fandomhigh | Sexual Anthropology, Monday, 6/6, Period 3

Temperance Brennan was smiling slightly as the class assembled this time, and she'd switched her teaching attire from a business suit to a tunic and capris. It was, after all, summer.

"Welcome to the second session of Sexual Anthropology," she began, once everyone seemed to be in a seat. "I am Dr. Temperance Brennan. I'm the lead forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian, but I am taking leave this summer to finish a novel and teach this class. For anyone who doesn't know, a forensic anthropologist is an anthropologist who specializes in identifying the dead through skeletal clues."

"That said, this class has nothing to do with bones, as it were. We are going to be talking about sexual relations and sexuality from an anthropological point of view. That means we're interested in what sex means in the broader social context, rather than in the medical and physical side of things; if you want instructions on using condoms, I suggest you go to the clinic. I'll be emailing out a syllabus this week."

"We're doing introductions today." Booth had suggested as much, and Brennan had decided it was only logical to do that here, even if she never did it at the college level. "I would like each of you to state your name, age, and one message about sexuality that you got from your culture while growing up. It can be anything, no matter how illogical you now think it is. For example, I am an American and I grew up in the late 20th century; I might say that I was given the message that women have to be slender to be physically attractive, or that I was raised to believe married couples should avoid divorce at all costs. Feel free to talk about each other's contributions, but I ask that you respect any cultural differences we undercover. We are here to discuss, not to judge."

"My TA is Dean Winchester, who I know will do a spectacular job, and I am in office number eight Fridays during business hours. I'm passing out my phone number and email address."

She nodded to a student. "You can begin."

[OOC: Syllabus and class roster here.]

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"My name is Zayne Carrick and I'm seventeen," Zayne said. "A basic tenant of the Jedi philosophy is that there is no emotion, there is peace. Since sex involves a lot of strong emotions, it's frowned upon."

"So how do they make more Jedi?" Brennan asked, propping herself on the edge of the desk with some approval evident in her tone. "Are there arranged pairings solely for the sake of having children, or a technological in vitro solution?"

An excuse to explain the Jedi! Zayne was such a dork that he always loved being able to do this. "Well, the Jedi are just a group of beings with a special connection to an energy called the Force. There are Force users from pretty much every planet, species, and race in my galaxy, and they don't necessarily need Force sensitive parents. So it's just a matter of finding those beings across the galaxy and training them to be Jedi."

Dork.

Dork, but his teacher was quite possibly an even bigger dork, so it worked. "So it's like law school," Brennan said thoughtfully. "It's about finding talent in the universe and then molding it. Are Jedi any more likely to have force-sensitive children, or is that unknown?"

"They are, and their children tend to be stronger in the Force," Zayne said. He decided against explaining that it was due to midichlorians. It kind of spoiled the magic of the Force.

"So people don't really do a great job with not having sex," Brennan suggested.

"It's pretty rare, but there are exceptions," Zayne said. "I guess those are either because somebody has poor control of their emotions and do it, or they have such good control of their emotions that they can afford to do it."

Brennan nodded. It really was one or the other. "You don't have to answer this, but do you regret that you probably won't marry or have children, given your beliefs?"

"I'm still in training to become a Jedi, and there's a chance-" a strong one, but Zayne didn't really want to say that, "that I might not make the cut. So I don't really know if I can really say one way or the other. If I do finish my training, I'd like to think that I'd be too busy for it to matter."

"That's fair," Brennan said. "Thank you, Zayne. I look forward to having you in class."

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