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04 march 2011


Northwestern University defends live sex show in class


Source: www.news.com.au  - News.com - Australia


USA- CHICAGO- “NORTHWESTERN University has defended a live sex demonstration on campus, watched by more 100 students as part of a lecture, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Wednesday.


The display - which involved a naked 25-year-old woman, her 45-year-old fiance, and a sex toy - took place in an after-class session in a course called "Human Sexuality."

Four members of Chicago's fetish community had been invited to speak and answer questions about "bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism," but were then invited to demonstrate their sexual behavior, also known as BDSM.

Faith Kroll said she initially thought she would only be answering students' questions about sex before she and partner Jim Marcus, 45, joined the presentation on February 21. However on the day she undressed and took part in the sex display, saying afterwards she was not coerced by the teacher or students.

"The students seemed really intrigued," she said, according to the Sun-Times.

The course's professor, John Michael Bailey, said the students' reaction was "uniformly positive" and he hesitated "briefly" before allowing the sexual act.

"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," he said. "I certainly have no regrets concerning Northwestern students, who have demonstrated that they are open-minded grown-ups rather than fragile children."

The university backed Professor Bailey and said students were not obliged to attend the session to be graded. A spokesman added that no complaint had been filed with the police.

Alan K. Cubbage, the vice president for university relations, said: "The university supports the efforts of its faculty to further the advancement of knowledge."

Ken Melvoin-Berg, a member of the fetish community and a speaker at the after-hours class, said the university paid him a sum between $300 and $500 to speak.

"Both Professor Bailey and myself gave them five or six warnings about what was about to happen and it would be graphic," Mr Melvoin-Berg told the Chicago Tribune.