Gender Studies Program at Princeton University Offering Course on ‘Sex Work’
“Themes include: the ‘whore stigma,’ race, class and queer dynamics; law, labor and money; technologies of desire and spectacle; dirt, marriage and monogamy; carceral modernity; violence, agency and, above all, strategies for social transformation”
Professor Jacobson recently wrote about the ‘Poison Ivies’ in a report that mainly focused on the presence of destructive DEI policies at America’s most prestigious schools.
Princeton University is now reminding us that there are other problems at Ivy League schools, particularly with wokeness in academics.
Thanks to the Gender Studies program at Princeton, students at the venerated institution can now learn all about sex work.
FOX News reports:
Princeton gender studies program to offer ‘sex work,’ ‘queer spaces’ courses
Princeton University’s Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) program will offer classes on topics like “sex work” and “queer spaces” during its upcoming spring semester, incorporating topics like “erotic dance,” “pornography” and more, according to the university’s online course listing.
The Ivy League institution will offer five total courses that contain the word “queer” in their course descriptions, according to a Campus Reform report published Tuesday, including “Love: Anthropological Explorations,” “Queer Spaces in the World,” “Power, Profit and Pleasure: Sex Workers and Sex Work,” “Disability and the Politics of Life,” and “The Poetics of Memory: Fragility and Liberation.”
The university’s course dedicated to sex work appears to focus on the stigmatization and controversies surrounding the topic as well as power dynamics and societal expectations.
“Why does sex work raise some of the most fascinating, controversial and often taboo questions of our time? The course explores the intricate lives and intimate narratives of sex workers from the perspective of sex workers themselves, as they engage in myriad varieties of global sex work: pornography, prostitution, erotic dance, escorting, street work, camming, commercial fetishism, and sex tourism,” the course description reads in part.
The Campus Reform report includes more details:
In total the department will offer five classes that mention the word “queer” in their course descriptions, according to the university’s website: “Love: Anthropological Explorations,” “Queer Spaces in the World,” “Power, Profit and Pleasure: Sex Workers and Sex Work,” “Disability and the Politics of Life,” and “The Poetics of Memory: Fragility and Liberation.”
The class on sex work seeks to interrogate the “intricate lives” and “intimate narratives” from the “perspective of sex workers themselves, as they engage in myriad varieties of global sex work: pornography, prostitution, erotic dance, escorting, street work, camming, commercial fetishism, and sex tourism.”
“Themes include: the ‘whore stigma,’ race, class and queer dynamics; law, labor and money; technologies of desire and spectacle; dirt, marriage and monogamy; carceral modernity; violence, agency and, above all, strategies for social transformation,” the description continues.
Its reading list includes “Revolting Prostitutes,” “Unequal Desires,” “Porn Work,” “Sex at the Margins,” and “To Live Freely in This World.”
People are grossed out and for good reason.
Seriously, why would you send your daughter to Princeton? Do academics even know what decency is any more? https://t.co/wk2btxmjfW
— eburke (@JamesWHankins1) December 25, 2024
Yea, that degree in trans basket weaving is really going to help you find a job in the real world. Stop sending your kids to Ivy League colleges. It’s destroying them.
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Princeton gender studies program to offer 'sex work,' 'queer spaces' courses
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— John Joseph Lindsey (@johnjlindsey) December 24, 2024
Exit question: Do you really need an Ivy League degree to learn how to become a prostitute?
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The value of a college degree is in free fall. Ivy degrees? A badge of woke stupidity.
Yes, this is horrible, and taught by people whose sexual obsessions are more important to them than anything, but you mustn’t imagine that it represents the majority of Ivy League studies. You can get a good education in the Ivies.
The Ivy League seems to incubate this sort of nonsense then due to the example it filters down to the rest of Universities.
The world’s oldest profession needs no training. I’ll stop right here.
No, but the owners and operators of prostitution businesses could use some training on things like how not to get caught, how to manage legal risks, how to operate to minimize leaving evidence, how to compartmentalize operations, how to bank and manage an illegal enterprise, etc….. If you are paying big bucks to attend an Ivy League school, that would be a course worth paying for.
