Adult Academic Book Store

Campus Report ^ | December 7, 2007 | Malcolm Kline

[bs9021]

Adult Academic Book Store

by: Malcolm A. Kline, December 07, 2007

Our academic elites love to point out to the rest of us how unenlightened we are. Perhaps they can explain the scholarly value of some of the books rolling off of their own university presses, such as the trio of tomes reviewed by Camille Paglia in the September 21, 2007 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education:

• Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning, by Murat Aydemir (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).

• Impotence: A Cultural History, by Angus McLaren (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

• Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man’s Most Precious Fluid, by Lisa Jean Moore (New York University Press, 2007).

Meet the authors:

[Haddit]

If I turned the filters off on my email I could find all the information I wanted to about all those subjects.

[uncitizen]

It’s for RESEARCH!

[Don Corleone]

Publish or Perish still rules in academia.

[r9etb]

The author, Malcom Kline.

One need not wonder about his outrage -- this pic suggests that male sexuality disturbs him.

[COBOL2Java]

"Raise your hand if you've got a Frequent Buyer membership card to this booktore!"

[G.Mason]

Just like little children who discovered their genitalia for the first time.

Why am I not surprised?

[Teacher317]

Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man’s Most Precious Fluid

Two puns AND a reference to Dr. Strangelove, all in one 8-word title. Not bad!!

[ari-freedom]

that’s what passes off for “hard science” these days

[dighton]

Harry’s Library of Distinction

[Constitution Day]

Given the subject matter of this thread, I am loath to click that link while in my office. :)

[Billthedrill]

Academic publications cost too dang much. Why on earth would I want to part with the price of a decent drunk to read po-mo "wit" such as Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man’s Most Precious Fluid when something with far more literary merit like Naughty Nurses In Bondage costs one-tenth as much? Not only that, but you can purchase a wide range of accessories at the store that sells the latter. The stores that sell the former mostly hold sexually repressed litcrit majors in turtlenecks who still think Fanny Hill is hot stuff.

And another thing. How is it that I need lectures on ejaculation from people who've never had one in their entire lives? You want an expert opinion, ask a real expert. What's Pee Wee Herman written on the topic is what I want to know? Where does Ron Jeremy weigh in? (It's more impressive in grams). Do these academic authors address anything of real importance such as loft and ballistics? I thought not.

While I'm on the topic, did anyone notice that these authorities are, respectively, professors of literature, history, and (cough!) gender studies? These are people for whom normal man-and-woman sex is as alien as fertilizing a hot clutch of jubjub eggs in the slime marshes of Planet Zoob. And they want a C-note a copy for 400 pages of incomprehensible comment about it. I'll stick with Candy Stripers Go Wild, thankyouverymuch.

[bs9021]

Very true. After checking it out at MY office, I suggest you don’t.

[Constitution Day]

Thanks for the warning... perhaps I will tonight.

[CDHart]

Guess there's a lot of us surfing at the office today.

Carolyn

[hdstmf]

The author of the book on male sperm is a woman...maybe