Northwestern University’s idea of, er, stimulation
Annual undergrad tuition at Northwestern University in Illinois tops $50,000 a year.
Some parents expecting a stimulating education for their children got a rude awakening this week. At least one professor took “stimulation” to new depths.
More than 100 Northwestern University students 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.”
The p.r. flack for Northwestern defended the “lecture” and “demonstration” as an example of teaching that puts the high-priced school “at the leading edge.”
At least one student who witnessed the XXX-rated demo had a more accurate description:
“I didn’t expect to see a live sex show,” said Justin Smith, 21, a senior economics and political science major who was in the after-class session. “We were told we were going to have some people talk to us about the fetish world and kink.”
…After the demonstration, several students tried a different sex toy that gave a “titillating” but not painful shock, testing it out on their arms, said Ken Melvoin-Berg, who narrated the after-class lecture. Melvoin-Berg said the school paid him between $300 to $500 for his appearance.
Faith Kroll, the woman who stripped, was laying down on a towel when she was penetrated. When she arrived, she thought she just would be answering students’ questions and showing off sex toys they brought, including whips, paddles and a clown wig.
…Melvoin-Berg said he met Prof. Bailey through a swinging couple who previously spoke to the class. Melvoin-Berg runs the “Weird Chicago Red Light District Sex Tour,” which has participants playing games like “spot the ho” as they travel the city looking for prostitutes. He also teaches “Networking for Kinky People,” a 3-hour version of the one hour lecture he gave at Northwestern.
Melvoin-Berg said the sex toy used was BDSM, but was “not like a pain thing…we wanted to make it poignant.”
“I did mention this was going to be the best money their parents had spent on their education,” he said.
What’s next? A guest lecture with Charlie Sheen and his goddesses?
I bet a few of the parents of these students wouldn’t mind taking a paddle to the clowns running this university-turned-S&M theater…
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True, caffeine is a no-no in the Mormon faith, but I’m fairly sure that the student in that article was aware of that particular tenet of faith when he enrolled there, just as he had to have been aware of the Honor Code system at BYU. Otherwise his conscience would never had prodded him to ‘fess up to the act in the first place. I admire him for being a stand-up guy by admitting what he did and taking his lumps for it. To me it shows he has something that most youths today lack… character.
Also, I can appreciate an educational institution that is willing to adhere to its beliefs and uphold its Honor Code despite the not-so-minor inconvenience it would cause their sports program.
All too often educational institutions are willing to cave in to popular opinion to remain just that, popular. However, they usually wind up sacrificing what’s left of their reputations and respect from their peers in the academic realm (and alumni) in the process.
That is a dumb standard. Every entity in the US receives some sort of tax treatment that is beneficial to it. Are you saying that your tax dollars are spent on making Coke just because they can deduct business expenses? And research grants are given to schools to, you know… perform research.
500 out of the 600 students did not attend. 600 students in that class. Do you think the professor has the time, even if he did give a flying whip, to figure out who and who was not in attendance?
You can think this is appalling, in poor taste, a waste of student’s and teacher’s and university’s time. But it is wrong to say it is done on your dime and your time.
On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:15 pm, Hangfire said:
When she arrived,……
“Doesn’t that occur after the penetration, old boy?”
HA! cunning linguistics thre Hang!
Sometimes before and after, if she’s lucky.
Jeeze!!! What a bunch of dildos!!
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Don’t worry–this wasn’t really sex. Just ask ex President Bill Clinton.
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It must have been something else!
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John Bibb
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The decline of Rome can be traced to three key things, one of which is the destruction of the family thanks to sexual and other immoral practices. When a society is more concerned about the likes of a Charlier Sheen than the importance of sustaining societal norms, the society collapses.
Oh, by the way, the other two — over extension in expensive foreign wars and loss of the republic to dictators.
GOTTA LOVE THOSE DEMENTED LIBERALS!
A crucifix in a jar of urine: a disgusting desecration of a religious symbol sacred to Christians?? nah..it’s art.
A baby with his foot still in the birth canal slaughtered with a scissors to the brain: a horrific cold blooded murder?? nah: just a woman exercising her reproductive rights in America.
A woman penetrated by a sex toy in a college classroom: live porn in an institution of supposed higher learning??? Nah, its the cutting edge of education.
There you are Chappy! I knew you’d rear your liberal head sooner or later!
I love your pretzel logic, bro. Keeps everyone on their toes!
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There is nothing pretzel about calling a private university private. What is convoluted is claiming that because some students may get federal tuition assistance or that the university may get money specifically granted to perform research that the court of public opinion somehow gets a veto on anything it proposes to do.
Great post, publiuswarmac.
