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KANSAN.COM/SPORTS | MONDAY, FEB. 13, 2017
Josh Jackson's heroics save the day for Kansas
BRIAN MINI
BRIAN MINI
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n a back and forth game, with senior guard Frank Mason III on the bench for the final shot, freshman guard Josh Jackson took the reins for No. 3 Kansas against Texas Tech.
With five seconds left in a tied game, Jackson took advantage of senior center
Mason fouled out with 3:05 in the game after only playing 26 minutes. He ended the game with just 12 points, five rebounds and no assists.
"We got 26 minutes from him before he fouled out," Self said. "He wasn't himself and that was pretty obvious."
The other player who struggled with fools was Lucas with four, although Lu-
Kansas was outrebounded 38-32, but the Jayhawks were able to keep it close because of their 40 percent three-point shooting.
the floor.
Kansas shot 49 percent for the game, while Texas Tech shot 48 percent.
One reason Kansas was able to keep the same close
"We couldn't guard them and they couldn't guard us," Self said.
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Here's advice for those wanting to get a little kinky this Valentine's Day
BDSM can involve a couple, or a triad, depending on the situation.
▶ HAILEY DIXON
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For couples who may want to try out some new things this Valentine's Day, sex experts recommended safety tips and gave advice within the realm of bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism - or BDSM - and other non-traditional sexual practices.
"Part of what the turn-on with BDSM is, is there's a little risk involved," said Dennis L. Detweiler, a certified sex therapist in Lawrence. "There's a little bit of surrendering, giving up, power control."
BDSM encompasses a wide range of sexual activities, according to Meagan Collins, Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center prevention educator. These activities can also be referred to as kink, Collins said.
BDSM can include individuals tying up partners, choking them, dressing up and role-playing, using sex toys or devices like clamps or whips. BDSM can involve a couple, or a triad, depending on the situation, Detweiler said.
Within acts of BDSM, there is typically a dominant and submissive role.
"When we're talking about dominant and submissive, one is usually more in charge of that than the other," Detweiler said. "One is doing the tying up and the directing.
They still, in the bigger sense, keep in context who their partner is but even though they are doing that, they can role-play the dominant and submissive."
Adam Reeves, a senior from Pleasant Hill, Missouri, who participates in BDSM and other forms of kink play, said it's actually been a rewarding experience. Now, he lectures and gives workshop on safe practices and other issues in the BDSM community. Reeves said that he wants to increase the prevalence and understanding of BDSM, and inform those who participate in the play to practice safety and consent.
"So I think that it's this idea that it doesn't have to be this scary 'Halloween' interaction that is sort of deviant," Reeves said. "But it's this idea of something that's less mainstream that shows a profound level of emotional, physical connection and trust between two individuals or more."
Other college students may not realize that they are participating in BDSM or being kinky within their sexual relationships, Collins said.
tal health in check during the acts.
"Whether college students know that they are participating in kink or not, many of them probably are, even if it's like things you might consider on the more vanilla (not as kinky) end of the spectrum," Collins said.
"Doing this takes an enormous amount of trust." Detweiler said. "It takes an enormous amount of communication and negotiating. It should be tried by people who are very clear who they are doing it with."
"The safety is really not about avoiding hurt, because hurt is part of it often. It's about not having harm," Detweiler said. "How do you not do long-term damage, either to the relationship or to the people involved? You have to take care of all of those."
If individuals want to incorporate elements of BDSM in their relationship, Detweiler said that it is crucial to develop a plan to keep men-
Before experimenting in BDSM play, Detweiler said
Safe words should also be used during BDSM, so a partner can withdraw consent if need be.
it's very important to know one's partner or partners well.
"Many folks that practice BDSM would say that they practice better consent because it is such a fundamental underpinning of kink," Collins said.
Collins advises couples that participate in any sexual activity, including BDSM, to talk with their partner about what will happen before the acts. Collins said that Scarleteen, a sex education website for young people, has a checklist that she recommends couples use.
