Harvard Grants Official Recognition to Kinky BDSM Sex Club: 'It's Crazy

People are led on a tour group at the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Dozens of Harvard University students are being investigated for cheating after school officials discovered evidence they may have wrongly shared answers or plagiarized on a final exam. Harvard officials on Thursday didn't release the class subject, the students' names, or specifically how many are being investigated. (Credit: AP)

Harvard University, one of the most prestigious Ivy League schools in the nation, granted a controversial student BDSM sex club official school recognition on Wednesday, according to Harvard's student newspaper The Crimson.

About 20 student members make up the sex club, Harvard College Munch. The group meets weekly to talk about important matters related to BDSM and other types of kinky sex.

Now that they have been granted school recognition, the club can now apply for university funding and promote their group on school property, The Crimson reports.

Attempts made by TheBlaze to contact a spokesperson from Harvard University were unsuccessful late Thursday night.

The Leadership Institute's Campus Reform has more details on the kinky club:

In an article published earlier this year, students in the group spoke freely about fantasies of rape, forced feeding, and impersonating animals during sex.

The founder of the group, who has been kept anonymous, told The Crimson that the chief advantage of being granted recognition “is the fact of legitimacy.”

He added that school recognition “shows we are being taken seriously.”

Some students argue Harvard's decision to grant them official school recognition is extremely misguided.

“It’s crazy,” James McGlone, vice president of the Harvard College Anscombe Society, a pro-abstinence group, told Campus Reform.

“I don’t think they are healthy or beneficial for any students and to legitimize this student group is irresponsible for the administration,” he said.

"Harvard University was recently the site of controversy over an 'incest-fest' party which a prominent hall hosts in the winter," according to Campus Reform.