JUST SEX AT NORTHWESTERN: PAM MEISTER
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Author’s note: This article discusses a topic that may offend some readers.
Why do parents hope their children will go on to college? Most parents I know hope that college will provide the education and training needed for a satisfying and rewarding career that will also pay the bills. As the mother of two young women – one a college freshman, the other a high school freshman who will soon be contemplating some form of higher education – this is my hope as well. And I am so very thankful that my oldest is not attending Northwestern University, where students were recently treated to a live demonstration of female orgasm:
More than 100 Northwestern students watched as a naked woman was penetrated by a sex toy wielded by her boyfriend during an after-class session of the school’s popular “Human Sexuality” class.
The demo, which was optional, was part of the popular class taught by Prof. John Michael Bailey, the Sun-Times is reporting. More than 600 students take the class, which the course description says “will treat human sexuality as a subject for scientific inquiry.”
The woman involved in the demonstration was not a student, according to the Daily Northwestern, NU’s student newspaper.
“Her boyfriend did the penetration on her,” said Ken Melvoin-Berg, who narrated what was happening for the class. He operates the “Weird Chicago Red Light District Sex Tour.”
Oh, I see. Her boyfriend did it, so that makes it all okay, as does the fact that the demonstration was optional AND the woman was not a student. We can all rest easy knowing Northwestern has some standards. As for having the operator of the “Weird Chicago Red Light District Sex Tour” narrate the proceedings, I suppose it was a little classier than having tacky porn soundtrack music overlaying the proceedings. (No pun intended.)
Initially, the university defended the class and the demonstration:
“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 spokesman Alan Cubbage. “The University supports the efforts of its faculty to further the advancement of knowledge.”
But now that the fit has hit the shan, Northwestern has brought out the big guns, with university president Morton Schapiro saying he’s “confident” that the university will “work through this situation.” Is he really that concerned about quality of education many students are receiving? My money is on the idea that perhaps too many alumni are so appalled that they’ve threatened to stop donating large sums of cash.
Frankly, if students want to further the advancement of this particular type of knowledge, all they have to do is to check out a porn film. And renting one is certainly going to be a lot cheaper than the $50,000 yearly price tag for tuition and expenses at Northwestern.
But what do I know? According to the leading lights at NPR, conservatives like me are not only “radical, racist, Islamaphobic, Tea Party people” but also less educated and balanced than liberals. So it only figures that I must be a prude as well. Hip to be square? That’s so 1986.
My older daughter is too busy pursuing a double degree in electrical engineering and computer engineering to take more electives than the bare minimum needed for graduation. (Sorry, couldn’t resist bragging rights.) She was not thrilled with the French cinema class she took last semester, so I remain confident that she has enough sense to stay away from this type of class were it offered at her school. As for my younger daughter, it’s very tempting to steer her toward a trade school of some sort where she can learn something practical, as opposed to the opportunity to be exposed to smut on my dime. Fortunately, we have a few years to see what’s what in her future.
Columnist Dennis Prager highlights the cesspit of what has become higher education in the United States over the past four decades:
In the 1960s and ’70s, university education was trashed. Required courses were dropped, as 19-year-old “grown ups” were told that they would now decide what they would study. One could henceforth attend most American universities never having read a word of Shakespeare or one verse of the Bible, never having taken a course on Western civilization or American history, never having heard a symphony or, for that matter, never having experienced anything uplifting or elevating.
Whatever was previously deemed great – as in great men, great literature, great art – was deconstructed to mean nothing more than some ethnocentric, phallic-centric, culturally biased nonsense. Too many DWEM – Dead White European Males – had been studied before. Now students would study Latina lesbian poets.
In Bailey’s class and Mr. Cubbage’s statement, we have reached the logical culmination of the ’60s and ’70s. Instead of studying Dead White European Males, students get to study a young white living female ejaculating with a f—saw.
Perhaps this helps to explain the current fascination with the Charlie Sheen saga. Because experiencing anything uplifting or elevating is no longer “all that,” we seek to elevate the lowest common denominator, rewarding those who constantly engage in destructive, immoral behavior with cultural icon status.
Prager continues:
[T]he complete secularization of everything – from ethics to human sexuality – has also reached its logical culmination. For four years, the American college student is taught that human beings are animals. The notion that humans are not only animals, but also creatures created in the image of God and therefore possessors of ineffable sanctity, is dead at our institutions of higher learning. Actually, worse than dead – laughed at.
And since we are only animals, why shouldn’t students have a woman come to orgasm in front of a hundred students? Except for the possible titillation, the exhibition is no different than watching a female baboon having sex.
So by all means, continue to offer Human Sexuality classes where women are brought to orgasm with a sex toy in front of a live studio audience. Perhaps next time students can actually see a man and a woman engaging in the act, and then two women, and then two men. And then, for extra credit, students can volunteer to perform in front of their peers for feedback and general discussion, like they do in English class when they swap essays for critiquing. It’s just sex, right?
Meanwhile, Americans continue to bemoan the fact that we are falling behind other nations not only in college completion rates, but also our younger students lag behind in critical skills needed to bring our economy forward. But when you have a president who declines the chance to explain what it is that makes the United States unique, perhaps this educational trend should be celebrated.
Oh, and inquiring minds want to know: Will Northwestern be offering its popular Human Sexuality class at its Qatar campus?
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Pam Meister’s current interest in politics and world events stems from the events of 9/11, when she made a conscious decision to contribute to the ongoing debate surrounding America’s sovereignty and foreign policy. Other samples of her writing can be seen at American Thinker, Pajamas Media, Big Hollywood and Human Events. Pam is also a former radio broadcaster, and has worked in both the publishing and healthcare industries. She was FSM’s editor until June 2010.
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