Kaminski, Opinion Editor December 4, 2024

In American Jewish culture, there are two major non-religious rites of passage: sleepaway camp and Birthright.  And I don’t think I’m out of line to assert that both of these formative experiences...

How my sex life changed on Nov. 5

How my sex life changed on Nov. 5

Emma Dinsmore, Digital Media Editor December 4, 2024

After waking up at 5:45 a.m. on Nov. 6 and checking my phone, the way I view my relationship with sex shifted completely. When I went to bed on the 5th, I still had hope for the right to make choices...

Self-commodification is the price for love

Self-commodification is the price for love

Amelia Duffy, Culture Staff Writer December 2, 2024

The point of a dating app, from the perspective of a dating app, is to find love. But to access this love, one must construct themselves in a way that demonstrates their adequacy and worth. This is...

Examining kink culture at UVM

Examining kink culture at UVM

Ellie Scott, Layout Editor December 10, 2021

The pleasure and pressure of sexuality

The pleasure and pressure of sexuality

Kellyn Doerr, Staff Writer December 13, 2019

Even in a self-proclaimed sex positive society today, the topic of casual sex and sexuality in college still belongs to that of taboo. Hookups in college stereotypically involve a dating app and...

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