A College Class Designed to Bring Out the Sexual Pervert in You

I wonder how many of you will be glad to know that your tax dollars are going to support community college classes like this one (from the front page of today's Orange County Register newspaper):

COSTA MESA: The whip is 5 feet long and studded with metal, and when the pony-tailed "dominant" cracks it, the whole class lets out a collective yelp.

Not Tamara Bowman. To the petite, blond, unshakably sunny professor of Orange Coast College's Human Sexuality class, such demonstrations are mere teaching aids.

The goal? To expose her students to all aspects of sexuality, even the most controversial.

The point, she says, is less to shock than to capture attention and incite debate about healthy - and unhealthy - sexual behavior.

It is a hard lesson that Bowman herself has learned.

Today, about 50 wide-eyed students are assembled before a guest panel of sadomasochists. Bowman, 41, invites more than a dozen "sexperts" to speak each semester.

Anatomical experts, the transgendered and transvestite, a tantric sex practitioner and even a former porn star bring a flesh-and-blood immediacy to textbook explorations of complex sexual subjects, Bowman says.

In some cases, including Bowman's, the discussions are also a form of therapy.

Someone needs therapy, alright. I'm glad the paper put this story right on the front page, because parents need to know what is passing for education in our community colleges these days.

In addition to the article, the photo which is included shows the teacher yukking it up with a guy who is described as an "S&M practitioner". I wonder if anyone did a Megan's List search on any of these "instructors"? The caption also has this bit of information:

“What we’re doing is taking the lid off and sifting through it and allowing each person to decide what’s right for them,” she says

What if someone decides pedophilia or bestiality is right for them? Are you going to bring in a pedophile to talk about the pros and cons? Or maybe a consenting sheep?

And how did this teacher find her way into this rewarding profession?

Bowman remembers breaking out in hives just thinking about sex. Then she went to college and took a class called Human Sexuality.

For the first time, Bowman heard experts talk about unheard of subjects - including sexual abuse - in a way that had her "falling off my chair."

"I just couldn't believe people could talk about it like that," she says. "It's as if we come to this life like a castle full of rooms and growing up our caregivers start shutting the doors. I felt like going into that classroom those doors were being opened up."

Bowman took the class three times. She got a job working with victims of child abuse. She married.

Then her world fell apart.

After 10 years of marriage, Bowman says her husband fell in love with his high school sweetheart over the Internet. He asked for a divorce.

"I thought I was going to die," she recalls. "I prayed and said, 'Lord - I don't want to go on, but if there is something here on earth for me to do, send your angels.'"

Two months later, Orange Coast College offered her a teaching job.

Angels....Yeah. And here's her thought for the day:

"I talk a lot about love and intimacy," she says. "But in the end, the most important person in the world to fall in love with is yourself."

It's all about me. Isn't it wonderful to have no morals/no judgments publicly funded education.

UPDATE: Here's another possible instructor.