At the University of California at Santa Barbara, 70 students received four credits towards graduation for watching such pornographic films as Deep Throat and Suburban Dykes. "We're trying to understand porn by studying the history of its contents and its stylistic forms," says Prof. Constance Penley, whose class viewed all kinds of pornography: straight, lesbian, feminist and even amateur. Penley, who plans to offer the course again for the winter 1995 term, said she wants to demystify pornography. "I'm trying to get over the misconceptions of what porno films are."

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