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NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media
Ben Light, Kylie Jarrett, Susanna Paasonen
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2 reviews for:
NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media
Ben Light, Kylie Jarrett, Susanna Paasonen
4.0 AVERAGE
#NSFW
Overt displays of sex, sexuality, and sexual organs are generally considered unsafe in the workplace, even in those where discussions of bodies and sexuality are normalized or crucial foci. In 1983, at the Urodynamics Society meeting in Las Vegas, Professor G. S. Brindley first announced to the world his experiments on self-injection with Papaverine. The drug, Professor Brindley argued, could be injected into the penis to produce an erection. In order to demonstrate the success of his procedure, Brindley had injected himself with Papaverine and attended his talk dressed in loose fitting jogging pants that illustrated its effects. However, the professor decided that having his erection covered by the jogging pants was not sufficient, and so he lowered them to his knees during the demonstration. As one audience member recalled,
[T]he mere public showing of his erection from the podium was not sufficient. He paused, and seemed to ponder his next move. The sense of drama in the room was palpable. He then said, with gravity, 'I'd like to give some of the audience the opportunity to confirm the degree of tumescence.' With his pants at his knees, he waddled down the stairs, approaching (to their horror) the urologists and their partners in the front row. As he approached them, erection waggling before him. four or five of the women in the front rows threw their arms up in the air, seemingly in unison, and screamed loudly. The scientific merits of the presentation had been overwhelmed, for them, by the novel and unusual method of demonstrating the results. (Klotz 2005, 956-957 )
One might think that a group of clinicians with interests in erectile dysfunction would not be disturbed by examining a penis, erect or other. Brindley apparently felt he was on safe ground and prefixed his demonstration by suggesting to his audience that no normal person would find giving a lecture to a large audience to be erotically stimulating or erection-inducing. However, as the account illuminates, he clearly crossed a boundary, not just because the partners of clinicians were in the audience, but also because he exposed his own genitals in the flesh. Thankfully for Professor Brindley, it occurred before the ubiquity of digital cameras, smartphones, and social media platforms, so that no persistent visual record of his act remains or circulates.
Klotz, Laurence. 2005. "How (Not) to Communicate New Scientific Information: A Memoir of the Famous Brindley Lecture." British Journal of Urology International 96 (7): 956-957
Overt displays of sex, sexuality, and sexual organs are generally considered unsafe in the workplace, even in those where discussions of bodies and sexuality are normalized or crucial foci. In 1983, at the Urodynamics Society meeting in Las Vegas, Professor G. S. Brindley first announced to the world his experiments on self-injection with Papaverine. The drug, Professor Brindley argued, could be injected into the penis to produce an erection. In order to demonstrate the success of his procedure, Brindley had injected himself with Papaverine and attended his talk dressed in loose fitting jogging pants that illustrated its effects. However, the professor decided that having his erection covered by the jogging pants was not sufficient, and so he lowered them to his knees during the demonstration. As one audience member recalled,
[T]he mere public showing of his erection from the podium was not sufficient. He paused, and seemed to ponder his next move. The sense of drama in the room was palpable. He then said, with gravity, 'I'd like to give some of the audience the opportunity to confirm the degree of tumescence.' With his pants at his knees, he waddled down the stairs, approaching (to their horror) the urologists and their partners in the front row. As he approached them, erection waggling before him. four or five of the women in the front rows threw their arms up in the air, seemingly in unison, and screamed loudly. The scientific merits of the presentation had been overwhelmed, for them, by the novel and unusual method of demonstrating the results. (Klotz 2005, 956-957 )
One might think that a group of clinicians with interests in erectile dysfunction would not be disturbed by examining a penis, erect or other. Brindley apparently felt he was on safe ground and prefixed his demonstration by suggesting to his audience that no normal person would find giving a lecture to a large audience to be erotically stimulating or erection-inducing. However, as the account illuminates, he clearly crossed a boundary, not just because the partners of clinicians were in the audience, but also because he exposed his own genitals in the flesh. Thankfully for Professor Brindley, it occurred before the ubiquity of digital cameras, smartphones, and social media platforms, so that no persistent visual record of his act remains or circulates.
Klotz, Laurence. 2005. "How (Not) to Communicate New Scientific Information: A Memoir of the Famous Brindley Lecture." British Journal of Urology International 96 (7): 956-957
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