Indiana college cancels bondage class after parental backlash

It’s knot happening.

A public Indiana college was forced to axe a student class on bondage techniques after astonished parents objected to the sexually-explicit seminar en masse.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis abruptly yanked the offering that planned to teach students “safe rope tying techniques” and other fine points of eroticism which was set to take place next Tuesday.

The Hoosier handcuff symposium was slated to be led by a “national rope presenter” named Fynch, whose bio boasts of PhD level mastery of “basic negotiation, the anatomy of the arm, as well as the anatomy of the hip, groin, and upper leg.”

Open to all students, the class promised to move past theory “to give you hands-on experience with safe rope tying techniques.”

Before the seminar was cancelled, Assistant Director of Health and Wellness Ryan Anderson told Campus Commons that complimentary nylon would be provided and that he would be “walking around to assist” Fynch as students honed their skills.

But as of Wednesday, a link to the event on the school’s webpage had been scrubbed.

Entangled administrators were smacked with a flurry of emails from parents who questioned the use of public monies for bondage education.

“This is an outrageous and uncalled for use of public funds/tuition,” wrote one mom to IUPUI Chancellor Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch, according to Campus Reform. “With so many other urgent needs (mental/spiritual crises with our students) I find it abhorrent that the school throws this in the face of our students to legitimize something that conflicts with the school’s emphasis on student safety.”

While school officials tapped out on the course, the Indianapolis school’s Health and Relationship Week itinerary will still offer other sex-related classes.

These include a Tuesday session that will explore “machismo culture” and polyamorous lifestyles.

Another offering on safe sex practices advertised free cookies and a chance to win sex toys.

A similar controversy engulfed a Presbyterian liberal arts school in Memphis in November after school chaplain Beatrix Weil advertised a BDSM class on topics including “sadism-submission.”

Rhodes College — which counts Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett as an alumni — junked that event within hours of its posting online.

While parents and students panned the course, a local Unitarian Minister and BDSM practitioner told Fox13 at the time that it was entirely appropriate.

“There’s something deeply spiritual and beautiful about human beings who, with consent, do things with their bodies to make each other happy,” Edith Love said.

Others argued that many college students are sexually active adults.

“By every sense of the meaning in the law — everything — they’re adults. Adults engage in sexual acts, and there needs to be a space to talk about it,” a Rhodes alum told the Memphis Commercial Appeal.