Posted on 10/28/2006 10:32:32 AM PDT by wagglebee
TORONTO, Ontario, October 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - University of Toronto students in the Sexual Diversity Studies program explore sadomasochism, bondage and domination as part of an “academic” approach to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues, Reuters reported October 20.
Described as “edgy,” the Sexual Diversity Studies program is one of the largest of its kind in North America. Students and teachers defend the program as a serious approach to sexual issues.
“It’s not sexy sex sex, where we’re talking about whips and chains, but we will talk about whips and chains,” graduating student Robbie Morgan told Reuters. “We’ll talk about whips and chains in a political, social, cultural, religious context of sexuality and how that sexuality affects those institutions.”
Program director David Rayside told Reuters the content emphasis is often misunderstood.
“It’s a very serious analytical exercise and it isn’t what a lot of people think it is.”
Program courses include an arts and literature course called “Queerly Canadian,” and a drama class called “Sexual Performance: Case Studies in S/M (sadomasochism).”
“Visiting lecturers will address technical aspects of flogging, restraint, and role-play,” the University’s website course description explains. “Students will ‘research’ questions (e.g. what constitutes coercion? Consent? Control? Submission? Can sexual practices transform our understanding of power?) by the optional performance of selected scenes.”
“Queerly Canadian” asks students to look at how a “queer” perspective of identity could contribute to an “alternative national politics.”
Other courses include “Theories of Sexuality” and “Sexual Diversity Politics.” Created in 1998, the program offers both Major and Minor disciplines and is hoping to establish a Masters program within the next few years.
Sexual “diversity” has become an increasingly central emphasis of the University of Toronto’s social policy over the past decade. In 2003, then-president Robert Birgeneau wrote in the Toronto Star that the University had made “great progress” in ensuring the comfort level of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or queer” students.
“If anything is needed now, it is to move beyond the institutional level of acceptance to broad awareness and to celebrate sexual diversity on our campuses,” Birgeneau wrote, “in much the same way that we celebrate our remarkable ethnic and cultural diversity.”
The Sexual Diversity program received a $1 million ($900,000) donation last week from Canadian winemaker Mark Bonham to expand the curriculum, Reuters reported.
To express concerns:
Contact University of Toronto President David Naylor
president@utoronto.ca
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
U of Toronto President Hails Sexual 'Diversity'
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/nov/03110504.html
I don't want to be on the recieving end of this course.
“If anything is needed now, it is to move beyond the institutional level of acceptance to broad awareness and to celebrate sexual diversity on our campuses,” Birgeneau wrote, “in much the same way that we celebrate our remarkable ethnic and cultural diversity.”
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Hey! He's discriminating against the people who have other perversions. What about the Canadians who like to have sex with corpses or with goats? On second thought, I probably should not send him an e-mail addressing such, as next year's course would most likely include other deviant behaviors.
Like moths attracted to candle flames. They are attracted to what will kill them - if not physically, at least mentally, and most assuredly spiritually.
How many parents would send their kids to a college and pay all the money to have them in these courses?
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Agreed. But don't you think a college student, who is, after all, 18 or over, should have enough moral clarity on his own to steer clear of such deviance?
man, I betcha the information learned is REAL useful during a job interview..
Actually, that might not be so farfetched with all the stuff happening nowadays.
Who'd want to in this classroom?
These aren't professors. They aren't deserving of that title.
It was WHIPS and CHAINS BEFORE it was WHIPS AND CHAINS. Geez, I thought everyone got that type of stuff. Kerry sure did.
Well... being able to tie a good knot can come in handy from time to time, I suppose...
"man, I betcha the information learned is REAL useful during a job interview.."
It depends what you plan to do. If your career ambitions are in the pornography industry, this kind of class may prove useful. Otherwise, it's just perversity indoctrination.
Do they pass the sheep around in class to let all of the guys be "diverse" with it? Then what for the women, a dog, a horse?
Here's something I read here at FR yesterday about the Dixie Chicks.
[...only after having been put through a strainer to rid it of anything that might be vaguely offensive to Bible Belt sensibilities. Maines is a generation removed from those conventions, however, and seems eager to buck them. At one point in the film, while jokingly playing to the idea that her career as a singer might be over, she tests her mettle as a songwriter: "I gave a lot of blowjobs, but didn't kiss any ass."]
Kinda shows you the mentality we're fighting in todays society.
Do they pass the sheep around in class to let all of the guys be "diverse" with it? Then what for the women, a dog, a horse?
Heck no, they clone them.
Nothing new. Liberals are forcing us endure their pervert fantasies. We are all Masochists.
"David Rayside teaches at University College, the University of Toronto, where he helped to create their Sexual Diversity Studies Programme, the Committee on Homophobia and the Rainbow Triangle Alumni Association. He was an active member of the Right to Privacy Committee (RTPC) and a collective member of the Body Politic (Toronto), an early Canadian lesbian/gay newspaper."
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