In the extraordinary sexual dossier, Miss Owen, from Connecticut, graphically
describes her lovers, how they met in bars and what they did after their
binge drinking sessions.
Each of her 13 lovers are named and pictured – sometimes partially naked –
while intimate details are also revealed. She details their “pros” and
“cons” and ranks their sexual prowess out of 10 in coloured charts and an
“official f---” list.
The brutally frank “kiss and tell” – submitted to the “Department of
Late-Night Entertainment in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a
Degree in Tempestuous Frolicking” – was originally meant as a joke when
emailed to three friends after she graduated in May.
But it was subsequently leaked to the university’s 14,000 student population
before becoming a global viral hit.
It was the hot topic at Duke,
one of the most prestigious American colleges, which is an expensive
private academy with a predominantly white student population located in the
North Carolina town of Durham.
The
student newspaper ran an editorial earlier this week simply
headlined: "Karen Owen shatters the glass ceiling", in which they
condemn her stating: "She actually managed to demean the opposite sex
to the point where one must ask if the term 'weaker sex' shouldn’t be
replaced with 'freakier sex'."
The
electronic “thesis”, compiled from her three years at
Duke, was then published
by several websites before going viral and becoming one of the most
searched terms on the internet.
It has made
national news in the United States and reopened the debate about
privacy on the internet. One publishing company is reported
to be considering offering a book deal.
Miss Owen is said to have been left devastated by the sex scandal and
expressed her “regret with all my heart”. She went to ground on Friday after
deleting all of her profiles on social networking sites.
“Senior year and college in general often bring about certain situations that
result in the seeking of so-called ‘sex’,” she writes in the introduction.
“Until now, no studies have succeeded in developing a methodology for
quantifying and ranking these so-called horizontal academics.
“'In this study, we used data from four years at Duke University to create
evaluation criteria for such encounters and applied these criteria to
evaluated subjects.”
She added: "The people that are named in it are the kinds of people that
everyone wants to be or be with. The top dogs, or whatever."
She tells how she watched pornography with her lovers, exchanged explicit text
messages and had sex in dorms, SUV and BMW cars and even in the university
library during her final weeks of examination.
Miss Owen ranks her lovers’ “raw score” by their “physical attractiveness,
(anatomy) size, talent, creativity, aggressiveness, entertainment, athletic
ability” while “bonus” points are given for other factors such as accents.
“Points were deducted for rudeness or being Canadian”, she adds.
While she is full of praise for some she is vicious in her criticism of
others, including one unfortunate student of whom their encounter “was over
too quickly”.
She added: “(I have) got some fantastic stories for the grandkids.”
But on Thursday, after the presentation made international headlines, she
expressed her sorrow for the incident.
"I regret it with all my heart," she told The
News of Today website.
"I would never intentionally hurt the people that are mentioned on that."
Her family later declined to comment.
None of the men featured in the "thesis" would comment.
A University spokesman said officials were “reaching out to those who’ve been
affected by this incident” and said the wellbeing of their students was
their primary concern.
He said students were being educated about the dangers of the internet.
"Our foremost concern is to provide for the well-being of our students,
and to respect their privacy," he said.
"We've been reaching out to those who've been affected by this incident
and will continue to support them.
"This is an unfortunate and highly visible reminder that anything you create
or send in digital form can find its way to the web, where the media have an
insatiable appetite for the outrageous and your privacy and reputation can
be shredded with a few clicks."
The incident comes after the Duke lacrosse team was embroiled in a sex scandal
in 2006.
Members were accused by a young black woman who falsely claimed she was
beaten, raped and subjected to racial abuse by three white men from Duke's
highly rated Blue Devils lacrosse team after being hired as a stripper for a
sports club party.
The athletes denied the allegations and a year later the charges were dropped
and the prosecutor disbarred.
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Sigh..... how did she even get into university in the first place? 
