33. Back When Ivy League Universities Used to Make Their Students Pose For Nudie Pics
In the late 1970s, a weird event occurred when a Yale University employee unlocked a long-unused room in one of the Ivy League institution’s buildings. Inside was quite the surprise: thousands upon thousands of photos of nude young men, showing their fronts, sides, and rears.
To add to the weirdness, there seemed to be sharp metal pins sticking out of the naked men’s spines. What could it be? Was it the trove of some weirdo with a niche fetish for BDSM voodoo porn? As it turned out, it was nothing so juicy, but was still plenty weird in its own right: Yale and other Ivy League schools had been in the habit of taking nude photos of their students.