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The $50,000 Orgasm
By Dennis Prager
On Feb. 21, the 600 Northwestern University students enrolled in the
popular Human Sexuality course taught by professor John Michael Bailey
were told that if they wished to stay after class -- it was clearly
made optional -- they would see a live demonstration of female
ejaculation, the subject of that day’s class. A naked young woman (not
a student) would demonstrate a “f---saw” and come to orgasm in front of
the students. About 120 students stayed.
When word came out about this contribution to young people’s
understanding of life, the university defended it. Its official
spokesman, Al Cubbage, released this statement:
“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. The university
supports the efforts of its faculty to further the advancement of
knowledge.”
We will return to that statement in a moment.
But first, here are excerpts from the longer statement released by
Bailey on March 1, after the story had begun to be national news:
“On the afternoon of February 21st Ken MB and colleagues arrived while
I was finishing my lecture, on sexual arousal. I was talking about the
female g-spot and the phenomenon of female ejaculation, both of which
are scientifically controversial. I finished the lecture and invited
the guests onstage. On the way, Ken asked me whether it would be ok if
one of the women with him demonstrated female ejaculation using
equipment they had brought with them. ... My decision to say ‘yes’
reflected my inability to come up with a legitimate reason why students
should not be able to watch such a demonstration. ... The
demonstration, which included a woman who enjoyed providing a sexually
explicit demonstration using a machine, surely counts as kinky, and
hence as relevant. ... I did not wish, and I do not wish, to surrender
to sex negativity and fear. ...
“While I watched, I experienced some apprehension. None of this
apprehension had to do with the possibility of harm to any observer,
and none of it had to do with a lack of educational value. ... Rather,
I was worried that there could be repercussions that would threaten the
valuable speaker series that I have built over the years. ...
“Do I have any regrets? I certainly have no regrets concerning
Northwestern students, who have demonstrated that they are open-minded
grown ups rather than fragile children.”
Two reactions:
First, Cubbage’s statement must be deemed one of the great statements
summarizing the state of American university education. The University
of Chicago just released a devastating report on American universities,
the gist of which is that most American students learn little or even
nothing during their first two years at college.
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.
Second, the 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.
By Northwestern’s logic, a biology class studying the excretory system
would watch a man or woman relieve themselves in front of a hundred
students. I cannot think of a single argument the man-is-an-animal
crowd could offer against it.
So, parents, just know that by and large that is the message your son
or daughter gets at almost any American university for your $50,000 per
year (Northwestern’s tuition plus expenses). Most colleges don’t have
public orgasm sessions. But I’ll bet almost none, aside from garnering
bad publicity, can think of a single good reason not to.
Read it at Townhall
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