Santa Clara University student fired from internship after exposing pornographic essay assignment

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Joel Abbott

Jun 13, 2025

Unreal.

One week ago, Naomi wrote this op-ed for the Wall Street Journal about how Santa Clara University (founded by Catholic Jesuits in 1851) required therapy students to read bondage porn, watch clothed individuals enact bondage fetishes, and write autobiographies of their "sexual history."

She wanted an exemption from the assignments, but she says they were required for graduation.

Here is one of the prompts, according to Naomi:

More from Naomi's Substack:

CPSY 211: Human Sexuality is a requirement to graduate from the program. According to Department Chair Watson, a comprehensive sexual autobiography requirement has been in place since the 1980's.

Santa Clara University removed the course syllabus of CPSY 211 from its website after the publication of my article as of June 10th, 2025. I published it for transparency. See the assignment instructions below from the syllabus.

More prompts from the assignment, according to Naomi:

  • "When did you become aware of your own sexual preferences, orientation, identity, etc., and how did they develop over time? What are key moments in your sexual history? How has your view of your own (or others') sexuality changed or not changed over time?"

  • "Describe your personal sexual aspirations for your future. What do you want for yourself in your sexual or erotic life? How are you going to achieve that?"

  • "What is the meaning of your sexuality for you?"

So ... a professor is asking students to talk explicitly about the details of their sex lives, including their "sexual past" as children/teenagers and their "sexual aspirations" for the future.

Creepy.

More from Naomi:

I pursued every internal channel in good faith to remedy these ethical and legal violations over the course of ten months. After the extreme events in Dr. Wei's classroom as detailed in WSJ, I was offered a 'one-time exception' by the Chair to complete this requirement through continuing education credits; this is unacceptable given that every other student is still subject to these unethical and potentially illegal practices.

It took a ton of effort for this one student to get a singular exception so she didn't have to complete a pornographic assignment that forces students to detail the most intimate components of their lives.

The university's responses so far have been mostly of deflection. Now she's been fired from her internship for daring to express her concerns.

Porn and sexual abuse are requirements of the woke faith, after all.


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