Uni initiation allegedly involved students having to ‘watch porn sitting on newspapers’

A university society initiation allegedly involved students having to watch porn whilst sitting on newspapers.

A viral TikTok video, which cannot be embedded for legal reasons, shows an interviewer approaching two students at an event. They ask: “What’s the weirdest initiation you’ve ever heard of?”

The students look shocked, before one alleges: “They had to watch porn and sit on a newspaper.”

The other then chimes in: “And whoever’s was wettest had to eat it for -” before the video beeps and cuts off the end of the sentence.

Many students who take part in university societies, particularly sports clubs, are no strangers to so-called initiations. They usually involve loads of drinking, but are sometimes more sinister. Last year, The Tab reported that a university rugby club was facing investigation after a fresher was allegedly urinated on at a social.

Back in 2017, it was reported that freshers at one rugby club allegedly were made to apple bob with a dead rat in a barrel of cider. One student from the same society also alleged there were punishments for not drinking, saying: “I know someone who had to shave their head as a forfeit so their friend [who was already paralytic] didn’t have to down another pint.”

And members of a hockey club were allegedly made to have drinks that had been mixed with dog food, gold fish and raw eggs, and were reportedly fined for it by their SU.

Earlier this year, The Times reported that students could be jailed for torture if they organise toxic initiations.

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