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Harvard University has combined the Sex Week college tradition with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer advocacy.

On Saturday, Harvard students were treated to a talk titled “GET WET: The Orgasm Seminar,” hosted by Ignacio Rivera, “a Two-Spirit, Black-Boricua Taíno, queer performance artist, activist, filmmaker, lecturer and sex educator who prefers the gender neutral pronoun ‘they.’ “

The Harvard “Sex Weekend” event was described on its official website as “people with vaginas learning about awesome things related to their vaginas.”

The College Fix had to do a little digging, but it turns out it’s been reported that Rivera was born with a vagina, so ‘they’ could speak to the subject with some authority.

But more than that, Harvard’s Office of BGLTQ Student Life points out, “sex educator Ignacio Rivera—a two-Spirit, Black-Boricua Taíno—(led) a discussion about female-bodied orgasms through the lens of intersectionality and bodies of many genders.”

The event was part of an expansion of Harvard’s “Pride” observance – which has now been lengthened from Pride Week to Pride Month – all of April, the Harvard Crimson reports. With that, Harvard’s springtime Sex Weekend, a precursor to fall’s Sex Week, took a decidedly queer turn.

“In this vein, ‘Get Wet: An Orgasm Seminar,’ an event on Saturday which featured discussions on vaginal orgasms and free sex toys, was part of both Harvard Pride ’14 and Sex Weekend,” the Crimson reported.

And on April 17, a Sex Weekend talk/Q&A explained the ins-and-outs of “queer sex,” at which: “All are welcome and no identities are assumed.”

Jennifer Kabbany is associate editor of The College Fix. ( @JenniferKabbany )

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