Northwestern University offers live sex-toy demo class. No, really
You gotta read it to believe it. My .02 cents after the quote.
Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro said today he is “troubled and disappointed” by the live sex toy demonstration on campus last week and has launched an investigation.
He released a statement saying the university is looking into the appropriateness of the demonstration, where about 100 students in a psychology class witnessed a naked woman being penetrated by a sex toy.
Schapiro called the decision by Professor J. Michael Bailey “extremely poor judgment.”
“Although the incident took place in an after-class session that students were not required to attend, and students were advised in advance, several times, of the explicit nature of the activity, I feel it represented extremely poor judgment on the part of our faculty member. I simply do not believe this was appropriate, necessary or in keeping with Northwestern University’s academic mission,” Schapiro said.
“Northwestern faculty members engage in teaching and research on a wide variety of topics, some of them controversial. That is the nature of a university. However, in this instance, I have directed that we investigate fully the specifics of this incident, and also clarify what constitutes appropriate pedagogy, both in this instance and in the future,” he said.
“Many members of the Northwestern community are disturbed by what took place on our campus. So am I.”
Bailey has defended the demonstration. In a statement Wednesday night, he said “the students find the events to be quite valuable, typically, because engaging real people in conversation provides useful examples and extensions of concepts students learn about in traditional academic ways.”
Northwestern has acknowledged paying guest lecturer Ken Melvoin-Berg, co-owner of Weird Chicago Tours, several hundred dollars for a Feb. 21 discussion of bondage, swinging and other sexual fetishes where the demonstration took place.
Bailey gets extra funding from the university’s College of Arts & Sciences for lectures and other activities he routinely holds after class.
After an initial discussion at Ryan Family Auditorium, the class was told a couple was going to demonstrate the use of a sex toy and female orgasm.
Ok, to be clear: I make no bones about being an exhibitionist. I have been for years, and in some of my wilder days I had full on penetration (to orgasm) on a crowded dance floor with 500 people watching. For the more sexually adventurous like me it was a dream come true.
But this prof has to be, um, slightly nuts to think that every student that showed up to watch this was there strictly for the academic virtue of it all. I wonder how many students were secretly camera capturing this one while they were “taking notes”
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