Thread: University to investigate live sex demonstration

University to investigate live sex demonstration
Fri Mar 4, 12:44 pm ET

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The president of an American university said on Thursday he was launching an investigation into an on-campus presentation of a live sex act performed for students at an after class event.

President Morton Schapiro of Northwestern University, which is of Chicago in Evanston, said he was "troubled and disappointed" after hearing about the use of a sex toy on a naked woman by her fiancé in front of more than 100 students.

The demonstration was performed as part of an after-class event for a popular human sexuality course, at the prestigious private university, according to The Daily Northwestern.

The February 21 incident took place in a session which students were not required to attend and they were advised in advance of the explicit nature of the activity.

"I feel it represented extremely poor judgment on the part of our faculty member," Schapiro said in a statement. "I simply do not believe this was appropriate, necessary, or in keeping with Northwestern University's academic mission."

Schapiro said he has directed that the incident be fully investigated.

"Many members of the Northwestern community are disturbed by what took place on our campus," Schapiro said. "So am I."

Psychology Prof. J. Michael Bailey, who teaches the class, could not be reached for comment.

In an email to his students, published in The Daily Northwestern, he wrote that he organizes optional after-class events which feature speakers addressing interesting aspects of sexuality.

Bailey wrote that "some experiences are educational and interesting in non-traditional ways" and that student feedback has been "uniformly positive."

He wrote that it was "too early to say" if he had any regrets.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110304/..._demonstration

I heard about this....

J. Michael Bailey, a psychology professor, has been under fire in recent days as news of the Feb. 21 demonstration became public. Today's statement says that "I should not have" allowed the demonstration.

More than 100 students watched the optional after-class demonstration Feb. 21, during which a woman got undressed, lay down on a towel and allowed her fiance to penetrate her with a device that looks like a machine-powered saw with a phallic object instead of a blade. The demonstration followed a discussion about kinky sex and female orgasm.

Bailey's statement today apologizes for offending people -- but still says there was "no harm" in the demonstration.

"I regret the effect that this has had on Northwestern University's reputation, and I regret upsetting so many people in this particular manner. I apologize," the statement says.

"During a time of financial crisis, war, and global warming, this story has been a top news story for more than two days," he said in the statement. "That this is so reveals a stark difference of opinion between people like me, who see absolutely no harm in what happened, and those who believe that it was profoundly wrong."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,1801746.story

http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/1...us_722x406.jpg

The demonstrators: http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/1...us_722x406.jpg

Meet the Sex Tour Guide
Ken Melvoin-*Berg, who led a panel discussion on "networking for kinky people" at Northwestern University, shows off his tool.



Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local...#ixzz1Fld3PZdR

video/"tour guide" showing "tool box" (without the adult attachment): http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local...117359453.html

*sorry, couldn't get images to show up.

Good to know what tax dollars, federal funds, and tuition is going to ...

Educational demonstration my arse - this was purely a live sex show.

Northwestern University’s idea of, er, stimulation
By Michelle Malkin • March 3, 2011 10:40 AM

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/03/03...r-stimulation/

Annual undergrad tuition at Northwestern University in Illinois tops $50,000 a year.

Some parents expecting a stimulating education for their children got a rude awakening this week. At least one professor took “stimulation” to new depths.

Speechless: http://www.suntimes.com/4099633-417/...nstration.html

More than 100 Northwestern University students watched as a naked 25-year-old woman was penetrated by a sex toy wielded by her fiancee during an after-class session of the school’s popular “Human Sexuality” class.

The woman said she showed up at the Feb. 21 lecture in the Ryan Family Auditorium in Evanston expecting just to answer questions, but was game to demonstrate. The course’s professor on Wednesday acknowledged some initial hesitation, but said student feedback was “uniformly positive.”

The p.r. flack for Northwestern defended the “lecture” and “demonstration” as an example of teaching that puts the high-priced school “at the leading edge.”

At least one student who witnessed the XXX-rated demo had a more accurate description:

“I didn’t expect to see a live sex show,” said Justin Smith, 21, a senior economics and political science major who was in the after-class session. “We were told we were going to have some people talk to us about the fetish world and kink.”

…After the demonstration, several students tried a different sex toy that gave a “titillating” but not painful shock, testing it out on their arms, said Ken Melvoin-Berg, who narrated the after-class lecture. Melvoin-Berg said the school paid him between $300 to $500 for his appearance.

Faith Kroll, the woman who stripped, was laying down on a towel when she was penetrated. When she arrived, she thought she just would be answering students’ questions and showing off sex toys they brought, including whips, paddles and a clown wig.

…Melvoin-Berg said he met Prof. Bailey through a swinging couple who previously spoke to the class. Melvoin-Berg runs the “Weird Chicago Red Light District Sex Tour,” which has participants playing games like “spot the ho” as they travel the city looking for prostitutes. He also teaches “Networking for Kinky People,” a 3-hour version of the one hour lecture he gave at Northwestern.

Melvoin-Berg said the sex toy used was BDSM, but was “not like a pain thing…we wanted to make it poignant.”

“I did mention this was going to be the best money their parents had spent on their education,” he said.

What’s next? A guest lecture with Charlie Sheen and his goddesses?

I bet a few of the parents of these students wouldn’t mind taking a paddle to the clowns running this university-turned-S&M theater…

In other news - Charlie Sheen fired from "Two and A Half Men" http://tv.yahoo.com/two-and-a-half-m...uld-ashamed?nc