Tickle Me, Dildo: Northwestern Uni defends sex-toy demonstration

[onedef92]

Northwestern Uni defends sex-toy demonstration

Posted: Mar 03, 2011 11:59 AM EST
Updated: Mar 03, 2011 12:19 PM EST

EVANSTON, Ill. - A Northwestern University professor concluded a discussion of bondage and other sexual fetishes in his human sexuality class by having a woman take off all her clothes, climb on stage and graphically demonstrate the use of a sex toy, the school has acknowledged.

The demonstration took place Feb. 21 at the conclusion of psychology professor John Michael Bailey's class on human sexuality. According to guest lecturer Ken Melvoin-Berg, after the students were told that a couple would take part in a demonstration involving a sex toy, the students were warned about a half dozen times that "what was about to happen would be graphic."

With that, Jim Marcus and his fiancee Faith Kroll climbed on the stage in front of about 100 students and demonstrated the use of the motorized device with a phallic object attached to it, as students heard about issues such as safety and consent, Melvin-Berg said.

"It is probably something I will remember the rest of my life," said senior Justin Smith, 21, one of the students who stuck around voluntarily after class when students were told about what they were about to see.

"I can't say that about my Econ 202 class and the material that I learned there," Smith told The Chicago Tribune.

The university will pay several hundred dollars to Melvoin-Berg, the co-owner of Weird Chicago Tours, for the lecture. He said that neither Kroll nor Marcus - exhibitionists who are more than happy to have people watch them have sex - would be paid.

Melvoin-Berg said the demonstration was not planned, and Marcus said that he and Kroll brought the device to show to the class but had not planned on giving a live display of how it works.

That changed, said Marcus, after the students finished watching a graphic video that he thought was unrealistic.

"It seems like a human sexuality class is a smart place to dispel some of the mistakes that we saw in the video," he said.

So they started dispelling.

"We were watching a video on sexual arousal," Smith said. "The main guy, Ken, said, 'Are you ready for the live sex show?' We were like, 'OK.'"

Kroll said she enjoyed the demonstration and Marcus said it was all designed not to titilate the students, but teach them.

And Bailey said he didn't know yet if he was sorry about the demonstration. But, he said, "I have no regrets concerning Northwestern students, who have demonstrated that they are open-minded grown-ups rather than fragile children."

Evanston police say it will be up to the school to determine if the demonstration violated any local ordinances.

Northwestern spokesman Alan Cubbage said no one has filed a police complaint.

"Northwestern University faculty members engage in teaching and research on a wide variety of topics, some of them controversial and some of at the leading edge of their respective disciplines," Cubbage told the Sun-Times. "The University supports the efforts of its faculty to further the advancement of knowledge."

[khblair]

dupe

[Superstreet]

Tickle your what?

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by khblair

dupe

No matter. It ain't news around here 'till it gets an OD headline.

[zsr22]

Originally Posted by onedef92

No matter. It ain't news around here 'till it gets an OD headline.

Nice job OD.

[C5SilverBullet]

We didn't have that class in college.

[NB2K]

"Hey, sport, how about you hop outta the way? I always learn better by doing..."

[Will]

Ugh. Reverend Wright was right. God-**** America.

F***ing human garbage.

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by C5SilverBullet

We didn't have that class in college.

And you never will in Texas ...

Sucks doesn't it?

[NB2K]

Originally Posted by ChasC5

And you never will in Texas ...

Sucks doesn't it?

This will be a funny post when Bullet sees it.

[Will]

Originally Posted by C5SilverBullet

We didn't have that class in college.

Clearly you went to an institution of higher learning, and not some ivory-tower den of iniquity and stupidity.

[C5SilverBullet]

Originally Posted by ChasC5

And you never will in Texas ...

Sucks doesn't it?

I went to school at Western Illinois University.

[Scissors]

What's even more sad than the fact that people have a problem with adults doing/seeing something like this, is that someone felt the need for a sex-ed class in a University.

Morons. You should have completed sex ed before your body grew capable of creating babies.

[Will]

Originally Posted by Scissors

people have a problem with adults doing/seeing something like this

I fully support freedom to do this. I think whore houses should be legal.

My problem is the setting. Universities should focus on higher learning.

They can use language all they want to try and make this sound academic. ITS NOT. ITS FILTH. And it belongs in the local bath house, not the University.

[Scissors]

Originally Posted by Will

I fully support freedom to do this. I think whore houses should be legal.

My problem is the setting. Universities should focus on higher learning.

They can use language all they want to try and make this sound academic. ITS NOT. ITS FILTH. And it belongs in the local bath house, not the University.

Why don't you just shout "Allah hu akbar" and get it over with?

[Will]

Hurf durf thinking people shouldn't put on a porno exhibition in the middle of a college classroom = Radical Islamic Theocrat.

Hey, hey scissors. Why don't you just ban clothes, abolish public decency, legalize adult-child sex and get it over with. Huh?????

[Scissors]

Originally Posted by Will

Hurf durf thinking people shouldn't put on a porno exhibition in the middle of a college classroom = Radical Islamic Theocrat.

Hey, hey scissors. Why don't you just ban clothes, abolish public decency, legalize adult-child sex and get it over with. Huh?????

You don't have to ban clothes to remove the government-imposed restrictions on peoples' natural right to wear what, if anything, they want to.

That you support the government enforcement of religious ideas restricting people's freedom is quite familiar and very in keeping with Islamic traditions.

[Z06PDQ]

Originally Posted by TxAg

However, what do you feel would cross the perverbial line in a situation like that?

Actual intercourse? Beastiality? Using vegetables? etc...

maybe a genuine snuff film.

[Meeko87]

It may be a dupe, but the original didn't have a headline that got a big laugh out of me.

[Will]

Originally Posted by Scissors

That you support the government enforcement of religious ideas restricting people's freedom

Where exactly do you get this ???

quite familiar and very in keeping with Islamic traditions

I'm a historian and I know our enemy quite well actually. I don't hold any beliefs in keeping with Islamic traditions.