As per the article the student in question is 57 years old.
Second: "Corlett said students in the English 380 class were told to write honestly and that no topic was off limits."
While I agree that the subject he wrote about is creepy and lewd, If the above guidelines were truly in place for this particular assignment then the college and the professor is guilty of being full of shit for giving this guy trouble over what he wrote. If you don't want someone writing about certain subjects then damn it don't tell everyone involved the exact opposite!