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Students Role-play Sadomasochism in Toronto University’s Sexual Diversity Program
LifeSiteNews ^ | 10/26/06 | Gudrun Schultz

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



TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; perversityeducation; sadomasochism
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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 immoral and perverse, not "edgy" and serious.

1 posted on 10/28/2006 10:32:34 AM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 10/28/2006 10:32:55 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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Canada Ping.


3 posted on 10/28/2006 10:33:38 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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This, of course, is quite obscene....


4 posted on 10/28/2006 10:33:45 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole.)
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To: Republicanprofessor; mcvey; JamesP81

Education Ping.


5 posted on 10/28/2006 10:34:12 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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Isn't that special .. parents spend thousands of dollars so their kids can learn kinky sex


6 posted on 10/28/2006 10:35:12 AM PDT by Mo1 (GET OUT AND VOTE - SAY NO TO DEMOCRATS)
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man, I betcha the information learned is REAL useful during a job interview..


7 posted on 10/28/2006 10:35:46 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (At 53, I'm already thinkin about goin home before I get to where I'm goin...:-))
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To: wagglebee

But it is forbidden to mention Christ in the classroom.


8 posted on 10/28/2006 10:38:56 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: wagglebee

A sexual perversity program..


9 posted on 10/28/2006 10:39:38 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Or abstinence.


10 posted on 10/28/2006 10:40:15 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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It's professors getting their rocks off while indoctrinating future playmates victims .
11 posted on 10/28/2006 10:40:56 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts
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Being utterly amoral,these freaks don't even *pretend* to be ashamed or embarrassed.


12 posted on 10/28/2006 10:45:39 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Depends on the job.


13 posted on 10/28/2006 10:46:17 AM PDT by Our man in washington
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How about goat humping 101 - An introductory course to islam.
14 posted on 10/28/2006 10:46:33 AM PDT by kinoxi
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Canada ping.

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15 posted on 10/28/2006 10:47:25 AM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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“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.”



Uh huh As we have said all along........beyond acceptance. How many parents would send their kids to a college and pay all the money to have them in these courses? These people needs a moral compass, desperately, they are totally morally lost!

It's high time we reenact laws for decency and proper public behavior. Heck, that alone would ban the parades these perverts hold. Celebrating sexual deviancy is just that, indecent and perverse.
16 posted on 10/28/2006 10:48:11 AM PDT by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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Was the play written by Jim Webb?


17 posted on 10/28/2006 10:49:28 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Nihilism is at the heart of Islamic culture)
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BJ Klintoon!


18 posted on 10/28/2006 10:50:32 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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Yes these parents are spending plenty and the fact is they can learn it all for free at almost any queer bar.


19 posted on 10/28/2006 10:52:48 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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“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.

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Sounds like this graduating student does not have much to show for her education in terms of intelligent thought or discourse.


20 posted on 10/28/2006 10:55:30 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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