Sounds like it was a cooking show with porn star guests where they discussed sex positivity while cooking.
And then they provided links for the porn stars accounts and such in their videos, allowing media to call the cooking show porn with a straight face.
(edit: for the record it appears they did in fact make porn. Still, tame as shit IMO.)
I read a NYT article on this and the videos included them having sex with the pornstars and they also published their own porn videos.
In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Gow and Ms. Wilson said that they believe they were fired over the videos, which included sex scenes together and with others under the username Sexy Happy Couple. Both said they felt it was wrong for the university to punish them over the videos, arguing that doing so infringes on their free speech rights.
Mr. Gow, 63, said he and his wife, 56, have made videos together for years but had decided recently to make them publicly available on porn websites and had been pleased by the response. They said they never mentioned the university or their jobs in the videos, several of which have racked up hundreds of thousands of views. The couple also has made a series of videos in which they cook meals with porn actors and then have sex.
The article also includes some basic legal history that doesn’t make it seem like they will have much recourse.
Ah, well good for them then. I wonder if they had engaged in underground barefist boxing cage matches if they’d be under the same scrutiny.
But I would’ve only drawn the line if they were portraying or using the university in any way. Maybe the pearl clutching could extend to if they were making porn while employed by the University, but still.
Thanks for the clarification, nonetheless.
Yeah, this is one of those situations I have mixed feelings on. On the one hand, in a perfect world what consenting adults do on their own time wouldn’t change perceptions of their competency or leadership.
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world and executive leaders do carry the expectation to keep their private lives private, and if something is public it shouldn’t be controversial.
My two cents is that the guy was naive in thinking this wouldn’t undermines his executive role as leader of a campus. And naivety isn’t a great trait in a leader. But the president shouldn’t have made disparaging remarks about him and should simply have left it at a vague “differences in judgement.”
Ultimately, the only thing that may stand is the fact that the board of regents didn’t give him due process in handing down the decision. The announcement was made that the board was firing one of the Chancellors literally a couple hours before handing down the decision. There was no hearing by the board.
According to the article, the board did not publicly reveal why and it’s this guy himself who seems to be spilling the beans. Not sure what my take on the matter is other than it’s quite funny from afar.
More people watch it probably? Right?
This was my thought seeing the headline, any publicity is good publicity as they say
Oh no! Some consenting adults did the secks! Better fire them!
The University of Wisconsin has a code of ethics that all faculty must adhere to. His participation in creating pornography most likely breached this morality clause, resulting in his termination.
The amorality of consensual sex consensually on camera.
Didn’t say I agreed with it, but if you sign a code of ethics as part of an employment contract, then you shouldn’t be surprised when you’re fired for violating it.
Which part do you think he breached?
https://www.wisconsin.edu/uw-policies/uw-system-administrative-policies/code-of-ethics/
That’s a weird title since that’s explicitly what he was fired for. It’s not just what he says.
It appears Unuversity policy requires faculty to disclose outside activities for which they receive renumeration.
So it seems he wasn’t fired because he was producing porn, he was fired because he didn’t tell them he was being paid to produce porn.
This guy just got more money than his pension would have given him.
Unfortunate we live in such a prudish country.
I mean if he uploaded it in 240p quality, or rotated sideways, he would totally deserve to be fired.
Also the title had me thinking he was operating a studio or something. I, too, have been known to produce porn, and I wouldn’t want to work anywhere that had a problem with it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said Thursday that the school’s governing board fired him because members were uncomfortable with him and his wife producing and appearing in pornographic videos.
The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents, which oversees UW-Madison, UW-La Crosse and 11 other regional campuses, voted unanimously during a hastily convened closed meeting Wednesday evening to fire Gow.
After the vote, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman and regents President Karen Walsh issued statements saying the regents had learned of specific conduct by Gow that subjected the university to “significant reputational harm.” Rothman called Gow’s actions “abhorrent” and Walsh said she was “disgusted.” But neither of them offered any details of the allegations.
Gow told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday morning that regents had discovered that he and his wife, former UW-La Crosse professor Carmen Wilson, had been producing and appearing in pornographic videos.
But Rothman said Wednesday evening that he planned to file a complaint with UW-L’s interim chancellor, Betsy Morgan, seeking a review of Gow’s tenure.
Rothman said in an email to the AP on Thursday morning that Gow failed to act as a role model for students, faculty and the community and mistakenly believes the First Amendment equates to a “free pass to say or do anything that he pleases.”
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Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents: predictably, all squares.
Does anyone have links to their videos? News sites never actually post sources :(
Pornhub @SexyHappyCouple
I had the wrong link before. I’m really sorry my fellow perverts!
Can’t find it, did they take it down or something?
I fixed the link. My bad!
Aw nice 👍
When the midlife crisis hits
Yeah, that’ll happen.
