About

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

And the dankprofessor blog was just ranked the second best higher ed blog in the U.S.

For a more visual and sensual blog, see dankprofessor’s womeninblackandwhite.com

FEATURED POSTS

• On Polanski
• Lynch Mobs Love Polanski
• Campus sexual bigotry and degradation
• Feminist bell hooks on erotic student/faculty relationships
• A passionate defense of student professor relationships
• Hugo Schwyzer and the sin of coercion
• Burning desire in the classroom
• Harvard coed reveals sexual relationship.
• Crushing student crushes
• UNM Professor Lisa Chavez speaks out
• Campus zealotry and demagoguery
• UCLA Prof advocates “abolition” of student prof dating bans
• Putting UC Santa Barbara professor “on notice”
• Sexual policing and sexual abuse
• Review of ROMANCE IN THE IVORY TOWER
• From consensual relationships to rape
• Sex not love banned at Colorado College

Blog reports on and examines sexual politics in higher education with a focus on issues regarding sexual consent, particularly the attempted repression of student-professor consensual sexual relationships. Thie 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.

In addition,  the blog at times will go beyond the university and sexual politics to issues that merit our attention.  Whatever the issue 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.

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 is the Founding 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 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.