It’s interesting when I have debates with my peers on the issue of Lisa McElroy’s suspension due to her accidental email containing anal porn. It’s hard to find fault in her actions. It is difficult to understand how the University can possibly chastise her, mainly because I do not believe any laws have been broken, code of ethics possibly but no laws. Being that McElroy is a law professor, most of her students are probably over the age of 21, allowing for the distribution of said videos to be legal, and since this is not an issue of copyright, I see no fault.

Many will make the argument that it’s an educational establishment and it needs to be addressed as it can hurt the reputation of the University. Although this is true, the story brought a lot of press to Drexel University. “Any press is good press” is cliche but it’s the truth.

Secondly, it’s a college, so most, if not all, students are old enough to have sex and have watched porn before, and if you don’t believe me, stand in the back of an accounting class and watch the laptops.

I think it’s just silly to punish an adult for making an adult mistake, not to mention that she admitted her wrong doing as opposed to hiding and cowering away from her faults.

Even her fellow faculty members have come to her defense. In an article in The Huffington Post, David Lat said that this is not practical as there is little to no reason to ban her on the claim of harassment. The sending of a link to Pornhub shouldn’t be considered harassment seeing as she mistakenly sent it, and I highly doubt that all her students actually opened the link and watched the video or checked their emails for that matter.

McElroy should be in a classroom right now teaching her students as opposed to being on leave. This is not high school, and we should not cower from the thought or even the discussion about sex, especially when said professor has published scholarly work on sex and the inner working of the physical action. Hopefully, this will all blow over because I’m tired of hearing about it, and you probably are also.

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