Princeton University is now offering classes on topics such as prostitution and “queer spaces” during its upcoming spring semester.
The elite college is incorporating topics like “erotic dance,” “pornography” and more, according to the university’s online course listing.
The Ivy League institution’s Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) program will offer five total courses that contain the word “queer” in their course descriptions, according to a Campus Reform report.
Those courses include:
- “Love: Anthropological Explorations”
- “Queer Spaces in the World”
- “Power, Profit, and Pleasure: Sex Workers and Sex Work”
- “Disability and the Politics of Life”
- “The Poetics of Memory: Fragility and Liberation.”
Princeton’s prostitution class appears to focus on the stigmatization and controversies surrounding sex work as well as power dynamics and societal expectations.
The university’s course on sex work will teach students that prostitutes and their clients have been sidelined and ostracized by a hypocritical society.
If you're learning how to strip and whore yourself out at Princeton literally what is the point of college? Typically this is work that does not require a college degree. pic.twitter.com/GIpZrvuZR7
— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) December 25, 2024
A section of the course description reads:
“Why does sex work raise some of the most fascinating, controversial, and often taboo questions of our time?
“The course explores the intricate lives and intimate narratives of sex workers from the perspective of sex workers themselves, as they engage in myriad varieties of global sex work: pornography, prostitution, erotic dance, escorting, street work, camming, commercial fetishism, and sex tourism.”
When taking the “queer spaces” class, students are asked to question why heterosexuals, who comprise from 90 to 98 percent of the population, continue to dominate politics and policy.
The course challenges students to ask the following:
“How do sources determine the histories we can tell about architecture, urban space, and the agents that enliven it?”
“How do we reconcile seeming absences and actual acts of erasure that stare back at us from the archive?
“How can feminist, gender, queer, and trans* theory help us chart new avenues for writing critical architectural histories that are attentive to discourses of difference but also narratives of equity?”
“Which methods, beyond conventional modes of architectural inquiry, can we employ to uncover histories of groups and institutions that have actively resisted dominant regimes of power and their corresponding systems of knowledge?”
Other universities across the U.S. have similarly offered courses related to “queer” studies.
The University of Chicago, for example, posed the question “Is God queer?”
The school asked the question while previewing a “Queering God” course last year.
Texas Christian University also offered a “Queer Art of Drag” course.
The course asked students to create a “drag persona.”