The Free Press · October 2026
Cornell Health Published Sexual-Health Guides in 2019
- In 2019, Cornell’s health authority, Cornell Health, authored a guide titled “Sexual Pleasure: Finding the ‘Sweet Spot,’” per the article, which links the guide on health.cornell.edu.
- That same year, Cornell Health published two more guides, “Self-Exploration” and “Sensate Focus,” per the article’s cited links.
- The article states Cornell hosted sex-toy raffles complete with demonstrations, and that the guides sit in a sexual-health resource library the school describes as “hand-picked by our staff.”
Guide titles and dates via health.cornell.edu links cited in the original report. The article is a first-person opinion piece by a Cornell senior; its descriptions of the guides’ contents and its claims about the school’s intent were not independently verified. Original headline: "What Cornell Teaches Its Students About Sex".
Removed: the author’s characterizations (Cornell Health “shocking in its lewdness,” guidance “fundamentally at odds” with student welfare), the first-person framing, and the subscription paywall pitch.