The BU Terriers, Boston University’s hockey team, are facing scrutiny for a campus culture that involves drunken hookups, aggressive propositions and “frequent sexual encounters with women absent an emotional relationship or ongoing commitment.”

No doubt it’s common for young athletes to engage in lots of questionable sexual behavior – particularly these days – so it isn’t particularly surprising to see this minor scandal erupt. However, I’d be willing to bet that if we heard an honest answer from young Boston women, the last thing they’d want is for these strapping young athletes to be put out of commission permanently. No, what they really want is more control over them, so that the “right kind of women” (i.e. themselves) can have access to them without undue risk.

A couple of the young men have been arrested for sexual misconduct, including Max Nicastro and Corey Trivino. Nicastro’s rape charges were dropped, and Trivino’s assault charges resulted in mere probation. I think that says a great deal. Neither would have gotten off so easily had they been less desirable. Not to say I think they deserved to rot in jail, but young men who are arrested for sex crimes typically face far more serious consequences than these two.

In the Trivino case, it seems pretty clear that the guy was a boor. Not a rapist, but far from a gentleman. I can’t claim to know the particulars, but Trivino did apologize to the woman for what he admitted to be pretty bad behavior, which included aggressive drunken advances and occupying her bed despite her protests.

However, for all the condemnation of these young men for boorish behavior, where’s the criticism of the young women throwing themselves at them?

BU president Robert Brown identifies excessive drinking and “entitlement” as a problem, but neglects to mention excessive sluttiness on the part of his female students. But what exactly led these young men to feel “entitled” to sex?

These kinds of attitudes do not exist in a vacuum. Recently, we had a commenter who mentioned that some Western men behave poorly in Asia. I agreed with that assessment, because I’ve seen it myself. But men do not develop an entitled attitude regarding sex for no reason, and although feminists like to say the reason is “the patriarchy,” this is entirely incorrect.

In fact, in traditional patriarchal societies, such as the Amish, Muslim societies and Confucian cultures, men practice considerably more sexual restraint than in, say, the ghetto or liberal college campuses.

No, it isn’t patriarchy, but rather unfettered female sexuality that leads to this entitlement attitude amongst a subset of males. This subset, of course, consists of sexually desirable males, which definitely includes collegiate champion hockey players.

So what’s the university response? Naturally, it’s to force the hockey players to attend sexual assault prevention classes. Given that the problem isn’t so much sexual assault as sexual license, this is a mere fart in the wind.

Rather than try to make a handful of adolescent hockey players behave like middle-aged gentlemen, I’d argue that the effort would be better spent training the thousands of young women who would gladly throw themselves upon these boys not to be sluts.

Of course, it would be great if we could convince all young male athletes to behave like perfect gentlemen, but how realistic is that when they are living in a veritable cornucopia of willing young females? Hell, even your typical 65-year-old man would have a hard time behaving himself if that many coeds were so willing to remove their pants in his presence.

If these young men are going to be forced to attend classes to teach them how to practice restraint around young females, I think it’s only fair that the female students at their respective colleges teach them to practice restraint around men with “elevated social status.”

But of course that won’t do…

Why should women ever have to practice restraint around men they find attractive? That would be sexist and oppressive, right?