College and porn go hand-in-hand

I visited the Teen Keira Web site before the entire hubbub began and didn't give it another thought until the stories began to show up in the news. Now that the University has decided Teen Keira did not violate its ethics code by publishing nude photos of herself taken in Briscoe Quad, we can all breathe easy. But what could this mean for the future?\nA long legacy of sexual education has always existed at the University level. According to the Kinsey Institute Web site, in 1938, Dr. Alfred Kinsey received a grant in order "to continue research on human sexual behavior." With the foundation of the Kinsey Institute in 1947 at IU, stimulated researchers quickly brought sexuality into the classroom. To date, IU houses the second-largest porn library in the United States. Why should it have a problem with one of its students contributing to the tradition started by Kinsey over 60 years ago? Kinsey's research showed over 90 percent of men masturbate regularly. By all rights, Teen Keira should be given a small scholarship for helping to bolster Dr. Kinsey's research. \nRecently, the Harvard University student organizations board voted 12-0 to approve the H-Bomb, a student-run sex magazine including pictures of naked women. The Harvard committee was aware many people would be offended by the publication but approved its production on free speech grounds.\nBelieve it or not, Teen Keira's Web site is also protected speech. Only purely obscene forms of speech are banned from the Internet. Obscenity is defined as materials designed only to arouse the prurient interest -- those appealing to the lowest and most grotesque desires of man. This category includes -- among other things -- snuff films, child pornography and pictures of people pooing in other people's mouths. Teen Keira's site contains no such images of obscene acts. In fact, there's almost an artful quality in the way she holds her 10-inch purple dildo to her mouth while gazing into the camera with intense forlorn eyes.\nFinally, higher education and the porn industry are finding some common ground. With any luck, the victories of today will pave the way for greater levels of smut inclusion at the university level. The IU Student Foundation could sponsor "Freaky Friday" -- a day-long, campus-wide celebration of the naked student body. All classes would be conducted in the nude -- including BJ101, Introduction to Web Pornography -- a new class offered through the Kelley School of Business. Greeks and independents could finally compare genital sizes. At high noon, two-woman teams would compete in the annual three-legged race across Dunn Meadow, and two-man teams would compete in the annual five-legged race later that day. \nLike Teen Keira herself, IU is also into making money off its image -- an image, coincidentally, that it sells whenever possible. The IU logo is everywhere -- T-shirts, bumper stickers, music boxes, dolls, sculptures and even on the fuzzy dice that hang from your rearview mirror. The University is not so righteous as to forgo whoring out its official moniker for financial gain. Why should it hold its students more accountable for selling what they have to offer? \nRemember, it's all money-driven. Don't forget without the patronage of millions of undersexed single men, ages 8 to 105 years who supply a steady flow of Web site hits and lust money, the multibillion dollar porn industry would flag like an aging porn star who's out of Viagra.\nFor the future, look for universities to be more open to pornography. It's already clogging up their servers and supporting their student populations. If there's some young lady reading this article who's looking to make a quick buck, you have Teen Keira to thank for another option open to you.