(The Lion) — A sexually explicit assignment given to high school students in Oklahoma last week has prompted an investigation by the state.
The controversial assignment was reportedly given to students at Waurika High School in Waurika, Oklahoma, and drew attention online due to the explicit nature of its questions.
The handout asks students to choose whether they believe the activities described represent “normal sexual behavior,” including: having sex with more than one person at a time, becoming aroused by exposing yourself in public, bondage, voyeurism, cross dressing, sadism, masochism, sex toys, rape fantasies, bestiality, necrophilia and fetishes involving feces and urine.
The extreme nature of the assignment prompted some commentators to question its legality.
“Students in a high school psychology class in Waurika, Oklahoma were given an assignment that mentioned having sex with animals, r*pe fantasies and whether they get aroused by feces,” conservative author and journalist Todd Starnes wrote on X. “The school district says the assignment came from state-approved curriculum. The lesson has since been removed from the school. @RyanWaltersSupt has launched an investigation. At what point do such lessons become criminal?”
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters vowed to hold those responsible to account in a social media post on X.
“Completely unacceptable. We will hold those adults who push this on our kids accountable,” he wrote, responding to Libs of TikTok’s viral post exposing the story.
“This is not acceptable in any classroom; this is the first time we’ve seen this questionnaire and we’re comprehensively investigating the matter,” he replied in another post. “The teacher and district will be held accountable.”
The district responded to the incident, telling parents the assignment, while “inappropriate,” was part of a state approved curriculum, which has since been removed from the school.