Note: This article may contain commentary reflective of the author’s opinion.
Penn State professor Sam Richards told straight students in his sociology class to watch gay or lesbian porn to discover a new side to their sexuality.
Richards instructed his class:
“If you’re straight, watch gay or lesbian porn and see how quickly you feel aroused. And how you can’t control that. You’ll realize that, ‘Oh, d—, I could be sexualized by people who are like me.’”
“We are all at some level nonbinary. We’re all, very much, easily bisexual.”
“Watch gay porn. See if you feel that feeling. If you feel that feeling, look in a mirror, and say huh, maybe I’m just feeling some things that I’m just afraid to release. And maybe you release that and maybe you’d be surprised that maybe you actually are fine being more bisexual.”
Penn State responded by defending the professor stating that “academic freedom for faculty” was important in promoting “critical thinking and discussion”.
“Professor Richards purposefully teaches in a manner designed to promote discussion across a spectrum of opinions. His class is not mandatory but is a popular elective that students choose to join. Dr. Richards and his course colleagues take time to discuss opinions from many perspectives — from liberal to conservative—and delve into topics from different viewpoints to create conversation, challenge beliefs and encourage students to explore uncomfortable and complex topics.”
Professor Richards has a youtube channel that has over 60,000 subscribers. According to the channel, the lecture in which he requested his students watch gay pornography was held in early December of 2022. The topic of conversation during the lecture was “A Conversation on Trans Issues, TERFS, and The Binary.” TERF is an acronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.”
Aside from discussing why students should consume gay porn, Richards also talked about a transexual student who gave advice to women on how to pee standing up. “Women, you should know this by the way, the little trick, you can have a little piece of leather and fold it up and use that to go in the urinal or go outside,” he stated.
Richard’s class, SOC 119, is apparently a very popular course to take at Penn State. The description on Penn State’s website states, “Every semester 725 students register for SOC 119, the largest race and ethnic relations course in the country. In that room they have the opportunity to re-examine the world and challenge what they believe to be their place in it from a new perspective.”
This course is reflective of the state of academia. Radical leftists want to instill in the youth of America that it is virtuous to watch pornography and deconstruct gender roles among other beliefs. Penn States purports that this class embodies “academic freedom” and promotes “critical thinking”. We all know this is entirely false, because just imagine if a conservative professor (those hardly exist these days) tried to teach a course that was even remotely right of center, let alone as equally far long the spectrum as Professor Richard’s course topics. There would be nationwide outrage and the professor would likely be fired immediately.
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