"It was about sex, you moron!"

[lacktheknack]

It's called "Being Too Obvious". No one wanted to state the painfully obvious explanation.

At least, I HOPE that's what the problem was.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

It looks like a stab wound and an asshole looks like a puncture wound.

I guess that's where the slang terms "gash" and "axe wound" for the vagina comes from.

 

[Lurchibald]

The problem is that people in creative classes always tend to look for a hidden meaning that doesn't really exist. Captcha: namby-pamby

 

[Strazdas]

So basically you gave them a meaningless poem, asked them to make meaning of it, and got angry they didnt?

I think there is too much talk about sex. not that it must be hidden. its simply a subject that does not deserve such attention. its an act that satisfy a person. so is eating. why do we single out sex? are there no other subjects that people are interested in nowadays that everything has to be about sex? if i were to get a dollar every time i heard somone say "it would be a good movie if there were nude scenes" id be able to afford to hire a hitman for all of them.

 

[daveman247]

Because sex is a lot better than eating. A LOT.

(Well, I guess a really good steak might be better, but eh...)

Can't i like both equally? I love my food damn it!

OT: I was following it until the last line, which confused me a bit. Since when were prostitutes virgins again? XD


Either that or the students didnt know eachother well enough yet. It happens, they may open up more later on. Its a more personal subject, not exactly the best converstation starter...

 

[Galletea]

The class you mentioned probably has you looking for all sorts of meanings within everything you look at so the obvious is overlooked. Almost every poem you study has a double meaning. A walk through a park has to represent a journey through emotions or life or something. So your obvious sex poem would have probably been looked at as having deeper meaning than you intended.

 

[Haunted Serenity]

We, as a species, have somehow become afraid of our genitals.

Have you LOOKED at a vagina?

It looks like a stab wound and an asshole looks like a puncture wound.

Yes they do. Thanks for ruining the 3rd last vice in my life. Sex will never happen again for me.

O/T Do like how the the prof just throws it into the open. Shame I wasn't in that class. Thats a perfect time to do the M&M dance.

 

[Forgetitnow344]

I personally think it's because in a creatively educational department, appealing to sex, fantasy, or violence is considered the easy way out. If you're supposed to write a ten-page story and five of your pages are a sex scene, you will be laughed out of the class.

Really, the assignment sounds ridiculous and your professor sounds immature in a bad way for an educator. It seems like you made the most of what you were given.

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

Why are there those who live in fear of sexual references? What is there to be afraid of?

Are you sure it was fear? It's a poetry class, right? Which means it's going to be full of pretentious arty types trying to out-intellectualize each other. Nobody wanted to be the der-brain who thought that your clever work of art was about something as "mundane" as sex.