A U.C. Berkeley course received national exposure after its unconventional teachings were made public. Male and female students were encouraged to take Polaroid photos of their genitals, shuffled the pictures in a box, and later try to match the genitals with the student. Other activities that occurred in the class were a lecture from a porn actress, a trip to a gay strip club where their instructor had sex onstage, and a class orgy. The class was part of the De-Cal (Democratic Education at Cal) in which students teach their selves. The courses are outside the general curriculum and most DeCal instructors are themselves undergraduates. The class was canceled after the instructor failed to appear at a meeting to discuss his conduct. Another De-Cal course for Women's studies involved an academic exercise that had students walking around nude in downtown Berkeley.

Other unconventional teachings include:

University of Southern California - In a “sex studies” course, porn star Annabel Chong who was the instructor, put on a strap-on dildo and proceeded to have sex with two other women in the class.

San Francisco Art Institute - art student Jonathan Yegge asked for a volunteer for a live performance depicting Hegel's “master-slave dialectic” in which the volunteer would receive an enema and Yegge oral sex while bound and blindfolded. Later, his volunteer who actually signed a waver, consenting to “acts of a violent and sexual nature” complained and Yegge was placed on academic probation.

Wesleyan University - “Pornography: Writing of Prostitutes” required students to produce their own pornography.

Nassau Community College of New York - In a Human Sexuality course, students were encouraged to participate in extra curricular activities which included, visiting a gay bar, interviewing prostitutes, and urging female students to experiment urinating on a mirror or masturbating.

Columbia University - “Gender and Deviance”

University of Chicago - “Fetishism, Gender, Sexuality, and Capitalism”

Dartmouth College - “Offensive Art”

Georgia State University in Atlanta / “Alternative Films.”

Oberlin College - “Queer Acts” where drag was encouraged

Williams College - “American Genders, American Sexualities”

Wellesley College - “History of Sexuality: Queer Theory”

California State University sponsored a 4 day “World Pornography Conference: Eroticism and the First Amendment.”which included the following subjects:

“Visual and Carnal Pleasures in Hard Core Pornography,”

“Using Pornography to Heal the Mind/Body Split,”

“Australian Gay Porn Videos and the National Identity of Culturally Despised Objects,”

“Beyond 'Looking for My Penis': Asian Queer Porn,”

“There Is No Relationship Between Pornography and Violence Against Anyone or Anything,”

“No Limits: Necessary Danger in Male Porn,”

“Cum Shots: History, Theory, Research,”

“Porn 101: Assimilating Pornographic Material into College Classrooms”

“Bathhouse 101 as a General Education Requirement.”