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NYU's School of Continuing and, ahem, Professional Studies is offering up a humanities class to really give a jumpstart to Spring. One assumes every class moves to a nearby bar so everyone can pick a partner for study?

Sex and Perversion: Stimulating Readings for Mind and Body

X02.9098 / Non–Credit / $370

SPRING 2004

What is the nature of sexual diversity? In a world of sexual tumult, conflicting values and moralities, the erotic can be the most ardent search for identity. But how can we understand it? Narrative variations of the erotic attempt to fathom human sexuality and its varied, vital meaning in culture from Platonic love to sadomasochism. Readings: Beauvoir's The Second Sex; Sappho's Poems; Sade's The New Justice; Genet's The Thief's Journal; Miller's Tropic of Cancer; Bataille's Story of the Eye; Offit's Virtual Love; Colette's The Pure and the Impure; Tanizaki's The Key; Mirbeau's The Torture Garden; Mishima's Confessons of a Mask; Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil; Norman O. Brown's Love's Body; Bushnell's Sex and the City; Baker's Vox and The Fermata; Ballard's Crash; T.S. Roche, ed., Noriotica; and Liz Belile, ed., Gynomite.


Section 1
Monday 6:20pm-8:00pm February 23 - April 26
8 Sessions
Location: Washington Square
Instructor: Jerry Piven

- posted by Amy @ 1/08/2004 02:18:00 PM