Who do you want to have sex with?

If you don’t feel comfortable telling me face-to-face, you are in luck. You can post your comments about your potential partner on the wonderfully witty, intellectually-charged, community-building website that is juicycampus.com.

I hope you can read through the sarcasm.

Juicycampus, a blogsite that began last year, allows college students to anonymously post anything. Absolutely anything.

However, the most predominate topics revolve around one thing: sex.

The top-viewed posted topics on OU’s portion of the site are, “I want to have sex with..,” “Sluttiest Freshman at OU,” “Top 10 Bitches,” “Hottest Gays,” “Who are the hottest girls/guys on campus?,” and “Biggest MANwhore on campus.”

This kind of banter is just plain rude.

It reminds me of the middle school days when kids would send each other notes in class asking a prospective girlfriend/boyfriend to circle “yes,” “no”or”maybe.”

The kind of information on the site shouldn’t matter. But to some students, especially those who are listed on the website, the information listed does matter.

Students’ reputations are being put on the line for anyone to read.

Some students have attempted to take their cases to court, saying what is written on the site is libel.

However, due to the First Amendment’s “freedom of the press” clause, the posts on the site are safe from suits.

But when does this freedom get out of hand?

Juicycampus officials go so far as saying in their FAQ section that, if someone posts your contact information, they’ll consider deleting it if you notify them, but they may or may not respond to your notification.

Contact information? On a website that uses autonomy and promotes scandal and gossip?

Clearly, the makers of this Web site do not have the interests of anyone but themselves and their profit in mind.

Yes, this sort of frivolous and mean-spirited banter sells advertisements, but at what cost to society? At what cost to ourselves?

It is this kind of attitude and this kind of Web site that results in a lack of trust and lack of privacy, which have become two of society’s most valuable commodities.

It is this kind of Web site that promotes discrimination and complete sexual degradation.

The fact that the site even brings up such sexually-based topics says something about the makers of the site and about the students who use to site to belittle their peers.

JuicyCampus could have been used in a positive way, though I highly doubtit was created with a beneficial purpose.

It could have been used as a forum for debate about politics or beliefs, conversation about college life and job opportunities.

It might have featured advice on how to pass a class or where to get a good cup of coffee.

Instead, it is used for gossip about extremely personal matters while at the same time dropping the f-bomb every couple of words.

This site does nothing more then bring out the worst in people.

If you haven’t visited it before, don’t.

And if you have, stop.

You will only encourage the negativity and degradation that encompass this Web site.

Rosie Sontheimer is a journalism sophomore. Her column appears every other Thursday.