When we first discovered Diamond's website, we fell in love with the upbeat attitude the founder/editor-in-chief, Matt Di Pasquale, takes towards sex and sexual expression. He writes, "To repress or limit your sexual desires, keeping them to yourself, is to hold back a natural part of your being... So, by restricting the flow of one type of emotion, you naturally condition yourself to prevent the flow of other kinds of emotions like happiness, love, sadness, and joy."

But when Diamond's pilot issue came out, it was less about sex than it was about sneakers. The only skin to be seen belonged to the founder, and he wasn't exactly working it. In his ten-page spread, he flaunted both his penis and his high school AP scores (guess which impressed us most).

But with their first official issue, Diamond's managed to release official naked pictures of students from around the country. The articles—penned by students at Harvard, Barnard, Princeton, Yale, and other prestigious locations—are more sex-centric than before, and feel earnest and straightforward. So is it better? No.

Boston University, Cambridge, Columbia, and even Harvard have already jumped on this bandwagon, sometimes even giving the goods up for free. Now, we're not saying we're tired of college sex magazines (it's real, legal nudity and naughty talk), and we are happy to the models get paid a decent amount for their time, and we do respect Diamond's to branch out to other universities. But asking us to pay $9.99 for a digital issue (or $29.99 for a print copy) is just silly. Trust us: we downloaded the free sample version. The sample should be enticing, and it wasn't.

At the end of the day, Diamond's just another college sex magazine in a sea of college sex magazines—more a piece of a hay in a haystack than a, ahem, diamond in the rough. Publications like Boink and H-Bomb understand that when readers approach an Ivy League-generated nudie mag, they expect a certain bit of self-conscious tomfoolery. Dormitory antics, suggestive sororities, TAs with T&A, and nerdy babes wearing nothing but mortarboard caps are all things we hoped to find in Diamond, and we were disappointed by their absence. We genuinely like the kids and what they're trying to do. Here's hoping the next issue has a little more sparkle.

· Grab the free sample issue at Diamond Magazine (diamond-mag.com)
· Harvard Alum Launches Ivy League Porn Mag (business.avn.com)

I go to a certain college in the midwest where some pictures are floating around Facebook of a couple not so discreetly boning in a park on campus. The funny thing is that, besides it having taken place in broad daylight and that the park is right in the middle of the campus, right by the main road, and frequently travelled through, they are doing it in the weirdest position. And if you look at the 3rd picture, you can see a group of friends innocently hanging out just a couple feet away. Anyway, I was hoping that, with Gawker's help, someone could identify this brave, adventurous, freaky couple. The more exposure, the better the chances someone will recognize them.

So tell us: do you know these intrepid souls? And if you do, will you ask them for some pointers? We have a feeling they could teach us a thing or two.

In spite of its Catholic roots, Providence has added a course on the appreciation of pornography to its roster. According to XBiz, the class "involves viewing, analyzing and learning to appreciate pornography from an academic perspective. As a course requirement, students will have to analyze audience behavior in reaction to a porn clip and present their findings to the class." We're guessing there won't be a section called Rim My Gape 101—but if there were, we would so fly out to Taiwan for that.

· University in Taiwan Starts Porn Appreciation Course (xbiz.com)
· The extremely appreciated Riley Steele courtesy of Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)

· Naked UC-Berkeley Streakers Jiggle, Flap Throughout Library (sfist.com)

If only more student groups were like Italy's Unione Universitari, whose campaign argued for more student housing (and, by extension, more student sex). Now why can't American college students fight for things like that? Or at least have more posters with gratuitous nudity?

· Sex sells as far right wins Uni election (austriantimes.at, via buzzfeed.com)

Well, except for the fact that we can run around in our underwear any time we want, and we never, ever have to take finals (ever).

· UCLA Undie Run caught on video, at last (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

C-Spot—which, at the very least, wins points for its name—is a self-described "work in progress" that seeks to cover a great deal of territory. Seemingly no area is off limits: the first issue features articles on vibrators, nude modeling, strip clubs, and internet porn (as well as the requisite selection of art nudes); and the letter from the editor promises much, much more (interviews with pornstars and sex workers! Sex party reviews! Sexpert Q&A!). It's all very young and earnest, and—jaded as we are—we half suspect it'll burn out after an issue or two. But hey, who knows? Maybe this time, it'll actually work. We certainly wish them well.

· C-Spot: The New Erotic Review (c-spotmagazine.com)

· "Boink: College Sex by the People Having It" )book info @ boinkmagazine.com)
· "Boink: College Sex by the People Having It" (preview pics @ flickr.com)
· Order: "Boink: College Sex by the People Having It" (Amazon)