Student Film About Censoring Sex in Everyday Lives Censored

In Ms. Carmicino's view, the university was censoring a work about how people censor their own behavior. She said her video, titled "Animal," was supposed to depict the contrast between public and private behavior: "The whole concept of it was to compare the normal behavior of people in their everyday lives versus the animalistic behavior that comes out when they are having sex."

She planned to intersperse 30-second clips of passionate sex with scenes of the couple engaged in more mundane activities, like watching television and reading a newspaper.

Simulating the sex would have defeated her purpose, she said. "That's censoring the sex part. My thing is how we censor ourselves during the day when we're not having sex."

"Someone give me a list of universities that allow sex acts in the classroom," a spokesman for the Tisch School, Richard Pierce, said. "We're not going to be the first."

el - hard to argue about that, what if it was off-campus?