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Coming to a Classroom Near You: Porn

A university in Taiwan has begun offering courses in everyone’s favorite subject: Porn! The class calls on students to analyze porn and the impact it has on it viewers.  Maybe you would think there would be some concern over the exploitation of women, but you would be wrong.  The biggest worry heard from the class was best put by one anonymous student:

“I am really worried my parents will see the score report when it is mailed home. I won’t know what to say if I get a high score. However if I fail the course, I can speak to my parents and suggest that maybe I should watch more porn.”

Other news worth reporting; I am currently working on my transfer application to a university in Taiwan.

  1. Eva says:

    Yeah, I don’t know all the details of what happened to the porn students at the library, as it wasn’t me, but someone I met briefly about four years ago, but it was probably along the lines of the sort of talking-to you describe.

  2. Alex Peters says:

    Yeah, there are definitely classes here at U of O that require students to view porn. I work in the library and it was something that we used to be briefed on at the beginning of each term. I don’t know what Eva means by, “ran into trouble,” though. The only thing anyone on staff is allowed to do is suggest that it is in poor taste to view such course material in a public place because it may be offensive to other “patrons.” Unless you are pulling your pud (or spanking the old skunk guts,) it’s your legal right to watch porn in the middle of the Knight Library.

    Personally I don’t know what is more embarrassing, having people complain about you watching porn in the library or the fact that you don’t have a computer of your own to watch it own.

  3. Eva says:

    You might not have to transfer. I graduated from the UO in 2007, and I worked on a group project for a German class in late 2004 with a woman who was a philosophy major and claimed she had taken a class on porn through the UO philosophy department. I’m not sure what the class was called, but whatever they were studying was explicit enough that she and her classmates ran into trouble with Knight Library staff for watching course materials in the library.

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