bizzaro speech today in school

[Nikki730]

I'm currently working on my last co-requisite (speech & communication), and start nursing school in the fall. My speech class has been doing persuasive speeches. "Why you should vote" was mine, which I gave yesterday.

Well, today, this guy (who asked me out for coffee last Thursday, but I declined), gets up, and says, "Today I want to talk about intuition, and why you should listen to your intuition, even if you can't find a logical reason to do so." And precedes to tell us about how, when he was 16, he had a BIG PLAN to lose his virginity. How and why he selected the lady (a widow in her 30s in his village), how he tried to seduce her, what happened, yada yada yada. Also WHY he planned to NOT USE protection. (Yes, it's the reason you are thinking.) At one point, he was trying to describe who this "sexy lady" looked like, he was scanning the room, and someone said, "Hey, don't go there!" :chuckle

So he goes on with the tale of the seduction, going to her house on an errand, her neglige, complete with the word "foreplay" (all this in front of people ranging in age from 18, to people in their 50s). Guess he felt pretty comfortable! Punch line was, in the heat of the moment, his intuition told him to get out of the situation, and he did. Two years later, he hears that the woman in question died of AIDS. :stone

While this was a riveting story (IMO) , I'm not exactly sure it appropriate...at least not with lascivious details. What do you think? Is this common place now, in a speech class? Feel free to disagree! (Hope I didn't offend anyone just now!):imbar

[alexillytom]

I think it was too much information and a bit inappropriate though it was pretty original and took guts for him to do it!

Ditto! Although, I don't think it is that unbelievable. Remember the 30ish teacher who had two children by her student. Also, I was watching Oprah, and there was another 30ish female teacher who was "seduced" by her 16 year old student. They are now married.

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

Yep, too much info. But it happened here. Only the woman was in her early 40's and an alcoholic and the kid was 17. Her 14 year old daughter came home to find the kid passed out on the couch naked and her mom passed out in her bedroom naked. Yuck.

steph

[susanna]

For instance, he asked me out, and ealier, he was playing up to this other girl, (asking if he could walk her to her car, etc), chatting up a third girl right after his speech, etc.

Lol, you must be English! One of my english guyfriends used that term, "chatting me up", and i was like, whaaaa??????? What does that mean? Does that mean they were talking too much and boring you???

I think that this guy's story was very strange and reminds me of "eyes wide open" but that it is appropriate in one sense because it does go along with his speech topic of "how intuition keeps you out of danger". But, his speech sounds schoking in that it is insensitive and callous to the lady who died of Aids whom he was just using for sex. I suppose he has a right to be glad that he didn't catch the virus though and talk about it.

My own personal experience: In my autobiography class, we all had to write autobiographies and many people, men and women, talked about their sexual experiences because they felt that this was something that meant alot to them/shaped the way they viewed the world. At first, I was uncomfortable, but I got used to it. I didn't do it but to the people who chose to share, I thought they were very brave to share this personal aspect of themselves and to share what they learned from it.