Northwestern brings new HEIGHTS to Sex Education

Northwestern University defends after-class live sex demonstration

More than 100 Northwestern University students watched as a naked woman was penetrated by a sex toy wielded by her boyfriend during an after-class session of the school’s popular “Human Sexuality” class.

The after-class demo, which was optional, was part of the popular class taught by Prof. John Michael Bailey. Nearly 600 students are in Bailey’s class this quarter. The class description says that the course “will treat human sexuality as a subject for scientific inquiry.”

The couple involved in the demonstration were not students but exhibitionists who were brought in for the lesson, said Ken Melvoin-Berg, who narrated what was happening for the class during the demo.

“Her boyfriend did the penetration on her,” said Melvoin-Berg, who operates the “Weird Chicago Red Light District Sex Tour” and teaches “Networking for Kinky People” at the Discovery Center. He said the Northwestern lecture was a version of that Discovery Center class.

The couple did not get paid for their participation. Melvoin-Berg said he was paid between $300 and $500, his standard fee.

In an email, Northwestern defended the class and its professor.

“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,” said Alan K. Cubbage, vice president for University Relations. “The University supports the efforts of its faculty to further the advancement of knowledge.”

Bill Yarber, a researcher at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute and author of the widely used textbook Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America, said he’s never heard of a naked woman being brought to orgasm in front of a class of students.

“They way you present it there is very unconventional,” he said. “There’s certain boundaries of things, I think, that are acceptable and that would certainly be pushing that.”

Bailey could not be reached for comment.

The Daily Northwestern quoted Bailey as saying,“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watching naked people on stage doing pleasurable things will never hurt you.”

via --Chicago Sun Times