Maverick feminist Emma Goldman, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Dance should be taken as women’s truth, contrasted with men’s and also what feminists want to impose on women.
Feminists don’t want a castrated man but a castrated woman.
I don’t know where this development will go at Princeton.
Will Princeton be offering a BA in Prostitution?
Yes but it will be called ‘progressivism.’
Politics
All it takes is at least a 50% tax on endowments across the board.
How so? We are already seeing some colleges that are on shaky financial ground cutting courses and majors but that still have room for nonsense majors like DEI and [grievance group] studies.
“Comptroller? I’ve come to inspect your… endowment.”
I wonder if these courses have a lab component? At a minimum, they might help getting a job if the regular course work is not sufficient. Perhaps Princeton has a teaching position in mind for VP Harris next month?
Or perhaps “opportunities for extra credit”,
Having an ivy phd Ho in prostitution allows you to charge your tricks that much more. I wonder if they discuss the pimp’s involvement and the abuse they use to keep their workers in line? Do they discuss what happens if you are arrested? It’s not a glamorous profession.
Formal training is probably most useful in the how-to’s of operating an illegal enterprise. Anyone can do such activities, but getting away with racketeering takes knowledge and skill. I would want to be sure the instructors had the proper credentials to teach the subject before taking that course, though.
I think that’s the unit on “carceral modernity,” whatever that’s good for.
“When you think about it, there’s great significance to this kind of work. In the passage of time, it will take you places, wonderful places, places high up in the government, when you think about it, in the passage of time.”
Attributed to Kamala Harris
I certainly wouldn’t want to send my daughter, or son for that matter, to Hooker U. What are these people thinking? The administrators no doubt wonder why so-called institutions of higher learning have such sinking reputations.
You have to wonder if those proposing these “classes” just want to use them to find co-eds willing to have sex in return for passing grades…okay, maybe that’s just me wondering that, but come on, Man!!
If the department’s faculty were sincere about this material as a serious academic subject, then the students would be interviewed before and after the course — by uninvolved, objective researchers.
And maybe 1 year and/or 5 years later.
One doubts that that will happen.
Likewise, the University could require something like that.
Likewise, those who grant accreditation to Princeton could do that.
Doubt it’ll happen.
So basically it’s going to be an “Easy A” elective. That anybody could skip, and do a bit of reading on the side.
Where are the grownups?
Where are the parents?
Heck, even a 20-year-old ought to know enough to realize that one’s permanent transcript lists all Course Titles. not just course numbers.
Best wishes to all involved. Sincerely.
/smh
What a country.
What a country.
What a country.
Without the studious efforts of these fine erudite Princetonians, isnt prostitution legal in Germany, Holland, Colombia, Nevada, and anywhere else with an internet connection?
Is this a tenure-track teaching position?
What kind of record of academic research does Princeton require in order to be qualified to teach such things?
It’s not strange at all that American universities charge thousands of dollars so that the students can spend large blocks of time:
– playing, usually with balls
– traveling
– reading porn for credit
– denigrating the West
This course should have an interesting lab to go with it.
Imagine sending your kid to Princeton to learn how to be a hooker.
I’m sure there are pimps available who would teach them for free.
It’s just Princeton cleverly evading the DeVry lawsuit trap by jacking up their post-graduation employment statistics.
Hey America:
If your brightest high school grads are able to obtain university degrees from your “elite” institutions taking courses like “Love: Anthropological Explorations”
—perhaps that’s why the grownups who function in the real world have to rely on H-1B recipients.
Ya think?
‘Murica
Will there be labs? How about homework?
Like the Sunnydale Hellmouth, sex (and intoxication) labs have always existed in colleges, they’re just not officially inventoried.
Harvard Hookers? Princeton Prostitutes? Aren’t they, well, redundant?
OnlyFans called about endowing a chair.
Don’t ask about the eyebolts and weird holes in it.