"It has a whole list of body boundaries, relationship models and choices, and safer sex behaviors," she said. "This is the kind of things that I tell students to talk about with each other during any kind of sexual engagement. So some things on the checklist say, 'You know I'm comfortable with direct eye contact,' or 'I'm comfortable having part of my body sexualized,'
or "I'm comfortable with the lights being on."
Collins said consent and discussion need to be continued during the play, so a partner can be allowed to withdraw consent during sex if they feel uncomfortable or harmed.
"Just because someone agreed to something prior to the engagement doesn't mean that they have to agree to it currently or during," she said.
After the activity, individuals participating in BDSM should check in with their partner to see what each thought about the engagement, Collins said.
If an individual feels harmed or that they were assaulted, Collins said that is when one should seek a counselor. Partners, she said, can usually tell the difference between discomfort with an act and assault.
it looked that way timing the action, too.
Few things were similar to Kansas' other games. Senior guard Frank Mason III actually played significantly fewer minutes than normal, as he fouled out after playing 26 minutes. However, if you had watched a single second of the game, you'd know that the day offered no rest for Mason. Mason recovered an initially slow performance by ending up with 12 points and five rebounds.
Despite the flipped script, Kansas heads back to Lawrence to take on the West Virginia Mountaineers with an 80-79 win in hand. For once, Mason wasn't out of this world. Jackson compensated — because some-
ing a season slam in points with 31 and sinking the game-winning free throw.
Kansas still allowed the opponent's big man a career day. Texas Tech's Zach Smith finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds. Kansas had a tough day on the boards, losing the rebound battle to Texas Tech.
Kansas' bench still lagged behind the production of the starters, though it ultimately didn't affect which team won. Sophomore forward Carlton Bragg Jr. replaced senior center Landen Lucas for 12 minutes and recorded two points and two rebounds. Freshman forward Mitch Lightfoot's audition as backup big was successful, but it looks to be over now that Bragg is back
Jayhawks: simply keeping pace. Kansas shot an outstanding 49 percent from the field on the day and shot 40 percent from three.
The Jayhawks survived the trap game, and that's more than a lot of the leading teams in the nation this season can say for themselves.
In college, where school spirit is a major part of the aura of the game, cheerleaders serve an important purpose by executing their namesake duty. But when it comes to the NFL, where the pomp and circumstance is almost nonexistent compared to the college game, there's no good reason to have cheerleaders in this day and age.
At least Kansas fans know exactly what to expect from this Jayhawks team. Whether the Big 12 title will be a race to the finish or a foregone conclusion will be determined in Kansas' next two games, but this Kansas team continues to figure out how to win against tough Big 12 opposition.
From Pop Warner leagues through college football, it makes sense why there are cheerleaders. For younger kids, it's an after-school activity, and like any other extracurricular it's just a way to stay busy once classes end.
Let's not be naive, the obvious reason most of these teams maintain cheerleading
New Orleans Saints for their Saintsations cheerleading team, while the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders have their own TV show on CMT.
Ignoring the financial implications for the NFL (because frankly the league isn't going to suffer if its franchises no longer operate cheerleading teams), there's no legitimate reason why you need to supply sex appeal on the sidelines every Sunday in the fall. No fans are going to games just to see cheerleaders, and if there are, they may need to reevaluate some priorities and discover the internet.
Considering the needlessness of actual cheerleading in the NFL, along with the blatant and equally unneces-
for years. It doesn't make sense to perpetually underpay cheerleaders and have nasty lawsuits pop up frequently when the problem could be solved by accepting the minuscule financial implications and clear PR benefits of ending cheerleading league-wide.
The NFL has enough headaches to deal with, the last thing it needs is another lawsuit from disgruntled employees. Once this lawsuit is resolved, it's in the league's best interest to stop employing cheerleaders. The NFL doesn't even need to worry about the fans in this case (not that it often does); we probably won't even notice the cheerleaders are gone, let alone actively miss them.
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