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Sociology Courses | January 24, 2006

Sex Cultures: 6th Period

As soon as all the students have entered the classroom, Grissom shuts the door and stands in front of the class with his arms crossed, smirking.

"To those of you from Earth, you'll be very excited to know that today is Kama Sutra day. For those of you not from Earth, you'll be very excited to know that today is Kama Sutra day."

"And no, we will not be using the projector in this class.

The Kama Sutra is perhaps the world's most famous how-to guide..."

Grissom then continues his lecture (w/1 honestly semi-confusing dirty picture) on the history of the Kama Sutra, complete with a few unfortunate puns.

"As you can see, although the manual on sexual positions is most famous part of the document, it is only one section out of seven."

"Therefore," he says as he hands each students a thick, photo-copied packet, "You're going to read the rest. The Kama Sutra's most famous English translation, all of it except Part Two, which is mysteriously absent from your reading."

"I know," he deadpans. "Bummer."

Discussion: I want you to flip through now, and find something that surprises you in the document. You'll have five minutes, and then the rest of the class will be spent on discussion.

Your assignment is to read the rest. And no, that doesn't include using campus resources to find Part Two. ~~Just ask Cally, she has a copy. I think it's illustrated.~~ I don't need angry ~~mailbombs~~ letters from your parents, thank you."

[OOC: I know I allow class bum-rushing, but remember today you have to knock to get in, and I reserve the right to mock you, and kick you out if you're being too naughty. Grissom is a little twisted, but he's also annoyingly responsible.]

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Ask the teacher a question. ~~Oh dear.~~

"Five minutes is up. Let's begin."

"I am not giving you Part II, so don't even ask."

He will share his cheese poofs, however.

Allie signs in

Cally signs in, ~~and would point out she owns this book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446691275/qid=1138122086/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-6948439-3491163?s=books&v=glance&n=283155), not the Kama Sutra~~.

Han signs in

Anders signs in ~~and will totally actually participate in class later. Like, from home and not from work, just to be on the safe side~~. He really wants to know what's in Part Two.

He might even -- *gasp* -- brave the library in the name of curiosity at some point. Since he actually has a card now.

Sawyer signs in.

Paige signs in

((LJ is being a bitch I can't access any pages when I'm logged in so far, so erm bear with me!))

Sawyer's eyes grow wide at the pictures. He really needed to get his own copy of this.

And a gymnastics class! Of course Paige is having no such thought, well not much anyway, she's doubts he'd be flexible enough for most of the positions.

[OOC: There are no dirty pictures in what Grissom gave you. In the post, it states the dirty parts were taken out because Grissom is a square. Sorry, no pr0n in class. Yet, anyway.]

Phoebe signs in...and she's walking.

[OOC: No dirty pictures actually in the materials he gave you. Check the post out. Thanks.]

((I thought it said there was one in the first part, in the lecture?And to be fair even if there aren't any pics I'm sure they'd n=know the type of thing to expect))

Pip signs in.

"I'm surprised that it's so obviously geared towards men," Allie says after flipping through and seeing how many sections are about finding a wife or dealing with a wife.

Bel signs in.

[OOC: Seriously. Why does he have to be such a square? Heh.]

[OOC: The link has a picture and I put up a warning, yes, but the lecture itself had no pictures as there was no projection unit, and the dirty materials were also clearly removed from all handouts. Sorry, but not flexible that Grissom gave his kids dirty sex position photos in class.]

((Oh yeah I get that, I just misread it and thought the picture in the link was shown sorry))

Shep signs in.

"Okay, I just want to start with this. Mostly to hear everyone go 'wtf? that was accepted practice...?' When talking about what sort of women are not allowed there are a list of exceptions, including this one:" Shep says and then reads.

By being united with this woman, I shall kill her husband, and so obtain his vast riches which I covet.

"I mean... Hello? It's okay to screw the guy's wife, *then* kill him and take his stuff? Who wrote this stuff?"

"Oh, wait... I have to add this one too..." he says as he finishes his first comment.

The union of this woman with me is not attended with any danger, and will bring me wealth, of which, on account of my poverty and inability to support myself, I am very much in need. I shall therefore obtain her vast riches in this way without any difficulty.

"Guys can get paid to do her if she's rich. How's that doing?"

Alanna singed in.

After having read through most of a certain other book that was a Christmas present from Marty, Anders isn't really freaking out quite as much over this book. ~~He's almost disappointed about that.~~

"I guess I'm kind of thrown by the section about how women from different, um, cities? Countries? I'm not sure what those names are. Anyway. How the way they are in bed is supposedly connected to where they're from." He scratches his chin and coughs a little bit. "Also, how there are, like, rules on things only guys are allowed to do to girls, and vice versa. That kinda surprises me that someone made rules on that."

Anders looks up at that comment. "That's kind of weird. If girls go after rich guys, don't they usually get mocked for that? But in this culture, if it's the other way around, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing."

"I'm just hung up on the whole 'it's okay to be a prostitute thing.' I've met people from a lot of cultures, and 98% of them frown on prostitution. Most of the ones that don't aren't from ... you know... around here... Earth..."

He thinks about the way Anders interpreted the line. "Oh, you see it as like a Sugar-mama thing. I read it as straight prositution. A guy can let a girl pay him for sex. Dr. Grissom... which is it?"

Izzie signs in.

"I think it's kind of odd that there's an entire subject devoted to other people's wives. I mean, maybe it's just my view, but you don't screw around with other people's husbands or wives. Especially if you've got a husband or wife. Loyalty, ya know? It feels odd that they had apparently guidelines for such a thing."

While waiting for Dr. Grissom to respond, Anders taps a finger against his chin and scribbles absentmindedly in the margin of his notebook. "Oh, good point, dude, I didn't think of it that way. And yeah, where I come from they're not all that keen on prostitution either. Maybe we don't come down on it as hard as the Earth cultures I've learned about so far do, but it's not exactly a good thing either."

"It seems to say that sex itself is a good thing, but it should have a purpose to it, not just random sexual gratification. It's to achieve some higher purpose of spiritual union."

Chiana signs in ~~a day late, but hush, not my fault!~~

"Have to admit, I thought it was kinda weird that you guys need a *manual* on sex... but then it's apparently more like...like rules or somethin' about *why* to have sex instead of how. Which is... really less interesting." Chiana pauses, reading a bit.

This woman has gained the heart of her great and powerful husband, and exercises a mastery over him, who is a friend of my enemy; if, therefore, she becomes united with me she will cause her husband to abandon my enemy.

"Oh yeah. That's a *great* strategy there." Chiana rolls her eyes. "So, what, if you have sex with this male's wife, that'll make him not your enemy anymore because she'll put in a good word for ya? Somehow I'm thinking he'll be *less* inclined to like ya, after that."

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