Live Sex Class At University Cancelled

When I think back to my sex education classes in high school all I can remember is teachers droning on about STIs and various kinds of protection.

While this may have been good to know, I would’ve preferred being a human sexuality student at Northwestern University on February 21st. To the shock of educational authorities, a woman demonstrated the use of a sex toy, known as the fuck or reciprocating saw, in an after-class live demonstration.

The result was the cancellation of Professor John Michael Bailey’s human sexuality class. I say fuck that. University students are forking out the dough, so why not see some nudity? It’s all in the name of education, right?

Understandably, the argument is that it was gratuitous nudity. Maybe it wasn’t essential that the students see how the nifty tool works in the flesh, but the professor was trying to prove a point and I just don’t see the harm in that. Some of us are visual learners.

It’s as if he knew what would happen but went ahead with it anyway to prove that sex is looked upon negatively. Research surrounding sex is being kept on the down-low to the detriment of students trying to get the sex education that they couldn’t get in the more censored high school environment. But we can’t protect our children forever.

If visual art students get a live model, human sexuality students should too. Either give to both or each class can make do with a video re-enactment or simply a verbal description. If we’re going to make rules, let’s at least be fair. Plus, the woman using the vibrator is more awe-inspiring than a static naked body. She’s naked and getting off! Maybe the art students should just join human sexuality students when it comes to presentation time.

Yes, the class has been cancelled, but it can live on in the memories of the students who decided to attend the demonstration after class that wasn’t for the “faint of heart.” These students were part of a social experiment that I frankly find pretty interesting as well as highly entertaining.

It seems Prof Bailey asked himself if students would react negatively or they just wouldn’t care. In the former case, it would be just like he thought. People would be shocked and appalled by such a vulgar display and it would prove his theories that sex research was being shoved under the rug. Universities are prized for their top-notch research studies and they’re loved by the students because they introduce young minds to different ways of thinking. We think we’re going to get an open-minded and uncensored educational experience, but this experiment proves that we’re still walking a tightrope trying to balance appropriate and inappropriate.

In the latter case, however, the students would react just as they did in the “Sex Education” scene of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. While the woman was masturbating with this vibrator resembling a hardcore power tool, students would sit there staring longingly out the window, busting out their tape reporters as if they would later be tested on how to have sex and finding silly ways to distract themselves. There could be a Q&A session after. Whatever, no big thing.

I wish I could say it was like the scene out of Monty Python, but it was just another episode of sex education gone wrong. Sigh.

(4:10 is where the clothes come off. Obviously at that point it is NSFW).

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