The Philodemic Society has come in for knocks in the past, but they’re a mostly good bunch. Their McCain-Obama debate sounds lively, for example. But at the bottom of the presidential debate post, Philodemic lives up to exactly all the stereotypes you might hold about an organization with an amaneusis:

Next week, the Society will debate whether The Great Gatsby is an indictment of the American dream.

Come by Healy next month, when we find out whether Paul Sunday really has a twin brother.

Imagine my delight at discovering that the Philodemic Society, Georgetown’s debating club, has its own blog. A skim of their constitution confirms that they’re basically Toastmasters with high self-regard–one of their officers is called the Amaneusis–but the real fun comes when Philodemic officers choose what topic they most want to discuss next semester: sex!

Specifically, safe sex. In interviews, Vice President Sarah Olsen and previously-mentioned Amaneusis Dustin Walker propose hot button debate topics that will look good on fliers (gays, weed), but they also both want to talk about condoms on campus, a boring topic that should draw absolutely no one.

I can already picture the discussion–spermicide as aborta facia, full openness to children, yawn. Everyone knows buying bulk at CVS is cheaper anyway. Still, I don’t blame the Philodemicians for grasping for sexy straws. An inside source in Philodemic told me that intra-Society coupling is discouraged and called, and this is serious, “Philodemincest”. With that avenue of working out sexual tension blocked, I can see why they want a sanctioned chance to talk dirty.