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Campus Reform reports.

Summer reading: Duke freshmen to study oral sex novel and masturbation cartoons

Incoming freshmen at Duke University are expected to read a graphic novel with cartoon drawings of a woman masturbating and multiple females engaging in oral sex—as well as participate in group discussions during orientation.

The book, Fun Home, addresses feminism, suicide, and sexuality—specifically same-sex attraction and experimentation with graphic cartoon images and text.

Special copies of the memoir, written in 2006 by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, will be mailed to incoming Blue Devils over the summer, according to the Duke Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper. The book details a college woman coming out as a lesbian and her discovery that her father was a homosexual as well.

“I was hesitant at first to support it as a welcoming text to Duke University,” Ibanca Anand, a junior on the committee which selected the book, told the Chronicle. “Then I realized how critical these discussions are for so many of us, and it’s important that we establish this school as a place that is open and unafraid to talk about things that affect people.”

In an interview with Campus Reform, Anand said the mandatory book discussions would give students an “introduction to what Duke will be like for the next four years, exploring on your own.”