Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education: When I was in college, hooking up with professors was more or less part of the curriculum. Admittedly, I went to an art school, and mine was the lucky generation that came of age in that too-brief interregnum after the sexual revolution and before AIDS turned sex into a crime scene replete with perpetrators and victims—back when sex, even when not so great or when people got their feelings hurt, fell under the category of life experience. It’s not that I didn’t make my share of mistakes, or act stupidly and inchoately, but it was embarrassing, not traumatizing.