BDSM Comes to Harvard

Last week, national media outlets were titillated by the news that Harvard University had formally recognized a ­student-run BDSM group (short for bondage, domination, and sado­maso­chism).

Newsweek reports:

The idea of buttoned-up Crimson coeds discussing their fondness for fetish challenged the conventional image of the Ivy League university, home to the best, the brightest—and now, the kinkiest.

Joining the Composers Association, the Mathematica Club, and about 400 other student organizations, the Harvard Munch will now get money to host gatherings and guest speakers.  While conservative pundits on Fox roasted the school for giving money to this “marginal” group, the larger BDSM world welcomed the news. “Within the next decade, I think we’ll see a huge number of colleges and universities providing safe spaces for their students to explore alternative sexuality, just as they have done for LGBT groups,” said Mollena Williams, an educator in the kink community.

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I am sure if the Arcus Foundation wants to come through with another grant, the Episcopal Church can have a liturgy ready for blessing this by the next General Convention.  But, seriously, once you open the door to sexual relations outside of God's design for monogamous, heterosexual marriage, the trajectory is always in the direction of more permissiveness.  One more thing... then one more thing... then one more thing....  Does anyone doubt that the culture is doing exactly that?  And that the so-called "mainline" churches are following right along?