Throw some erotica in to almost anything and it sells, even the destruction of our entire society. So many people are too interested in “immediate gratification” they could care less they’re losing their minds, their freedom, their education, their futures and ultimately their souls.
Well, geez.
When debauchery becomes the norm, so goes the Republic.
Just what I’d expect from a guy with a name like Kevin Melvoin-Berg. Bet he’s a member of Code Pink as well. People, if you are going to spend that kind of money send your precious child to Furman, Hillsdale, or Bob Jones.
This is not education. This display does not belong in a classroom. And, those students afraid of clowns were probably traumatized. Not acceptable, I don’t care who is paying…
Mahalo, Max. Always happy to be known as a cunning linguist.
Its not just that this university felt no compunction about leaping over an obvious moral barrier, its no surprise whatever that an instructor would either, destruction of morals and the nuclear family is a foundation of the Marxist agenda, none of the despicable use of taxpayer and private funds would occur except in an over funded under managed scenario.
Big government means group sex in class, education optional, and so is accountability.
If someone can’t figure out how to use a sex toy on their own, they never should have been accepted to college in the first place.
It’s not too hard to figure out what they’re intended for just by looking at them.
Question,
Which or who was the sex toy, the object inserted into the woman’s body, or the woman used for the sexual activity?
mattymatt10,
Back in the day a person could coach, conduct fitness training, drive a truck, repair a car, and so forth, all because they were willing to do so, and all because they were skilled in doing so, and also because someone was willing to recruit that person to do their service and compensate them for that service.
Now, today, in 2011, you must get “certified” to do virtually anything, from driving a truck for wages, to teaching “Fitness and exercise,” to working on computers, and so forth.
I wonder when it will be a mandated law for every parent to become certified before they raise their child, passing a series of exams, probably written by leftists who want to ensure that their agenda is followed to the letter, before the parents can raise their child.
If you don’t answer questions positively in support of homosexuality, or abortion, or socialism and redistribution of wealth, and special, preferred treatment for Muslims, Blacks, and Hispanics, while discriminating against Caucasians and Asians (Asians are discriminated against but I don’t see the media even printing two lines about it. Example: College entrance requirements are most resrtictive against Asians than any other group), and other violations of the equal rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
Some are more equal that others, and the left want to engage in social engineering, violating the law, and keeping people hating those who they demonize. They want to squelch free speech, transltated – silence dissenting points of view – AKA Conservative thought, through such venues as talk radio, and other venues.
Nevertheless, in today’s world, I would not be surprised if the university, and governments, demand people get certified in sexual practice, mandating that ALL forms be included in the education, and all so-called forms be equally embraced.
If you don’t like homosexuality, out of wedlock sex, your 9 year old, 11 year old, or 13 year old son or daughter engaging in sexual activity, your child getting pregnant and sneaking out and getting an abortion, etc., then you are a bad person who hasn’t learned your lesson, and you will be mandated, by law, to get “Reeducated” so that your mind is finally “right.”
Next up: Bernadine Dohrn presents a bomb-making demonstration, assisted by Bill Ayers.
But Chapstick, “If you’re here and I’m here, doesn’t that make it our time?”
Spicoli
Chap
Why yes, I do.
That could be good, depending on where he/she inserts the bomb.
Well, it’s not the first time you have been terribly, terribly wrong.
Probably would have been better with John Cleese teaching.
It’s a private university funded by private dollars and the lecture was optional. Give me a break. Chances are that class will know much more about sex and methods to decrease the risk of unintended pregnancy compared to the abstinence-only education crowd, whose unintended pregnancy rate will be higher.
It has nothing to do with culture. It has to do with common sense. People’s private lives, including their sex lives – are just that PRIVATE. I wish social conservatives would understand that, as they seem completely ok with interference in that realm.
I am extremely critical of Liberal America’s attempts, and successes, at getting universal approval for sex without consequences. They have programmed our society, starting with the helpless youth in public schools, that any sexual contract and contact between two or more consenting adults, and adult wannabes, is A-OK.
I can certainly testify, as my Catholic upbringing can attest, that the best sex is…..
….forbidden sex.
And when everything is sanctioned, and no stigmas exist, the only thing left is mediocre sex.
A few days ago, at a Honolulu shopping mall, I was “treated” to the vision of a corpulent lass going up the escalator ahead of me wearing an extremely short skirt and no knickers. Yes, she was going commando. I shook my head, sadly. I did not become excited, aroused, or even curious.
Forty years ago, the mere glimpse of a petticoat’s edge, or a chance encounter of a lass who might possibly not be wearing a bra beneath her halter top, was enough to keep me awake all night.
Anyone see my senator there?
