Sex Week’s groovy origins: EXPOSED Cryogenic freezing technology permitted the creation of UT’s most controversial student organization Ganjiana Puffington
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The 1997 cult classic “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery” entertained audiences with the raucous story of a spy cryogenically frozen in 1967 for the purpose of defeating his arch nemesis Dr. Evil in the future, when free love is no longer the norm and greed and corruption run rampant again. Shockingly, the student organization Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee (SEAT), the organizers of the annual, drippingwith-controversy “Sex Week,” is reported to share a similar origin story. The same story, actually. According to one of SEAT’s past advisors, Lynn Sacco, most members of the organization behind the week of sex education programing were born in the 1940s. “The ‘Austin Powers’ film was inspired by totally realistic technology,” Sacco revealed in an exclusive interview. “When America saw the rise of counterculture in the ‘60s, the socially conscious knew we had something special, that we had to do something. “We wanted to preserve the youthful spirit of the movements for civil rights, feminism, psychoactive drugs and so on, and we found it was a simpler process to just preserve the youths.” Sacco explained that beginning in the early 2000s, people cryogenically frozen in the ‘60s and ‘70s began to be revived in secret by special interest groups, typically for the purpose of clandestine missions. Many of these secret missions are led by
the recently thawed and trigger high-profile movements like Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and veganism. SEAT is the product of one such mission. According to Sacco, the core members of “Sex Week” were revived in 2012 after aging hippies in the area “just couldn’t take it anymore.”
“We had to tap into our freezer reserves,” Sacco recalled. “We wanted some saucy young whippersnappers who weren’t too afraid to put on a penis suit and grab the attention of apathetic college students.” “But the ‘founder,’ Brianna Rader, she was never frozen. She’s not even a real person. We built her after our other designated youth leader fried during defrost.” Sacco, a professor in the Department of History, did not just act as an official advisor to the newly revived revolutionaries for almost three years: she also trained them to function in a post-millennium world. Without appearing to be mostly normal, SEAT can’t reach students who desperately need comprehensive -Lynn Sacco sex education—and free condoms.
“... and we found it was a simpler process to just preserve the youths.”
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