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Prof. Michael Bailey is one of the nation's leading sexological researchers, hosts Sexnet, a listserv for them, and gives the very popular Human Sexuality course at Northwestern University. The demo was given as an optional part of the course, after hours; students will not be tested on it; and they were given multiple advisories that the demo would be quite graphic and explicit.

Does academic freedom extend this far, or was Prof. Bailey's demo inappropriate?

* U.S. NEWS
* MARCH 3, 2011, 7:27 P.M. ET

College Condemns Classroom Sex Show

By KEVIN HELLIKER

CHICAGO�Northwestern University reversed course on Thursday and condemned a live demonstration of sex in a classroom, after defending the act earlier in the week.

"Many members of the Northwestern community are disturbed by what took place on our campus," Northwestern President Morton Schapiro said in a statement. "So am I." He said the university was launching an investigation.

Following a human sexuality class last week on Northwestern's Evanston, Ill., campus, Prof. John Michael Bailey invited students to stay for an extracurricular demonstration that he warned would be explicit and graphic. Of the 567 students enrolled in the class, about 100 stayed to watch a sexual act involving a woman, a man and an electric-powered device.

Afterward, the campus newspaper published an article about the class, and Prof. Bailey issued a lengthy statement. While expressing regret for any trouble his decisions had caused his dean, Prof. Bailey said in the email that "thoughtful discussion of controversial topics is a cornerstone of learning."

Prof. Bailey, a tenured professor of psychology, said the live demonstration was part of a larger series of events he had arranged "at considerable investment of my time, for which I receive no compensation from Northwestern University."

He said past guests had included two convicted sex offenders, a transsexual entertainer and a panel of gay men speaking about their sex lives.

As the incident gained notoriety in the Chicago media, Northwestern University initially supported Prof. Bailey.

"The university supports the efforts of its faculty to further the advancement of knowledge," a Northwestern spokesman said earlier this week. "Northwestern University faculty members engage in teaching and research on a wide variety of topics, some of them controversial."

An outcry from alumni and other university supporters prompted Northwestern to change its stance.

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Campus newspaper article

Bailey's statement (pdf)

Read German? Orgasm in US classroom

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Screwing animals is assuredly a taboo to be destroyed. Norms are suggestive of a fascist society.

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Hey, did you know that the CIA funded the worldview you hold? True story. The degenerate leftists that gave us this anti-culture were not pursuing truth.

http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/03/twitterers-of-the-world-unite-the-digital-new-left-as-controlled-opposition-part-1/

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Prof. Michael Bailey, in addressing the controversy, said,

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Wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that a fair amount of the people offended by the prof's public event have familiarized themselves with porn in private

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This, in addition to Mises' examples, is why western civilization is collapsing.