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The infamous Princeton University will start offering courses in BDSM, fetishism and body positivity in 2023.
The Ivy Leagues of $79,000 a year course catalog for Spring 2023, the semester includes classes on “Black + Queer in Leather: Black Leather/BDSM Material Culture,” “FAT: The F-Word and the Public Body,” and “Anthropology of Religion: Fetishism and Decolonization: Fetishism and Decolonization ‘.
Those courses would be taught by art professors, dance professors, and scientists, and students would be required to read books such as The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM and Pornography, Queering Fat Embodiment, and On the Worship of the Fetish Gods.
Students at the school are now speaking out against offering BDSM courses, comparing it to the university “forcing students to smoke a cigarette to study its effects.”
Tuition at the New Jersey school costs $57,410, while students also have to pay $10,960 in room fees, a $7,670 board rate, and $3,500 in miscellaneous expenses — bringing the total cost to $79,540.
But in September, university officials announced it will offer a “free ride” to most undergraduate students from families earning less than $100,000, including tuition, lodging and food.
Princeton University (pictured) will offer courses next semester on “Black + Queer in Leather: Black Leather/BDSM Material Culture,” “FAT: The F-Word and the Public Body,” and “Anthropology of Religion: Fetishism and Decolonization: Fetishism and decolonization’
One of the courses offered at Ivy League this semester is “Black and Queer in Leather: Black Leather/BDSM Material Culture,” taught by Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Lecturer at the Lewis Center for the Arts.
The course Description says students will “explore the material culture of this community from three perspectives: architecture + location, visual artists and exhibitions, and Black Queer BDSM communities.”
As part of the course, students will also carry out ‘significant research focus on finding and presenting new materials’.
The BDSM course was to be taught by Professor Tiona Nekkia McClodden (pictured)
They will also “examine…existing BDSM archives in research libraries, community groups and individuals and their personal ephemera.”
It is unclear what kind of research the students will be doing, but Merriam Webster defines BDSM, which stands for “bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism” as “sexual activity that involves the use of physical restraints, the granting and relinquishing of control, and the infliction of pain.”
The sample list for the course includes such books as Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism by Amber Jamilla Musser, The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography by Ariane Cruz, and The Black Body In Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography by Jennifer C Nash.
Also on the list is A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography by Dr. Mirelle Miller, an associate professor of feminist studies at UC Santa Barbara, who describes herself on Twitter as a “smut collector.”
Miller had previously been arrested for having a physical altercation with a pro-life teenage student in 2014, and was convicted to community service, anger management classes and had to pay $493 in restitution to the teen.
Among the books students should read during the BDSM course are The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography by Ariane Cruz and A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography by Dr. Mirelle Miller, an associate professor of feminist studies at UC Santa Barbara who describes herself on Twitter as a “smut collector”
The BDSM course has already sparked backlash from students who consider it inappropriate to teach middle-aged students.
“The main issue I address with this course is pornography use,” junior Paul Fletcher told me College fix. ‘In the course description, pornographic content is required reading.
“This kind of pornographic content is highly addictive, especially for college-age men and women, and is often accompanied by severe anxiety and depression,” he claimed. ‘Students can’t just look at it, ‘study’, without consuming it.’
He added, “This is the equivalent of a Princeton course where each student is required to smoke a cigarette each week and ‘study’ its effects.” This course has no place in a university that prioritizes the well-being of its students.
“The concern here … is the college-funded imposition of something potentially harmful and addictive by teachers on students,” said Fletcher, who serves as president of the Princeton chapter of Anscombe Society — an undergraduate organization that promotes traditional beliefs. promotes about sex , love and marriage.
Sophomore Julianna Lee, who is the club’s vice president, also said she is “appalled that such a course is being taught at Princeton.
“Cultural discourse and understanding are good things, but there’s no need to do it in a way that exposes students to content scientifically proven to be harmful,” she said.
Lee added that “many people would be against the idea of glorifying domestic violence or gun violence, so why is it OK to have a class devoted to concepts that promote unsafe sexual practices?”
She went on to say that she had never seen a course at the school devoted to traditional views of sexuality.
“I haven’t seen a single course here devoted to exploring what it means to love in a way that minimizes the harm, including a clear timeline for dating and how to really care about the well-being of another.” promote.’
The class exploring what it means to be fat would be taught by dance professor Judith Hamera, left, while the lesson on fetishism would be taught by researcher Milad Odabaei, right
Students in the FAT: The F-word and the Public body course also read a book titled Queering Fat Embodiment, while students in the Anthropology of Religion: Fetishism and Decolonization class On the Worship of the Fetish Gods’ by Charles De Brosses read.
Meanwhile, in other courses, students would study body positivity and the history of fetishes.
FAT: The F-word and the Public Body, is a recurring course at the school taught by Judith Hamera, dance teacher.
In it students Classwould discuss what it means to be fat and “will examine the changing history, aesthetics, politics and meanings of fatness using dance, performance, memoirs and media texts as case studies.”
Suggested reading for that lesson includes Queering Fat Embodiment by Cat Pause et al and The Neoliberal Diet by Gerardo Otero.
And a third course to be offered at the school next semester, titled Anthropology of Religion: Fetishism and Decolonization, would be taught by researcher Milad Odabaei.
It promises to introduce students to the anthropology of religion and an important debate in the field about the fetish.
‘Students learn about the colonial history of the study of religion and the role of fetishism in it’, according to the Course description say.
“They are given the tools to critically engage in ongoing conversations about race, sexuality, cultural difference and decolonization by becoming familiar with debates about fetishism in anthropology, critical theory and black and queer studies.”
Lectures for that course include On the Worship of the Fetish Gods’ by Charles De Brosses, The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret There by Karl Marx, and Fetishism by Sigmund Freud.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Princeton University for comment.