The date was Aug. 10 and few people on campus were prepared for the events that were about to unfold. There it was in black and white, printed in the sex section of this very paper: handjobs.

Once the Victorian women regained consciousness and men retrieved their monocles from their drinks, the students (and even some administrators) just couldn’t stop talking about the act.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t the merit of the act under debate; it was the fact the paper ran such a story (though, technically, it was a column). But under closer examination, was there a bigger issue at “hand?”

The Sex section began a year ago in an attempt to freshen up the rotating Special Sections. The three topics (Sex, Focus and Campus Life) took over for such riveting matters as Money and Business and Science and Technology.

At the time the Sex section began to take shape, other schools in Boston were also cooking up similar ideas. Harvard had already released its sex publication, H-Bomb, and Boston University soon followed with Boink. Though The News has not included risqu