from www.windycitymediagroup.com – Dr. Michael Bailey—a Northwestern University professor who studies such areas as sexual arousal and sexual orientation—has apologized for allowing a live sex show on the campus Feb. 21, according to the Chicago Tribune.

However, Bailey issued more than an apology. In a statement, he wrote,
“Those who believe that there was, in fact, a serious problem have had considerable opportunity to explain why: in the numerous media stories on the controversy, or in their various correspondences with me. But they have failed to do so. Saying that the demonstration ‘crossed the line,’ ‘went to far,’ ‘was inappropriate,’ or ‘was troubling’ convey disapproval but do not illuminate reasoning.”

During his human-sexuality class, more than 100 students watched an optional demonstration in which a nude woman allowed her fiance to penetrate her with a phallic device attached to a saw powered by a machine.

This was not Bailey’s first experience with controversy. A 2008 article in the Archives of Sexual Behavior detailed the firestorm surrounding Bailey and his 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism. The book angered some transgender activists, and some viewed it as especially dangerous because it claimed to be based on rigorous science.

The transgender women were unhappy with the thesis of Bailey’s book, in which he ditches the theory that men who want a sex change to become women are women trapped in men’s bodies. Rather, Bailey writes, they either are extremely feminine gay men or are sexual fetishists who are “erotically obsessed with the image of themselves as women.”