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Northwestern bids a fond farewell to Professor Fucksaw
Power tools, higher education, and assisted masturbation rarely mingle in such a rarefied perfect storm, but mingle they did in the tragic tale of Northwestern University psychology professor J. Michael Bailey.
Bailey's popular "human sexuality" class has been dropped from the psychology department's list of offerings following a live demonstration of a modified reciprocating saw used as a sex toy.
The device, charmingly referred to as a "fucksaw," was repeatedly used by a live, naked woman, prompting differing degrees of outrage from various organizations and individuals.
Now, I find it hard to believe that people haven't been exposed to this kind of thing in the age of 4Chan. Even if you haven't seen a motorized one or been fortunate enough to walk down certain streets in Chelsea, you have to be aware, at least by osmosis, of man-made devices used to pleasure women (and men). So, if you're introduced to a device called a "fucksaw," and you see a naked woman walking on stage, what exactly do you think is going to happen, particularly since you're sitting in a class on human sexuality?
Professor Bailey hasn't been fired for demonstrating something sexual to a human-sexuality class, but he will be teaching a 300-level Special Topics course called "Dangerous Ideas." Sometimes, a denouement like that comes along, and to comment on it seems almost cheap.
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Comments ( 11 )
What's all that crap about the British being repressed? we're not in the fucking Victorian era sitting giggling at each others ankles.
And that 9% might mean something if it was given some context, where the hell this statistic came from and how high it is in other countries. On it's own it's just trivial.
"I highly doubt that a majority of students on any college campus, even a highly conservative one, disapprove of casual or pre-marital sex."
Definitely false. Students at BYU would disapprove of casual or pre-marital sex by an overwhelming margin.
Mormons! HA. I think he meant a normal college campus.
I graduated from Texas A&M University. That kid needs to get out more because there is as much sex going on all around him as any other university. The conservative nutcases are very vocal on that campus, but hardly speak for the student body in general. I dated an RA whose job description included giving out condoms in emergencies. His supply was always running out.
BTW, here here on ER's comment. The British are not the stereotypes we see in movies. In my experience British men are the opposite of sexually repressed.
who wrote this? sounds like it was written by someone barely literate in english.
I really cannot stand the constant heavy-handed labelling going on throughout this piece. Xenophobic/ Christian nut-case/ repressed and hypocritical Brits... It's oh-so depressing to hear such a negative, judgemental tone. Some maturity, please.
Like a couple of other comments on here I just wanted to say that it's not the first time I've read an article calling the British repressed and it's as far from true as you can get. Everyone here (expect some religious types) is having sex, and they are all open about it.
Perhaps they worked the other way. That is they were checking to see that married immigrants were not virgins. This isn't any nicer but it is more logical. I can imagine our own INS getting ideas from these disclosures.
To me, it seems more likely that this came out of some fear/hysteria that the women were contriving stories about arranged marriages to circumvent British immigration policy. If women coming in to get married were "supposed" to be virgins and NOT pregnant, you can see some asshole gov't official deciding that a vaginal exam might be a good way to catch those who are lying about the whole arranged marriage bit. I seriously doubt the test was ever conceived as a way of keeping out "immoral ladies" as the writer suggests was surely the case. Just to be clear, I agree that this is reprehensible, I just don't think Hooksexup touches on any relevant points.
I don't the history of Asian immigrants to Britain, but in the US at least, Asian women immigrants were mostly sex slaves and prostitutes at first and among the yellow fear was the fear of "immoral ladies".
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