Fifteen members of a University of Oxford drinking society have been suspended after sexist private emails were posted around Hertford College.

In them, the male members of the Penguin Club compiled a "list of fitties" in which they compared female students at the college — writing derogatory descriptions such as "only if we're desperate".

The emails were posted around the college in the middle of the night by an unknown whistleblower.

The private communications also revealed that the club's humiliating initiation rituals, including forcing boys to perform a naked streak while smeared in goose fat and eating raw squid.

All fifteen members of the club have now been suspended from the college.