But if little Billy tries to steal a kiss from little Sally in kindergarten the idiot liberals cite zero tolerance policy and have him arrested as a sexual predator.
Let’s see…..balding, pot-belly, bloodshot eyes, wearing sandals and a toga?
Chap
I don’t suppose you have any examples of me being “terribly, terribly wrong” to back-up what you say?
This conversation isn’t boding well for you, Chap. I suppose your next move will be to whine about how MM and Doug didn’t include more liberal points of view on here?
Makes me think about Japan and parts of Europe where a vast number of people have lost all interest in sex. Japan is in quite a panic about it.
Just another example of Libs taking the fun out of anything.
But was the saw wearing a condom?
This wasn’t “the talk”, or an elementary “safe sex” class. It was a presentation on fetish.
It’s safe to say the donors aren’t happy about it, because the university president has condemned the activity. (So once again, private is better than public.)
Unless they are exhibitionists, in which case by definition, they aren’t private.
So what other parts of people’s private lives (besides the aforementioned exhibitionist sex) are you concerned about protecting? I’m guessing after “sex, drugs, and abortion”, the list is pretty much non-existent.
Whom do you think will assume the role of Alaric and the Visigoths for us? I can imagine the dictators…
Pick five of your posts at random and 3 will bear me out.
Have you ever been to college? Have you ever sat in a large lecture? Have you ever seen a professor take attendance for a class of 600 students?
Now don’t be so stupid over such a inane point.
Okay knock it off! Earlier you were describing my prostate and now you’re describing me! Stop peeking in my windows!
There’s good sex and there’s bad sex, and even bad sex is still pretty good, or so I’ve been told.
I wonder how that conversation went. Ms. Kroll, I know you thought you were just answering questions, but if you could just strip and lie down on this towel…
Pot, meet kettle, Kettle, pot.
Okay, you people brought it up, and forgive me if this is censored.
Do you know the difference between a magic act and a Las Vegas chorus line?
One is an array of cunning stunts.
This is a truth universally acknowledged.
Suggest anyone (especially parents of students) in the vicinity of a college bookstore take a walk through the bins of elective course books. Enlightening.
Sex is like a good book. You have the introduction, the characters, the setting, the dialogue, the plot, and the climax. However, some people may not like the ending in the book but the ending in sex is universally enjoyed.
You do have to browse the bookstore though.
Could have been an Al Qaeda or PLO training school.
“Okay, we want you to just put this vest on under your coat….”
That is an absolute, big, fat lie!
Abstinence only teaching has been more successful in reducing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases over all other methods. Abstinence IS the most successful method to avoid pregnancy and sexually tranmistted diseases.
The claim that you made is based on making up the stats out of thin air, and also on people with a leftist-liberal agenda, people who also tend to push abortion as well, of manufacturing by any means necessary the false statistics which come out “proving” abstinence doesn’t work, when, in fact, it does.
Come on!
I challenge you.
I DARE you to prove that abstinence does not reduce pregnancy and sexually tansmitted diseases better, more successfully, than any other method!
You cannot do so unless you flat out lie!
Surely you understand the difference between TEACHING abstinence and actually ENGAGING in abstinence.
MSD was talking about most effective teaching methods.
I can really see how this demonstration will help aerospace engineers in their careers. I’m going to fly so much more comfortably knowing that the guy who designed the plane I’m on “aced” BDSM in college.
Actually he was mischaracterizing this assembly as a “safe sex” class when it was by all accounts a class on fetish.
Although I do not doubt that risk of pregnancy from a reciprocating saw is quite low.
BDSM instruction will have ZERO effect on pregnancy. BDSM is not about preventing pregnancy or the transmission of disease, but about “getting off” on various sex games.
Further, a college classroom is not an appropriate venue for teaching abstinence or prevention of STD transmission. That’s not what college is for.
MSD was not talking about this particular presentation. He was talking about the class in general. And he didn’t even say this class was particularly instructive on safe sex, just that the types of people that attend it are probably much better versed on safe sex techniques than those that have received abstinence only education.
Who are you to say? College is whatever the market will say it is. And clearly there is a market for this type of class.
These are college students. I’m pretty sure they’ve heard of condoms.
Just sayin’…
Please point out where in these definitions fits “abstinence or STD avoidance training”? This is the kind of instruction that might be appropriate for a highschool… maybe.
As part of a nursing or medical school course on hygiene, I could understand. A doctor might have to learn how to safely pull gerbils out of orifices…
Me, I would pay to see an attractive female instructor strip naked, and then demonstrate the “aspirin between the knees” method of contraception.
Doesn’t mean it belongs in a college class (anymore than my loud and derisive laughter).
Then again, maybe some of the students were planning on going into a career of BDSM… or running for political office…