Anal Sex 101 Now Offered At Harvard University

A worker places condoms onto a packaging belt at the Chinese condom manufacturer Safedom's factory in the town of Zhaoyuan, located 100 km (62 miles) south of the city of Yantai, Shandong Province February 6, 2012. Reuters/David Gray

Harvard University, globally known for its Ivy League education, is now offering Anal Sex 101. But for a limited time only during the school's annual Sex Week.

Sex Week at Harvard is a week of programming that targets to aid students get a better understanding of all that is everything to is about sex, even those less discussed. The particular anal seminar had been dubbed 'What in the Butt: Anal Sex 101.'

The aim of the particular class was to teach "anal anatomy and the potential for pleasure for all genders; how to talk about it with a partner; basic preparation and hygiene; lubes, anal toys and safer sex; anal penetration for beginners and much more!" Harvard's Sex Week site said. Its course description stated the class will be an opportunity for students to ask questions about anal sex in a safe, comfortable and knowledgeable environment.

The description posted on the official Harvard Sex Week website said the anal sex experts came from Good Vibrations, a sex-positive store located in Brookline. As expected, the new workshop, while it had its shares of active knowledge seekers, got blasted down by others.

Molly Wharton, a Harvard student, told The College Fix she feels the classes in this year's Sex Week have been "downright vulgar." But Kirin Gupta, co-president of Sexual Health Education & Advocacy Throughout Harvard (SHEATH) and one of the organizers of Sex Week, said those who have been bothered or got bothered by the workshop is just "repressed" and hates gays and women.

"The conservative backlash speaks to the latent homophobia that society thinks so often it has gotten over and has not. It speaks to these residual prejudices that people [have] when faced with a reality they're not willing to acknowledge or respect," she told MTV. She added the workshop gave sex partners a chance to "get an education and talk about" each other's needs.

This is the fourth time Harvard University is holding Sex Week. Classes given during this week, however, are not for credit.

According to portal Bustle, "What What (In the Butt)" had been a viral music video sang by Samwell. It was launched at YouTube in 2007 and "has since gone down in history as one of the strangest and most delightful viral videos of all time.