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American Studies Pamela Anderson’s breasts are examined by  mouths.Tony, back from Cancun and hoping penicillin still cures a vacation, thinks silicone lures a demographic taught by Erector Sets and Legos the limits of desire are primarily structural. Gwendolyn, rolling brown eyes behind green contacts, suggestsTony’s overlooked the cannibalistic nature of male erotics, the need to destroy the subject of arousal in the machine of profit. Professor “Call me Bill” Morrison taps a pen between his teeth before asking if it wouldn’t be good to ask why David Hasselhoff’s trunks don’t reveal “the true man.”Warren says it’s homophobia—“men don’t like to face each other’s packages,” while Lilly, sneaking physics, runs a finger down the periodic table to beryllium and makes a note never to discover what Baywatch is.Then non sequitur Duane bleats, “Why’d she take them out?” injecting a nanosecond of confusion, a group double take before the hunt’s  resumed.Tony’s sureTommy Lee made her do it, that he was tired of lifting all that weight, while Mary quotes EntertainmentTonight, primary text for the class, that removing her implants was a matter of conscience, a role model’s remodeling. Finally Professor Bill brings the question back to Duane, who shrugs at the clock and says, “I don’t know, I liked them, they bounced.”  ...

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