DN: Porn and Popcorn

[Eric the Red]

Porn and Popcorn gets a rise out of students

 

By CASSIE FLEMING

February 13, 2006

 

 

Some students throw the door open and bound in, while others pause in the doorway and hesitate about entering.

 

“It’s all right,” a reassuring voice calls from the corner of the dark room. “You’re in the right place. You’re just in time for ‘Lord of the G-Strings.’ ”

 

Inside this Abel Residence Hall room sit four freshmen. It is 9 on a Thursday night, and the students await the start of one of their favorite social activities: Porn and Popcorn, or P’nP for short.

 

P’nP is a group in which the members do exactly what the name implies: view porn and eat popcorn.

 

The tradition began when a group of students planned to watch a movie in freshman chemical engineering major Justin Adams’ room one Thursday night.

 

“Then one girl brought porn, and we decided that it should be a weekly thing,” Adams said.

 

That student was Chelsey Traylor, a freshman elementary education major and the accredited creator of P’nP.

 

“It’s not that big of a title, though,” Traylor said. “Because we are all collaborating on the club together.”

 

While the original meeting consisted of only a few students, the club’s popularity has increased dramatically, especially with a Facebook.com group:

 

n 9:05 p.m.: 13 students arrive (six of who are women).

 

n 9:15 p.m.: 17 students are crammed on a loft bed, futon, few chairs and any open floor space available.

 

n 9:20 p.m.: Another student enters, with a Burger King sack, and says, “I had to get off of work early so I could get here.”

 

n 9:35 p.m.: Three more students arrive.

 

The video selection of the evening – “The Lord of the G-string” – is a spoof of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.

 

And as the popcorn was carefully balanced on a pillow horizontally propped up on two small crates in the middle of the room, Adams’ roommate Greg Averill speaks up.

 

 

GREG BLOBAUM/DN

Freshmen elementary education major Chelsey Traylor and Russian major Michelle Cherion, along with graphics design graduate Jacob Meyers, comment on the adult film “Lord of the G-Strings” on Thursday night. Members of the group try to find humorous films they can enjoy with friends.

“We don’t want people to think that this is some perverted thing,” said the freshman mechanical engineering major. “It’s just for fun.”

 

This seems to be the consensus of all involved.

 

“It’s a good social thing,” said Adam Lutt, a freshman undeclared major. “I like the people here. It’s not so much the porn – just the ridiculousness of it.”

 

Lutt was introduced to the club by Adams, who often plays the role of recruiter for the group.

 

And new members are something the group gets a lot of.

 

“It’s kind of weird, but different people come every week,” Adams said. “But, of course, we still have the regulars.”

 

P’nP is even gaining out-of-town and out-of-state recognition – last week they had one visitor from Iowa, and each week, a boyfriend of one of the members travels from Omaha to Adams’ room just for the occasion.

 

With all of the word-of-mouth attention P’nP has received lately, the members assured that, for the most part, feedback has been positive.

 

“I’ve had one person tell me that they will pray for me,” Traylor said. “But mostly when you tell someone, they are interested. And if they are your friends, they ask if they can come.”

 

On the moral issues porn brings up, Traylor and Adams have a lot to say.

 

“It all depends on how you use porn,” Traylor said. “Because a bunch of people laughing at the stupid stuff in it is not bad. We’re not obsessed.

 

“At least, I don’t think anyone is obsessed.”

 

Plus the two make sure the porn the group views does not degrade women.

 

“No one here believes that women are lower, and we always try to find funny stuff,” Traylor said.

 

And this is where Adams’ one rule for P’nP applies.

 

“No German films,” Adams said. “Because they have some really weird stuff. Some stuff that would probably gross people out.”

 

Which is not what P’nP is about.

 

“It is just a fun atmosphere,” Traylor said. “We are all friends, and it is just for fun.”

[DJR313]

There was a comedy central movie a couple years back that was basically the same thing as this. "Porn and Chicken"

[paHUSKERMAN]

When I was in college one of the ways my room mates and I would make $$$ is to go and rent a VCR and a porno from the local video store.and charge say $5 bucks to every freshman farm kid in our dorm.big money maker!