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2010 Duke University faux sex thesis controversy
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The 2010 Duke University faux sex thesis controversy arose from a private document written by a Duke University senior, Karen Owen, in the format of a thesis about her sexual experiences during her time attending the university. Owen wrote and distributed the document to three friends shortly after graduating from the university, in May 2010. In mid-September 2010, during Homecoming weekend, one of these friends decided to forward it onwards, and the document went viral. In the faux thesis, titled "An education beyond the classroom: excelling in the realm of horizontal academics", Owen ranked her partners based on her criteria for performance. The bulk of the controversy surrounded whether she invaded her partners' rights to privacy, and whether the subjects of Owen's faux thesis have a right to sue, as was done in the case of Jessica Cutler when Cutler published details of her sex life on a blog. It also raised questions as to whether double standards exist if the reaction would have been the same had the faux thesis been written by a male. The faux dissertation attracted additional attention because some of the men which Owen ranked were from the , and there was an unrelated sex controversy surrounding the team a few years prior. 
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