# USC insists students answer questions about the sexual encounters before they can take some course

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 12, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usc-insists-students-answer-questions-about-the-sexual-encounters-before-they-can-take-some-course/742940 "2016-01-12T16:30:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usc-insists-students-answer-questions-about-the-sexual-encounters-before-they-can-take-some-course/742940/41 "2016-01-16T16:43:05Z")

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> [@GrumpyBunny](#):
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> Your college had a sex ed course?
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> Jesus.

Hmm… I could imagine such a course reasonably included in a curriculum as an elective toward an education degree. Such a course would have a focus on how to teach the material than learning the material itself, of course, but that’s right in the title of the course.

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**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usc-insists-students-answer-questions-about-the-sexual-encounters-before-they-can-take-some-course/742940/42 "2016-01-16T18:04:48Z")

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> [@Urbanredneck](#):
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> I think our issue goes along where you think all college professors are prying into the students sex lives for purely educational reasons and I guess that MIGHT be so. Sometimes. But you cannot tell me there are not those who cross the line from being purely educators to being voyeurs and even deviants. They are human.

That can be said for the bulk of humanity. In any group of people there are always voyeurs and deviants. That said, college and university faculty and staff have plenty of well-founded reasons for wanting to collect this kinds of information. A sexual assault and sexual harassment prevention on a university campus is quite a bit more complicated than high school or the work place. They have large numbers of young people many away from home (and parental supervision) for the first time frequently living together in on-campus housing and interacting with one another on daily basis. There are a couple of approaches to handling potential problems. On private religious campuses the sexes are usually highly segregated: people aren’t allowed into dorm rooms of the opposite sex, there are curfews and chaperones. Public university don’t want to do that. It’s expensive to maintain watch on people like that and students really don’t like it, so they have to do a lot of sensitivity training. And they have to know what kind of positive and negative sexual attitudes are floating around in the student body to do this successfully.

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**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usc-insists-students-answer-questions-about-the-sexual-encounters-before-they-can-take-some-course/742940/43 "2016-01-16T20:31:20Z")

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> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#):
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> Hmm… I could imagine such a course reasonably included in a curriculum as an elective toward an education degree. Such a course would have a focus on how to teach the material than learning the material itself, of course, but that’s right in the title of the course.

It was a VERY popular course for just about all majors. Sexuality is a part of every persons life so it was good to learn different aspects of it.

But that was all it was. A course with tests, assignments, and grades the same as any other. And no, no assignment told students to go do anything. The professor didnt pry into students personal lives like some sort of peeping Tom.

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