Howard University law Professor Reginald Robinson was found guilty of sexual harassment after two female students complained about a question he framed around a hypothetical scenario involving a bikini wax.

The case goes back to September, 2015, when Robinson asked his class to determine if a court would rule in favor of a woman claiming she was inappropriately touched during a “Full Brazilian,” or making one “hairless from belly button to buttocks.” The female students claimed the exam question made them feel like they would have to tell the professor if they ever had the service done. The students also objected to Robinson using the term “genitals.”

After a lengthy investigation, the university sided with the students and charged the professor with sexual harassment and demanded he undergo sensitivity training and have all future test question’s approved by another staff member. In addition, Robinson’s classes will have to be supervised. Howard U said any other complaints that come in could result in the professor’s termination.

Robinson released the following statement:

My case should worry every faculty member at Howard University, and perhaps elsewhere, who teaches in substantive areas like law, medicine, history, and literature. Why? None of these academic areas can be taught without evaluating and discussing contextual facts, especially unsavory and emotionally charged ones. 

I also can’t prepare my students adequately for legal practice if I can’t teach them new developments and require them to read unedited, unfiltered cases.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) agrees, saying the university’s “overreaction to a simple hypothetical question is a threat to academic freedom and a professor’s ability to effectively teach students.”

Here is the triggering question:

H/T Daily Mail