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[Mariella713]

What exactly were the students watching this for?
I don't see why they need to watch a live act...didn't they already know what intercourse was?

[rollo]

It is called "dumbing down". I believe!!! A person decrying heterosexuality: who was a result of heterosexual behavior.

University classes turned into a bunch of schoolboys leering at their fathers "adult" magazines.

Bette Davis said people have always f***** it's just that some want to talk more about it now.

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[Abe Scrap]

The course has been axed. I wonder if he's next.

Northwestern Human Sexuality Class Dropped After Sex Toy Demo Controversy

First Posted: 05/ 9/11 05:16 PM ET

A course on human sexuality at Northwestern University will not be offered next semester, after a controversy exploded around an after-class demonstration performed in March.

Professor J. Michael Bailey's course has been dropped from the psychology department's list of offerings, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. And that order came from the top.

�I did not make the decision,� department chairman Dan McAdams told the paper, saying that it came from "either the president or the provost." Typically administrators don't have say on department course lists, but McAdams described the sexuality course as a "pretty extraordinary case."

In February, the course and the university received national scrutiny after a live sex-toy demonstration was held after one session of the course. The event was not a mandatory class meeting; rather, it was optional, and students were told what the display would consist of before choosing to attend.

At the demo, a naked woman took the stage, and was repeatedly sexually stimulated by a motorized device called a "fucksaw." Before long, local and then national news sources were reporting on the event, with reactions ranging from who-cares open-mindedness to full-on outrage.

In an extreme case, a church in Tennessee refused to host a group of Northwestern volunteers coming for a service project after seeing a syndicated AP article in the local paper about the demonstration. "I just felt the Lord wanted me to see that," said Pastor Clifton Roth, who decided to turn the students away.

Though his sexuality course will not be on offer next term, Professor Bailey will continue teaching classes at the university, including a 300-level Special Topics course entitled "Dangerous Ideas," the Daily Northwestern reports.

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Scholars rally to support Bailey

By Patrick Svitek

Published: Wednesday, May 11, 2011

In the wake of Prof. John Michael Bailey's signature Human Sexuality course being axed from next school year's psychology offerings, a prominent scholar pledged Tuesday he would gather support from within the academic community to contest the course's exclusion.

Simon LeVay, an independent scholar previously on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and the Salk Institute in San Diego, said the pro-Bailey effort is "still in the works," but it will most likely take the form of a letter addressed to University President Morton Schapiro and signed by various professors across the country.

"We certainly plan to do it," he said. "I'm hoping we'll round up a lot of people to put this point of view to the president."

LeVay, an author who has published 11 books and co-wrote the textbook Bailey utilized, described the University's decision to nix Human Sexuality altogether for the 2011-12 academic as "very regrettable." He admitted the now-infamous sex-toy demonstration Bailey allowed "may have been a mistake" but added that scrubbing the psychology course in total is too severe a repercussion...

[Menino80]

This class was given as a resource for many who were considering positions in therapy, specifically of the sexual varitey. It was an invaluable resource (taught by a self-aggrandizing nutter), squandered because of the infantilization of the American teenager.