Sex: Shock and Saw
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The bubble in higher education is getting a lot of attention and mainstream coverage. And perhaps it should. Over the last thirty years, health care costs have increased six-fold but college tuition has gone up by ten.
Indeed, the cost of a four-year degree has climbed so high you could take that tuition money -- $200,000.00 on average -- and buy a house instead. Or travel Europe for a year or two. Or join the Peace Corps.
Entrepreneur James Altucher claims college is only good for teaching young men � "with almost no exceptions" � to learn to drink and talk to women.

Ah, tis true, Mr. Altucher. But colleges are going a step further, actually, teaching the young folk how to . . . Well, read on.
Last February, during a "Human Sexuality" bonus lecture at Northwestern, a willing woman hopped up on stage, disrobed, and reached orgasm before the students' very eyes, by way of a penetrating, modified reciprocating saw.
To the professor's utter amazement, this feat of orgasmic sawmanship was feted not. Instead, it drew murmurs of dismay and quickly snowballed into quite a controversy. Said the confounded Professor Bailey:
During a time of financial crisis, war, and global warming, this story has been a top news story for more than two days. That this is so reveals a stark difference of opinion between people like me, who see absolutely no moral harm in what happened, and those who believe that it was profoundly wrong. (Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune / May 9, 2011)
This guy looks like a real pro. He's intimidating. But to this sexpert, I would say:
During a time of financial crisis, war, and global warming, to lecture students on how to have orgasms with a reciprocating saw reveals a stark difference of opinion between people like me, who see absolutely no academic purpose for such a stunt, and those who believe that it was profoundly . . . wonderful.Later, Professor Bailey shed his effete college-speak and dumbed his words down to reach the common man in all of us:
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watching naked people on stage doing pleasurable things will never hurt you.Northwestern's spokesman, Al Cubbage, had a more measured, circumspect response:
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.
Leading edge? I'll say! Yowza.
But seriously, after hearing about this, what rational parent would begrudge his child the $200,000 he will need to learn to come, to come and drink?

Bubble indeed.
� 2011, .

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