On Fri Mar 04, 2011 publishing in DK, " Sprinkles asked in a Diary,"Do you think your child might need special education?" and printed the appended phrase, "Forget about it!" *
Well, it interests me as to how many of you will read about what I write that follows and deem it a *"Forget about it" topic.
First, how was my interest piqued?
As is typical on Thursday evenings at my Florida Condominium complex, neighbors gather in the club house for a very informal
dress, covered dish pitchin & BYOB evenings comunual dinner. Guests are eclectic as to where they come from (present or previous
home state), present or former occupations ( lawyers, accounts, business people and lots of teachers from all academic levels ).
Typical of America, many are quite religious ( of varying faiths ) and heavily into church activities although I, a skeptic as I am wont to be, wonder about some not being as heavily invested as such as into their golf game. As such, while conversation can, on occasion, turn a bit racy at dinner it does not usually turn to explicit sexual behavior.
First, how was my interest piqued?
As is typical on Thursday evenings at my Florida Condominium complex, neighbors gather in the club house for a very informal
dress, covered dish pitchin & BYOB evenings comunual dinner. Guests are eclectic as to where they come from (present or previous
home state), present or former occupations ( lawyers, accounts, business people and lots of teachers from all academic levels ).
Typical of America, many are quite religious ( of varying faiths ) and heavily into church activities although I, a skeptic as I am wont to be, wonder about some not being as heavily invested as such as into their golf game. As such, while conversation can, on occaission, turn a bit racy at dinner it does not usually turn to explicit sexual behavior.
I was seated diagonally across from a casually known but never prior conversed with dinner attendee, who on his learning that I had been employed at Indiana University, told me that his son had recently graduated from that school. His wife and mine, at that point, coincidentally left their seats and my neighbor then leaned accross the table and whispered, "Did you hear about the Class at Northwestern University where a nude couple had sexual intercourse for the students to observe?
Well no, I hadn't so heard and I observed that if that had actually taken place I was surprised that it would not have been at Indiana University under the aegiss of The Kinsey Sex Institute. What I thought, but didn't say was, "You heard or read something but have
completely misunderstood what it was.
Imagine my surprise this morning when I Googled the topic
and found several references to the event, misunderstood by my neighbor as I had thought, but NOT COMPLETELY so. The sex act demonstrated for the students was Masturbation via use of a sex toy.
"More than 100 Northwestern University students had watched as a naked 25-year-old woman was penetrated by a sex toy wielded by her fiancee during an AFTER-CLASS session of the school’s popular “Human Sexuality” class. "
The woman said she showed up at the Feb. 21 lecture in the Ryan Family Auditorium in Evanston expecting just to answer questions, but was game to demonstrate. The course’s professor on Wednesday acknowledged some initial hesitation, but said student feedback was “uniformly positive.”
And Northwestern defended the class and its professor.
“Northwestern University faculty members engage in teaching and research on a wide variety of topics, some of them controversial and at the leading edge of their respective disciplines,” said Alan K. Cubbage, vice president for University Relations.
“The University supports the efforts of its faculty to further the advancement of knowledge.”
This all recalled for me a game set up by the Health Education Department of The Indiana University Students Health Clinic sometime back about the very early 1990s. It was at a Student Health Fair on campus. The Game consisted of a large size Diaphragm Fitting Ring (like a large donut) and an artificial phallus. The Phallus was set up erect on a table some five feet away from a tossing line. Game object was two fold:
1.Entertainment in trying to get the fitting ring onto the phallus and most important, 2.Teaching. The topic being taught was to cover the penis with a condum if sexually active.
Needlessly to say, the reaction to the game was immediately attacked in the Letter To The Editor section of the Bloomington, Indiana community paper.
My overall reaction to the Northwestern educational activity mentioned above is that The Religious Right & Republican Politicians are
bound to have a field day with this just as fast as they can give up their varied sexual proclivities in order to get genitalia, hands & mouths free for outraged comment about godless liberal education.