The Science of Sexuality, Monday

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Once again there were no images on the board for today’s lecture.You could thank John for that one, kids. The poor man could simply not handle Sherlock’s blase attitude toward the subject matter.

“Today we will be discussing pornography,” Sherlock replied, shooting John a look before rolling his eyes and continuing on. “If this offends your delicate sensibilities, save us all a lot of trouble and leave now before we begin.”

He gave it all of five seconds before barreling on ahead.

“I’m under no illusions that the majority of you have been unexposed to pornography in one shape or another. Be it from magazines, the Internet, videos, television or text based. While many studies claim this is a detriment to you all, they tend to be tainted by the personal beliefs of those conducting them, which leaves us with very little evidence to prove that point,” Sherlock continued. “The fact is that, while sexual predators do tend to own pornography, the vast majority of those who do as well are not sexual predators. Just the same as gun owners not all being violent criminals simply because they own guns.”

“Some are merely trying to keep their friends out of trouble, for example.” John was absolutely fine with this as long as he didn’t have to give the actual lecture, thank you.

“We are discussing this because open, honest discussion of the matter forces it to become less taboo and lose the religious or sociological guilt that comes along with viewing or reading pornography. To ignore sexuality--” Ha, Sherlock. “--in a healthy individual and preach only to abstain from any activity is to doom them to no knowledge about how to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Divorces that come from an ‘addiction’ to pornography tend to come from the inability of the couple to discuss sexual matters until it fractures the relationship.”

“Taking us all back to the importance of communication,” John finished. “Which I realize we do a lot of in these classes, but sending you all out to find pornography is a bit outside of our educational mandate.”

See, he could talk about this without getting awkward.

Really!

“Your assignment is to discuss with a partner your view on the subject matter. Again, if you don’t think yourself capable, spare us all the annoyance and leave,” Sherlock drawled.

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Offended!

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Nathan Young

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Quinn Fabray

Listen to the Lecture

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Try not to snicker. Try.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan wasn't snickering, at least. Today, he was just grinning like a fucking loon. Really, he'd expected this class to be some recycled drivel about safe sex, intercourse and all that shit he'd learned when he was six.

So, grinning like a loon because, yes, this was his forte.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn didn't have an urge to snicker this week; her issue was that the safe, sane course of abstinence was being brushed off when the point could have been made perfectly well without bringing that up.

She was going to complain after class. And probably during class. Patience and silence were not her forte.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

It was much easier to avoid snickering when the teachers themselves weren't doing it. Really, otherwise, the class tended to just be interesting, and Ariel was a little on the edge of her seat wondering if the class assignment was going to involve actually showing pornography.

But, noooo. They were just going to discuss it, instead. Funny, how that left Ariel simultaneously disappointed and relieved.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[icecoldfrost]

Emma had gotten back to the island about fifteen minutes before class was due to start, and something was...itching at the back of her brain. A lot of the little 'placeholder' telepathic tabs she tended to place on her people were blinking bright red. And there were - things - about that should not be.

Clearly she'd missed something while spending the weekend with Hank, but it would have to wait until after class. Academics first, possibly yelling at people for doing stupid things without supervision later.

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[wwiii]

Warren was a tiny bit squirmy today, but really, only a tiny bit.

Mostly, he was too tired to really be uncomfortable with the subject matter, and kind of nodding along listlessly to the lecture.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[dontvotemeout]

Considering that all of Jason's recent porn viewing had led to him finding new and exciting things Nico liked, he was just going to sit here and try not to smirk too much. He didn't want to look as excited as Nathan, after all.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

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Bruce wasn't snickering or grinning or looking uncomfortable. Honestly, he didn't have much personal experience with pornography. If he ever really felt the need to look at naked women, he'd find a woman and get naked with her.

But he could appreciate erotic art for what it was, even if most of it was less "art" and more "creepy."

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[onlymistaken]

Cally found nothing snicker-worthy in the presentation at all; it seemed perfectly logical to her. She did, however, hide her regret at the lack of concrete examples. Not that she couldn't look them up herself -- but then she wouldn't get to see Doctor Watson flail and turn red.

...It might be a kink. Don't judge.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

William... was not going to leave, even though part of him was definitely tempted.

He was determined to not give Sherlock any reason whatsoever to think less of him, damn it all.

Of course, staying in class meant steadily turning red as a beet as the lecture went on. But at least he stayed!

Discuss

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Partner off and talk about the subject matter.

Re: Discuss

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan was more than happy to discuss the subject matter at hand even if a punch in the eye was potentially in the offing. He didn't want that to happen (even if he'd gotten a kiss for his pain) but he also wasn't going to censor himself.

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Ariel had generally been avoiding partnering up with Nathan since Caroline suggested that maybe he wasn't as nice as Ariel had thought he was when they met at the picnic, but sometimes, her curiosity was just more powerful than anything else, and it was a topic that maybe might easily shed some light on the topic.

So she unwittingly bounced over (if she'd have even realized she was bouncing, she would have stopped, but, of course, she didn't) and smiled. "Hi, Nathan. Wanna partner up?"

Re: Discuss

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn chewed on her pen, looking for a partner who might be at least willing to listen to her point of view.

Re: Discuss

[icecoldfrost]

Emma wasn't the world's hugest fan of porn. Erotic literature or photography? Sure. But the stuff that seemed to constitute porn was, well, cheapish and occasionally blush-worthy.

But she'd do her best to discuss the subject matter without trying to strangle anyone. Or mentally poke Alex to fill him in on what he was missing and see if he'd entertain her.

Re: Discuss

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Peter would be more than happy to discuss the matter with someone.

He had no problems with hearing the sound of his own voice, after all.

[ooc: I have grad school tonight, so potential for SP]

Re: Discuss

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Well, this wasn't going to be much of a conversation on Bruce's part.

...Unless his partner ended up being a pretty girl who was open to his own personal view on how to deal with the urge to look at pornography.

Talk to the Teachers

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When they tag in

Talk to the Teachers - Sherlock

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And Sherlock was already bored with the class and on his mobile phone. Researching something or other.

Possibly a new study on blood splatter.

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[justhisblogger.livejournal.com]

John was there, and for once, he was joining Sherlock's fiddling-with-technology parade.

He was trying to draft up another story for his blog.

OOC

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WHY IS IT MONDAY?

Re: OOC

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

DON'T BE A GARFIELD.