So, looks like pictures of war victims with their faces’ blown off are A-OK for a college newspaper, but a photo of a dude simulating going down on a girl WITH NO NAUGHTY BITS OR FACES showing is absolute filth and an abomination to the college. So says the staff of the University of North Florida regarding an article in their school newspaper that use the above photo to accompany an article about the influx of throat cancer cases among people who contracted the disease from oral sex.

The photo, seen above, is causing a stir in the community, although the paper’s editor, Josh Gore, calls the shock value “minimal.” He says the majority of complaints are coming from UNF employees and members of the surrounding community, not from students (for whom the paper is intended). “We put this on the cover to show students that HPV is a real concern with oral sex,” said Gore, who graduates in May. “I think this is a real important issue to touch on, and this is the way we decided to illustrate it.” A very articulate answer from an obviously educated guy. This isn’t a photo they splashed on the e-mail sent from Kappa Sigma members in the recent USC scandal, it’s in an article that could potentially change the lives of the students it was written for. So what’s the problem?

Obviously the problem is that sex, the oldest language on the planet, is still somehow taboo in our society. Considering high schools are still teaching “the abstinence method” and colleges are still banning photos of IMPLIED ORAL SEX in association with an article discussing THE DANGERS OF UNSAFE SEX, we wonder how “advanced” our society really is. We might be blasting people into outer space and creating beers that fill from the bottom, but we can’t put a fully-clothed photo on the cover of a newspaper read almost solely by students over the age of 18?

Pathetic.