NUS freshman writes heartbreaking confession about being forced against his will to do things during orientation

The struggle is real.

Belmont Lay | July 27, 2016, 02:19 PM

Stories about highly sexed-up freshmen orientation camps have rocked moderately conservative Singapore -- where permissiveness is actually okay as long as everyone is highly agreeable -- these past few days.

The National University of Singapore has once again been put in the spotlight, where the longstanding practice of hazing has resurfaced after drifting into the public's consciousness several times the past decade before subsiding.

Freshmen hazing this year includes having newcomers to tertiary education answer taboo questions relating to bodily fluids in front of their peers and simulating the good old in-and-out in full public view -- all in the name of forging longstanding platonic bonds and kinship.

But there is nothing more heart-wrenching than reading about the personal traumatic experience of a freshman survivor who lived through orientation to tell the tale where he couldn't even say "No".

Posted on NUSWhispers, a Facebook place that helps to facilitate outrage and appear like a whistle-blowing outlet, this is the post:

The struggle is real, but the reaction has been nothing but realer:

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We pray that he will heal from all his emotional wounds in time to come.

Or hopefully by next year when the next cycle kicks in.

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