An Inclusive Litany

6/14/94

When Toni Blake discussed proper timing of condom application while using a banana as a prop in the human sexuality class she taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she remarked that men, like basketball players, sometimes "dribble before they shoot." One of Blake's male students immediately pressed sexual harassment charges against her, accusing her of "objectifying his penis" and thus creating a "hostile academic environment for him as a man." Blake was pulled from teaching the human sexuality class while the case was pending.