Yikes: A Professor Accidentally Played Porn in Class, and It Wasn't Even Anything Interesting

Talk about an epic fail.

Professor Marcus Jenss plugged his laptop into the class projector to provide multimedia support for his lecture about the displacement of indigenous peoples in Australia. Once he had opened the laptop and logged in, it was already too late. He was projecting online pornography onto the screen for his entire class of seven students to see. 

Jenss quickly closed the window and tried to play it off like a glitch, but the damage was done. 

Jenss was watching a lean, white, cis-het couple do missionary. Seriously?

It's embarrassing enough to accidentally show porn to your whole class, but it's even more embarrassing that it was such a conservative video. It wasn't interracial. It wasn't queer in any way, even though the guy did have pretty long hair. The couple didn't even have any tattoos. What year is it, 1971? 

At least Jenss might have saved some face if he was watching something that fought the status quo, subverted the genre, or challenged the biases and intolerances of the viewer, but he was literally watching the least interesting porn on the planet. For a dude who teaches Gentrification in a Global Context, Jenss looks super not woke now.

We live in a pluralistic society, where there are so many different types of people having sex on camera in so many different ways. Jenss may as well have said, "Whatever, I'll watch paint dry on Pornhub." Actually, that could be interesting too, as a kind of parody of long-stale sexual expression, but in this case it's just a metaphor. 

While it's possible that Jenss had more interesting videos open in the other tabs, the fact that this one was the last one open is telling. That said, it's not clear whether the pornography Jenss was watching was directed by a woman. We have reached out for comment.