But course teaching fellows say DeVore's class has value far beyond its humor and abundance of sexual innuendoes.
"Professor DeVore's lectures are connected to real life very well," says Aykan Erdemer, a teaching fellow for Human Behavioral Biology. "The course has the potential to make [students] more caring and responsible citizens."
Erdemer said DeVore's course is more than sex; it is also about abortion, child care, reciprocal altruism and charity.
"It is truly the most amazing course I've taken here," Erdemer adds.
Widespread appreciation of DeVore's teaching is not a recent phenomenon. At an alumni review of the Core Curriculum in New York, several alumni cited "Sex" as the most enjoyable course they had taken at Harvard.
"That course came up as something that they had liked at the time, but more importantly, something that had really stuck with them," says Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis.
DeVore called this recognition his proudest moment.
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