Tag Archives: CyberPorn

Local hero?

By alex | Published: 4/11/2005
The Buffalo News has a story about the cyberporn class today. I’ll admit that I was looking forward to how the story would be framed with some trepidation. After all, you can’t have a story about such a controversial issue without “balancing” it with opposing viewpoints. Which means — no matter how hard it may […]
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Why I hate multiple choices

By alex | Published: 3/24/2005
I’ve just (finally) finished writing the third exam for the cyberporn class. I hate writing and giving multiple-choice exams. (Ironically, I don’t mind taking them, but I don’t really get much opportunity to do that.) Here are some of the reasons: They test superficial knowledge. You can get them to probe deeper knowledge and comparisons, […]
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Teaching Porn

By alex | Published: 2/27/2005
Teaching a class in pornography is strange: * I have to check the spam folder almost as often as the inbox, since student emails seem to get dropped there easily. Likewise, when I get an email reading “Here as promised the log-in to that amazing adult site,” I have to do due diligence to make […]
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Bad Vibrations

By alex | Published: 2/23/2005
You have no constitutional right to vibrators (Yahoo News): The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a constitutional challenge to an Alabama law that makes it a crime to sell sex toys. The high court refused to hear an appeal by a group of individuals who regularly use sexual devices and by two vendors who […]
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