About

The dankprofessor blog is devoted to the love of knowledge and to the knowledge of love. 

 POLANSKI POSTS

• On Polanski-revised
• “Free Polanski”-Sharon Tate’s sister
• Interview 1
• Interview 2
• Polanski probation report
• Response to op ed on Polanski
• Bernard-Henri Levy on Polanski
• The Polanski danger
• Polanski is the painted bird
• Emma Thompson and Roman Polanski
• Roman Polanski on Sharon Tate
• Rape victim supports Polanski
• On THE VIEW EMMA THOMPSON silent on Polanski
• Free Polanski poster

 

 FEATURED POSTS

• Feminist bell hooks on erotic student/faculty relationships
• Sexual crusade likely at the University of New Mexico
• Burning desire in the classroom
• Harvard coed reveals sexual relationship…
• Copy of Sharon Warner vs UNM lawsuit
• UNM Professor Lisa Chavez speaks out
• A passionate defense of student professor relationships

DANKPROFESSOR’S KEY POSTS ON STUDENT PROFESSOR CONSENSUAL SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS

• A passionate defense of student professor consensual relationships
• Campus zealotry and demagoguery
• UCLA Prof advocates “abolition” of student prof dating bans
• Professor David Cass and the University of Pennsylvania
• UC bamboozled the LA Times
• Putting UC Santa Barbara professor “on notice”
• Sexual policing and sexual abuse
• Review of ROMANCE IN THE IVORY TOWER
• From consensual relationships to rape

Blog reports on and examines sexual politics in higher education with a major focus on issues regarding sexual consent, particularly the attempted repression of student-professor consensual sexual relationships. This blog reflects a commitment to the values of liberty, freedom of association, freedom of speech and privacy; such are values that are under increasing attack, both intellectually and policy wise in all too many universities which have embraced a culture of comfort in the framework of a velvet totalitarianism.

The dankprofessor blog will not be constrained by any ideological orthodoxy, sexual or political correctness. Hopefully, this blog will bring together persons who value liberty and freedom even in university life. Although the university is the focus of this blog, we will go wherever contemporary sexual politics and dating and mating issues take us.

The dankprofessor is Barry M. Dank, an emeritus professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach, where he taught students and engaged in various forms of professorial dissidence for some 35 years.. In his earlier years, he wrote and pontificated on issues related to homosexuality and specifically on coming out and the development of a gay identity. In 1977 he became famous/infamous for his LA Times article on the anti-homosexual campaign of Anita Bryant. Later he focused on interracial relationships and on student-professor relationships. He continues to be the head editor of SEXUALITY AND CULTURE, published by Springer NYC. During his 35 years as a professor and four years as an in-residence grad student at the University of Wisconsin, he openly engaged in propinquitous (as in propinquity) dating, dating students and having many wonderful friendships with many of his students and their families. During his early years in academia he married the daughter of a professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin. Presently he is married to a former student, and living in the artist village of Tubac in southern Arizona.

The dankprofessor welcomes input from blog readers.  Confidential emails should be sent to him directly at- dankprofessor@msn.com  The dankprofessor will respond to all personal emails.

Leads on relevant stories will be greatly appreciated.

Guest commentaries should be sent to the same email address for consideration for blog publication.

The dankprofessor is available for campus/class presentations on sexual politics in higher education.