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PCC ‘Porn Professor’ Hugo Schwyzer enters rehab
Education Aug 15, 2013
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By SHEL SEGAL
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but apparently it won’t be coming to fruition soon.
A professor at Pasadena City College canned plans recently to continue a pornography class after public and university pressure against the idea became too great, according to a published report.
The pressure was so much that Professor Hugo Schwyzer has also entered psychological rehab recently, according to a published report.
In addition to having an extramarital affair, Schwyzer said he received pressure from the college and also from the online world, which has been giving him a daily dose of hate mail. He also has written controversially in the past about gender issues, according to a published report.
The professor has picked a sort of popularity over the years – and somewhat infamously – on the Internet and from women’s groups as he has written about his own drug addiction and the fact that he tried to kill himself and his ex-girlfriend 15 years ago, according to his own writings, according to a published report.
As someone who has written for several magazines in the past – including Jezebel, xoJane and The Atlantic – said he hopes to either offer the pornography class in the future and assist another professor in teaching it, according to a published report.
Schwyzer actually is the PCC professor who wrote the school’s current policy that bans professor-student relationships as the college had him write it after he admittedly had sexual relationships with a number of his female students during the first few years he taught at PCC, according to a published report.
Many on the Internet – mainly feminists – were pleased with Schwyzer’s choice to drop the class, but were not happy that he gave so many media interviews after the fact, according to a published report.
(Shel Segal can be reached at ssegal@beaconmedianews.com).
