An Oxbridge “sex blogger” who describes her erotic University exploits online has become the subject of intense international media attention.
The revelation that at least one student at Oxford or Cambridge Universities indulges in sexual activity, and enjoys it, has also created a frenzy in the blogosphere.
On her blog and twitter account, the student describes sex with rugby blues, losing her virginity and other aspects of sexual activity at the University.
Comparisons have already been made to Belle du Jour, the notorious escort-girl who wrote up her ‘intimate adventures’ online, and was last year revealed to be Dr Brooke Magnanti, a research scientist at Bristol University.
Speaking exclusively to Cherwell, the anonymous student blogger said that the way tabloid papers are trying to reveal her identity is “terrifying”.
“A reporter told me his boss expected him to be ‘scouring the streets of Oxford and Cambridge for you’” she wrote in an email from an anonymous account.
“I’m battling this ravenous media off with a stick,” she said.
Asked why she started writing about her sex life, she told Cherwell, “I think part of the inspiration for the blog was to see if I was an absolute nutter or if people actually felt the same.”
“I am avoiding interviews with anyone outside of the realm of Oxbridge student media because this wasn’t intended as a cash cow,” she said, “just a way to keep
people like you and myself entertained during essay writer’s block.”
However, she has signed a deal with the fashion magazine Grazia for an article to be published next week.
The Daily Mail, The Telegraph and international online papers have picked up on the new blog.
The Sun ran the story under the headline ‘Who is the mystery Oxbridge sex blogger?’
However, the student claims she has no plans to reveal her identity, and said “my mum would kill me” if she found out.
In one online entry she describes a one-night stand with a University Rugby player.
“Life lesson learned from Rugby Blue: body mass and height is not a direct correlation to penis size, because if that were true Mr. Rugby Blue would have been short and fat,” she wrote.
“Had he been a tsunami of love that could have made up for it, but it was more like slack tide really. Fairly average in my book of shags.”
She also confesses, “I’m not a huge fan of blow-jobs, or hand-jobs for that matter (pointless, any man will usually agree that they can do it better themselves. They’ve certainly had more practice than I have!)”
Last Sunday she tweeted, “I don’t want to jinx myself but I’ve had sex every Sunday this month. Need to plan the rest of my day carefully … Going for a record here.”
Though later she posted, “Oh hello 1500 word essay due tomorrow that I forgot about. Thanks for ruining my night and my record. There’s always March …”
Commenting more generally on sex in the two Universities, she wrote that “In the Oxbridge system, most of us are too busy to actually acquire (let alone maintain) a relationship, and most students like myself are happy to play couple for a night, have a lie in together, and then call it quits.”
“My education has been filled with revising, exams, and one night stands,” she claimed.
Readers have assumed that the student studies at Cambridge, as she refers to ‘supervisions’ and ‘swaps’ in her posts, rather than tutorials and crew-dates.
The blogger, though, would not confirm which at which University she is currently studying.
She later refered to ‘Hilary’ in a twitter post, and said she would talk about sports club Vinnies in the Grazia article.
The self-written blurb on her blog describes the student as a “Highly intelligent Oxbridge student currently shagging my way through the half-term hump. No pun intended.”
But she told Cherwell that the ‘Highly intelligent’ label was intended as “a complete piss take…it didn’t come off that way”.
In one of her blog entries she also describes herself as “a fairly attractive woman…[and] unapologetically and unquestionably a closet nympho,” though later she claimed that the “whole closet nympho thing has been blown a bit out of proportion.”
On the future of her blog, the student told Cherwell that “I’m considering how to do my piece on Tutors. Haven’t slept with one yet, but have a particularly pervy one that I could take the piss out of.”
“People might catch on to who I am if I write that though as he’s notoriously inappropriate,” she said.
Though the blog is proving popular, the student has also attracted criticism in the media. “Those hoping this latest offering will be Brideshead Unzipped are in for a disappointment,” wrote one Evening Standard columnist.
“Despite the writer claiming she has a place at one of Britain’s leading academic institutions, the blog is no great literary work, nor would most people consider it titillating.”
Others have suggested she is angling for a book deal.
A student sex-columnist ‘Miss Scarlet’ began writing for Cherwell in 2006, under the tagline “Oxford’s answer to Belle du Jour”. However the feature was less sexually explicit and did not attract such widespread media attention.
Read the blog at: http://oxbridgesex.blogspot.com/
