At Northwestern University, one teacher is putting pornography on the required reading list.

English lecturer Bill Savage will feature a pornographic novel in his Spring Quarter literature class; "Genius, Gender and Tradition."

Savage says, "It's sort of like a time focus class."

"You know, what is it like to be in a scene like Paris in the '20s, or the Beat generation writers in New York and San Francisco in the 40s and 50s? I'm interested in the different ways that men and women depict gender and sex and art, so that inevitably led me to some stuff that can be considered pornographic."

However, what Savage says "can be considered pornographic" is the 1969 book, "Memoirs of a Beatnik," by Diane Di Prima.

Savage explains, "The students who take this class are interested in art and how art works, in this case literary art.

"And art and sex overlap. I don't think that's news to anybody."

According to an article in school paper, the Daily Northwestern, Psychology Prof. John Bailey says he uses pornography in his own classroom "once in a while."

Bailey says, "I don't see anything wrong with showing pornography [in the classroom], provided it has some purpose in the class."

According to Christiana Schmitz, Bailey showed some very graphic videos in his last Human Sexuality class during Winter Quarter.

Bailey admits, "By Northwestern standards, some can be a little explicit."