Royce, 60, is a medical technician who's working toward a degree in social work. She said she enrolled in the freshman-level Human Sexuality class, which fulfills a social science requirement, based on the description of the class in the course catalog. It says the class covers topics such as gender, sexual anatomy, sexually transmitted diseases and commercial sex, among others.

A college representative says, however, that the assignments were typical for a class of that nature and that students were warned of sensitive material from the outset.

Un-wad your panties, lady.

"I joked, but was serious and said, 'I don't masturbate, so zero times zero is zero!'" Royce wrote in her complaint, which she filed with the U.S. Education Department's Office of Civil Rights.

mmmm hmmm. riiiiiight.

Might be giving the more attractive students some valuable experience towards their future career paths. How else they going to pay off those student loans in this economy?

Dude, where do I sign up for this easy "A"? That is the best homework assignment ever!

Jerry Sandusky got another job already?

Who's Karen though, and why doesn't she capitalize the first letter of her last name?

I don't get the point of a "Human Sexuality" course. Explore your sexuality on your own. Why spend a class and hear about it from somebody at a lectern?

RexTalionis: I don't get the point of a "Human Sexuality" course. Explore your sexuality on your own. Why spend a class and hear about it from somebody at a lectern?

Such a class could be useful to those who grew up being completely misinformed about the subject, which is more and more common in our increasingly "won't somebody please think of the children and abstinence only" society.

Magna Cum Loudly

Annual Professor perk is to give your freshman in Human Sexuality assignments to masturbate, draw their breasts, describe their orgasms.

She had a problem with this?

Hell, I do these things and I'm not even in the class.

She sounds like a Karen. It's just a wet blanket name. If her parents had named her Michelle we wouldn't be hearing about this.

Grables'Daughter: Annual Professor perk is to give your freshman in Human Sexuality assignments to masturbate, draw their breasts, describe their orgasms.

She had a problem with this?

Hell, I do these things and I'm not even in the class.

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Go on...

Sigh. you went into a class called "Human Sexuality" with a bunch of teenagers and you're shocked that it's a racy class?

Shut up, lady. I'm all in favor of education being a lifelong goal, and I support your desire to get your degree, but you have to understand that they won't re-design the classes to fit with your 1950s mentality.

Splish: She sounds like a Karen. It's just a wet blanket name.

HEY!!!!

Sounds to me like someone needs to get laid...badly.

what_now: Splish: She sounds like a Karen. It's just a wet blanket name.

HEY!!!!

Oh, uh... not you, though

said that while teaching a sexuality class can have some gray areas

She'd probably know a thing or two about gray "areas."

Splish: what_now: Splish: She sounds like a Karen. It's just a wet blanket name.

HEY!!!!

Oh, uh... not you, though

Now she's going to spend the rest of the week proving to people that she isn't a wet blanket.

RexTalionis: Now she's going to spend the rest of the week proving to people that she isn't a wet blanket.

I think that record is pretty clear. Also, I'm spending the weekend in NYC with IRL people, not you freaks.

"Royce said the course began with a discussion of different sexual positions, and she said the instructor went on to assign students to double their normal masturbation routine over the course of two weeks and write journals about their experiences."

Good lord man, I'm not a machine!

what_now: Sigh. you went into a class called "Human Sexuality" with a bunch of teenagers and you're shocked that it's a racy class?

Shut up, lady. I'm all in favor of education being a lifelong goal, and I support your desire to get your degree, but you have to understand that they won't re-design the classes to fit with your 1950s mentality.

Reminds me of a film class my friend took in college. Hearing all the blue hairs gasp when they were forced to watch Clerks was the high light of that class.

I took a human sexuality class in college - and a college in Texas, no less. It was definitely one of the more stimulating classes, but it wasn't all a roll in the hay. There was a wad of history of sexual attitudes in other cultures (India, medieval Europe, feudal Japan, etc.) that took some long, hard nights of constant attention. It also included some decidedly un-sexy moments, like watching a birthing video and, well, the entire chapter on STDs. Just when those parts were starting to chafe, though, we'd get the creamy desert of a roundtable discussion on liberalizing sexual attitudes and a lecture on the ups and downs of different positions.

Of all of my college classes, I'd say human sexuality as a course got two thumbs straight up to a happy ending, a welcome addition to my academic load.

Humean_Nature: It was definitely one of the more stimulating classes

He can't be held responsible.

'Cause she was touching her face.

Let me guess, she was the last person picked when they played the swingers game.

BurnShrike: I haven't taken a course, but I read my friend's textbook from her class.

Did some pages stick together?