Debate club, chess club...kinky sex club? That’s right, the Committee on Student Life at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has approved a new organization for students who want to discuss kinky sex.

The group has about 30 members so far and has been meeting informally for about a year before being approved as an official school club called Munch. The club’s founder is relieved by the official recognition, which means institutional support for the social gathering of kinksters interested in talking about BDSM. The club can now grow by being allowed to promote it by putting up posters for events, and being eligible for funding to add food and drinks to their meetings. The founder believes the best part of being officially recognized by the college is that the club’s legitimacy means they will be taken seriously.

Members consider the group to be a place where they feel comfortable discussing their interests in bondage, discipline, submission, dominance, sadism, masochism, or whatever the kink may be, with like-minded people in an open and safe environment. The group has made it clear that the club is only about discussion, not a place where students will be having sex on campus. It even has a safety team in place that refers victims of abuse to health services for help.

Justin J. Lehmiller, a lecturer in Harvard’s psychology department, believes that students should learn about the diversity in sexuality so students can feel like they are part of a community, rather than feeling alone outside of the sexual mainstream.

It is likely that the group will suffer some stigma from students and faculty since sex is still a taboo topic, even without the word kinky in front of it. But, at least it is a place to start spreading acceptance for sex positivity and kink.