Northwestern professor presents bizarre, graphic "sex machine" demonstration
By Kelly BourdetMarch 2nd, 2011, 5:25 pmComments (12)This sounds awesome. The demonstration took place in a popular human-sexuality course taught by psychology Professor John Michael Bailey. The following quote was taken directly from the online portion of Northwestern's college newspaper:
The optional presentation last Monday, attended by about 120 students, featured a naked non-student woman being repeatedly sexually stimulated to the point of orgasm by the sex toy, referred to as a "fucksaw." The device is essentially a motorized phallus.
So basically 120 people watched some lady get fucked with a fucksaw. For class! Now I guess some people are offended, and some other people are like, that's a weird thing to show in a class presentation, but whatever. And I feel like I really made the wrong decision when I chose what University to attend.
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- Northwestern professor presents bizarre, graphic "sex machine" demonstration
Comments ( 12 )
I know who I'm buddying up to when I want to intern for someone's research.
What could have been the educational justification for that?
What could be the educational justification for a front row seat of human sexuality in a human sexuality class?
Yeah that's what I'm asking. You don't play with puppies in a bio class.
A bio class is not a dog behavior class. In a dog behavior class, interacting with actual dogs would be perfectly fine and I would question the value of such a course if it did not involve any actual dogs (the subject of the course). A human sexuality class is a human sexuality class. An anatomy class, I would be concerned that we were getting a little off topic. But yeah, a live demonstration of human sexual response is pretty appropriate for a course about human sexual response. It's certainly not a whole course, but it's a perfectly acceptable and on-topic demonstration to supplement other course material.
Fellas, I'm ready to get up and do my thing
I wanta get into it, man, you know
Like a, like a sex machine, man,
Movin' and doin' it, you know
Can I count it off?
One, two, three, four!
And the slide into oblivion continues.
The class is not called human sexual response but human sexuality, an incredibly broad and interesting topic for which there's so much to discuss about the history, politics, cultural differences, gender attitudes, impact on basic human relationships and ways sexuality has influenced nearly every art form. In my opinion, this very credible subject gets discounted by stupid attempts at notoriety and controversy involving "fucksaws" and naked "non-students". I feel sorry for the parents who are shelling out $2,000 per credit for Bailey's pathetic and transparent attempts to call attention to himself. Save 8K and instead give the kids a hundred bucks and send them to a strip club. Let them explore their own sexual response.
@Publius: to quote Mike Tyson, the "slide into Bolivian" continues
I took this course at Northwestern...Michael Bailey knows how to put on a show, often at the expense of academic integrity. I think he presents a lot of controversial or biased ideas as fact. I remember many people in the class feeling very uncomfortable when he transitioned from the topic of flirting to the topic of rape within the same lecture, and presented rapists as similar to people with foot fetishes or other paraphelias, as if they can't help themselves. He also used to go hit on M to F trannies at bars as part of his research, then was sued by some interview subjects when he published personal information without their informed consent. Lots of students at Northwestern are pretty nerdy and inexperienced (I was a virgin when I took the course my freshman year) and don't think to question his ideas. I remember making out with some guy at a party and when I wouldn't let him put his hand down my pants he tried to argue with me based on some shit from this class. He said, "but you're showing the signs of arousal. Look, your chest and neck are flushed." Blech. As much as I loved college, the sex is better out here in the real world.
That video intro to this article pissed me off more than anything else I've encountered today. "I love college, I love drinking, I love women." May all men who operate under such mantras never get laid.
Wow, a "fucksaw" seems devoid of everything I love about sex. Why is mainstream sex so violent now?
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