University Of North Florida's Oral Sex Newspaper Cover Angers Community [NSFW]

Oral sex: Always guaranteed to raise controversy on a college campus.

This week, the fracas is at the University of North Florida, where student newspaper the Spinnaker published an artful rendering of male-on-female oral sex on the cover of its March 24 edition.

(UPDATE 3/31 Facebook has pulled the photo from the newspaper's profile page, deeming it a "violation." More details here. Scroll down to see the graphic cover.)

According to the Florida-Times Union, the community has not taken kindly to the photo, which corresponded with a story about how oral sex may cause throat cancer.

University President John Delaney said he has gotten many complaints, mostly from women, about the picture.

He said he thought the picture on the cover was distasteful and inappropriate, and a high school cheerleading camp held on campus this weekend compounded the problem. The Spinnaker is independent, Delaney said, but he questions their judgment - and asks them to do the same.

"It's a student-run paper and we're going to have some risque things. That's what happens in a campus environment," Delaney said. "But this really kind of crossed a decency line."

However, Spinnaker Editor Josh Gore said the blowback has been "minimal." He told WSTP that the story and the pictoral were both "necessary."

What do you think? Is the cover (below, NSFW!) too hot for campus?

WATCH: WSTP report

Comments

[miketothad]

05:12 PM on 04/07/2011

that's overboard for a Univ. publication.

[Absolute]

09:00 PM on 04/06/2011

Who makes up "the community"? I bet most people don't care.

[Robert Brooks]

09:34 AM on 04/01/2011

Prudes.

[John FaulknerLloyd]

04:31 AM on 04/01/2011

Come on people we know it go`s on so why can`t we talk about it if it save`s just one life, I would like to know the people who say this is wrong don`t they have sex.STD are on the up the world over some Cancer`s the same please open your minds. Well done to the the whole stuff for this paper don`t let the not getting any get you down.

[JORGE BARREIRO]

12:19 AM on 04/01/2011

Everything is subjective. To me, the only physical contact is The woman grabbing him by the hair.
The rest, unless you know the before and after, there's no way you can swear. I've seen far more sexually explicit adds ej Calvin Klein, as somebody mention in a posting, and others. Nobody cared, even though those adds are seen by children, while a student paper suppose to be a place to do things that you'll probably won't do when you're mature, but if you don't, chances are that you could do them when you are mature, and then it's a mess. So, why not let the students be that, students. They ought to learn. It's just naughty. After all, babies taking birth now, are probably coming from normal today's sexual practices , that include oral sex. Unless they're strict to religious laws that forbid them. I've seen worst.

[BudMax77]

11:59 PM on 03/31/2011

The only thing worse than coming home to your wife with lipstick on your collar, is coming home with F.D.S. on your breathe! LOL

[Bryan McAllister]

11:40 PM on 03/31/2011

Yes, college students have never been in the position that is on the front cover of this magazine, it's so offensive! Hah! Only to those not getting it done!

[tashadpeeler]

11:22 PM on 03/31/2011

Come on people. I bet that half of those that's angry over this picture, are the ones actually doing this exact act.

[rmarie]

08:50 PM on 04/06/2011

Or at least wishing they were.

[Marcus Calvin]

11:03 PM on 03/31/2011

Oh like you haven't ever seen that before! This image may take you out of your comfort zone and many agree with those it strikes as offensive BUT understand: If you read to far into the image and not even into the article since it did succeed in getting your attention, then you won't learn about HPV and how it is transmitted. Once you learn that, then you'll understand why the image was put up and why it provoked such "outrage"!

[Sarah Cristal]

10:37 PM on 03/31/2011

Okay, this offends me on MANY levels. Number one, recent studies have shown that half of all MEN are carriers of HPV without even knowing it (and thus not telling their partners, who they in turn, infect). This ad implies that sneaky, promiscuous women are responsible for this entire epidemic. I have many female friends who contracted this disease while in long-term, MONOGAMOUS relationships with their boyfriends, who were doing "something (or someone?) on the side" but who never thought to test THEMSELVES for this particular STD so that their GIRLFRIENDS would be safe. Let the U. of North Florida show an ad of a guy preparing to have unprotected sex with his girlfriend while he wears a shirt that says, "What she doesn't know won't hurt her- until she gets her next pap smear."

[Gabrielle Bailes]

11:05 PM on 03/31/2011

HOORAH, Sarah!
I agree completely. I can see that editors would overlook this perspective, possibly thinking that they could get a bigger WOW effect with a pic of spread legs, but I think that's no excuse. I am so sick and tired of the idea that a woman's sexuality can only be either nonexistent or 'dirty' and promiscuous. And the STRONG idea in this western culture that the only thing women want to do to men is use their body to 'ensnare' him and rob him of his masculinity.

[PitBull6]

11:43 PM on 03/31/2011

It wasn't too long ago that studies said 40% of women were carriers, but both #'s seem very high to me. I don't think this ad implies that women are responsible for the epidemic: it tells us that it can be passed by oral sex. It seems to be a legitimate, and slightly more tasteful, way to depict oral sex.

[Bebees Human]

10:36 PM on 03/31/2011

The pictures are really dumb and a serious topic was sensationalized to sell magazines. Education should have been the only goal.

[Bellara]

10:16 PM on 03/31/2011

HPV is more common in women so am wondering why the author used a pic of a guy going down on a girl instead of the other way round...would have made more sense to warn women about the dangers since most cases of HPV is contacted by women from men. Either way, the article is enlightening and those that are infuriated by the message or the picture should tune into disney channel. Oh wait...the likes of Miley are on there so even Disney is no longer safe! Ridiculous!

[SelfAccountable]

10:01 PM on 03/31/2011

So this is the 'media' we're going to complain about going too far? I think it was nice to see a women empowered for a change, the image at the top looked a lot worse for how it was cut. Waste of air even talking about this ad, perfume ads are racier than this.

[Lloyd Domres]

09:58 PM on 03/31/2011

I suddenly have an urge for a breath mint.

[Liam Thompson]

09:42 PM on 03/31/2011

Its collage, these people are adults, give em a break