I read tonight that a university in Taiwan has a course to teach it’s students how to appreciate and analyse porn movies. They mention that more than 50 students had registered for the course. Not mentioned was the longest queue in living history for people to sign up for a course.
I am sure you are much less surprised to hear that most of them had admitted to have watching porn before.
No kidding? Teenagers watching smut? Really? That’s like admitting that an alcoholic may just enjoy the off tipple or two with dinner, or that a bear really does do his business in the woods.
My favourite part of this news story is:
One worried student, who did not wish to be named, commented: “If I get a very good score in this course, I don’t know how I’ll explain it to my parents.”
I think when he goes home and says “Mum…Dad…I enrolled in my subjects today. I am taking English, Maths, Advanced home economics, colouring in by numbers…and watching porn!”. His Mum is going to be disgusted, and his Dad will more than likely offer to help with his homework.
I have a few things here that I think I may well write to the university and ask. These are:
- Just how is the class nerd going to deal with this? Will there be a separate supply of tissues for them for when they have a nosebleed?
- Will the tables in the classroom for this course be a little more raised than the other tables in the university? If they ask the students what sized table they will require, the whole class will end up with tables so high that they cant actually see the top of it.
- Just what will determine a pass grade in this course? The ability to do the 15 minute presentation without getting sweaty palms and having to visit the bathroom? Maybe they pass if they can get at least 3 teenage boys to pick up their coursework and place it on there lap, or make them cross their legs!
- What homework will be involved? Will they have to study in their own time or is this a purely class based subject? And can you use the Internet for any material? Do you get more points for using the Internet for research because it is under your own initiative?
- How do you NOT appreciate porn? Ah come on…you know there is something out there you would like if you looked a little harder than you normally do.
- When they say “analyse an audience’s psychological reaction to a porn clip from an academic perspective.”, do they mean how many of males in the room start to make weird grunting noises while the girl sitting next to them giggles hysterically and says “My boyfriend is so much smaller than that!”…or did that only happen to me at university? Only kidding. Do you really think I am that well educated? Or maybe I did go to university, but spent WAY too much time researching one course.
I had a chat with one of the voices in my head who told me that I should give this a go. So if you don’t see any posts for a while, it is because I am studying so hard that I am practically going blind.
Now. Where did I put those mansize kleenex tissues….
HEREis the link to the news story, but it doesn’t give out course details, so I guess you should stick to your usual “suppliers”.
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