When it comes to the article “Sex and the City College,” I was thinking ethics. Readers, like myself, argue that an article that starts off by “educating” readers on sex actually turns into the Kama Sutra by the end.

If you want education, look toward the subject experts. Take a class on sexuality. In other words, keep it out of the newspaper unless you are Men’s Health magazine, Cosmo or any of the other magazines trying to make a buck. For a lack of better words, the article is more of a “pleasure piece.”

Now sex sells. Any market that features it is one that is thriving. Jazmine Ancira and The Voice editors knew what they were printing and feeding to the public. It created such a stir within the Cabrillo Community College faculty and alumni that, I guarantee, everyone wanted to see what the controversy was about.

Taste, decency, and acceptability – journalists should know their audience. Bad judgment was used, although the intent was to create a spicy column that college students can relate to. But that is the problem right there. I can write for an audience that consists of college students; therefore, I should believe that only college students would read what I write. Wrong. You tie in the attributing institution from where the journalists receive their backing, and you get all of its readers. You bring a newspaper home that contains sexual content, you bring new concepts to those around you (including young ones).

It comes down to morals. You let an article that contains the phrase “hit it from the back” come to play into a newspaper, then someone else might take it a step further. There need to be boundaries and a voice that creates professionalism and keeps the public interest in mind.

What about choice? I know you, as a reader, may or may not tune into what I write. That doesn’t make me desperate to grab your attention. It makes me responsible as a journalist.

You want diluted thoughts published more because of the First Amendment? Be my guest. Let it be known that at one point someone or some idea went to battle for liberty. You think someone said, “Let there be a First Amendment and the rest will handle itself?” No, there are many people who abuse liberty, other people who advance it good or bad, and the few who are willing to protect it.

Now, I am for freedom of speech, but one must be smart on how the speech is used. When I see suggestive images on positions such as the “Hot-Tub Hug” and “The Lap Dance,” followed by Anrica’s own opinion, I wonder, is she speaking from her own experience? What she suggests may not tune with everyone’s preference. Some may see her views as demeaning, even if she is open about the subject.

Keep it with the content experts. If a reader needs sex advice, let him or her ask their significant other and experiment. If a reader needs more education, let him or her find it with books, classrooms and doctors. There should be no reason why the horoscope section of a newspaper turns into sex advice.