Sex Therapy Fascism Fun!
SO, have I ever told any of you that I'm currently taking Sex Therapy as one of my last grad courses at USD? Well I am and last night was one of the BEST classroom experiences of my life.
FIRST, in order for us to "feel comfortable and numb to talking about sex in a candid and often graphic way" our professor Dr. Birchler informed us that we were to recite a list of the following terms out loud:
CUNT
ASS FUCK
CLIT
TUNA TACO
DICK
SCHLONG
BLOW JOB
PUSSY
TWAT
CUM
HOT BUTTON
BROWN EYE
EAT SNATCH
Mind you, this list is in NO way exhaustive. Phew. Did I mention that we have a couple of grad students from the Pastoral Counseling program (one of them an African sister from Kenya and when I say sister I don't mean a kickin' friend of Lil' Kim, I mean a Catholic nun mother fuckers!) Imagine a "sistah" in full habit saying "eat pussy" in a thick Kenyan accent. It was almost exploitative...well not almost, but an actual full blown John Waters exploitation moment. Then Dr. B hit us with some beyond disturbing information about his clinical past: he was one of the "pioneering" psychologists in the late 1960s that developed "electro shock conversion therapy for homosexual men." Needless to say I felt like I was taking a class from one of Hitler's gestappo. Talk about some archaic Nazi bullshit. At least two of my class members looked physically ill, one said "fuck this shit" and walked out, and I had to just laugh out loud hysterically. I asked him "what was it like to do concentration camp experiments on homos?" and he looked at me very plainly and said "Josh, those were the days when therapists were doing electro shock therapy for smoking cessation." He then began to explain how these "clients" were "voluntary." Yeah about as voluntary as Jodie Foster was on that pin-ball machine in The Accused. I threw out ideas like social coercion and heterosexual dominance and he just wouldn't have it. I think the only reason Dr. Birchler is tolerable is because he seems genuinely cool with homosexuals and has never exhibited any form of heterosexism but this kind of hate runs more than skin deep. Tricky fuckers, every last fascist one.
What genuinely confused me was the fact that he even admitted this to our class. It was in the context of the AIDS controversy sex-therapy superstars Masters and Johnson found themselves stuck in the mid 1980s. After all that Dr. Birchler still treated me like his star pupil when I was the only student in the class that knew what the Refractory Period of intercourse was and what "retrograde ejaculation" is. I give you the future sex therapists of America ladies and germs.
p.s. for anyone that doesn't know retrograde ejaculation is when you ejaculate into your bladder instead of through your urethra!
FIRST, in order for us to "feel comfortable and numb to talking about sex in a candid and often graphic way" our professor Dr. Birchler informed us that we were to recite a list of the following terms out loud:
CUNT
ASS FUCK
CLIT
TUNA TACO
DICK
SCHLONG
BLOW JOB
PUSSY
TWAT
CUM
HOT BUTTON
BROWN EYE
EAT SNATCH
Mind you, this list is in NO way exhaustive. Phew. Did I mention that we have a couple of grad students from the Pastoral Counseling program (one of them an African sister from Kenya and when I say sister I don't mean a kickin' friend of Lil' Kim, I mean a Catholic nun mother fuckers!) Imagine a "sistah" in full habit saying "eat pussy" in a thick Kenyan accent. It was almost exploitative...well not almost, but an actual full blown John Waters exploitation moment. Then Dr. B hit us with some beyond disturbing information about his clinical past: he was one of the "pioneering" psychologists in the late 1960s that developed "electro shock conversion therapy for homosexual men." Needless to say I felt like I was taking a class from one of Hitler's gestappo. Talk about some archaic Nazi bullshit. At least two of my class members looked physically ill, one said "fuck this shit" and walked out, and I had to just laugh out loud hysterically. I asked him "what was it like to do concentration camp experiments on homos?" and he looked at me very plainly and said "Josh, those were the days when therapists were doing electro shock therapy for smoking cessation." He then began to explain how these "clients" were "voluntary." Yeah about as voluntary as Jodie Foster was on that pin-ball machine in The Accused. I threw out ideas like social coercion and heterosexual dominance and he just wouldn't have it. I think the only reason Dr. Birchler is tolerable is because he seems genuinely cool with homosexuals and has never exhibited any form of heterosexism but this kind of hate runs more than skin deep. Tricky fuckers, every last fascist one.
What genuinely confused me was the fact that he even admitted this to our class. It was in the context of the AIDS controversy sex-therapy superstars Masters and Johnson found themselves stuck in the mid 1980s. After all that Dr. Birchler still treated me like his star pupil when I was the only student in the class that knew what the Refractory Period of intercourse was and what "retrograde ejaculation" is. I give you the future sex therapists of America ladies and germs.
p.s. for anyone that doesn't know retrograde ejaculation is when you ejaculate into your bladder instead of through your urethra!