What did you say?!! That's what I thought....

Today was my first class of the summer: Sexuality and Disability. It is only 6 weeks long, so the material is pretty intense and fast paced since we are only going to meet 12 times before it's done. The class is being taught by the sweetest professor you will ever meet. She is soft-spoken and strikes me as the type that would rub your back while you cry over a bad relationship/bad grade/bad day.

So with that in mind, our first group exercise was a little shocking. Our professor put large sheets of paper all around the walls of the room with headings listing names of male and female body parts and sex acts. Our assignment for the next 20 minutes was to write under the columns every possible bad word/slang term that might be used instead of the proper term. To say the least, it got colorful. The entire time I was thinking, "My upbringing did not prepare me for this!" (which I consider a good thing) and "Really? THAT's what that means?" The funniest part of all of this was our soft-spoken professor calling out dirty words that we had forgotten to write. How surreal. But oh, it gets better. After we had exhausted our minds and memories of middle school (and other's recollections of explicit movies), our professor explained that she wanted us to be able to say all of the words without giggling/stuttering/etc.. so we had to recite all of the words on one of the columns. Luckily we got to choose which one, so I just volunteered for the one with the most tame synonyms. This is going to be an interesting six weeks...