The Harrad Experiment: Learning to Be Poly in College

The Harrad Experiment: Learning to Be Poly in College
Led by Will Jarvis.
Saturday, August 16, 2025 (3rd Sat) Live: 11 am-4 pm PT

Zoom& Live: 11 am-1 pm PT Poly Discussion

Live Only:
1 pm Pot Luck Lunch: bring something healthy and delicious to share.
2-4 Socialize in clothing optional jacuzzi. Bring sandals & a towel.

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Location : 8515 Penfield Ave Winnetka Ca. 91306

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Will Jarvis actually attended the real life college which Robert Rimmer's The Harrad Experiment was based on. The one in the book featured coed dorms in which young men and women were encouraged to form relationships ranging from friendship to sexual love connections. How much of the real life school was reflected in the book? We’ll find out!
Harrad is a fictional college featuring coed rooming together and a deep study of Human sexuality and relationships, along with the more conventional intellectual subjects. This leads to six of the students becoming deeply involved in the intimacy of jealousies overcome, along with self- and mutual discovery. They form an Improv comedy troop (dealing with sexual and relationship issues among other topics) to put themselves through college. Exchange of bed mates becomes a dance of joy between friends and lovers. With graduation, a six-way group marriage is formed.
Couple meets Couple: Proposition 31, by Robert Rimmer, features two couples and their (between them) four children. It moves through the couples forming a friendship, then one of the husbands having a disastrous affair with the other one's wife which leads to pregnancy and threatened divorce. Somehow, in unique Rimmerian fashion, this becomes a loving poly family raising the new baby together.
What can we learn from these and Rimmer’s other stories to Live our Dreams?
Will Jarvis
Author, Artist, Activist for Social Change
Will Jarvis has long used his talents as a writer and artist to promote polyamory, swinging, and other alternative lifestyles, has been a guest on various TV and radio talk shows, and has lectured at various polyamory and swingers conventions. A few of his stories featuring his popular “Nookie” Norris character ( Polyamory Proposal, Pillow Talk and In A Flash) are currently posted to medium.com.