Art Teacher Shocks Students By Getting Naked

A university professor stripped naked without warning during an art class in China, shocking students and teachers.

Mo Xiaoxin, a 56-year-old assistant professor at a university in the eastern province of Jiangsu, shocked everyone by stripping during a lecture on "body art" to emphasise the "power" of the body and to "challenge taboos".

Needless to say, officials in China were not pleased and said: "There are no taboos in the field of research, but to do this directly in the course of teaching is obviously not appropriate".

The lecture was part of a course within a newly established "human body art and culture" research institute -- China's first.

Mo arranged for four other models, including a man and woman in their seventies, and a younger couple, to strip naked in front of the class while he lectured. And it didn't stop there - during the hour-long class, Mo also invited students to take their clothes off!

"Professor Mo appeared emotionally excited at the time", a student said. "As he was talking, he undid his belt and took off his pants, and stood naked in the middle of the lecture podium".

The naked lecture made many of the 30 or so students feel "uneasy". "Some kept their eyes trained on the ceiling, some awkwardly bowed their heads and stared at the ground", he said.

The ministry official said the course was still in a "research phase" and it wasn't yet known whether it had produced "positive or negative effects".

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